Total Hip Arthroplasy Precautions
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Jess is treating an elderly female in the acute care setting who has just had an uncemented total hip arthroplasty via a posterior approach. Which of the following precautions should be instructed to the patient during the early postoperative period?
A. Avoid full weightbearing on the operated leg
B. Avoid external rotation of the hip
C. Avoid hip flexion
D. Avoid hip abduction
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see the life I |
| 0:22.5 | have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to change |
| 0:28.2 | lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
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| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
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| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:55.0 | For this week's clinical file, we have Jess, and Jess is treating an elderly female in the acute |
| 1:01.5 | care setting who has just had an unsubmitted total hip arthroplasty via a posterior approach. |
| 1:09.7 | Which of the following precautions should be instructed to the patient |
| 1:13.4 | during early post-operative period? All right. So we have A, avoid full weight bearing on the |
| 1:21.5 | operated leg. B, avoid external rotation of the hip. C, avoid hip flexion. |
| 1:29.4 | And D is avoid hip abduction. |
| 1:32.7 | All right. |
| 1:33.3 | Let's go to the top of this question. |
| 1:35.3 | Actually, before we get started, did you all hear? |
| 1:38.9 | They are changing the NPTE in 2024. |
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| 1:46.9 | and then having several questions that come after that are really addressing that case study. |
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