Casebook of Orthopedic Rehabilitation
(Including Virtual Reality With 74 Figures and 1 Table)
ISBN 978-3-540-74426-9 e-ISBN 978-3-540-74427-6
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-74427-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007933703
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Dr. David Ip
MBBS (HKU), FRCS (Ed) Orth, FHKCOS, FHKAM (Orthopedic Surg), FIBA (UK), FABI (USA)
Deputy Governor, American Biographical Institute Research Association (USA)
Hon Director General (Asia) of International Biographical Association of Cambridge (UK)
Section I
Case 1 New Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Machines
(iDXA) and Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA) . . . . . . . 3
Case 2 Hyper-gravity Stimulation Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Case 3 Lady Having Difficulty in Controlling
the Computer Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Case 4 Whiplash-associated Neck Disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Case 5 Sizable Cartilage Defect in a Professional Footballer . . . . 31
Case 6 Functional Knee Complaints
in a Child with Cerebral Palsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Case 7 Hamstrings Injuries in a Professional Sprinter . . . . . . . . . . 41
Case 8 Was it Simply Tachycardia or Something More Sinister? 49
Case 9 A Lady with Intractable Heel Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Case 10 Hip Swelling after Combined TBI and SCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Case 11 Consultation for a Third Opinion on Bone Health . . . . . . . 67
Case 12 Was It Really Another Case of “Tennis Elbow”? . . . . . . . . . 71
Case 13 A Patient Requesting an “Oxford Uni” for his knee OA . . 75
Case 14 Bisphosphonates and Peri-prosthetic Osteolysis . . . . . . . . . 79
Case 15 A Young Engineer with Disabling Sciatic Pain . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Case 16 The “Wonder Drug” Glucosamine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Case 17 Hyaluronan for Knee OA, Facts Vs. Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Case 18 High Heels Woes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Case 19 Silent Bone Loss and Vitamin D Insufficiency . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Case 20 A Professor Suffering from OA Knee Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Case 21 New Physical Sign in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . 129
Case 22 Kinesiophobia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Case 23 Breakthrough Fracture While on Bisphosphonates . . . . . . 139
Case 24 Can Back Pain Be Predicted? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Case 25 Enthusiasm for “Non-fusion Technology” for Discogenic Back Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Case 26 Extra Busy Banker Troubled by Subacute Back Pain,
Yet No Time for Physiotherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Case 27 Metal-on-Metal Hip Surface Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Case 28 A Young Lady with AVN after SARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Case 29 An Athlete Going for Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Reconstruction with Little Time for Rehabilitation . . . . . . 183
Case 30 The Office Lady with Neck, Shoulder, Arm, and Back Pain 191
Case 31 Bone Health and Space Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Case 32 Crouch Gait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Case 33 Non-healing Diabetes Mellitus Heel Ulcer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Case 34 Cervical Disc Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Case 35 Intractable Lateral Epicondylitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Case 36 Chronic LBP in a Laborer Whose Job
Requires Repeated Lifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Case 37 Stiffness after Flexor Tendon Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Case 38 Postpartum Sacroiliac Joint Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Case 39 Use of Smart Materials in Orthopedics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Section II
General Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Uses of the Computer in Orthopedics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Emerging Importance of Data Storage and Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Why Develop Virtual Reality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Summarizing the Four Main Advantages of Virtual Reality . . . . . . . . 261
Key Components of a Virtual Reality Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Forms of Virtual Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Modifications to Suit Training in Surgery and Rehabilitation:
Concept of Mixed or Augmented Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263