Treatment Guidelines

When patients leave the burn center, they need continued care. If a clinician does not have experience with burns, they might not recognize what is happening beneath the surface in time to prevent contractures.

Three key advances have dramatically shortened ACL recovery time for UGA football players: post-injury treatment, surgical procedure, and innovative rehabilitation. Because an ACL injury used to jeopardize an athlete’s career, it’s important to build confidence to make a complete recovery.

I experienced this tragedy fifteen years ago, when one of my closest friends died in childbirth. Her death defied the statistics – she was a healthy, upper middle class woman and well-educated. It devastated me as a friend, but truly shocked me as a healthcare professional.

According to a recent article in New York Times, “few practicing physicians alert their older patients to this condition." Learn how you can intervene to protect your elderly clients from age-related muscle loss.

Even on your busiest day, you can squeeze one of these activities into your schedule. Check out this list of ways you can sneak in some activity throughout your busy day:

Because the Simulator II is so flexible, clinical researchers have found creative ways to use it for diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. We’re sharing examples of these applications so you can get the most out of your Simulator II.

Faster than you could search it online, this hand-held tool shows you the activated muscle groups, spinal segment, and innervation for 26 different joint-specific movements, both upper and lower extremity.

Therapeutic horseback riding, or equine therapy, provides clinical treatment in a barnyard setting. Patients engage in highly interactive and fun activities. Equine therapy can be used to treat a variety of diagnoses, both physical and behavioral.

Isokinetic systems use isolated movements to target individual muscles. Despite their initial popularity, they've seen a marked decline in the era of modern functional rehabilitation. Explore how and why isokinetic systems became so widely popular.

To better measure the impact of the new reimbursements, we took a deeper look at the average changes in CPT code 97530 (and 97112) in multiple jurisdictions. Medicare now pays an average of $10.30 per unit more for 97530 than 97110.

Exercise and stretching improve mobility and flexibility – not only of the ECRB itself, but of the surrounding areas as well. Therapists should assess the extensor carpi radialis longus, supinator, digital extensors, and other muscles for strengthening and stretching.

Analyzing isotonic contractions provides an objective look at two different muscle performance characteristics: power and endurance. Nearly every task we perform over the course of a day is isotonic. An effective rehabilitation program must challenge the muscles in the same way they will be used outside of the clinic.