About a third of the population we serve in East leicester are from
India/pakistan. Having discussed the observation with some of our
consultants today we thoought also it could be to do with their squatting
postures. If this is so it will be interesting to see if the trend alters
when the younger generations who although they kneeel etc to pray do not
adopt squatting positions for other aDL activities.
Thanks for the info re AKP and for Nikki's comments regarding the OA stuff
being done in Oxford
Alison
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From: PHYSIO - for physiotherapists in education and practice
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Willenbruch
Sent: 16 February 2001 10:50
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Subject: Re: Evidence Based Practice
Hi there,
Definetely good to see some clinical issues discussed.
Not much info on THRs etc. but to save some time on AKP I know you said you
were not that interested but if I can help why not? One of our Senior
Physios has just done a lit. review on AKP and found the thing most in line
with EBP is an exercise used by I think Mucie et al, essential a straight
leg raise with hip in ext rot, ankle in DF and the good leg flexed so the
heel is inline with 'bad' knee joint line. To be most effective as a dept.
we sent most AKP patients away doing this for 6 weeks and have had
unexpectedly good results. If at 6 weeks we had no joy we then try tapeing
other VMO etc.
I will try and send you a THR/TKR protocol soon.
Cheers
John Willenbruch
P.S. by asian do you mean indian/pakistani or chinese/japanese different
parts of the country/world use the term to mean different things.
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