Wednesday 7 March 2007

2nd Physio

This morning was time for my 2nd physio appointment (two weeks since the last).
After a few full on calf stretches I was back on a wobble board, this time one that could tilt in any direction. Progress was obvious, as was the larger range of motion present in my ankle. I was soon told to try and balance on the wobble board with my eyes shut, this was tricky but I was doing fairly well after a little while.
After this I was required to try stepping up onto a block whilst fully load bearing on my injured leg, after a few wobbles this was again fine.
Next up was the trampoline, after a few gentle bounces I was instructed to balance on my good leg. They then threw balls at me to check my balance, this wasn't too much trouble until I completely missed one and it nearly wiped out the physiotherapy student who was helping out. The next challenge was to stand one legged on the bad leg; this was a bit more tricky. Initially I couldn't get myself to lift my uninjured foot off the ground but after a couple of minutes I managed it (8b?) and thankfully they opted not to throw any more balls at me today.
A set of cones was quickly laid out around the gym and I attempted to walk without my crutches, initially I was limping although I think it must have been psychological because soon I was walking fine (well fine ish...). I then walked backwards and sideward in both directions.
The physiotherapist was pretty confident that she didn't need to see me until after my next check-up (3 weeks time). She recently set up a group session which I’m pretty sure she wants me to attend just to be a success story, both her and the consultant seem to be impressed with progress and they are both confident they will dinamize (sp?) me in 3 weeks time (that means loosen the bolts a bit). The good news is she said I can traverse If I want to...haha

4 comments:

dobbin said...

The Frenchies do lots of one legged traversing - you could become a one legged traverse specialist!

bonjoy said...

"Inertia Reel trav gets first broken legged ascent", I can see the headlines now.

Paul Bennett said...

just imagine the hooking potential of all that scaffolding!!!

I feel so pathetically weak already which isn't a good sign, I'm not sure how happy the works guys will be with someone who can't walk quite right yet traversing around...

andysomething said...

Interesting stuff Paul, keep up the knitting! Don't dwell on the fact that Norm is out in the Alps, although it looks white everywhere tempeartures are well up. He'dll just have to do the mashed potato
Best wishes
Andy

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