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Conditioning Exercises For Back Pain Relief

April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Pelvic tilt:

The pelvic tilt is a posture that  reduces stress on the lower back caused due to sitting or standing.

Lie on your back with your knees bent and your head comfortably supported.

You would notice a space between your lower back and the surface on which you are lying. (You can find this by inserting yourfingers underneath your back.)

Squeeze your buttocks together, tighten your abdominal muscles, and raise your buttocks slightly off the floor until the small of back is pressing flat against the surface. This is the pelvic tilt position.

Hold this position for 10 seconds. Then relax completely.

The pelvic tilt rotates your pelvic bone and decreases the curve in the lower part of your spine. [Read more...]

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Passive Mobilization Of Joints – Manipulative Therapy In Pain Management

April 3, 2009 By 4 Comments

Mobility of joints might get restricted because of degenerative changes, trauma, chronic pain. The restricting factors may be pain, muscle spasm, oedema, fibrous contracture of fascia, ligament or capsule.

Restoration of normal function of joints is very important.

Pain itself may be relieved by restoring normal movements. The relief could be because of direct effect of passive joints movements by the stimulation of mechanoreceptors, which in turn inhibits the transmission of pain impulses from the periphery through the spinal cord to the brain. [Read more...]

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Radial Head Fractures – Treatment Options

April 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In planning the treatment for radial head fractures a detailed assessment of injuries should be made. The choice of the treatment depends upon patient’s demands, associated medical conditions and conditions, and associated injuries. For operative treatment, further investigations like CT scan can be done to know fracture configuration.

Here is general outline of the treatment options. The treatment needs to be individualized, however.

Type I

These fractures are undisplaced or  displacement of the fracture is less than 2 mm). They do not need to be reduced and heal well by conservative treatment.

The patient can be treated in a simple arm sling or splint depending upon the soft tissue trauma. Active forearm mobilization followed by physiotherapy helps to restore usually good to excellent function.

Some patients might complain slight loss of extension. [Read more...]

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