täysipainoisesti

Täysipainoisesti is a Finnish adverb used primarily in medical and rehabilitation contexts to describe weight bearing. It signifies that a person is able to bear the full body weight on a limb or joint, as opposed to partially bearing weight or not bearing weight at all. The term is most common in orthopedics and physiotherapy when giving instructions on how to load a limb after injury or surgery.

The word is formed from the adjective täysipainoinen, meaning full-weight bearing, which in turn derives from täysi (full) and paino (weight). The adverb is created with the suffix -isesti, producing täysipainoisesti to describe how an action should be performed in terms weight bearing.

In practice, täysipainoisesti indicates a full weight-bearing status and is used to distinguish from osittaiskuormitus (partial weight bearing) or ei-kuormitus/non-weight-bearing. It is a relatively technical term and appears mainly in clinical notes, rehabilitation plans, and patient instructions. Clinicians may state that a patient can walk täysipainoisesti with or without assistive devices, depending on healing progress, gradually increasing load as appropriate.

Outside medical discourse, täysipainoisesti is rarely used in everyday speech, and when it appears it is typically to describe a manner of loading or applying weight in a literal or figurative sense. See also related concepts such as partial weight bearing and non-weight bearing in rehabilitation contexts.