Fab physio session!!!

speedalong

Hi yesterday was a manic day and never got to post about my surprise physio visit!!!

The intermediary team who I somehow qualified for - thanks to a fab and devious community OT ... have been great - they come in daily to wash my feet and change my TEDS and wash my hair once in a while. Anyway the nurse assessor came to check my progress on Tuesday and asked me if I was having physio from the hospital ... DURR!! Silly question ... and so she said the I. Team's physio would come and see me in the near future. She came out next day!!

Fab visit. The physio brought a new member of the team with her (who was moving from the acute team to rehab) they stayed an hour and a half and we very thorough. The physio asked me what I wanted to gain from her visits and we set goals and I had to self evaluate my current skills and how I felt about them. Then I showed her all my exercises, transfers etc and she made suggestions, added a few more exercises and evaluated my strength etc Then we had a very useful Q & A session (talked about gait, body position and all sorts) and then we went for a walk outside - with me using just one crutch!! We walked further than I did the day before and it was nicer walking and chatting than walking on my own. She is coming back again in a week... additional incentive to work hard!!

Speedy

dreamdaisy

Wonderful! It sounds very promising and encouraging, I am so pleased for you. Still exercise some caution tho - no throwing your hat over the moon yet! DD

skezier

Hi Speedy,

Glad it went well, sounds like you have a good physio there I echo DD though and go steady..... Cris xx

frogmorton

Brilliant Speedy

You are doing well - nlot only with your recovery but also getting good treatment and aftercare

You eat more with company and now it seems you walk further too

Very impressed with it all

Love

Toni xx

tillytop

Hi Speedy - sounds really great and as if you are doing really well! So pleased for you!
Love Tilly x

bertyboy

thats wonderful sounds as if they are getting you sorted , just need a bit of nice weather to make that walking even more enjoyable xxx

tkachev

and I thought you were having a nice rest yesterday!

Elizabeth

speedalong

Hi Fab cyber friends, thank you for your continued interest and support. I'm resting plently too - honest!!

Speedy

hileena111

Hi Speedy
That sounds great......wish I had physio after my THR
Kdeep it up girl.....that is a grat incentive to work {them coming back in a week}

Love
Hileena

speedalong

It isn't it Hileena. If I had not met the one fabby OT who got me under the intermediary team .. I would not have had anything. This aftercare is independent of the hospital ....

Speedy

speedalong

Hi,

Well my fab physio came again today. She was pleased to see me walking in the house without my crutches etc I said I was concerned that the limp/sway was not getting any better. So we went out the front of the house (more room) and she walked behind me to analyse what was going on - with and without the crutch.

Basically my old (13 year old) THR leg is so weak that instead of lifting my leg up at the hip and bending my knee I swing the leg out to the side and secondly because the muscles on my new fab op side (8 weeks post-op) are still weak they struggle to keep my trunk upright as I weight bear all my weight on that leg to lift the other leg through.

So I'm now going to replace the emphasis on distance walking (which she thinks I'm doing great on, I think there is a lot of room for improvement!!) and work on gait training each school day. I have to focus on what the old THR leg is doing and it feels like I'm 5 years old again and playing horses and lifting my legs high as a I walk ... but with the single crutch I can feel my walk is much better. It's going to take a long time for this to come naturally... In the house it is much harder to do without the crutch as I still need to focus on the strenghtening exercises.

I asked the physio if the swaying and weak muscles was common after a hip op in her other clients and she said - they are all older (bar one) and just glad to be walking and painfree and didn't even care about the gait etc ..

She is coming back in three weeks (should have been two - but I'm not free that day) to see how I'm improving ... no pressure then!!

Speedy

tillytop

Hi Speedy - glad you are doing so well with your fab physio! It's a long old road but sounds like you are making great progress!
Love Tilly x

bertyboy

hi Speedy thats brillant to know you are doing so well with a good physio to help x

marion1952

Hi Speedy

That's very interesting.. I will be waiting for the next instalment of this particular thread!

Marion

hileena111

Hi Speedy, sounds like you are getting on really well......lucky you having a physio LOL.....I'm still staggering a bit if I have to weave in and out of crowds of people
Love
Hileena

speedalong

Hi Tilly, Berty, Marion and Hileena,

I AM REALLY lucky to have some physio and from an interested one who is willing to listen and work on my concerns.

