Total Joint Replacement: Statistics for Post Surgery and Rehabilitation
Did you know that 500,000 total knee replacements are performed in the USA annually?1 Knee replacements are expected to rise to 3 million by 2030.2Pain and function pre-…
Wound Dressings: A Systematic Approach to Absorptive and Occlusive Dressings
An area in wound care that has dramatically changed is the ability to choose from a wide variety of wound dressings. Traditionally, gauze dressings would predominate as the choice for protecting an open wound. Today…
Return to Sport after ACL Surgery: The Influence of Fatigue
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to re-injury and return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), and the results continue to be less than exceptional.A case series of elite collegiate athletes…
How Therapy Changes the Human Brain
When I first started treating stroke patients in the 1970’s, physicians and therapists believed that the brain was “hard wired” as soon as the“critical periods” of early childhood ended. As a result, some believed that…
How to Measure the 6th Vital Sign: Walking Speed
By now, many of you have heard the term the “sixth vital sign” when referring to walking speed.1 We are all accustomed to taking vital signs to assess the status of our patients…
Why Therapists Love MedBridge
