PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR ORTHOPAEDIC CONDITION

PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR ORTHOPEDIC CONDITION: 

various orthopedic condition like backache, arthritis, joint pain,need physiotherapy treatment.

SCOLIOSIS

ITS A SIDEWAYS CURVATURE OF THE SPINE.THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF CURVATURE STRUCTURAL AND NON STRUCTURAL SCOLIOSIS.

STRUCTURAL SCOLIOSIS IS THE PERMANENT DEFORMITY.AND NON STRUCTURAL SCOLIOSIS IS MOBILE AND TRANSIENT.

ITS A LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE.THIS IS CALLED PRIMARY CURVE.THE SPINE ABOVE AND BELOW THE PRIMARY CURVE UNDERGOES COMPENSATORY CURVES TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE. LATERAL ROTATION OF THE VERTEBRAE ALSO OCCUR.

TREATMENT

TREATMENT CONSIST OF OPERATIVE AND NON OPERATIVE TREATMENT.

NON OPERATIVE TREATMENT CONSIST OF EXERCISE AND BRACES...  

     OA KNEE: 

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS

ITS A CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE INFLAMMATORY DISEASE OF THE SACROILIAC JOINTS AND THE AXIAL SKELETON.

CAUSES: CAUSES ARE UNKNOWN IT IS FOUND TO BE STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH HLA-B27 GENETIC MARKER IS ABOUT 85%.

ITS COMMON IN YOUNG MALE.

INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINT IS FOLLOWED BY SYNOVITIS,ARTHRITIS,CARTILAGE DESTRUCTION,FIBROUS AND LATER BONY ANKYLOSIS.

CLINICAL FEATURES:EARLY MORNING STIFFNESS AND PAIN IN THE BACK.

TREATMENT: REST,NASAIDS,PHYSIOTHERAPY AND BACK EXERCISES.

PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT INCLUDE 

• MEASURES TO RELIEVE PAIN AND SPASM
• MEASURES TO IMPROVE SPINE MOBILITY
• MEASURES TO IMPROVE BREATHING
• MEASURES TO IMPROVE MUSCLE POWER

COXA VARA

IT IS AN ABNORMALITY OF THE PROXIMAL END OF THE FEMUR WHICH IS CHARACTERISED BY DECREASED NECK SHAFT ANGLE.

CLINICAL FEATURES: SMALL STATURE,LIMP,WADDLING GAIT,UPWARD SHIFT OF THE GREATER TROCHANTER,DECREASED ROTATION AND ABDUCTION OF HIP,PAIN,STIFFNESS AND FLEXION CONTRACTURES ARE SOME OF THE IMPORTANT CLINICAL FEATURES.

TREATMENT:IT CONSIST OF OSTEOTOMY.AND AFTER OSTEOTOMY PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT.