Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
1 Hour(s) 18 Minute(s)
Language
English
Rating
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Course Overview
Learn how to avoid the progression of reversible internal joint adhesions into a nightmare of irreversible scarring
This course is for anyone involved in the early rehabilitation after knee injury or surgery. It would also be of value to trainee physiotherapists.
Because internal joint scarring, if it is going to occur, is likely to trigger early in the rehabilitation process, then it is the patient and the physiotherapist who need to be looking out for the danger signs. If they understand the issues and what to watch for, then management can be optimised before there is a progression to the tragic outcome of intractable scarring (arthrofibrosis) with irreversible stiffness of the knee.
The course explains the issues, anatomy and terminology - with loads of easy to follow illustrations and videos - so that your rehabilitation programme will really start to make proper sense. You will learn what the physiotherapist is trying to do, and why. You will learn about those surgical procedures that may be helpful in the process of freeing up movement again.The course should take four hours to complete, but there is no need for any pre-knowledge as it is fully comprehensive.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 34 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Getting to know each other - and sharing our knowledge
- Section 2 Vocabulary - you have to learn some so we can communicate effectively
- Section 3 Anatomy made easy - a picture is worth a thousand words
- Section 4 Assessing your own risk for knee stiffness
- Section 5 Keeping that knee moving to prevent adhesions forming
- Section 6 Rehabilitation woes - keeping an eye out for trouble
- Section 7 Referral back to the surgeon - what to expect
- Section 8 When Adhesions morph into Arthrofibrosis
- Section 9 Salvage surgery for established arthrofibrosis
- Section 10 Words, words, words....
What You’ll Learn
- understand the situations that raise the risk of knee stiffness after injury or surgery, recognise the critical window of opportunity for managing the early stiff knee and regaining range of motion, grasp the key principles of rehabilitation to restore range of motion, be sure when rehabilitation is progressing inadequately and know when to refer to a surgeon, understand the surgical options for early knee stiffness, understand the surgical options for established arthrofibrosis, understand why a team approach is necessary after surgery for established arthrofibrosis, grasp the special rehabilitation requirements after surgery for established arthrofibrosis
Reviews
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AAnn Marie Mallan
A lot of the content is available free on other platforms such as knee guru, you tube etc A lot of the links to research papers were very old Waste of money!!
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LLuca Macrelli
Very nice and simple course for the newbies of the knee. Very useful for the patients. Maybe too simple for a PT or a MD.
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FFidellis Toussaint
Learning stuff that I never knew before or thought I knew, and the terminology to help me explain things to my doctor.
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FFrancesco Lovato
Non avevo capito inizialmente che il pubblico target di tale presentazione fossero i pazienti per cui, in quanto professionista, mi aspettavo qualcosa di più tecnico e maggiormente dettagliato. Mettendomi però nell'ottica del paziente lo trovo sufficientemente chiaro, di immediata comprensione e ben fatto, anche se sono da curare alcuni aspetti "formali" (vedi soprattutto i sottotitoli). Ad ogni modo un "plus" sarebbe un maggiore approfondimento della parte preventiva e dei segnali d'allarme per permettere di sospettare tale patologia il prima possibile.
