康复的重要性 Injury Recovery

作者: 罗素米. 北方,M.D.
专业: 骨科医生

Whether it happens on the court, on the job or at home, injuries happen. While there are some things that you can do to reduce your risk for injury – stretching, listening to your body, and avoiding repetitive movement – sometimes they can just be attributed to bad luck.

More than an inconvenience, the pain they cause can affect your mobility 和生活质量. That’s why proper rehabilitation of an injury 对恢复至关重要吗.

什么是康复?

Rehabilitation, or rehab, is the process that seeks to overcome the physical effects of injury, illness or surgery and improve function, mobility and 生活质量.

The type of rehab that one may have to undergo depends on one’s injury 和目标. This may mean returning to the soccer field after an ACL surgery, going back to work after a back injury, or relearning how to speak after 中风. While, ideally, rehab aims to return performance to or beyond your pre-disability level, rehab can also be employed to correct body mechanics so as to prevent future injury or re-injury.

While your doctor typically manages the coordination of care, the rehab 过程实际上是一个团队的努力. 根据你的伤势，你可能会看到 a whole host of specialists during the course of your rehabilitation. For those with sports-related injuries who come through the Washington 运动医学项目, they may see orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, osteopaths, outpatient physical therapists and occupational therapists, and in-school athletic trainers on their road to recovery.

康复的组成部分

Regardless of your injury, successful injury rehabilitation programs share 核心组件.

疼痛管理: Not only is this an important part of overcoming the physical effects of injury, it’s an important step in mitigating its psychological impact so that the rehabilitation process may proceed. 虽然这可能包括 short-term prescription medications, there are also therapies designed to reduce inflammation and pain that may be employed as well.
灵活性和活动范围（ROM）： In addition to the inflammation and swelling that occurs with injury or surgery, trauma can also affect the biomechanics of your whole body. 伸展运动 techniques are employed to improve or preserve joint ROM and prevent injury to other parts of your body that have to work overtime and compensate for the loss of function of an injured area.
力量和耐力： Because rehabilitating an injury can be a prolonged process, athletes often encounter muscle atrophy and secondary decreases in exercise tolerance, 耐力和力量. In addition to the healing properties of cardiovascular exercise and strengthening, they are also important elements in maintaining 调节和有氧能力.
协调: When ligaments, tendons or joints are immobilized due to injury, your muscles can forget how to ‘talk” to your joints (called proprioception). 这会影响你的协调性. Starting with simple activities and increasing in complexity as rehab progresses, the goal is to perform movements as 尽可能精确和自动.
功能康复: This final piece of the rehab puzzle involves fine-tuning function so that pre-injury functions can be performed at a pre-injury level. 一个运动员 returning to competitive play in game-ready condition or a worker being able to complete specific tasks or motions to perform their job are a couple of examples of functional rehabilitation.

参观新葡京医院新葡京系统 website to learn more about how sports injuries are treated and rehabilitated at the 新葡京运动医学项目和 Washington Outpatient Rehabilitation Center.

2019年8月发布

关于罗素诺德，医学博士
Dr. Nord is a fellowship-trained Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Sports 医学. While his interests focus on the knee, shoulder and hip, he treats a variety of conditions in both the athlete and non-athlete. Dr. Nord is a firm believer that often, with the appropriate therapy, the body is able to heal itself without surgery. 然而，当手术是必要的,博士. Nord typically elects for an arthroscopic or minimally invasive technique and uses modern well-proven methods. Dr. Nord完成 his 运动医学 fellowship at Stanford University where he took care of Stanford athletes and served as a 团队 Physician for the Stanford Football 团队. He also provided orthopedic care for the San Francisco 49ers NFL 足球队.

在加入Stanford之前，他是. Nord完成 his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at NYU-Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City, where he was selected Executive Chief Resident during his final year. Dr. 诺德收到了他的信。 MD degree from Cornell University, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and completed his undergraduate work at Duke University 他毕业的地方 优等生 是Phi Beta Kappa的会员.

Dr. Nord currently serves as Medical Director of the Washington Hospital 运动医学项目. 在他的空闲时间，博士. 诺德喜欢花时间和家人在一起，运动，户外活动. 他的妻子是克里斯汀·诺德， a dermatologist, with whom he has four young children.