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Fixation of Fractures " Part Two
If used for permanent fixation pins and wires are usually chosen if very little load is going through the fracture site or they are adding to the stability of a plate or an external fixator. Typ...
New NICE Guidelines for Early Management of Non-specific Low Back Pain
Non-specific low back pan which persists for some time is a common presentation for various health care practitioners to deal with, representing a major reason for absence from work due to sickness. R...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic
Chronic back pain is a very important and costly condition in advanced industrial societies which is the chief cause of limitation of physical function in younger people under 45. The definiti...
Why Acceptance is so Important
Everyone suffers difficulties and adversity of some kind, examples of which are mental illness, disability, pain, illness and stress. Not everything is under our control and we have widely varying way...
Nerve root lesions in the neck are responsible for causing such extreme arm and shoulder pain that some patients wish they could cut off their arm. Typical presentation with this syndrome involves loo...
There are many different potential causes for joint pain and these include infection, accidents, crystals in the joint, inflammation and articular cartilage damage. The clinical history and joint exam...
Management Of A Painful Joint " Part Two "
If the pain is judged as coming from the joint in question then certain decisions have to be made as to the causes of this. Inflammatory arthritis is the first category to be considered, with inflamma...
The shoulder is a specialised joint which has an extreme range of motion at the connection between the upper limb and the trunk. The joint classification of the shoulder is as one of the ball and sock...
Joint classification puts the ankle joint into the category of a mortise joint and it is specialised for its function. A front and rear movement action is performed by the ankle hinge for walking and ...
Lower Limb Amputation - Part Two
Patients for amputation do not usually present diagnostic difficulties as they are mostly referred with a history of peripheral vascular disease and extensive treatment. The gradual blocking off of th...
Training To Be A Physiotherapist
There is a greater need for increased numbers of physiotherapists now than there has ever been. More and more aspects of people''s health have been shown to be amenable to improvement by physiotherapy...
Compartment syndrome occurs when excessive pressure develops in one of the body''s compartments, exceeding the arterial pressure entering the compartment and so preventing blood from flowing in to sup...
A joint dislocates when the two parts of the joint, usually sitting in close contact with each other, are torn apart and then remain apart without being in the close relationship they were anymore. Su...
Mortons Neuroma or Metatarsalgia
Foot pain in the forefoot, which can be an annoying and persistent pain in the frontal foot region, is medically known as metatarsalgia due to the metatarsal region being the main area of pain. Metata...
Injuries to the groin are very frequent in many different sports, typically those where an inward movement of the hip with some force is a common action. This injury is more common in sports such as f...
Meralgia paraesthetica is a pain syndrome and one of many different ones potentially presenting to a physiotherapist or doctor for diagnosis and treatment. The typical symptoms are numbness, pins and ...
Cervical Pain and Disability - Part One
The amount of neck pain and disability suffered by patients varies greatly from very low pain levels and virtually no disability to high pain levels which interfere significantly with activities of da...
Cervical Pain and Disability - Part Two
The arms and legs can exhibit alterations in their sensory reactions even though those regions have no reported symptoms, in response to a neck pain problem or a neck injury. If the area being tested ...
Ankle impingement is a condition whereby the patient suffers from a restriction in their ankle movement due either to a bony or soft tissue problem. The typical causes of this condition are usua...
Athletes commonly complain of pain on the outside of the knee, known as lateral knee pain, and pain from the iliotibial band is one of the most common causes of this problem in athletic performers. In...
