Interventions Lecture 1 Flashcards
Musculoskeletal Diagnosis..Now what? - What 2 things should you consider
- Evaluation procedures: determine the source and degree of dysfunction
- Tissue healing parameters
When setting up a treatment plan, what factors will you consider?
- tissues involved
- precautions
- pt’s normal activities
- how much skilled PT is required
- how long pt will have access to skilled care
- what has worked for similar patients
- your skill level as a PT
- any referalls required
Impairments being treated must be related to
functional deficits
Intervention decisions are based on
-normal tissue healing; modified based on patient response to treatment
Inflammation, pain, an edema must be addressed ___ to more agressive or manual therapy
BEFORE
All programs must include a
self-management component
A facture is a
“soft tissue injury with a broken bone underneath it”
Fracture considerations
- Location
- Configuration
- Extent
- skin
- soft tissue injury
Fracture healing inflammatory phase
- Hematoma formation
- Cell proliferation
Fracture healing reparative phase
- soft callus unites the site
- ossification: hard callus
Fracture healing remodeling phase
-consolidation and remodeling of bone
Children healing time from fracture
4-6 weeks
Adolescents healing time for a fracture
6-8 weeks
adult healing time for a fracture
8+ weeks
Fracture medical management
- closed reduction
- open reduction internal fixation
- external fixator
- skeletal traction
Effects of immobilization
- Sluggish circulation
- Muscle atrophy
- articular cartilage degeneration
- joint adhesions
- contracture development
- connective tissue weakening
PT Role in fracture management during immobilization
- minimize complications
- decrease effects of inflmmation
- decrease effects of immobilization on non-involved joints
- maintain ROM/strength in major muscle groups
- teach functional adaptations
- maintain CV conditoning
PT Role in fractures post-immobilization
Increase joint mobility/ROM Increase strength/stability Weight bearing progression (LE) Increase propioception/fine motor control correct faulty movement patterns return to function
Post-immobilization considerations
-Immobilization of soft tissues
- weakned 2deg lack of activity
-inelastic soft tissue 2deg of scarring
Pt likely to be painful when starting to move
Progress stretching, strengthening, balance and functional activites per gudeliens for subacute/chronic stages
*MONITOR TISSUE RESPONSE
Bone spurs do not equal
pain/inflammation
wolf’s law
bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed
Bone spur interventions
- decrease inflammation
- find the source of biomechenical stress & minimize it
- compression
- postural stresses
- movement dysfunction/control
- strenght
- ROM
OA does not equal
pain; no relationship between the amount of degeneration and pain level/function
PT intervention goals for OA
- decrease stiffness
- decrease pain (@ rest & from mechanical stresses)
- increase ROM
- prevent deformities
- improive physical conditioning
- improve overall function
Cemented joint replacements
WBAT
Non-cemented joint replacements
NWB/TTWB