Repair of the Abdominal Wall, Presentation of a Case from the Clinical Sports Medicine Therapeutic Physical Activity Intervention

Jorge Esneider Mejía cano¹, Jose Gabriel Leon Higuera¹, Stephania Sierra Robles², Ingrith Paola Ortiz Pineda² & Orlando Angulo^3*

¹Sports Medicine Department, Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Hospital de San José y Hospital Infantil Universitario de San José, Bogota, Colombia
²Sports Medicine Residency Program at Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Hospital de San José y Hospital Infantil Universitario de San José, Bogota, Colombia
³Professor and Researcher at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Sede Villavicencio, Villavicencio, Colombia

Dr. Orlando Angulo, et al., Professor and Researcher at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Sede Villavicencio, Villavicencio, Colombia.

Keywords: Rehabilitation; Sports Medicine; Abdominal Wall; Reconstructive Surgical Procedure

Abstract

Abdominal wall closure is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in surgical practice. For this reason, it is important to take into account the complications that may arise during this procedure. This is a case of a 54-year-old patient who presented with an open abdomen requiring multiple surgical interventions with multidisciplinary assessment, which included therapeutic physical activity supervised by a Sports Medicine Physician. The purpose is to show the significant clinical improvement according to body composition, body dynamics, functional capacity and physical independence of the patient who underwent the mentioned intervention as a multidisciplinary jointly assessment between the General Surgery and the Sports Medicine Departments who carried out a significant progressive increase in loads under medical supervision.

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