He describes spinal manipulation (combination of traction and manipulation) to treat scoliosis. With passing centuries manual therapy has been juggled around different professions (shamans, bone setters, osteopaths, chiropractors, physicians, surgeons, physical therapy). It was also been discarded by some professions mainly physicians and surgeons for its higher risks but today, physiotherapists primarily use it to treat musculoskeletal pain (Pettman,
Pain in the neck and back area will need surgery which leaves the spinal cord in a vulnerable position of being damaged causing paralysis. Physical therapy and exercises also has benefits before and after surgery as the strength and stability that they provides can significantly shorten a patient 's recovery time after surgery. On the other hand, physiotherapy can treat the same condition using the McKenzie Method which teaches patients suffering from neck and back pain to treat themselves and manage their own pain for life using exercise and other strategies. Therefore it is better to go through physical treatment before making a decision to be surgically diagnosed. Secondly, one of the major drawbacks that most individuals go through prior to their treatment is financial needs.
the arm was pulled back, decreasing the angle, after the experiment concluded. V. CONCLUSION This lab provides vital information about how the elbow joint and triceps and biceps muscles function to perform tasks necessary to the human body. This information is very useful when designing functional prosthetics and calibrating the biomechanics. Also, this information can asset in diagnosing faulty arm movements made by a patient which may have been causing the patient discomfort. VI.
In this paper, we present a decentralized control strategy which is based on discrete-time adaptive control, for control of the ankle joint in paraplegic subjects using functional electrical stimulation .Agonist-antagonist co-activation is used to control the ankle movement. To achieve this purpose, first, the human is modeled as a single segment inverted pendulum which rotates about the ankle joint. Second, the nonlinear relationship between inclination angle and center of pressure is modeled. Finally, two discrete-time adaptive controllers are used to stabilize the upright posture. Each muscle-joint complex is considered as a subsystem, and separated controllers are designed for each one.
These procedures do not allow unobstructed visualization of the whole coracoid process. In addition, the detail method to approach the coracoid process of the scapula typically not described in anatomical dissection books. It is rather integrated as part of pectoral region dissection which involved reflecting pectorals major muscles from their sternocostal and clavicular attachments followed by the pectoralis minor to its insertion until when the coracoid process is finally exposed (Romanes, 1986). Tank (2008) described a similar procedure for dissecting the pectoral region in other to approach the coracoid process of the scapula in human body. All of these procedures described above allow access to coracoid process at the expense of the integrity the pectoral region.
Bone marrow biopsy A bone marrow biopsy is usually done just after the aspiration. A small piece of bone and marrow is removed with a slightly larger needle that is pushed down into the bone. This causes a feeling of pressure and may also cause some brief pain. Once the biopsy is done, pressure will be applied to the site to help prevent bleeding. These bone marrow tests are used to help diagnose leukaemia, but they are also repeated later to tell if the leukaemia is responding to treatment.
TITLE COMPARISION OF PARAVERTEBRAL BLOCK WITH SPINAL ANESTHESIA IN UNILATERAL INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR AUTHORS Dr. Aswin.A.B1, Dr. Suresh.Y.V2 ` 1- Post graduate, 2-Associate professor Department of Anaesthesiology, Kasturba medical college, Manipal University Mangalore, Karnataka INTRODUCTION Paravertebral block is used as anesthesia for surgical procedures like breast surgery, thoracotomy, inguinal hernia repair, renal surgery predominantly in unilateral procedures as well in chest trauma(rib fracture) for analgesia. Paravertebral block can also be used for surgical anesthesia in patients with serious comorbidites who could not tolerate hemodynamic responses
The term functional was originally applied to endoscopic sinus surgery to show that it improved mucociliary clearance or functioning in the sinus. The same procedure has also simply been referred to as endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) or endoscopic polypectomy. Hence ESS is defined as an intranasal procedure involving the endoscope to improve ventilation and drainage besides to polyp removal. 25 One of the goals of endoscopic sinus surgery in nasal polyposis is to reduce the surface
An MRI scan differs from CT scans and X-rays because it does not use ionizing radiation that can be potentially harmful to a patient. (Lam, 2017) MRI is commonly used to diagnose injuries related to sports, as well as work-related disorders strain, vibration, or forceful impact. Using these magnetic resonance images, doctors can locate and identify the cause of pain, swelling or bleeding in the tissues in and around joints and bones. The images allow doctors to clearly see even very small tears and injuries in tendons, ligaments and muscles, and even some fractures that cannot be seen on x-rays.
Most of the foreign patents on massage are about massage chair, such as US20150366746, US20150157526[15], US20120157899, US20100191160. The functions of this massage chair can achieve the adjustment of body parts, speed adjustment, strength adjustment; back chair, legs care adjustment; massage position adjustment; heating and music playback and so on. However, they do not integrate the theory of Chinese massage. In patent CN102499850 referred to a gantry type Chinese massage robot. The invention is to solve the problem of lumbar muscle strain which is troubled by people for a long time.