A Case Report on Effect of Tailor-Made Spine Physiotherapy Protocol for Resident Doctor
Background and purpose: Neck Pain and Low Back Pain are most prevalent musculoskeletal pain among medical students. This is due to long training hours of ward and clinics for clinical exposure, elective rotations and research electives carried out in residency program. Common Quality of Life problems reported by medical students are associated with neck and lower back pain which include headaches and pain during reading, standing and sitting.
Intervention: We herein present the case of 27-year-old resident doctor with generalized weakness, stiff neck with restricted ranges and chronic low back pain with tingling in lower limb. He was rehabilitated with customized physiotherapy protocol consisting of myofascial release of tight structures with stretching exercises , strengthening of weaker structures and endurance training to improve cardiorespiratory performance for 2 weeks , 6days/week, 60mins/day.
Outcomes: An overall improvement in functional performance was reported post treatment using exercise therapy and electrotherapy with decreased pain and increased ranges and strength.
Discussion and conclusion: This study showed that there was significant improvement in pain after proper exercises, awareness of body mechanics and ergonomic changes.
Keywords: neck pain, low back pain, post graduate medical student, case report, stiffness, trigger point, mechanical pain
Citation: Thakur ND, Kondal S. “A Case Report on Effect of Tailor-Made Spine Physiotherapy Protocol for Resident Doctor”. SVOA Orthopaedics 1:1 (2021) Pages 24-27.