What are the joint mobility training equipment

The joint mobility training equipment currently commonly used in clinical and home settings covers all stages of postoperative passive movement, active auxiliary training, and later strength strengthening. They range from small tools worth a few yuan to large medical equipment worth hundreds of thousands. The core is to match the recovery stage. The more expensive the more suitable.

I have been in the rehabilitation department for almost 5 years, and the most common early-stage postoperative equipment I have seen is the CPM machine, which is also known as the continuous passive motion machine. For example, patients who have just undergone knee replacement or anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction are unable to exert force for two or three days after the operation, so they fix their legs on the equipment. There are also customized low-temperature braces. For example, if a fractured elbow is bent less than 90 degrees after removing the plaster, the rehabilitation therapist will shape the brace according to your current range of motion and hold it at the maximum angle that can be tolerated for 20 to 30 minutes, slowly loosening the soft tissues that are stuck together, which is much more efficient than breaking it off by yourself.

Once the joints have a certain range of motion and can exert force on their own, those cheap gadgets become the main force. Last month, there was an aunt in her fifties who couldn't lift her shoulder because of adhesions. When she came here, she could only lift her arm to the level of her shoulder. I asked her to go home and install a pulley ring that cost more than ten yuan, put it on the door frame, and pull the other end of the rope with her good hand and slowly lift it up with her bad arm. After practicing for 20 minutes a day, she could reach the top of her head in two weeks. There are also elastic bands that cost a few dollars each. You can put your feet on one end and use your hands to lift your arms and legs. You can borrow the strength of the elasticity, which is less strenuous than exerting force yourself. You can also control the intensity to prevent strain.

In the later stages of rehabilitation, it is not only necessary to pursue the full range of joint motion, but also to strengthen surrounding muscle strength to maintain mobility. Special training equipment with resistance will be used. For example, when recovering from an ankle sprain, you can stand on a balance board with different slopes and slowly rock it. It can move the ankle joint at all angles and train the surrounding small muscles to stabilize the joint. It is much more efficient than repeatedly tiptoeing at home. There are also specialized wrist rotation trainers and hip flexion and extension trainers with adjustable resistance, suitable for people with different recovery levels.

Many people now ask whether to buy a home smart joint rehabilitation device that costs several thousand yuan. There are indeed different opinions in the industry. Those who support it believe that it can save time in the rehabilitation department, and can follow the video exercises at home, and can also record the angle of movement; those who oppose it believe that ordinary users do not evaluate the recovery status and are prone to adjusting the wrong angle or overtraining, which in turn strains the joints. My own experience is that if you only have moderate to mild joint adhesions and you have already reached the middle stage of training in the rehabilitation department, the doctor will set the training angle and intensity for you. It is no problem to buy one to maintain training at home. However, if you have just had surgery or the adhesions are particularly severe, it is safer to practice with professional equipment in the hospital first.

In fact, there is no need to blindly stock up on equipment when choosing equipment. I have seen many patients buy a bunch of elastic bands and training boards right after surgery, but they ended up not using them at all in the early stage.