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Chapter 9 Rehabilitation and restorative care

  • Phantom sensation- warmth, itching, or tingling of a body part that has been amputated. 

  • Phantom limb pain- pain in a limb that has been amputated. 

  • Range of motion (ROM)

  • Abduction- moving a body part away from the midline of the body.

  • Adduction- moving a body part toward the midline of the body.

  • Extension- straightening a body part. 

  • Flexion- bending a body part.

  • Dorsiflexion- bending backward.

  • Rotation- turning a joint. 

  • Pronation- turning downward. 

  • Supination- turning upward. 

  • Opposition- touching the thumb to any other finger. 

  • Types of ROM exercises:

    • PROM- NA does all the work and resident does none.

    • AROM- NA encourages and the resident does all the work.

    • AAROM- NA assists and supports the resident. 


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Chapter 9 Rehabilitation and restorative care

  • Phantom sensation- warmth, itching, or tingling of a body part that has been amputated. 

  • Phantom limb pain- pain in a limb that has been amputated. 

  • Range of motion (ROM)

  • Abduction- moving a body part away from the midline of the body.

  • Adduction- moving a body part toward the midline of the body.

  • Extension- straightening a body part. 

  • Flexion- bending a body part.

  • Dorsiflexion- bending backward.

  • Rotation- turning a joint. 

  • Pronation- turning downward. 

  • Supination- turning upward. 

  • Opposition- touching the thumb to any other finger. 

  • Types of ROM exercises:

    • PROM- NA does all the work and resident does none.

    • AROM- NA encourages and the resident does all the work.

    • AAROM- NA assists and supports the resident.