Orthopaedic Sports
PHYSIOTHERAPY
This branch of physical therapy focuses on the problems from the muscular system.
Depending on the nature and extent of the damage sustained, some patients will have undergone surgery followed by a period of immobilisation in a cast or splint, whilst others are treated by immobilisation only. This provides a stable environment for optimal healing to occur.
However, once healing is complete and the referral to physiotherapy has been made, the challenging process of rehabilitation has to commence! This includes the regaining of normal joint movement, full strength, coordination, balance & function.
Physiotherapists are therefore expertly positioned to give advice and education regarding the most appropriate form of weight-bearing exercise to be undertaken for an individual with osteoporosis, taking age, gender, cardiovascular fitness and general physical condition into account
Some of the techniques and approaches involved in orthopaedic physical therapy to make recovery faster are strength training, hot/cold packs, joint mobilisations and electrical stimulation. An additional procedure recently utilised is a sonogram, particularly in remedies like muscle retraining.
Orthopaedic physical therapy is truly essential to restore the patient’s activity, strength and motion right after injuries or surgery. Its importance is two folded. On the one hand. orthopaedic patients typically have deficiencies and weaknesses which could be eliminated or at least alleviated via particularly targeted workouts and only a specialised physical therapist can show the patient and teach him/her the appropriate workouts designed to restore and enhance functions or, at least minimise the problems.
knowledge of the type of tissue that is affected is of essential importance for the clinical decision-making process
LOW-intensity ULTRASOUND
Low-intensity ultrasound also speeds up the healing of open wounds as well as the recovery of tendons, nerves and bones and promotes the healing of acute and subcutaneous inflammations.
Recent research has shown that LIPUS has a positive effect on the recovery of connective tissue in general and on bone tissue in particular. Several RCTs (randomized controlled trials) have shown that low-intensity ultrasound can speed up the consolidation time of fractures of the tibia, radius and scaphoid by about 30% to 38% (compared to treatment with placebo), which results in a significant gain in time.
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