Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation

This book is a companion text to Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Assessment, and Enablement by the same author, but can be used independently.

Section 1 serves to illustrate through real-life examples the rehabilitation ideas and principles taught in the companion text, ranging from conditions seen daily by the orthopedic surgeon or primary care physician like knee and hip osteoarthritis or plantar fasciitis; through more challenging conditions like hamstring injury rehabilitation or heterotrophic ossification; to recent paradigm shifts in the management of osteoporosis and new technologies like vertebral fracture assessment using state-of-the-art DXA machines, hypergravity stimulation therapy, and many more.

In Section 2, the author introduces the reader to the vast number of applications of computers in orthopedic surgery, with special emphasis on the emerging importance of virtual reality in all aspects of orthopedics, ranging from pre-operative planning, pre-operative surgical practice on virtual patients, and virtual wayfinding and navigation; through intra-operative virtual bone structure modeling to enhance accuracy; to, most importantly, post-operative or non-operative rehabilitation of orthopedic conditions using these new computer techniques. The book ends by stressing the importance of telerehabilitation, an increasingly important tool for ensuring that even patients living in remote rural areas can have the chance to participate in rehabilitation guided by a therapist through the use of a virtual environment and teleconferencing.

Zusammenfassung
As the name implies, this casebook contains a series of clinical cases on various topics in orthopedic rehabilitation that the author encountered over his 23 years of practice ranging from the extremely common co- ditions like knee arthritis, to newer technologies evolved in the recent years including the use of smart materials in orthopedics, hypergravity stimulation therapy, and virtual reality. Many of us must have encountered difcult real life hurdles to - habilitation in real clinical practice in which patients have difculty in coming back for rehabilitation either because they live very far away, or they do not really have adequate time, or they simply only agree for home-based rehabilitation for various reasons. In these case scenarios, no matter how good a protocol one has on hand, it will be difcult to achieve the expected result. When the author was still young, he made the common mistake of accepting lesser outcomes from these patients saying to myself that it is a question of compliance. However, with large strides in computer engineering, even rural district patients can have acceptable rehabilitation as long as they have a telephone line and the right computer hardware and sofware and input-output devices to - fect tele-rehabilitation via the aid of virtual reality rather than just rel- y ing on video conferencing alone.

Inhalt

Section I.- New Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Machines (iDXA) and Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA).- Hyper-gravity Stimulation Therapy.- Lady Having Difficulty in Controlling the Computer Mouse.- Whiplash-associated Neck Disabilities.- Sizable Cartilage Defect in a Professional Footballer.- Functional Knee Complaints in a Child with Cerebral Palsy.- Hamstrings Injuries in a Professional Sprinter.- Was it Simply Tachycardia or Something More Sinister?.- A Lady with Intractable Heel Pain.- Hip Swelling after Combined TBI and SCI.- Consultation for a Third Opinion on Bone Health.- Was It Really Another Case of "Tennis Elbow"?.- A Patient Requesting an "Oxford Uni" for his knee OA.- Bisphosphonates and Peri-prosthetic Osteolysis.- A Young Engineer with Disabling Sciatic Pain.- The "Wonder Drug" Glucosamine.- Hyaluronan for Knee OA, Facts Vs. Myths.- High Heels Woes.- Silent Bone Loss and Vitamin D Insufficiency.- A Professor Suffering from OA Knee Pain.- New Physical Sign in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.- Kinesiophobia.- Breakthrough Fracture While on Bisphosphonates.- Can Back Pain Be Predicted?.- Enthusiasm for "Non-fusion Technology" for Discogenic Back Pain.- Extra Busy Banker Troubled by Subacute Back Pain, Yet No Time for Physiotherapy.- Metal-on-Metal Hip Surface Replacement.- A Young Lady with AVN after SARS.- An Athlete Going for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Little Time for Rehabilitation.- The Office Lady with Neck, Shoulder, Arm, and Back Pain.- Bone Health and Space Travel.- Crouch Gait.- Non-healing Diabetes Mellitus Heel Ulcer.- Cervical Disc Replacement.- Intractable Lateral Epicondylitis.- Chronic LBP in a Laborer Whose Job Requires Repeated Lifting.- Stiffness after Flexor Tendon Repair.- Postpartum Sacroiliac Joint Pain.-Use of Smart Materials in Orthopedics.- Section II.- General Introduction.- Real Life Applications.