I went to athletics with S today and did lots of walking concentrating as much as possible on my gait, also am trying really hard around the house AND I can notice a difference already.

Without the advice from the physio I would probably have carried on walking the same way forever and no amount of exercises would have done the trick as half the problem was/is how I walk with my old hip replacement...

Speedy

dorcas

Hi speedy...what a difference having interested and knowledgeable physio and ot makes!
makes you wonder why it can't always be like that for everyone and not depend on 'luck'!

so pleased for you at the fab progress. would love to see pics of the 'horse trotting'? ha ha!

three weeks homework now speedy. I'm sure you will do it.


Iris x

speedalong

Hi Iris,

I'm like you though - impatient ...

It's a fine line between doing the exercises and overdoing it ...

It does really help having someone interested and involved in your aftercare though doesn't it?

Set off for a walk with S tonight, he was at the end of the road - whooping with joy and I was still outside our next door neighbour's house!! I quickly realised my new, "good" hip was aching - from lots of walking at athletics and this boy had energy to burn - so we went back to the house and set off out the back with me on the scooter ... just as well - S walked for an hour!! On the way back we swapped for a bit and he rode the scooter and I did a bit of walking ... so a fair compromise!

Speedy

suncatcher

Sounds really good speedy im really pleased for you. I am really looking forward to my physio now. You are really fortunate to have had a good team see you. from joanne

skezier

Hi Speedy,

I only found this..... :oops: :oops:

Its called daisy Cutting in horses what you were dong.....

Pick them feets up girl!

I am glad it went well and it stands to reason you have to relearn. It should help the old hp quite a bit shouldn't it? I know when I had my back done it did take a while to get the legs working properly..... Hydro was so beneficial and I had 3 month of it daily. In fact the hydro pool was a god send......

I went into hospital for simple 2 disc laminectomy but when he got in there he found such a mess he did a full decompression..... What was 4 days in bed and home in ten became a week in bed and a month in hospital! :shock: :shock: I was absolutely gutted cus the op hadn't gone as well as anyone hoped as well......

They were very good to me in the hydro pool... I got chucked in first thing and they wouldn't kick me out till dinner time I saw all the hip people, the knee people and well got to know the physio's so well Oh and for 3 months I wasn't allowed to bend, that included sitting.....

I sorry i kinda lost the plot again...... :oops:

Pick those feet up flower and you will soon find it second nature. ((( ))) and a hope S is ok? Cris xx

speedalong

Hi Cris,

Daisy cutting - eh?! I like the sound of that. I shall think of that when I'm trying to do it. I remember it until I want to get somewhere quickly and then it all goes out of the window and I swing out the leg on the rubbish side - but get there quicker...

Pick them feets up girl!

That's what the lady who comes to help me clean, said to me today!
It should help the older hip - pity I didn't have more follow up after last op - might have stopped it becoming a bad habit?!

3 months of daily hydro - wow!! You must have been a special case to have had that honour - I love hydro though, it is great - all that warmth to relax the muscles and the buoyancy of the water to support you ... but then of course you don't realise how hard you are working!! No sitting down for 3 months???!!! - did they stretcher you into the building? How did you get from standing to lying and vice versa?? And I complain about the 90 degree rule?!! That'll be a piece of cake for you then....!

I went into hospital for simple 2 disc laminectomy but when he got in there he found such a mess he did a full decompression..... What was 4 days in bed and home in ten became a week in bed and a month in hospital! :shock: :shock: I was absolutely gutted cus the op hadn't gone as well as anyone hoped as well......

Sounds like my first hip op, only worse - I thought I'd be in hospital a short time and fully weight bearing on crutches when came out ... when they opened me up - it was much worse than they had realised and instead I was in bed for 5 whole days, in hospital for almost 3 weeks and had to hop on crutches for 3 months ... results not great either. No wonder I'm so pleased this time went better ... and no wonder you are wary ... more often than not though - does go to plan.

S was a bit touch and go over the weekend. Much better than he was last few days at school though. He seemed to "come to life" mid/late evening - and I have concluded it was the heat that was affecting him so, as the only difference to the evenings was that it was cooler. Hopefully today he will find the cool, damp, cloudy outlook more to his liking. Though if he has had a day of zero exercise at school again - how I'll wear him out if it is raining - the mind boggles ....

Hope your wrists settle down a bit in this slightly cooler weather.

Speedy