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Postoperative Rehabilitation After Shoulder Arthroplasty
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2023 May;34(2):469-479. doi: 10.1016/j.pmr.2022.12.010. Epub 2023 Feb 26.ABSTRACTTotal shoulder arthroplasty (TSA), including anatomic TSA (aTSA) and reverse TSA (rTSA), has increased in popularity due to reliably good patient outcomes. Postoperative physical therapy (PT) is considered essential to the success of this operation and has become standard practice. The authors present general rehabilitation principles as well as preferred postoperative PT protocols for aTSA and rTSA, which are based on evidence-based literature and the different early postoperative concerns for each of these procedu...
Source: Health Physics - April 1, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: William Polio Tyler J Brolin Source Type: research

Correction to: Rogers N. Polio and Its Role in Shaping American Physical Therapy. Phys Ther. 2021:101; pzab126. https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzab126
Phys Ther. 2022 May 5;102(5):pzab181. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzab181.NO ABSTRACTPMID:35652280 | DOI:10.1093/ptj/pzab181
Source: Physical Therapy - June 2, 2022 Category: Physiotherapy Source Type: research

Biobehavioural Physiotherapy through Telerehabilitation during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in a Patient with Post-polio Syndrome and Low Back Pain: A Case Report
We describe a 57-year-old man with post-polio syndrome and low back pain following a fall at the end of February 2020. The pain, disability and lack of functionality caused by both processes led him to contact a physiotherapy service. A therapeutic planning was carried out for 3 months, where a biobehavioural approach based on therapeutic exercise and education, with an assessment and three face-to-face sessions which were complemented by online follow-up and finalised due to the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic in a telerehabilitation approach. It was organised in two phases; the initial phase lasted 2 weeks with the aim of reducing t...
Source: Physical Therapy - January 17, 2022 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Alberto Garc ía-Salgado M ónica Grande-Alonso Source Type: research

AFM, a Biennial Polio-Like Viral Illness, Is Expected to Hit the U.S. in 2020
Nobody foresaw the COVID-19 curveball nature was going to throw at us 2020—which is one of the reasons the world has had so much trouble ducking the pitch. But we’ve know for years that another disease, known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), would hit hard this year—beginning this month, in fact. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today held a media teleconference and issued a Vital Signs report reminding families that the illness is fast-approaching, and that in a time of pandemic there could be particular challenges in responding to it that would not be present in other years. AF...
Source: TIME: Health - August 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news