RE: [Filter Test: C2] Inpt Total Joint Replacement therapy - in gym or room?

[Guest guest]

Initial assessments done in patient's room, no access in acute floors to a

" gym " , treatment from then on are BID

Leonor

>>> SKIP ROY 6/13/2011 7:57 AM >>>

We see them in their rooms except for the use of a small gym where we teach

stair training. We shoot for BID treatment since their LOS's are so short.

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kvvot70

Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:13 AM

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Subject: [Filter Test: C2] Inpt Total Joint Replacement therapy - in

gym or room?

For those of you who have total joint replacement surgeries at your

hospital, do you complete treatment in a department- or unit-based gym

space or in the patient's rooms? daily or twice daily treatment?

Thank you,

Kari Voll, OTR/L, Rehab Manager

Sentara Healthcare

Norfolk, VA

[Guest guest]

We see our total joint patients twice daily POD1 and POD2, once POD3 if

they stay that long. We do their initial session in their rooms and all

subsequent sessions in our gym which can have up to 7 patients at a time

(7 mat tables--no group therapy), unless the patient is not doing well

medically. We do all of our therapeutic exercise, gait training, stair

training in the gym to get patients out of their rooms. They are dressed

in regular clothing so we don't have to worry about gowns etc... We are

moving to all of our knee patients going home POD2 and hip patients either

POD2 or POD3.

Tara Shank

Bellin Hospital

Green Bay WI