Rehabilitation News

BOULDER, Colo. — Basic hip exercises are likely to produce the best means to evaluate injuries in extreme sports athletes, according to a presenter at the International Extreme Sports Medicine Annual Congress.

Physical therapy was not shown to significantly reduce pain or raise function among patients with hip osteoarthritis, according to a recently published study.

Multidisciplinary teams and focused research into practices that lead to a shorter length of hospital stay are among the strategies that can result in improved safety for patients who undergo total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty, according to a presenter at the 15th EFORT Congress — a combined programme in partnership with the BOA.

Surgical resection of a primary tumor in the extremities following neoadjuvant chemotherapy leads to more positive results, according to recently published data.

Higher rates of mortality were associated in a recent study with individuals who have lower levels of physical capability at age 53 years.

Compared with individual physiotherapy or a home exercise program, a hospital-based exercise class was associated with rapid recovery from frozen shoulder, according to a recently published study.

Össur recently announced the launch of Rebound Cartilage, a brace designed to provide unicompartmental load reduction and range of movement restriction after articular cartilage defect procedures.

Eight weeks of immobilization after arthroscopic single-row repair of a posterosuperior rotator cuff tear did not yield a higher rate of healing medium-sized rotator cuff tears than 4 weeks of immobilization, according to the results of this study.

Patients with osteoporosis or spine fractures should engage in a multicomponent exercise program that includes resistance and balance training, according to data recently presented at the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases in Seville, Spain.

Researchers hope to determine from a 2- year randomized study funded by a grant from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation if multi-family group treatment can help those who suffer a spinal cord injury.