Friday, January 30, 2009

Cerebral Palsy/Soft Knee Immobilizer

Left soft knee immobilizer
Cerebral palsy.
This 4-year-old female has no known allergies. She is not taking any medication. She had Botox injections on 03/21/2001 in both of her hamstrings.
The knee immobilizer will be used due to the patient having hamstring spasticity. A 9-inch knee immobilizer fit the patient very well. The parents were concerned because they were under the impression that Dr. ----- was going to order knee immobilizers for both legs. I placed a call to physician's office and left a message asking if physician did indeed wanted the patient to have one for each leg. Doctor wrote specifically just for the left. We will wait to her back. Today I fit and delivered 1 knee orthosis to the left leg.
We will wait for notification from Dr. regarding fit and delivery of a right knee immobilizer.
Evaluation and measurement for right soft knee immobilizer.