Continuous Passive Motion Machine: Everything to Know About Using One
If you need to use a continuous passive motion machine, you should click here for a guide on everything you should know about using one.
Where we bend breaks more often than you think.
There are some 200,000 ACL injury repair procedures done in the U.S. alone in a year. That’s a lot of knocked knees.
Injury can make one feel isolated, especially when cut off from activities common before the injury. But don’t feel alone. There are thousands of other people going through.
But activity doesn’t have to be limited during joint surgery recover. A continuous passive motion machine gets patients moving immediately after a procedure.
Read on for the breakdown on CPMs.
Define Continuous Passive Motion Machine
These are simple machines that move a joint of the body, as the name states, continuously without the patient having to move the required limb.
These movements are vital in various ligament repair and joint replacement procedures.
To name a few procedures, these are used in total knee replacements, rotator cuff repair, joint scar tissue excision and in limp fracture recovery.
Here are the basics for the machine: a motor rotates a brace a certain number of degrees back and forth. The limb is set in the brace and strapped in. And the brace is often attached to some kind of track as well as the motor
But Why Would I Need This?
CPMs help to maintain joint flexibility. This is a major point of recovery. In many procedures involving arms and legs, the related joints will begin to stiffen and lose range of motion because they are not being used during recovery.
Stiffened and limited joint, even if they were not part of the original trauma, will become susceptible to injury because they are weakened.
The continuous motion also helps keep muscles limber and helps them keep proper blood flow through the limb. This both increases the rate of recovery and prevents blood clots, a notable risk common with lower extremity procedures.
What Does It Cost?
That depends. You can see what a CPM machine for rent could cost on its own.
CPMs aren’t a ubiquitous therapy tool. Some surgeons and post-acute care providers prefer that patients get moving in different ways to recover. So, a physician may not attest to its medical necessity. This would likely result in an insurance claim denial if a patient wanted to get one on their own.
Further, it’s a bedlam among insurers on what durable medical equipment they will cover or that they won’t. Not only is there variance among different insurers, but there is also variance in the payer’s designation. Private insurers will cover durable medical equipment than the two major government health plans Medicare and Medicaid.
What’s It Like?
Patients will do well to ensure they are within a cycle of pain medication before a session on the CPM. Moving a joint after an operation is painful.
You will need to follow a regimen as set by a provider. But you can expect to use it for up to two hours at a time several times a day, perhaps three to four times a day.
However, shoulder procedures often require less time for individual sessions.
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