Lower Limb Positioning
We continued our study of lower limb positioning today in the RAD-111 class. We have covered from the toes to the distal and mid femur in the book so far. We’ll start the physical positioning process on those tomorrow in lab. I don’t think we are actually going to practice toe positioning in lab though. We will need to know those for the written test though. There are a lot of positions to deal with in the lower extremity, and I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to memorize all this yet. We’ll be tested on Tuesday of next week and I’ll have to have ‘mental’ knowledge of all of it by then. Our last written test in the positioning class was my worst grade so far this semester. I got an 84 on that test, and I’m confident that it was because of the number of positions and detail we had to cover. This unit has even more positions, so I guess I need to start working on my strategy for learning all of it with a high level of confidence. I think I’ll make another chart of all the lower extremity positions and work from that. I’ll probably try to post that list here over the weekend…
Looks like you have a really good handle on everything!
I highly recommend making charts for all of those projections. I used MS Excel for mine, with separate sheets by type (i.e. lower extremities, upper extremities, spines, etc). I had columns for IR size, patient position, CR location, CR angle, rotation, and notes. What’s nice about Excel is that you can “hide” columns so that you can test yourself easily. I’m graduating next quarter and although I haven’t used my charts in quite a while, I know I’ll be studying them carefully again, very soon!
Good luck to you!