Diagnoses
This type of hip fracture occurs at the neck of the femur, just below the head of the femur.
What is a femoral neck fracture?
This bone disorder is commonly seen in older adults and significantly increases the risk of hip fractures. Occupational therapists may recommend fall prevention strategies for patients with this condition.
What is osteoporosis?
This FOR is used after hip surgery to help individuals maximize their independence despite physical limitations.
What is the Rehab FOR?
This item is helpful for when you are transferring a patient and need to hold on to them.
What is a gait belt?
This type of fracture occurs in the region between the femoral head and the lesser trochanter.
What is an intertrochanteric fracture?
This condition, a type of degenerative joint disease, leads to the wearing away of cartilage in the hip joint and can make patients more susceptible to hip fractures.
What is osteoarthritis?
This motor skill is critical for dressing, bathing, and toileting, but impairments can cause difficulties in activities like walking and maintaining balance.
What is stabilizing?
What is 90 degrees?
These devices, commonly recommended by OTs, help patients with hip fractures manage bathing or dressing without bending too much at the hip.
What are long-handled reachers, dressing sticks, or sock aids?
This type of fracture pattern is characterized by a single, horizontal break across the bone, usually resulting from a direct force or trauma.
What is a transverse fracture?
This vitamin deficiency, commonly seen in older adults, contributes to weakened bone density and increased fracture risk, including hip fractures.
What is Vitamin D deficiency?
Difficulty in this process skill can lead to issues with managing health, including problems with medication adherence and appointments.
What is organzing?
This strategy, encouraged by the Rehabilitation FOR, involves using tools or modifying the environment to allow for task completion despite physical impairments.
What are compensatory strategies and adaptive techniques?
This OT intervention involves modifying the environment or activity to enable patients with limited mobility to perform daily tasks more easily.
What is environmental adaptation or modification?
This fracture pattern occurs when the bone breaks at an angle, often due to torsional forces or twisting movements.
What is an oblique fracture?
Nearly what % of individuals over the age of 65 with a hip fracture will undergo an ORIF stabilize the fracture and promote healing?
What is 65%?
This process skill refers to the ability to continue with a task despite distractions or challenges, such as when pain or fatigue makes performing daily tasks more difficult.
What is continuing?
This theory explains how TENS works by using electrical impulses to block pain signals at the spinal cord level.
What is the Gate Control Theory of Pain?
This approach in OT rehabilitation is used to gradually increase the difficulty of tasks, promoting faster recovery while considering the patient's limitations.
What is graded activity?
This type of fracture is described as the bone being shattered into multiple pieces, often resulting from high-impact trauma.
What is a comminuted fracture?
Roughly this many individuals in the US sustain a hip fracture per year.
What is 340,000. (acceptable answer range 300,000-380,000)
This is a freebie! Name any occupational impact a hip fracture may have that we have NOT talked about.
Freebie!
These are the 4 levels of TENs stimulation.
1.Subsensory level
2.Sensory level
3.Motor level
4.Noxious level
This standardized assessment tool is commonly used by OTs to evaluate the ability of patients to complete ADLs and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) after a hip fracture surgery.
Hint: we learned assessment this in our evaluation class and it includes 7 levels ranging from complete independence to total assist.
What is the FIM (Functional Independence Measure)?