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Orthopaedic

(Occupational and Physical Therapy)

Common Abbreviations:  ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), MCL (medial collateral ligament), TCL (tibial collateral ligament)
Common Terms:  ankylosing spondylitis, accessory navicular, drawer sign, Ilizarov ring, Lachman exam, median mononeuropathy, varus and valgus stress test (knee), varus loading
Medications:  
Muscles
Procedures/Reports:  Excision Osteomyelitis Right Phalanx, Osteoplasty and Epiphysiodesis of Tibia and Fibula
antalgic gait:  self-protective limp due to pain, characterized by a short stance phase on the affected leg.
Belfast:  active (Belfast) flexion mobilization regimes postoperatively
Camptodactyly:  Bilateral flexion deformities of fingers.  It is an infrequent deformity, which may occur in infancy, or may develop later on in childhood.
Classifications:  Has lists of various classifications.
modified Duran:  passive (modified Duran) flexion mobilization regimes postoperatively
epiphysiodesis:  the surgical reattachment of a separated epiphysis to the shaft of its bone
Salter Fracture: I - IV.  See table below.
Schober test: Measures flexion of the low back.
TENS unit:  A Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator, or TENS, unit is designed to relive post-operative, acute and chronic pain. It is used for pain caused by peripheral nerves and not central. TENS units are prescription-only devices.
TFCC:  triangular fibrocartilage complex
UCB or UCBL: Brace to help prevent leg rotation.
U-Stop walker
Painful Shoulder

 
Salter Classification
I Shearing separation of epiphysis from metaphysis
II Small segment of metaphysis taken with epiphysis
(Thurston-Holland fragment)
III Intra-articular epiphyseal without epiphyseal plate injury
IV Vertical through metaphysis, epiphyseal plate and epiphysis
V Crush Injury of epiphysis

85% are type I or II - good prognosis

Collateral ligament avulsion injuries are usually type II or III

Mallet fractures are usually type I

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