Hour 12: BRACES AND WRAPS 8” brace for back to stabilize localized painful area of lower thorax and lumbosacralpelvic allows the patient to focalize the stabilization instead of including surrounding unaffected areas 3-4” SI brace for SI allows specific stabilization Weight lifting belt should be worn around SI in to get best leg and hip strength 3” brace for forearm 3” brace for wrist Mobile cock-up splint for carpal or ulnar tunnel syndrome [studies show wrist splints don’t help Carpal Tunnel Syndrome] Wrist-thumb brace for thumb Open patella brace for knee Tongue suppressor splint for digits Cho-pat for patella [many times ABOVE knee instead of below] Figure 8 brace for ankle, provides lift to outside of ankle Saddle brace for neck Dr. Scholl’s bunion pad for dropped transverse and cuboid arches THERAPIES ULTRASOUND: pulsed only when inflammation or swelling, continuous for RUSSIAN STIMULATION: best for exercising muscle PULSED EMS: when swelling is present and when muscle is deconditioned CONTINUOUS EMS: to break spasm TNS: 1-2 hz when hypertonic sympathetic [normotonic is 0.5-2hz], 20 when hypotonic, place positive over affected area, and negative over hoku for upper body and over lateral anteroinferior ankle for lower body
Hour 12: BRACES AND WRAPS 8” brace for back to stabilize localized painful area of lower thorax and lumbosacralpelvic allows the patient to focalize the stabilization instead of including surrounding unaffected areas 3-4” SI brace for SI allows specific stabilization Weight lifting belt should be worn around SI in to get best leg and hip strength 3” brace for forearm 3” brace for wrist Mobile cock-up splint for carpal or ulnar tunnel syndrome [studies show wrist splints don’t help Carpal Tunnel Syndrome] Wrist-thumb brace for thumb Open patella brace for knee Tongue suppressor splint for digits Cho-pat for patella [many times ABOVE knee instead of below] Figure 8 brace for ankle, provides lift to outside of ankle Saddle brace for neck Dr. Scholl’s bunion pad for dropped transverse and cuboid arches THERAPIES ULTRASOUND: pulsed only when inflammation or swelling, continuous for RUSSIAN STIMULATION: best for exercising muscle PULSED EMS: when swelling is present and when muscle is deconditioned CONTINUOUS EMS: to break spasm TNS: 1-2 hz when hypertonic sympathetic [normotonic is 0.5-2hz], 20 when hypotonic, place positive over affected area, and negative over hoku for upper body and over lateral anteroinferior ankle for lower body