Diagnostic Applications
Procedural Patient Positioning and Pre/ Post-Operative Shoulder Care
Therapeutic patient diagnostic suggestions
- Upper extremity surgical positioning
- Upper quadrant therapeutic care (mobilizing muscle, connective tissue, subdermal tissue)
- Lymphedema care
- Holds upper extremity in safe, ergonomic elevation
- Exercise station to use multiple times daily
- Unilaterally affected upper extremity stroke patients
- Pre and Postoperative Upper extremity surgical candidates
- Upper extremity amputees
- Upper extremity burn patients
- Chest or heart surgical candidates
- Cervico-thoracic issues (Ergonomically training the shoulder complex and surrounding structures)
- Misc Dx: Scoliosis, kyphosis, Thoracic/ Scapular Issues, TMJ Dysfunctional, Postural issues, Tissue Restrictions
Patient Positioning Suggestions
Procedural Patient Positioning Shoulder Care Suggestions
Patient Positioning Benefits
- Allows the user to remain in a passive anatomical position
- user’s healthcare team can passively move the user’s upper extremity
- Into allowances of passive internal and external rotation while the humerus and distal forearm remain
protected and stable - Into allowances of abduction/ adduction/ scaption while the humerus and distal forearn remain protechted and stable
- Openings in the posterior region of the board allow for viewing and manipulation of the user’s shoulder
region posteriorly
- Into allowances of passive internal and external rotation while the humerus and distal forearm remain
Patient Positioning Suggestions
- Total Shoulders, Rotator Cuff, SAD/ AC Joint/ Acthroscopy Candidates, upper extremity surgical candidates
- Brachial Plexus Issues
- Breast cancer, breast reconstructions, breast tissue complications patients
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation
Applications
Procedural Patient Positioning and Pre/ Post-Operative Shoulder Care
Scholastic Candidates for Exercise and Conditioning
- High School, Collegiate and Professional Sports (Rehab and Training/ Conditioning)
- Elbow wrist and hand patients with or without comorbidities in involved upper extremity
- Schools for the blind
- Overhead reaching Tradesmen (Electricians, painters, sheet rockers, laborers, construction workers)
Nursing homes, private homes, public and private fitness facilities