Category: Practical
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Shoulder
Short wave is frequently used in the management of shoulder pathologies, particularly frozen shoulder and subacromial impingement syndrome. Frozen Shoulder: Leung and Cheing (2008) compared the effects of SWD and superficial heating in patients with a frozen shoulder. They found greater improvement in pain relief, activities of daily living, and ROM with addition of short wave…
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Coccydynia
Coccydynia or pain and tenderness over the coccygeal region (tail bone). The common symptom include pain while sitting and standing up from a chair, pain at the end of the spine often refereed to as ‘tail bone’ pain between the buttocks, worse whilst weight bearing, most often in the sitting position due to pressure. It…
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Neck Pain
Neck disorders affect 23.1% of adults at any one time and up to 30% of men and 50% of women in the course of a lifetime (Valkenburg et al. 1980, Aker et al. 1996, Borghouts et al. 1998). Prevalence is generally higher in high-income, urban countries compared with low- and middle income, rural countries and peaks in the…
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Low Back Pain (LBP)
Low back pain (chronic – more than 3 months duration) is ranked first among the causes of years lived with disability and sixth among the causes of disability-adjusted years of life (Vos et al. The Global Burden of Disease studies report). Lower back pain is a cause of significant disability and severe restriction of routine daily…
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Knee OA
Knee osteoarthritis is one of the most common forms of arthritis, with a incidence of of 10 to 15% in adults over 60 years of age in the western world (Ozen et al. 2019). It would seem obvious that the ultimate way of treating knee osteoarthritis is joint replacement. However, long before joint replacement is…