Cryotherapy after a TKA
Throughout the years we put a lot of stress on our body’s joints. As we age we may find certain joints start causing us a lot of pain and problems due to wear and tear on the body. The knee joint is one of those joints that tolerates a lot of wear and tear throughout the years due to holding a lot of body weight and the motions it performs on an everyday bases. As we start aging people start developing pain in the knee which can be caused be osteoarthritis or other issues. Once this occurs it is usually recommend to have surgery done on the knee to help alleviate the pain and gain ROM back into the joint. Once the surgery is done the patient will be placed in physical therapy where they will be treated with modalities …show more content…
A TKA is a major orthopedic intervention that accompanies is accommodated by tissue damage to the surrounding joint, pain and inflammation response to the knee joint (Thienpont, 2014). Those are all indications that a source of cold should be used on that joint, in this situation that source would be a cooling machine cold and ice man. The application of cold to the joint is supposed to reduce the intraarticular temperature of the knee joint (Thienpont, 2014). The cold will help reduce the blood flow to the area by vasoconstriction and therefore the inflammatory reaction, swelling and heat experience and it also will slow the conductions of nerve signals which will help reduce pain transmission to the knee (Thienpont, 2014). These are all good reasons why I think a cold device is the best benift for the patient. A reason why I think a cooling machine is better than just an ice pack or crushed back of ice is because the temperature is regulated by the machine so it is always the same constant temperature. This gives the patient a more consistent treatment at all times. This is why I thing a cooling machine was indicated and the best choice for my
Throughout the years we put a lot of stress on our body’s joints. As we age we may find certain joints start causing us a lot of pain and problems due to wear and tear on the body. The knee joint is one of those joints that tolerates a lot of wear and tear throughout the years due to holding a lot of body weight and the motions it performs on an everyday bases. As we start aging people start developing pain in the knee which can be caused be osteoarthritis or other issues. Once this occurs it is usually recommend to have surgery done on the knee to help alleviate the pain and gain ROM back into the joint. Once the surgery is done the patient will be placed in physical therapy where they will be treated with modalities …show more content…
A TKA is a major orthopedic intervention that accompanies is accommodated by tissue damage to the surrounding joint, pain and inflammation response to the knee joint (Thienpont, 2014). Those are all indications that a source of cold should be used on that joint, in this situation that source would be a cooling machine cold and ice man. The application of cold to the joint is supposed to reduce the intraarticular temperature of the knee joint (Thienpont, 2014). The cold will help reduce the blood flow to the area by vasoconstriction and therefore the inflammatory reaction, swelling and heat experience and it also will slow the conductions of nerve signals which will help reduce pain transmission to the knee (Thienpont, 2014). These are all good reasons why I think a cold device is the best benift for the patient. A reason why I think a cooling machine is better than just an ice pack or crushed back of ice is because the temperature is regulated by the machine so it is always the same constant temperature. This gives the patient a more consistent treatment at all times. This is why I thing a cooling machine was indicated and the best choice for my