Orthopedic products are used to treat and prevent joint diseases. Bandages and orthoses provide the restoration of normal functions of the joint, as well as provide the best conditions for healing damaged tissues.
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Application of orthopedic products in the treatment of joints
If there is a force on the articular apparatus of a person, exceeding its strength, then damage causes the slander destabilization. To restore normal functions of the joint, to ensure the best conditions for healing the damage to the soft okolossertable tissues, as well as after the transferred operation of the ligament plastic, use various types of orthopedic products. Their use instead of the familiar gypsum bandage has several advantages:
- The possibility of early start of rehabilitation
- good protection of the damaged ligament
- There is no damage to the skin
- Preservation of normal blood supply
Of all the joints of the human body, the most injured are the knee and ankle joint. For the treatment of diseases and consequences of injuries, as well as for their prevention, bandages and orthosis are used.
Bandagi
Bandages are orthopedic knitted products that are tightly fitting with a joint and improve its functional stability. Bandages for the knee and ankle joint are soft and reinforced.
Indications for the use of a soft knee or ankle bandage are pain in these joints, arthritis and arthrosis, distant rehabilitation after injuries and operations, prevention of injuries during sports and in everyday life. Soft bandage has a small compression on the joint, provides support, warms and reduces swelling. The bandage is made of medical knitwear with a large content of natural fibers (cotton, wool), has a comfort zone, for better fit to the body. The duration of use and the wearing mode of bandages is determined by the attending physician.
In the painful sensations of the average degree, the instability of the knee or ankle joint, degenerative diseases, conducting medium-term rehabilitation after operations on the ligament apparatus, as well as for prevention of injuries use reinforced bandages. These bandages are made of durable, but elastic material - neoprene and have anatomical shape of the articular region. The presence of additional fasteners makes it possible to achieve stronger fixation of the joint. The wearing time of the reinforced band can reach 8-12 hours a day.
As bandage pollution can be washed in warm water (not higher than 40 degrees C) using soap or washing powder. Products can not unscrew and squeeze. You need to dry them in a massive form away from heating devices and sunlight.
Bandages have flaws. Some of them are cumbersome, are not entirely convenient to use and may be ineffective with severe unstability of the joint. But if the bandage is chosen correctly and its use is combined with the program of rehabilitation of injuries of the knee or ankle joints, the use of it becomes quite effective.
Ortesa
With more serious violations of the motor activity of the knee or ankle joint, orthoses are used. They have a more complex design than bandages and are made of fabric, plastic and metal. Ortesa retain the corner ratios in the joints and prevent unwanted movements in them. Sometimes orthesis are called braces (from the English word Brace).
Ortesa for the knee and ankle joint are semi-rigid and hard (with stronger fixation). They are used under conditions after the injuries of joints with damage to the ligament apparatus, significant deformation of the joints against the background of chronic degenerative diseases, the pronounced instability of the knee or ankle joints, early rehabilitation after injuries and operations. Their use contributes to the fixation of the joints and eliminates the movement in them, active warming of ligaments and muscles. Ortesses are manufactured according to the detachable technology, due to which they are tightly adjacent to the body, the metal ribs of stiffness well stabilize the joints. They are fixed to the body with additional tighters. The total wearing time can be 24 hours, but your doctor will define. The product can be washed in a warm soap solution. Before washing, remove metal ribs. Ortesa can not unscrew and squeeze. You can not dry the product on the battery.
Applying orthopedic products for the treatment of diseases and the effects of injuries of the knee and ankle joints must be remembered that bandages and cuts are not «medicine». They will not be able to cure either a bundle break, nor tendovaginitis. But the products of this group help remove pain and should be used only as an addition to the main treatment, as well as during the rehabilitation period after operations and injuries of the joints.
