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    The physical therapy clinic document provides guidelines for measuring and grading knee effusion or swelling in patients. It describes techniques for milking out swelling from the knee and notes what level of swelling should not be progressed in exercise. Any effusion over a 1+ is not to be progressed in activity, and a physician should be contacted at 2+ or greater swelling or sudden changes in swelling. Activity should be gradually reintroduced when swelling decreases.

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    Measuring Effusion

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    The physical therapy clinic document provides guidelines for measuring and grading knee effusion or swelling in patients. It describes techniques for milking out swelling from the knee and notes what level of swelling should not be progressed in exercise. Any effusion over a 1+ is not to be progressed in activity, and a physician should be contacted at 2+ or greater swelling or sudden changes in swelling. Activity should be gradually reintroduced when swelling decreases.

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    PHYSICAL THERAPY CLINIC

    053 McKinly Lab University of Delaware Newark, Delaware 19716-2590 Ph: (302) 831-8893 Fax: (302) 831-4468 www.udel.edu/PT/

    MEASURING EFFUSION
    0 None Milk out swelling distal to proximal several times. Sweep proximal to distal on the lateral side. View the medial sulcus for return of swelling. You can milk out the swelling and it does not return on its own but returns with the lateral sweep. You milk out the swelling and it returns immediately. You cannot milk it out (but it looks like you might) Balloon like and there is too much to milk out

    1+

    2+ 3+ 4+

    RULES: 1. Patients should not be progressed in their exercise program when the effusion is more than a l+. 2. When patients are holding anything above a 2+, contact MD. 3. Any drastic change of 2 grades or appearance of effusion when it was absent, decrease activity. Gradually reintroduce activity when possible.

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