Take Flight, Website, or Sit Tight?

TAKE FLIGHT, WEBSITE OR SIT TIGHT?

• Twisting episode with an audible snap and swelling • Inability to flex knee past 90 degrees • Inability to weight bear for more than 4 steps • Locking, catching or giving way persisting despite rehabilitation • Significant swelling • Pain unresolved/ unchanging after 6 week rehabilitation program

Website Seek a Physiotherapy consultation online if there is: • Knee pain lasting more than 1 week

Let It Go If you develop knee pain, but can walk around OK and have no swelling, it can often be good to leave it for a week or two to see if it settles down. Avoid impact activity (or aggravating activity). If pain persists, follow the ‘Take Flight’ and ‘Website’ guidelines.

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Take Flight, Website, or Sit Tight?

Published on May 11, 2016

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If you live or work in a remote location, and sustain a musculoskeletal injury, it is important to know when the injury requires more than your own basic management, and where to go for help. Injury management can be more difficult in remote locations, where the desire to act fast often competes with the upheaval and cost of increased travel for specialised services. Take Flight, Website or Sit Tight? is a 28 page booklet written by Australian Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, Karen Finnin. Finnin lists simple cues to assist injured people to know when their injury warrants travel to a health service, when an online health consultation can be appropriate, or when their own management and monitoring will suffice.

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