PHYSIOTHERAPEUTIC PREVENTION OF THROMBOSIS IN TRAUMA SURGERY - POSSIBILITIES AND ROLES OF INDIVIDUAL MEASURES

Patients in traumatology need additional physiotherapy to prevent: dee p vein thrombosis. There is still a 4% risk of deep vein thrombosis in outpatients receiving already low molecular weight heparin prophylaxi s [9]. However, there are no prospective studies with a high number of patients To prove effectiveness of the presented physiotherapeutic to ols, even if the hypothesis ''achieving physiological-like conditions' ' sounds positive and some authors postulate that physiotherapy would be equal to drug prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis.