Mechanical Traction
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Maurice presents with non-specific lower back pain that has been responding favorably to mechanical traction.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining the appropriate response to lumbar traction and determining the proper traction parameters to support a safe resolution of the patient's symptoms.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE Clinical Files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | week by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT Clinical Files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT |
| 0:12.3 | PrEPP Coach, the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success Coaching |
| 0:17.3 | Program. And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. And I'm going to give you more information on how to |
| 0:27.7 | get that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient, Maurice. All right. |
| 0:33.0 | Maurice is my middle name, by the way, y'all. Kyle Maurice Rice. It's Maurice tonight, baby. |
| 0:38.4 | All right. |
| 0:38.7 | So Maurice has attended physical therapy for his recurrent, non-specific lower back pain for the past three weeks. |
| 0:47.6 | All right. |
| 0:47.8 | The patient has been treated with mechanical lumbar traction for the past three sessions |
| 0:52.8 | and has reported significant reductions in |
| 0:56.3 | pain after each treatment. So the therapist would like to continue traction. Which of the |
| 1:01.9 | following traction parameters is the most important for this patient? So we have A, 25% body weight |
| 1:06.8 | for 15 minutes. B is 10% body weight for 60 minutes. C, 50% body weight for 25. And then D, 30% body |
| 1:18.5 | weight for 45 minutes. All right. So let's go ahead, lock this in, knock this question. |
| 1:25.3 | Now, when we look up at the top, we start off, Maurice has attended physical therapy for this recurrent, non-specific lower back pain. |
| 1:33.3 | It doesn't really tell us where it's coming from or anything about it. |
| 1:36.6 | We just know that this patient has lower back pain. |
| 1:39.7 | The one thing that a lot of people will do right now is they're going to start to assume what type |
| 1:45.5 | of lower back pain the patients having, whether it's disc, muscle, or whatever. It doesn't say anything |
| 1:51.0 | about that. It says non-specific recurrent lower back pain, all right? So don't read too much into it. |
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