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Bono patients who came to the clinic primarily for her headache and neck pain. During her last treatment section with the other SPT, she reported her willingness to treat the low back pain. Therefore, during my treatment section, I assessed her low back pain and continued the treatment for her neck pain and headache. After discussing her case with the other SPT and talking with the patient, I noticed that she is a chronic pain patient with poor compliance to the home exercise programs. So I searched…
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Chronic low back pain is the pain in the lower back area for longer than 3 months created by injury, disease or stress. It may include the pain in bone, nerve and muscle. The quality of pain may be aching, burning, stabbing, or tingling, sharp or dull and well defined or vague (Akuthota, Baker, & Danisa, 2009). It is a most common problem all over the world and the age group 40 to 80 years (D. G. Hoy et al., 2012). A lot of research showed that the major reason for chronic low back pain is sedentary…
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older) with non-specific low back pain (LBP), does the use of muscle energy technique (MET) improve pain and functional status compared to control interventions? This study is a meta-analysis which included individual studies that were only randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The individual studies included both acute low back pain (6 weeks). The individual studies also must only have used isometric muscle energy as the form of treatment. Strengths: The strengths of this study are that it only selected…
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GP Long case: Subacute lower back pain and loss of libido in young women History of presenting complaint EP is a 22-year-old female patient presenting to St. George’s Terrace Medical Centre with an 8-week history of back pain. This is the first incidence of prolonged back pain for EP. Around the same time she had been experiencing increased tiredness and fatigue. The back pain was described as a constant 4/10 “painful tightness”, localised to the right side of her lower back. She added that…
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Michigan Insurance Company referred this file for medical case management. Instructions were given to meet with William Russell and assist with coordination of appropriate and related medical care, and identify needs to facilitate recovery. INTERVIEW SETTING On 9/9/16 I met Mr. Russell at the Covenant Occupational Medicine clinic. He arrived alone. He is alert and oriented. Mr. Russell is cooperative and open to working with a nurse case manager. MEDICAL FACTORS Mr. Russell said he was working…
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Manual Therapy 10 (2005) 207–218 www.elsevier.com/locate/math Original article Diagnosis of Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Validity of individual provocation tests and composites of tests Mark Lasletta,Ã, Charles N. Aprillb, Barry McDonaldc, Sharon B. Youngd a Department of Health and Society, Linko¨pings Universitet, Linko¨ping, Sweden b Magnolia Diagnostics, New Orleans, LA, USA c Massey University, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Albany, New Zealand d Mobile Spine…
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Tina Castle of Maxcis Insurance Company referred this file for medical case management. Instructions were given to meet with Manuel Zamora and assist with coordination of appropriate and related medical care, and identify needs to facilitate recovery. INTERVIEW SETTING On 10/10/17 I met Mr. Zamora at the Saginaw Valley Walk-in Clinic. Mr. Zamora is alert and oriented. He allowed me to go back into the examination room. Mr. Zamora was very open and provided information without asking. MEDICAL…
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In David’s case study, often times he does not have the time to spend with his family and he is also having financial trouble ever since his divorce. After David and his first wife got a divorce, he began to struggle financially, trying to put his three kids through college. At the loss of his expenses his three children had to unfortunately drop out for a while, David was able to regain financial stability enough to send them to school. Once he remarried, his wife has two teenage sons, one which…
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of severe trauma and pelvis, hip, or low back pain should treated as if a pelvic injury exists and a pelvic binder should be administered until arrival at the emergency room (ER).13 Using the above criteria, Yong et al. found that pelvic binder application has a specificity of 0.81 in ruling in pelvic injuries and therefore, should be used in the field to stabilize pelvic injuries.13 Once a pelvic injury has been confirmed, treatment varies based on if the fracture is stable versus unstable. Unstable…
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Name: Date: Case study 76: Endocrine INSTRUCTIONS: All questions apply to this case study. Your responses should be brief and to the point. When asked to provide several answers, list them in order of priority or significance. Do notassume information that is not provided. Please print or write clearly. If your response is not legible, it will be marked as is and you will need to rewrite it. Scenario Y.L., a 34-year-old Asian woman, comes to the clinic with complaints of chronic fatigue…
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