Setting goals

The physiotherapists came round to set up Jo's program for the care assistants and devise an exercise regime. They want Jo to do transfers in and out of bed from the chair, using the rotunda for all other transfers. This is to build up strength and mobility in the buttocks and torso as well as encouraging Jo to push herself up to a standing position as opposed to pulling, which is the action the rotunda reinforces.

We agreed immediate goals of Jo being able to sit herself up in bed and moving her legs off the bed to a position sitting on the edge of the bed, both necessary precursors to the third goal, transferring herself from the bed to the chair or commode.