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03.02.2017 | From Bench to Bedside
From Bench to Bedside: Ischemia is Bad … Right?
verfasst von:
Benjamin K. Potter, MD, FACS
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 4/2017
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Excerpt
Physicians and other medical personnel learn early in their training that ischemia is, well, bad. Insufficient oxygen in tissues leads to potentially fatal events such as myocardial infarctions and cerebrovascular accidents. From an orthopaedic perspective, ischemia is associated with muscle necrosis, neuropathy, and compartment syndrome—function- and extremity-threatening conditions that can lead to serious disability and even death. Interestingly, though, blood flow restriction training represents one of the promising trends in physical therapy. Essentially, patients perform low-resistance exercises with a partially inflated tourniquet or a blood pressure cuff on the proximal extremity in a supervised setting. …