Biofeedback load technique in the rehabilitation of osteoporotic patients (biomechanical analysis)
Wendlová, J.
Vnitrni Lekarstvi 56(7): 759-763
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-773X PMID: 20842925 Document Number: 643578
Based on a simple biomechanical analysis, available to physicians, the article recommends carrying a backpack regularly as a part of the complex rehabilitation of osteoporotic patients. Carrying a backpack in front or on the back is recommended for patients with uncomplicated osteoporosis, carrying a backpack only on the back is recommended for patients with osteporotic vertebrae fractures. The importance of carrying a backpack is based upon remove the muscular dysbalance of the trunk muscles and upon increasing the bone strength by compressive force acting upon the vertebrae and proximal femur and activating osteoblasts to osteoformation. The backpack load magnitude is differentiated--patients with vertebrae fractures put a weight up to 1 kg into the backpack, patients without vertebrae fractures up to 2 kg.