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Welcome back to our free evidence-based Rehabilitation Reference Center Update. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a subscriber of CINAHL and/or Rehabilitation Reference Center. Please share this with your colleagues, students, practitioners and others who would appreciate awareness of this information.
Rehabilitation Reference Center™ (RRC) is an evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by rehabilitation clinicians at the point-of-care. RRC provides physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and rehabilitation students with the best available evidence to provide the highest quality care and improve patient outcomes.
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Rehabilitation Reference Center in Daily Practice
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Mr. W is a patient being seen for speech therapy following a stroke to treat dysphagia.
The speech therapist reads the physical therapist's notes and sees that the patient has ataxia. The speech therapist wants to find some information on ataxia. He consults Rehabilitation Reference Center, keying in ataxia. He consults the clinical review "Ataxia."
He reads about ataxia, including presentation, signs/symptoms, and contraindications. Then, he reviews the examination of a person with ataxia. After completing the physical and subjective examination, she goes on to read about the treatment of people with ataxia and the precautions to take.
He reviews the home program with Mr. W and his family.
Note: The above referenced Clinical Review is freely accessible to all readers of the Rehabilitation Reference Center Update.
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| Quick Overview |
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Caring for Patients with Exercise-Associated Muscle Cramps
Exercise-associated muscle cramps involve spontaneous/involuntary electrical activity of a large number of skeletal muscle fibers that quickly develops into a painful, sustained contraction. A patient with exercise-associated muscle cramps may present with pain, palpable muscle contraction, and mild edema. Vital signs, circulation, muscle strength, and range of motion should be normal after recovery from acute cramping. Physical therapy for exercise-associated muscle cramps includes static stretching of the affected muscle, cryotherapy, and patient education on proper training techniques.
You can read the Clinical Review on "Exercise-Associated Muscle Cramps" by logging into your subscription of Rehabilitation Reference Center.
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| Evidence-based Content Update |
Recently, the clinical review "Feeding Disorders: Infants with Pierre Robin Sequence" was revised following review under the systematic literature surveillance program.
Information of value to speech therapy practice regarding feeding disorders in infants with Pierre Robin Sequence was a recent South African retrospective research study of the medical records of 215 infants with Pierre Robin Sequence. Researchers concluded that pacifiers are useful in this population to stimulate anteroposterior movement of the mandibular micrognathia in order to facilitate the enlargement of the mandible. They also concluded that palatal prostheses are effective in the reduction of airway obstruction and feeding difficulties in infants with Pierre Robin Sequence.
We invite you to login to the Rehabilitation Reference Center to read new and updated clinical reviews as they become available.
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