Musculoskeletal Injuries- An orthopedic nurse is a nurse who specializes in treating patients with bone, limb, or musculoskeletal disorders. Nonetheless, because orthopedics and trauma typically follow one another, head injuries and infected wounds are frequently treated by orthopedic nurses.
Ensuring that patients receive the proper pre-and post-operative care following surgery is the responsibility of an orthopedic nurse. They play a critical role in the effort to return patients to baseline before admission. Early detection of complications following surgery, including sepsis, compartment syndrome, and site infections, falls under the purview of orthopedic nurses.
Musculoskeletal injuries
Musculoskeletal injuries is caused by any accident and affects on bone muscle, joints, ligaments.
[Ref-Luckmann and Sorensen, Medical and surgical nursing, 2nd edition, 1681]
Common musculoskeletal injuries:
There are many musculoskeletal injuries But some are most common.
They are given below:
1. Fracture.
2. Dislocations
3. Sprains
4. Strains
5. Subluxations.
6. Contusions
[Ref-Luckmann and Sorensen, Medical and surgical nursing, 2nd edition, 1681]
Factors of musculoskeletal injuries:
1. Accidents:
a) Home accidents:
- Dropping or lifting heavy object.
- Sleeping in a wet bathroom.
- Sleeping from polished floor.
- Fallings from chair or ladders, down stairs
b) Car accident: RTA.
2. Sports: Each sports has its own unique injured,
- Tennis elbow injuries.
- Joggers -Heel injuries.
- Karate-HIT(Hypertrophic infiltrated tendinities)
- Cricket(bowlers)-Shoulder dislocations
- Football-Ankle sprains.
3. Occupations :
- Nurse, police-For long standing causes Stress fracture.
- Infantry soldiers-Metatarsal fracture as a result of long hike or march.
4. Activities :
a) A wide yawn-Jaw may dislocated
b) b) Violent coughing: Rib fracture.
5. Diseases:
a)Tuberculosis
b) Malignancy
c)Riske
d) Long standing steroid therapy
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