Short YouTube clip in which Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter discusses using unloader braces to manage patients with varus deformities or large joint deformities, and notes that patients often dislike wearing large braces because they impact lifestyle and are therefore not a preferred option.
You could put them in a brace like an unloader brace.
What we do when we manage a patient with a big deformity or when we have a pretty varus patient or something like that, we can put. You can put them in a brace like an unloader brace. The problem is patients don't really love to wear that brace. Kind of coming to you because they want an option that's, you know, not going to really impact their lifestyle super like a whole lot. But a big brace is oftentimes impacts their lifestyle, so that's not often what they're looking for.
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