Patient Placement

The importance of the human body with correct moving and positioning in relation to anatomy and physiology includes making sure you understand the different kinds of joints (hinge/ball and socket for example) are held together by ligaments and tendons and how easy it is to damage these joints by pulling on them or for example heaving people around a bed or not using a hoist but instead by dragging people up under their armpits. This could cause a shoulder to be dislocated etc by incorrect handling. There are pressure areas on the human body (shoulders, ankles, bottom etc) which are prone to pressure sores which can progress on to full thickness of skin loss.

During my clinical placement, I have done the nursing standard 2 which is engaging in therapeutic and professional relationships. An example of one event in my placement where I have done this standard is when doing interviews in my two-week community placement at the Community Rehabilitation in Armadale Hospital. For my reflection, I will be using the Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1988).

Soft Tissues Injuries: Deep Tissue Massage therapy targets precise areas in the body experiencing trauma induced stress. Deep, firm pressure breaks down muscle tissue and adhesions facilitating natural healing. This treatment is especially helping for our Boca Rotan patients would have delayed seeking medical attention because rigid scar tissue often forms after an auto accident. These scars prevent normal circulation, impair flexibility and increase inflammation. Breaking down the adhesions reduces

Massage is a very common form of therapy for all sorts of things, from stress to chronic pain. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of massage in helping to manage patients’ pain while keeping them off medication. The benefit of this type of treatment is pain relief through manipulation of the body. The mechanism of action is, once again, unknown, but it is thought to be related to stimulation of muscles and the blood flow being increased. There are

In addition, regression analysis was used to determine independent variable among age, BMI, grip strength, sex and K/L grade for knee pain. The result indicated that the most significant variable was BMI correlated with the occurrence of knee pain. ORs of BMI (+5 kg/m2) was 1.54 and the risk was 0.60 which was significant. This implied that the ORs of K/L grade for knee pain can be overestimated due to the possibility of extremely low risk of K/L grade. In fact, the percentage of participants who suffered from knee pain with K/L (grade 2) and K/L (grade 3 and 4) was just 61.0% and 71.0% respectively. In other words, it will be about 40% of participants with K/L grade 2 and about a third of subjects with K/L grade 3 and 4 had no pain at the knee joint at follow-up.

Massage therapy reduces bone pain and enhances cartilage growth. It is also the oldest alternative treatment to be practiced. It is typically experienced in a declining position, on the stomach, or on the

The participants recorded their pain during activity using the numerical rating scale (NRS) during the initial examination. The participants received three IASTM treatments a week

(Preview) Massage is widely practiced throughout the world and was brought to the United States years ago, since then we have improved our techniques and processes. There are many types of massage therapy, which can help with all kinds of physical ailments as well as improve one’s wellbeing.

Massage is a way to treat and prevent disease. Its essence lies in the mechanical action of

Pain is a repulsive disturbing or sensory encounter that is related to an imaginable or genuine impairment of the body’s tissue, there are arrays types of pain, whilst the principle kinds of pain well known are the acute and chronic pain (Vascudevan, 2015). Another kind of a pain to be illuminated is this week discussion is the referred pain. According to Huether and McCance (2012), it is imperative that the healthcare practitioners and patient alike comprehend the dissimilarity amid these pains for appropriate treatment modality.

Our results must be interpreted with caution. The model makes several simplifying assumptions, any of which can impact our results. Our data arise from a series of indirect, nonrandomized comparisons, within which there is clinical heterogeneity. The studies analyzed varied with respect to patient selection, baseline severity of pain, treatment assignment, outcome parameters measured and time of follow-up. The use of a random effects model partially compensates for heterogeneity but cannot completely correct for it. For example, the majority of TN studies fail to record the preoperative level of pain, preventing a comparison between the two(16). While there are clinical pain scales to correct this problem, they were not used in our analysis(59, 60). Our reliance on trial-level data rather than individual patient information may also introduce aggregation bias.

When people think of a massage they think of a way to unwind and relax. Most importantly, they want to soothe away the aches and pains. More times than not a massage is a way to “treat” yourself. What if we used that same mentality to treat musculoskeletal injuries? Doctors use physical therapy to strengthen damaged muscles and ligaments thus regaining support lost by an injury. I believe that massage therapy can assist the healing process if done in conjunction with the proper physical therapy exercises.

There were statistically significant but weak correlation coefficients for satisfaction with pain level and current (rs=-.34, p=<.01), least (rs=-.24, p=<.01) and worst (rs=-.34 p=.<.01) pain intensity. Also, there was a weak linear correlation between satisfaction with pain level and API (rs=-.36, p=.01) (Table 4).

Pain is uncomfortable feeling and unpleasant experience that occurs due to actual or potential injury or tissue damage (Merskey & Bogduk, 1994). The intensity and type of pain are related to injury, headache, disease and different harmful conditions, and pain is usually solved if the causes are solved. Pain is often the major phenomena in most medical problems, which need immediate assistance (Turk & Dworkin, 2004). Pain is always subjective and it exists when the experiencing person says it is. Some people experience a different response to the same type of pain, so it depends on the person tolerance level (McCaffrey & Beebe, 1989).

Univariate analysis of the relationship between the number of pain sites and the examined variablesThe results derived from the univariate analysis are presented in Table 2. A significant association between the mean values of NPS and almost all the examined variables were observed. As excepted females had a significantly higher mean NPS compared to men ( 2.2 vs 1.4, p< 0.001). The univariate association between NPS, educational level, BMI and overall life satisfaction did not retain in the multivariate model. Income did not contribute to the multivariate model. The multiple regression model with all exploratory factors explained 20.0% of the total variance (R2=0.20, p <0.001, Table 3, Model 1). The strongest positive association was observed