Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is found in 15 to 30% individuals with low back pain.1 Sacroiliac joint dysfunction can be a result of acute trauma, heavy lifting, prolonged bending, torsional strain, fall on to the buttocks and motor vehicle accidents. Chronic and repetitive shear or torsional forces associated with sports like golf, bowling, skating may also result in sacroiliac joint dysfunction. Prolonged sitting or lying on the affected side, more weight bearing on the affected side during walking or standing, forward bending with knees extended may also predispose a person to sacroiliac joint dysfunction.3 Mechanism of dysfunction: Dysfunction occurs mostly when a person lifts something in a forward flexed position or stands in lordotic posture. Due to this, line of gravity shifts anterior to the acetabulum which creates rotational force in extension around
Pain radiates from the lower back and aggravated by bending, getting in and out of the car, lifting, reciprocating stairs, sitting, standing, turning, twisting and walking which is mildly alleviated by over-the-counter drugs and
Page’s patient, P, suffers from back pain and he is determined to find the cause of the pain. To rule of the most lethal causes of back pain, some of the questions Page asks include “Did the pain wake him up at night? Was it worse when he was lying down? Had he recently lost weight?” (Page).
October is National Chiropractic Health Month. Why not celebrate it by getting some pain relief from Stroud Chiropractic? Many people believe that their chronic pain is something that they just have to live with. They live with back pain and neck pain for years without ever getting help. A report released by the National Institutes of Health concluded that around 100 million Americans are living with chronic pain as of 2015.
This is a 42-year-old female with a 2/7/2015 date of injury. A specific mechanism of injury has not been described. DIAGNOSIS: low back pain; Lumbago with sciatica right side; Myalgia 12/01/15 follow-up visit identified lower back pain. Patient rates the pain as 7/10. The pain is characterized as burning.
This article presents a case report about a 31 year old male patient, a teacher at a university, who started experiencing mid back pain after weightlifting one day.3 About 3 hours after weightlifting, the patient began to feel sharp back pain, at levels T4-T8. His pain began to worsen that night causing muscle spasms of his paraspinal muscles, with intermittent radiating pain to his lateral thorax and chest.3 This patient had been diagnosed with thoracic facet injuries in the past, and just assumed it was that.3 However, after the pain did not subside the patient went to his physician who claimed the patient was just having muscle spasms and needed myofascial release.3 However, a radiograph was also done that revealed end plate degenerative changes at T7-T8.3 The patients clinical evaluation revealed muscle spasms of the paraspinal muscles between T3-T12, tenderness to palpate between T6-T8, full shoulder ROM, 5/5 shoulder muscle strength, and normal distal pulses and sensations.3 The patient was diagnosed with thoracic pain and muscle spasms and was give muscle relaxants and exercises for myofascial release.3 Three days after the physician visit, the patient decided to do some walking, to work on his cardio, and experienced mild shortness of
Bending over patients to look in their mouths and perform consideration can likewise lead to back, neck and shoulder soreness or an
In the articles,"Posture Affects Standing and Not Just the Physical Kind" by Jane E.Brody and in,"Your iPhone is Ruining Your Posture-and Your Mood ' by Amy Cuddy, both Cuddy and Brody give valid able arguments on everyday things we do that can affect our health. I think that both arguments are well thought out and written to the best of the authors literate skills. Brody 's argument is based off of how posture affects your mood in everyday life. Then there 's Cuddy who believes that it 's technology that makes us hunch. Both of these are arguments that have to do with one thing and that is how you feel and how hunching affects your lifestyle.
DOI: 05/21/2015. Patient is a 52-year-old male control operator who sustained an injury to his low back after lifting 42-pound rolls. Patient is diagnosed with lumbar isthmic spondylolisthesis, lumbar degenerative disc disease, lumbar foraminal stenosis, and lumbar radiculopathy. MRI of the lumbar spine dated 09/01/15 showed L5 to S1 pars defects with mild spondylolisthesis.
Introduction PIVD stands for prolapsed intervertebral disc. It occurs due to the outgrowth of the disc. This outgrowth is the nucleus pulposus that seeps through a shred in the annulus fibrosus. It is also called slipped or herniated disc.
After reviewing the agency’s quarterly Workers Compensation reports from the past two years, an alarming pattern regarding carpal tunnel claims among employees was discovered. In the past two years the amount of employees with carpal tunnel claims has more than tripled. The majority of the work being done within this agency takes place in front of a computer. With the constant typing and repetitive computer work, our employees are at a higher risk for carpal tunnel.
In both editorials "your iPhone ruining Your posture- and your mood" by Amy Cuddy and "Posture Affects standing ,and not just the physical kind, by Jane Brody, they both talk about how we our selves are causing serious harm to our body. In the way we simply slouch or bend over and we need to try and pick our body up or we will see results we do not like. Both author have different opinions about the same subject and describe it differently and the Cuddy thinks that posture is more emotional and affects or mind more than anything . Yet Brody talks more physical pains and consequences that can happen to you by not fixing your posture.
As occupational therapy assistants one plays an intricate part in treating and caring for the client. In order to ensure that the client is treated properly and that they are progressing towards meeting their final outcome a treatment plan must be created. It is important that throughout treatment the occupational therapist (OT) and occupational therapy assistant (OTA) use independent professional judgement in order to ensure clients best interest are being met. The treatment plan consist of a three step intervention process: intervention plan, intervention implementation, and intervention review.
When bending our necks forward about 60 degrees as to use our phones the effective stress in or neck increase to 60 pounds. "Posture doesn 't just reflect our emotional states; it can also cause them. " In a study published in health psychology earlier this year, Shwetha Nair and her colleagues assigned non depressed participants to sit in an upright or slouch posture and then had them answer a mock job interview question, a well-established experimental stress inducer, followed by a series of questionnaires." To be more specific the usage of our smartphones may cause humps or more known as hunchbacks.
Not only are the long hours of sitting hard on truck drivers’ backs, but so are all their other tasks. It is easy to overlook the heavy toll that securing loads, stacking hand trucks, or handling freight can have on the body. In fact, truck driving is always at or near the top of OSHA’s list of professions for lost work due to injury. In this case study we have gone through the various types of possible risk and injuries as well as ways to prevent injuries from occurring. The ergonomics of truck drivers has been applied and we know how truck drivers can work
