background: the most expensive variable in the operating room (or) is time. lean process management is being used in the medical field to improve efficiency in the or. streamlining individual processes within the or is crucial to a comprehensive time saving and cost-cutting health care strategy. at our institution, one hour of or time costs approximately $500, exclusive of supply and personnel ...

The adjustable supination splint is used in select cases in which traditional mobilization therapy is not productive in supination gains. The success of the splint varies depending on many factors, including the type and severity of the injury; the timing of the intervention; the patient's age; and the patient's tolerance of and compliance with the treatment program. The therapist must consult ...

This study investigated rationales underlying splinting decisions involving patients with hemiplegia. The survey incorporated a limited-choice, multiple-option questionnaire based on the case study of a man with a left hemiparesis at three hypothetical stages of recovery. Ninety-three occupational therapists who answered indicated whether they would or would not recommend a splint at each stage...

INTRODUCTION The effects of manipulated dental occlusion on body posture has been investigated quite often and discussed controversially in the literature. Far less attention has been paid to the influence of dental occlusion position on human movement. If human movement was analysed, it was mostly while walking and not while running. This study was therefore designed to identify the effect of ...

The following case is a remarkable instance of the mimicry of joint-disease in hysteria. For three years the patient was under the treatment of various surgeons for organic disease of the hip, and yet when the true nature of the affection was recognised she was cured in less than three months. The affection for more than two years was confined to one hip, and was considered to be certainly tube...

 Background: The most expensive variable in the operating room (OR) is time. Lean Process Management is being used in the medical field to improve efficiency in the OR. Streamlining individual processes within the OR is crucial to a comprehensive time saving and cost-cutting health care strategy. At our institution, one hour of OR time costs approximately $500, exclusive of supply and personnel...

introduction: shin splint is one of the common injuries in most athletes. although the relationship between abnormal foot posture and shin splint has been reported previously but, the relation between foot posture and shin splint has not been well documented. the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between foot postures in basketball players and the history of shin splint. materia...

Figure 1 Side view of shunt splint Asplin t was designed for adult renal patients who required protection of their forearm shunt while sleeping. It is posi tioned over the shunt with I inch (2.5 em) clearance, which prevents the weight of the body from resting on the forearm and disrupting circulation. Although sImilar to a splint designed for children who require maximum protection of the shun...

We reviewed 31 patients at a mean of five years after mallet deformity of the finger had been treated with a thermoplastic splint. Intra-articular fractures were present in 35% of patients. Osteoarthritic changes had developed in 48%, most in association with fracture, and 29% had a swan-neck deformity. There was a loss of extension greater than 10 degrees in 35%; the average deficit at the int...

the wound may be the strapping is omitted so as to allow ready access to it. An ordinary extension stirrup is applied to the leg and the foot-piece of the stirrup is fastened to a weight by means of a string passing over an ordinary reel acting as a pulley fixed in the vertical foot-piece of the splint. The thigh rests in the padded notch of the buttock-piece and the ischial tuberosity is broug...