Treatment Of Knee Injuries Research Articles

Effect of an algorithm on the treatment of knee injuries

An audit was performed of the treatment of patients presenting with acute knee injuries to the accident and emergency department of a district general hospital. This showed that for patients requiring follow-up the majority were reviewed by the casualty officers themselves in the accident department, with the result that definitive diagnosis and treatment for patients with continuing symptoms was often delayed. Once the current treatment had been discussed at an audit meeting, a protocol (in the form of an algorithm) of the treatment of knee injuries was produced. A further audit was performed after the protocol had been in use. This demonstrated that the protocol was effective in encouraging the casualty officers to seek the help of more senior members of staff and also reduced the time taken to definitive diagnosis and treatment.

Assessment and Treatment of Knee Injuries with Particular Attention to the Hamstring Muscles and Joint Swelling

This article attempts to highlight methods of assessment and treatment of knee injuries with particular attention to the hamstring muscles and reduction of joint swelling. Methods of treatment are left as brief as possible to give room for individual choice. This article attempts to highlight methods of assessment and treatment of knee injuries with particular attention to the hamstring muscles and reduction of joint swelling. Methods of treatment are left as brief as possible to give room for individual choice. Biography: Mrs Berry trained at the Middlesex Hospital, London, from 1971 to 74, and then returned to her native Sweden for 2 1/2 years. She gained the Swedish physiotherapy qualification and worked in general hospitals and in the community in Kalmar, Uppsala and Lapland in Sweden. She returned to England in 1977 and worked at Haslemere District Hospital, then spent a year in Borneo as an accompanying wife, and worked as a volunteer in a disabled children's home. After maternity leave she worked as a part-time physiotherapist at the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton. Mrs Berry started in private practice in 1984 doing domiciliary work, and in 1987 started at the Sports Injury Clinic in Alton. She qualified as certified reflexologist at the Bayly School of Reflexology in February 1989.

THE TREATMENT OF KNEE INJURIES. GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.

THE TREATMENT OF KNEE INJURIES. GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY.

TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS TO THE KNEE-JOINT

Injuries to the knee resulting from industrial accidents comprise practically all types of traumatic lesions except gunshot wounds, and these have their counterpart in penetrating and lacerating wounds not infrequently encountered. Therefore the valuable lessons of the World War in knee surgery are largely applicable here and should be generally understood and practiced in this branch of civil surgery, and the problem of function, as well as of healing, should be kept constantly in the minds of those having the management of these cases. It appears that in many quarters there is still serious disregard or ignorance of many of the special points in diagnosis and treatment of knee injuries, which are so essential if these patients are to be back on the job in the shortest possible time with the least possible disability. This problem became one of great importance during the war, and its solution, chiefly by the