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- Title
Identification of Osteoarthritis with Multiple Joint Involvement in Elderly Institutionalized Patients Concomitant with Psycho-Kinesiotherapeutic Intervention Strategies - A Preliminary Study.
- Authors
Burcea, Claudia-Camelia; Lupuşoru, Mircea Ovidiu; Negreanu, Lucian; Văcăroiu, Ileana Adela; Piţuru, Silviu; Niculae, Andrei; Brezean, Iulian; Peride, Ileana; Georgescu, Luminiţa; Lupuşoru, Gabriela Elena; Ferechide, Dumitru
- Abstract
Aims of the study. The identification of osteoarthritis with multiple joint involvement in elderly institutionalized patients and of the joints most commonly incriminated in this pathology. Identifying the necessities of intervention in order to develop an operational strategy to control the evolution of osteoarthritis with multiple joint involvement in elderly institutionalized patients. Methodology. We developed a questionnaire consisting of 22 questions that included demographic data regarding gender, age and place of residence in addition to specific questions, which was subsequently applied to a number of 70 elderly institutionalized patients. The data obtained from the analysis of the questionnaire revealed the need for intervention in a multidisciplinary team (doctor-kinesiotherapist-psychotherapist) in order to develop an operational strategy directed towards the rehabilitation of the elderly institutionalized patient with multiple joint involvement osteoarthritis thus improving the quality of life in these patients. Conclusions. Kinesiotherapy and psychotherapy should be associated to the standard drug regimen in order to preserve the mobility and stability of joints and to alleviate pain. It is necessary to integrate departments of kinesiotherapy and psychotherapy in senior care centers in order to elaborate a therapeutic strategy in a multidisciplinary team with the purpose of controlling the evolution of multiple joint involvement osteoarthritis in elderly patients.
- Subjects
OSTEOARTHRITIS treatment; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons
- Publication
Medicina Moderna, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 3, p351
- ISSN
1223-0472
- Publication type
Article