Orthopedics
This common shoulder injury results from inflammation of the tendons in the rotator cuff.
What is rotator cuff tendinitis?
This heart condition, commonly treated with cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, occurs when the heart cannot pump blood effectively.
What is heart failure?
This neurological disorder affects movement and posture due to damage to the brain at birth, often requiring physiotherapy for mobility training.
What is cerebral palsy?
This genetic disorder, characterized by progressive muscle weakness, is commonly treated in pediatric physiotherapy.
What is Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)?
This knee ligament, frequently injured in athletes, is often reconstructed surgically.
What is the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)?
This type of joint replacement is one of the most common orthopedic surgeries requiring post-op rehabilitation.
What is a total knee replacement?
This breathing exercise strengthens the diaphragm and improves lung efficiency.
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
This sudden neurological event, commonly treated with physiotherapy, occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted.
What is a stroke?
This condition, often treated in infants, results in a twisted neck due to tight sternocleidomastoid muscles.
What is congenital torticollis?
This overuse injury, commonly seen in runners, is caused by repetitive stress leading to microfractures in weight-bearing bones such as the tibia or metatarsals.
What is a stress fracture?
This condition, caused by excessive microtrauma, leads to the death of bone tissue due to disrupted blood supply, often affecting the femoral head.
What is avascular necrosis (AVN)?
This test measures a patient's endurance in cardiopulmonary rehab by walking a certain distance.
What is the six-minute walk test (6MWT)?
This progressive neurological disease affects balance and movement due to the degeneration of substantia nigra.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
This reflex, present in newborns, causes a baby to throw out their arms when startled.
What is the Moro reflex?
This rehabilitation principle states that tissues adapt to the stress placed on them, emphasizing gradual and progressive loading to prevent injury.
What is Wolff’s Law?
This condition, often treated in orthopedic physiotherapy, involves the narrowing of the spinal canal, leading to nerve compression.
What is spinal stenosis?
This therapy technique helps to increase chest expansion and may involve using 2 fingers
What is intercostal stretching?
This term refers to weakness or paralysis affecting one side of the body, often seen in stroke patients.
What is hemiparesis?
This rare neurological disorder in children is caused by damage to the brachial plexus during birth, resulting in weakness or paralysis of the arm.
What is Erb’s palsy (brachial plexus birth injury)?
This condition, commonly affecting swimmers and baseball pitchers, results from excessive overhead movements leading to impingement and inflammation of the rotator cuff tendons.
What is swimmer’s shoulder (or subacromial impingement syndrome)?
This biomechanical principle explains why a smaller force applied over a longer distance can reduce stress on a joint, often used in orthopedic rehabilitation.
What is leverage (or the principle of mechanical advantage)?
This diagnosis presents with false crepitation and decrease Spo2
What is congestive heart failure?
This common assessment tool evaluates balance and fall risk in neurological patients.
What is the Berg Balance Scale?
This inherited connective tissue disorder, often requiring physiotherapy, results in joint hypermobility, skin hyperelasticity, and increased risk of dislocations.
What is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)?
This condition, caused by repeated high-impact forces, results in increased intracompartmental pressure in the lower leg, leading to pain, numbness, and potential muscle and nerve damage.
What is chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS)?