Management of common sports injuries(8/20, Sat.)
發表於 : 週二 8月 16, 2005 11:19 pm
Dear Friends,
This is Phoebe. It’s my pleasure to host the meeting on 8/20 (Sat.), and I’d like to provide you with some information about management of common sports injuries. Hope you would feel it is practical.
Before going to dental school, I worked in the department of rehabilitation in hospitals for more than 3 years (including my internship) as a physical therapist. (The scope of Physical Therapy includes musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, pediatric, geriatric, sports, burn, obstetric and gynecologic, long term care, and community physical therapy.) Therefore, I used to treat many patients with sports injuries. Since lots of YOYO members love sports, I think this topic may be useful to you guys.
Sprains and strains are among the most common injuries in sports. You might have a variety of choices to seek medical help such as traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, or some folk remedies when you sprain your joints or strain your muscles. I’ve never tried any other kind of treatments except for all these principles of Physical Therapy I’ve learned in school. Thus, I have no idea about the effectiveness of other treatments. Maybe those of you who have ever tried can share with us with your own experience of treating sprains or strains. In my experience, physical therapy is quite effective in treating sports injuries as long as the therapists correctly apply those treatment modalities and the patients follow the principles exactly the way they are told to do. For those who experience no obvious effects in receiving physical therapy, I believe there must be something wrong in their treatment approaches.
I would just like to provide something I know that is effective in treating your sports injuries for your reference. If you happen to know other effective therapeutic approaches, you are welcome to share them with us in the discussion.
Please give the articles in the following links a glance.
Introduction of sprains and strains
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_repo ... 20Exercise
Take ankle sprain for example.
http://www.healthcarepartners.com/broch ... %20bandage
It’s important to have a progressive exercise program to return to normal activities without any aftereffect. Too early a return may lead to re-injury and chronic problems. Take sprains for example, the worst condition is that the joint becomes instable after repetitive injuries and the patient may suffer from constant pain in his injured site. At that time, surgical fixation should be done. Therefore, those who suffer sprains or strains must make sure of full recovery before returning to vigorous exercises.
Besides exercise program, in physical therapy, we have some therapeutic agents to effectively speed up the healing of tissues such as ultrasound, short wave diathermy, and some forms of electrotherapy plus deep friction massage. These therapeutic agents can shorten healing time and help the patients return to normal daily activities as early as possible when these methods are applied appropriately and correctly..
Deep friction massage is quite useful in treating chronic soft tissue injuries and is easy to learn. Therefore, I’d like to introduce it to you too. You may use it at home if you don’t have a severe sprain or strain.
Deep Transverse Friction Massage (Adapted from http://www.time-to-run.com/massage/procedures.htm)
It is a specific technique for treating muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joint capsules. The major goal of transverse massage is to move transversely across a ligament or tendon to mobilize it as much as possible.
The massage must be directly over the site of lesion and pain. The fingers move with the skin and do not slide over it. Massage across the grain of the affected tissue. The thicker the structure, the more the friction is given. The technique is to sweep back and forth over the full width of the tissue. Massage should not be given to acute injuries or over highly swollen tissues. A few minutes of this method will produce a numbness in the area, and exercise or mobilization can be instituted.
For the position of the hands, please see the illustrations in the above link.
Here are some illustrations from online Anatomy of the Human Body. You can use these illustrations as a guide to decide the moving direction of deep friction massage.
http://www.bartleby.com/107/indextn9.html
http://www.bartleby.com/107/indextn10.html
http://www.ombregt.be/engels/friction.htm (for more information about deep friction massage)
Session I.
Q1：Have you ever sprained your joints or strained your muscles? How did you manage it? Did you think it would heal by itself automatically as time went by and did nothing about it? Or did you seek any kind of medical help? What was the result? Were you fully recovered without any aftereffects?
Q2：(a) Have you ever learned knowledge about managing sports injuries? If you have, where did you get the information? (b) Do you think it is easy to access medical knowledge nowadays? If you or your family members have health problems, what would you do? Would you actively collect medical information (eg. search for the medical information on the internet or read the latest medical studies) before deciding what to do? Or just directly go to see a doctor you are not familiar with?
Q3：What are your opinions about Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and folk remedies? Which kind of the above medical services do you prefer? Why?
Session II.
Practice time!
I’ll give some descriptions about the patient in each group. Please discuss with your partners about how you would like to treat this patient for his or her best benefits, and demonstrate your treatments too.
We may need some stage properties such as ankle braces, knee braces, elbow braces, supporters, elastic bandage, gauze, hot packs, cold packs, and crutches (or umbrellas as makeshift ones). If you happen to have those things mentioned above, please bring them to the scene this Saturday afternoon and let me know in advance (leave a message here). Thanks a lot!
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給新朋友的話：
聚會時間:星期六 請準時2:00 pm 到 ~ 約4:00 pm 左右結束
聚會地點：加州陽光2F 台北市大安路一段84巷4號 02-27512955
捷運忠孝復興站（木柵線板南線樞紐，十分方便）
忠孝東路 SOGO 附近之永福樓對面Bistro 98大樓-->大安路-->貴婦人終極養生館-->第一條巷子右轉
最低消費約＄80。
1. 請事先準備2~3分鐘的英語自我介紹；討論完畢後可能會請你發表1~2分鐘的感想(feedback)。
2. 請事先閱討論主題相關內容以及host所提的問題，並事先寫下自己所欲發表意見的英文。
3. 來之前請先讀一下在討論主題，思考一下如何回答及討論。
4. 在正式加入之前（繳交可退還之押金NT$1,000），可以先來觀摩三次。
This is Phoebe. It’s my pleasure to host the meeting on 8/20 (Sat.), and I’d like to provide you with some information about management of common sports injuries. Hope you would feel it is practical.
