Due to the complex process of making and assembling orthoses, the active cooperation of nursing staff is always needed in the whole process to help patients correctly assemble and use the orthoses.
(a) Care before use
1. Psychological care
Because the patients do not know the use of orthosis, they are full of curiosity, and have a variety of worries, doubts, and even anxiety. Nursing staff should help patients to remove doubts, reduce the psychological burden, as soon as possible over to the assembly training.
2. Guide your wardrobe
To facilitate orthosis wear and training, patients should wear loose, soft clothes that are easy to take off and on.
3. Help with recovery
Assist the rehabilitation therapist in treating patients with orthoses.
4. Rehabilitation education
To help patients and their families to have a correct understanding of orthosis, the knowledge of orthosis structure, characteristics and use methods, the influence of orthosis use on treatment and prognosis, and the significance of rehabilitation of wearing orthosis, etc., so as to facilitate the installation and use of orthosis. (2) Care in use
1. Help patients use orthoses correctly
Some orthoses need to be used in training, and some need to be temporarily removed for a certain period of time for functional training. Nurses should guide patients to use the orthoses correctly, such as the time to wear and take off, correct training methods, and use the orthoses to complete activities of daily living, etc.
2. The prevention of pressure ulcers
Wearing orthoses is easy to cause local tissue compression and pressure sores. Nurses should observe whether there is redness, pain and damage of local skin in the process of wearing patients at any time, and take targeted effective measures according to the situation, such as adding soft cushion to the bone protrusion to relieve pressure; If the local compression is serious, the orthosis should be improved in time or adjusted appropriately.
3. Skin care
Clean portions of your skin daily to keep it clean and dry.
4. Maintenance of orthoses
Orthoses are made of different materials, and their service life is limited. In order to ensure the maximum extension of the service life of the orthosis, and play a normal function, it is necessary to carry out regular maintenance of the orthosis, clean often, keep dry; Check the screws, firm interface place; Keep the orthoses away from heat which made of low temperature materials.