Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Increasing Movement

Jo's physiotherapy session was interesting today. Rather than repeat the previous two weeks they decided to get Jo to transfer onto the bed to study her transfers and review the exercises Jo could conduct there.

To their obvious astonishment Jo was able to transfer herself from the wheelchair to the bed with a little effort. Once on the bed she demonstrated that she was able to raise her left leg at the knee with even more power than before. Not only that but Jo was able to move her left leg from left to right with little effort. This was something she had struggled and failed to do three months ago.

Jo was also able to raise herself up from a sitting position and get herself to a position sitting on the edge of the bed. This took the most effort and Jo was visibly tired afterward but it certainly seems that she is making progress.
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1 comment:

  1. gandt12 August 2009 at 15:07

    Hey Rog didnt know this existed until a passing comment. Sure it helps people. Say hello when you have a minute.


    Graham

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.