Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation: Including Virtual Reality

David Ip (auth.)3540744266, 9783540744269

This book is a companion text to Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Assessment, and Enablement by the same author, but can be used independently.

Section 1 serves to illustrate through real-life examples the rehabilitation ideas and principles taught in the companion text, ranging from conditions seen daily by the orthopedic surgeon or primary care physician like knee and hip osteoarthritis or plantar fasciitis; through more challenging conditions like hamstring injury rehabilitation or heterotrophic ossification; to recent paradigm shifts in the management of osteoporosis and new technologies like vertebral fracture assessment using state-of-the-art DXA machines, hypergravity stimulation therapy, and many more.

In Section 2, the author introduces the reader to the vast number of applications of computers in orthopedic surgery, with special emphasis on the emerging importance of virtual reality in all aspects of orthopedics, ranging from pre-operative planning, pre-operative surgical practice on virtual patients, and virtual wayfinding and navigation; through intra-operative virtual bone structure modeling to enhance accuracy; to, most importantly, post-operative or non-operative rehabilitation of orthopedic conditions using these new computer techniques. The book ends by stressing the importance of telerehabilitation, an increasingly important tool for ensuring that even patients living in remote rural areas can have the chance to participate in rehabilitation guided by a therapist through the use of a virtual environment and teleconferencing.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XII
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
New Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Machines (iDXA) and Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA)….Pages 3-9
Hyper-gravity Stimulation Therapy….Pages 11-15
Lady Having Difficulty in Controlling the Computer Mouse….Pages 17-20
Whiplash-associated Neck Disabilities….Pages 21-29
Sizable Cartilage Defect in a Professional Footballer….Pages 31-35
Functional Knee Complaints in a Child with Cerebral Palsy….Pages 37-40
Hamstrings Injuries in a Professional Sprinter….Pages 41-48
Was it Simply Tachycardia or Something More Sinister?….Pages 49-51
A Lady with Intractable Heel Pain….Pages 53-57
Hip Swelling after Combined TBI and SCI….Pages 59-65
Consultation for a Third Opinion on Bone Health….Pages 67-70
Was It Really Another Case of “Tennis Elbow”?….Pages 71-73
A Patient Requesting an “Oxford Uni” for his knee OA….Pages 75-78
Bisphosphonates and Peri-prosthetic Osteolysis….Pages 79-83
A Young Engineer with Disabling Sciatic Pain….Pages 85-91
The “Wonder Drug” Glucosamine….Pages 93-97
Hyaluronan for Knee OA, Facts Vs. Myths….Pages 99-101
High Heels Woes….Pages 103-109
Silent Bone Loss and Vitamin D Insufficiency….Pages 111-117
A Professor Suffering from OA Knee Pain….Pages 119-127
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
New Physical Sign in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome….Pages 129-132
Kinesiophobia….Pages 133-137
Breakthrough Fracture While on Bisphosphonates….Pages 139-147
Can Back Pain Be Predicted?….Pages 149-152
Enthusiasm for “Non-fusion Technology” for Discogenic Back Pain….Pages 153-161
Extra Busy Banker Troubled by Subacute Back Pain, Yet No Time for Physiotherapy….Pages 163-169
Metal-on-Metal Hip Surface Replacement….Pages 171-176
A Young Lady with AVN after SARS….Pages 177-182
An Athlete Going for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with Little Time for Rehabilitation….Pages 183-189
The Office Lady with Neck, Shoulder, Arm, and Back Pain….Pages 191-196
Bone Health and Space Travel….Pages 197-200
Crouch Gait….Pages 201-207
Non-healing Diabetes Mellitus Heel Ulcer….Pages 209-213
Cervical Disc Replacement….Pages 215-220
Intractable Lateral Epicondylitis….Pages 221-228
Chronic LBP in a Laborer Whose Job Requires Repeated Lifting….Pages 229-236
Stiffness after Flexor Tendon Repair….Pages 237-242
Postpartum Sacroiliac Joint Pain….Pages 243-247
Use of Smart Materials in Orthopedics….Pages 249-254
Front Matter….Pages 255-255
General Introduction….Pages 257-273
Back Matter….Pages 303-304
Front Matter….Pages 255-255
Real Life Applications….Pages 275-302
Back Matter….Pages 303-304
Back Matter….Pages 305-330