Learning Goal: I’m working on a poetry multi-part question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
Hip Precautions poetry
Using the 5 hip precautions below create a poetry; it must rhythm and make sense. only choose this project if you can write poetry
- Avoid dislocating the hip after surgery
- Center of the body is called the midline position
- Maintain abduction
- Abduction pillow
- Do not remove it
- After THR we prefer ABDuction (away from the body/center)
- Avoid crossing the legs
- Do not cross the midline of the body
- Avoid internal rotation
- The moment you internally rotate you will displace the hip
- Avoid bending the hips more than 90 degrees
- Use an elevated toilet seat if they need to go to the bathroom
- You will tell the pt they need to use an elevated toilet seat and they can not pick things up from the floor. This can cause the hip to be dislocated
- Avoid pivoting on the affected side