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ARTICLE – abstract
Rehabilitation
aspects concerning traumatic lesions of external popliteal sciatic nerve
Rodica
Scarlet, Consuela Brailescu, Andreea Murgu, Adriana Nica UMF
,,Carol
Davila” Bucharest, National Institute of Rehabilitation,
Physical Medicine and Balneology Bucharest, Romania
Abstract
This paper evaluates
the functional deficits after
a traumatic lesion of EPS and the necessity of an early and
individualized rehabilitation therapy for a good recovery. We
designed a retrospective study on a 96 patients who suffered traumatic
lesions of EPS nerve and we evaluated them at the beginning and at the
end of the rehabilitation program in our clinic. The recovery
program was complex and strictly individualized depending upon the
clinico-functional status of every patient; it consists in
kinetotherapy, low frequency and exponential electrostimulations,
analgetic electrotherapy, lasertherapy, ultrasound. The evaluation of
the patient consists of : pain intensity score (on visual analogue
scale), neuro-muscular appreciation (muscular balance, neurologic
evaluation and EMG), gait examination and functional implications (FIM
scale). After traumatic lesions of external popliteal sciatic nerve,
the complex therapeutic rehabilitation methods during hospitalization
and continuously daily training after the initial program has a major
role for clinical and functional improvement of the patient , better
quality of life and socio-professional reintegration.
Key
words: external
popliteal sciatic nerve (EPS),
clinical and functional evaluation, rehabilitation program, ankle-foot
orthosis (AFO).
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