How does femoral neck fracture exercise?

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Musculoskeletal neck fracture patients generally need to do some traction surgery, and need to stay in bed, often can't move for a long time, then this time can do some rehabilitation exercise, the answer is yes, then how to do these rehabilitation exercise? Let's take a look at the following.

How does femoral neck fracture exercise?

First: during traction, if the patient can sit up, the upper limbs can do some arm raising and chest expansion exercises. In this way, not only the arms can be moved, but also the breathing capacity of the lungs can be increased, so as to avoid the poor breathing caused by long-term bed rest. Lower limbs can also do some ankle and knee movement, so that you can move the muscles and bones.

Second, if it's not convenient to get out of bed, you can do some upper and lower limb repetitive exercise on the bed. For patients who can sit beside the bed, you can fix a 2-3kg sandbag or heavy object at the lower end of the leg to lift the leg up and put it down. In this way, you can exercise the leg muscles that stay in bed for a long time without exercise, In order to facilitate the later recovery of walking.

Third: if the patient has been able to get out of bed, but can not walk independently, you can go down to the bedside, hold the head of the bed and do some standing still movements, so as to lay the foundation for the next functional recovery. After passing the above exercise, if the patient can walk with crutches, he should take the walking exercise with crutches in time, walk slowly indoors for a while every day, and gradually he can walk normally without crutches.

matters needing attention

The above way of functional exercise is gradually carried out, must not act too hastily, in order to avoid secondary injury. In the early stage, there must be assistance.