Thursday, November 27, 2008

PCR

During my PCR I was placed with the challenge of treating a patient with non specific lower back pain. My reason for writing this is to learn from others as to how they treated, display how I treated and to continue blogging post graduating.
I decided this patient had non specific lower back pain as many subjectibve reports only displayed a general area of pain. Onjectively it became more specific of the area involved but given my relative raw skills in treating backs I could not confidently pin point a specific structure.
Classifying the condition as hypomobility/mvt impairment: I determined this as they had decresed range actively and this was associated with hypomobile PAVMS.
Treating this patient involved education of beliefs and expectations, treating specific impairments and ensuring they were aware of sound management to compliment physiotherapy techniques.
Presenting this information to a panel was a new challenge. Conveying all your information in a ten minute time period required practice. I had previously provided handovers but had never been aware as to how long it took. I hope everyone went well and good luck for the future.

1 comment:

vic said...

Yes, I was surprised how quickly the time went and 30 minutes was not really enough to gather your thoughts so as to present your information as well as you might like to. But I found the PCR a surprisingly painless experience, I was glad they didn't expect us to pinpoint a specific structure in the musculo quesiton.