Concepts of Rehabilitation Program

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Concepts of Rehabilitation Program
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Team Approach

• Primary Group Members
• Communication, Communication, Communication
• ATC IS IT

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ATC IS IT!!

• A Avoid Aggravation
• Eustress rather than Distress
• T Timing
• When do you begin?
• C Compliance
• How can you improve compliance?
• I Individualization
• NO COOKBOOK
• S Specific Sequencing
• How is this determined
• I Intensity
• Challenging but safe
• T Total Patient

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Rehabilitation Objectives

• Requires Knowledge of
• Injury
• Healing process
• Pathomechanics and normal biomechanics
• Anatomy
• Rehabilitation Knowledge
• Neuromuscular Concepts
• Assess and Reassess
• Progression
• Outcomes based

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Components of Goal-oriented Rehabilitation Program

• Provide immediate care
• Reduce pain
• Mobility and flexibility
• Strength
• Muscle endurance
• Neuromuscular control
• Cardiovascular endurance
• Relaxation
• Return to play criterion

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Evaluation Assessment

• SOAP Notes
• Subjective Findings
• Objective Findings
• Assessment
• Plan

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Evaluation Assessment

• SOAP Notes
• Subjective Findings
• Objective Findings
• Assessment
• Plan

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Evaluation Assessment

• SOAP Notes
• Subjective Findings
• Objective Findings
• Assessment
• Plan

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Evaluation Assessment

• SOAP Notes
• Subjective Findings
• Objective Findings
• Assessment
• Plan

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Evidence-based Rehabilitation

• Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious,
  explicit and judicious use of current evidence in
  making decisions about the care of individual
  patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine
  means integrating individual clinical expertise
  with the best available external clinical
  evidence from systematic research
• Sackett et al, British Medical Journal 1996

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Good EBR

• Awareness
• Consultation
• Judgment
• Creativity