Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Second Hydrotherapy session

Jo had her second hydrotherapy session today and it seems to be having an efficacious effect. The therapist started in the deep end. With Jo standing upright in the water she got Jo to push down on her foot with Jo’s left foot. Although Jo professed she couldn’t feel it the therapist said Jo was pushing down on her foot with some force. This was in contrast to last week when Jo couldn’t bring the left leg down to the floor of the pool

Other exercises included Jo kicking with both legs while floating on her back and performing a scissors movement with both legs in the same position. On land Jo is just beginning to make lateral movements with her left leg. These movements are slight and with little control so this is a really positive effect.

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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.