Before going to dental school, I worked in the department of rehabilitation in hospitals for more than 3 years (including my internship) as a physical therapist. (The scope of Physical Therapy includes musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, pediatric, geriatric, sports, burn, obstetric and gynecologic, long term care, and community physical therapy.) Therefore, I used to treat many patients with sports injuries. Since lots of YOYO members love sports, I think this topic may be useful to you guys.
Sprains and strains are among the most common injuries in sports. You might have a variety of choices to seek medical help such as traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, or some folk remedies when you sprain your joints or strain your muscles. I’ve never tried any other kind of treatments except for all these principles of Physical Therapy I’ve learned in school. Thus, I have no idea about the effectiveness of other treatments. Maybe those of you who have ever tried can share with us with your own experience of treating sprains or strains. In my experience, physical therapy is quite effective in treating sports injuries as long as the therapists correctly apply those treatment modalities and the patients follow the principles exactly the way they are told to do. For those who experience no obvious effects in receiving physical therapy, I believe there must be something wrong in their treatment approaches.
I would just like to provide something I know that is effective in treating your sports injuries for your reference. If you happen to know other effective therapeutic approaches, you are welcome to share them with us in the discussion.
Please give the articles in the following links a glance.
Introduction of sprains and strains
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_repo ... 20Exercise
Take ankle sprain for example.
http://www.healthcarepartners.com/broch ... %20bandage
It’s important to have a progressive exercise program to return to normal activities without any aftereffect. Too early a return may lead to re-injury and chronic problems. Take sprains for example, the worst condition is that the joint becomes instable after repetitive injuries and the patient may suffer from constant pain in his injured site. At that time, surgical fixation should be done. Therefore, those who suffer sprains or strains must make sure of full recovery before returning to vigorous exercises.
Besides exercise program, in physical therapy, we have some therapeutic agents to effectively speed up the healing of tissues such as ultrasound, short wave diathermy, and some forms of electrotherapy plus deep friction massage. These therapeutic agents can shorten healing time and help the patients return to normal daily activities as early as possible when these methods are applied appropriately and correctly..
Deep friction massage is quite useful in treating chronic soft tissue injuries and is easy to learn. Therefore, I’d like to introduce it to you too. You may use it at home if you don’t have a severe sprain or strain.
Deep Transverse Friction Massage (Adapted from http://www.time-to-run.com/massage/procedures.htm)
It is a specific technique for treating muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joint capsules. The major goal of transverse massage is to move transversely across a ligament or tendon to mobilize it as much as possible.
The massage must be directly over the site of lesion and pain. The fingers move with the skin and do not slide over it. Massage across the grain of the affected tissue. The thicker the structure, the more the friction is given. The technique is to sweep back and forth over the full width of the tissue. Massage should not be given to acute injuries or over highly swollen tissues. A few minutes of this method will produce a numbness in the area, and exercise or mobilization can be instituted.
For the position of the hands, please see the illustrations in the above link.
Here are some illustrations from online Anatomy of the Human Body. You can use these illustrations as a guide to decide the moving direction of deep friction massage.
http://www.bartleby.com/107/indextn9.html
http://www.bartleby.com/107/indextn10.html
http://www.ombregt.be/engels/friction.htm (for more information about deep friction massage)
Session I.
Q1：Have you ever sprained your joints or strained your muscles? How did you manage it? Did you think it would heal by itself automatically as time went by and did nothing about it? Or did you seek any kind of medical help? What was the result? Were you fully recovered without any aftereffects?
Q2：(a) Have you ever learned knowledge about managing sports injuries? If you have, where did you get the information? (b) Do you think it is easy to access medical knowledge nowadays? If you or your family members have health problems, what would you do? Would you actively collect medical information (eg. search for the medical information on the internet or read the latest medical studies) before deciding what to do? Or just directly go to see a doctor you are not familiar with?
Q3：What are your opinions about Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and folk remedies? Which kind of the above medical services do you prefer? Why?
Session II.
Practice time!
I’ll give some descriptions about the patient in each group. Please discuss with your partners about how you would like to treat this patient for his or her best benefits, and demonstrate your treatments too.
We may need some stage properties such as ankle braces, knee braces, elbow braces, supporters, elastic bandage, gauze, hot packs, cold packs, and crutches (or umbrellas as makeshift ones). If you happen to have those things mentioned above, please bring them to the scene this Saturday afternoon and let me know in advance (leave a message here). Thanks a lot!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
給新朋友的話：
聚會時間:星期六 請準時2:00 pm 到 ~ 約4:00 pm 左右結束
聚會地點：加州陽光2F 台北市大安路一段84巷4號 02-27512955
捷運忠孝復興站（木柵線板南線樞紐，十分方便）
忠孝東路 SOGO 附近之永福樓對面Bistro 98大樓-->大安路-->貴婦人終極養生館-->第一條巷子右轉
最低消費約＄80。
1. 請事先準備2~3分鐘的英語自我介紹；討論完畢後可能會請你發表1~2分鐘的感想(feedback)。
2. 請事先閱討論主題相關內容以及host所提的問題，並事先寫下自己所欲發表意見的英文。
3. 來之前請先讀一下在討論主題，思考一下如何回答及討論。
4. 在正式加入之前（繳交可退還之押金NT$1,000），可以先來觀摩三次。
....不知會不會扯太遠了)