4-545: PWB may refer to: Partial Weight-bearing , in which patients are instructed to put only a certain amount of weight on their leg after surgery Printed wiring board Psychological well-being Programmer's Workbench, an early UNIX from Bell Labs, see PWB/UNIX a Text-based user interface , Integrated development environment (IDE) by Microsoft, see History of Visual C++ Phoebe Waller-Bridge , English actress, playwright, producer, and writer. Topics referred to by
8-465: A wrist. In general, it is described as a percentage of the body weight, because each leg of a healthy person carries the full body weight when walking, in an alternating fashion. After surgery of the hip, or of the bones of the leg, ankle, or foot, it is of the utmost importance for recovery to get the right amount of weight-bearing when moving around with crutches or frames. The grades of weight bearing for each phase of recovery will be determined by
12-404: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Weight-bearing In orthopedics , weight-bearing is the amount of weight a patient puts on an injured body part. Generally, it refers to a leg, ankle or foot that has been fractured or upon which surgery has been performed, but the term can also be used to refer to resting on an arm or
16-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PWB . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PWB&oldid=1147551428 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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