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Physiotherapeutic prevention of thrombosis in trauma surgery. Possibilities and roles of individual measures

Possibilities and roles of individual measures

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Patients in traumatology need additional physiotherapy to prevent deep vein thrombosis. There is still a 4 % risk of deep vein thrombosis in outpatients receiving already low molecular weight heparin prophylaxis [9]. However, there are no prospective studies with a high number of patients to prove effectiveness of the presented physiotherapeutic tools, even if the hypothesis “achieving physiological-like conditions” sounds positive and some authors postulate that physiotherapy would be equal to drug prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis.

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Das traumatologische Patientengut, bedarf der zusätzlichen Physiotherapie als Unterstützung der medikamentösen Thromboseprophylaxe (TP); 4 % der ambulanten Patienten entwickeln eine tiefe Beinvenenthrombose (TVT) trotz medikamentöser Thromboseprophylaxe [9]. Es fehlen prospektive Studien mit großen Fallzahlen um den Effekt der vorgestellten physiotherapeutischen Maßnahmen nachweisen zu können, wenn auch die Arbeitshypothese „Erreichen einer quasi-physiologischen Situation“ sehr plausibel klingt, und die Effektivität der physikalischen Maßnahmen im ambulanten Bereich als gleichwertig zur medikamentösen Thrombembolieprophylaxe diskutiert wird.

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Eisele, R., Kinzl, L. Physiotherapeutic prevention of thrombosis in trauma surgery. Possibilities and roles of individual measures. Unfallchirurg 101, 851–855 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001130050350

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