PT 504L Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Contracture, Malleolus, Olecranon
10 Apr 2021
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*feet on the ground or supported by stool. Shoulder adductors, extensors, and internal rotators: sidelying. Draping: rationale for draping, modesty, maintain appropriate body temp, provides access to areas while protecting others, protects pt"s skin or clothing from being soiled or damaged, supine with exposure of just ues or les. Cases: a 55-year-old female inpatient with rheumatoid arthritis and acute inflammation of the left knee is to be examined and evaluated for exercise. Position the patient appropriately in supine position and properly drape exposing the targeted area. What precautions will you consider: stiffness, tender to touch, painful, swelling, elevation of left leg, pillow underneath the head, knee, a 65-year-old man with a left cerebral vascular accident has arrived in the department for treatment. The treatment plan includes passive, active assistive exercise to the right upper and lower extremities which are extremely weakened from the cva.
