Providing authentic didactic and clinical learning experiences that involve the management of post-operative conditions is a challenge for academic and clinical faculty alike. Even for a well-designed and well-resourced education program, it is difficult to provide students with consistent quality patient/client encounters that involve post-surgical conditions during clinical education. While these experiences can and do happen, often by chance encounters, not all students may have the same depth and breadth of educational opportunity. Further, providing students with a trusted and reliable source of information that is useful, cost-effective, easily accessible and one that covers contemporary surgical techniques and rehabilitation protocols is daunting.
The Post-Op App
To address these challenges, and to provide faculty and students with up to date information on the surgical intervention and post-operative rehabilitation protocol for 25 common musculoskeletal conditions, the team at PhysioU has designed and released the new Post-Op app as an easy to use reference guide.
The app covers seven body regions including four upper extremity regions (Head & Neck; Shoulder & Arm; Back; Elbow, Forearm, Wrist & Hand) and three lower extremity regions (Buttock, Hip & Thigh; Knee; Leg, Ankle & Foot). Each body region currently includes 2-5 conditions which commonly require surgical intervention and a post-operative rehabilitation protocol.
Overview of Common Surgical Techniques
Each condition includes a brief text description and image of the surgical technique. For example, the surgical overview of a bunionectomy includes the following description and image.
