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Can’t Grip Dumbbells? Here Are Some Alternatives.
Some patients may experience difficulties with gripping exercise equipment, such as dumbbells. Grip strength can be affected by impairments and functional limitations due to a medical condition or injury. The clinician may have trouble choosing alternative exercises for these clients, … Continue reading
Can You Objectively Measure Pain?
Pain is a common symptom associated with a patient’s clinical presentation. Understanding pain is extremely important to help guide clinical decision making as well as the entire episode of care. Pains allows us to truly understand what the patient is … Continue reading
Trouble Measuring with Goniometers? Give These a Try!
Goniometry is important to objectively measure the range of motion of a given patient. This information will help guide clinical decision making and help the clinician develop the most effective plan of care. However, sometimes it can be difficult to … Continue reading
7 Ways to Measure Posture.
Measuring posture is important when we are evaluating our patients. Understanding the clinical presentation of our patients allows the clinician to further understand how this may influence their respective impairments and functional limitations. However, sometimes we do not possess the … Continue reading
Treating the Wrist and Hand? Don’t Forget About Proximal Stability!
When we are treating a specific region of the body, we also need to understand how other regions contribute to what the patient is experiencing. This can be true when treating a patient for hand or wrist pathologies. Sometimes we … Continue reading
Pain Scores. Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
We often will subjectively measure a patient’s pain level to capture what they are currently experiencing. This can be achieved with obtaining different values including numerical, visual, or even with faces. Gathering this information is important as it can help … Continue reading
Should I Use Heat or Cold Therapy?
The use of modalities is helpful to reduce pain, improve the body’s ability to heal, and enhance overall function. Heat and cold therapies are two modalities that are traditionally used to address impairments and functional limitations of patients. There are … Continue reading
Pinch Grip Testing: An Essential Clinical Utility
Pinch grip is important for individuals to perform activities of daily living and various everyday tasks. Testing for pinch grip strength is important to be able to understand impairments and functional limitations a patient is experiencing. What are we evaluating … Continue reading
4 Ways to Perform Thoracic Extension Exercises
Thoracic extension exercises are a great way to focus on individual impairments and functional limitations. Thoracic extension exercises can help improve range of motion, flexibility, and overall posture. There are numerous ways to perform this exercise. Here are some great … Continue reading
How Can I Improve my Grip Strength?
Assessing grip strength is important as it can tell you a lot about your patient. Not only grip strength, but other variables including all-cause mortality, frailty, and many other pieces of information. Therefore, we should focus on finding way to … Continue reading