Physical Therapy

I had a phys­i­cal ther­a­py appoint­ment today at Metro­Health. I must say, I’m impressed with their hos­pi­tal. They’ve got excel­lent, good-natured staff, and they fol­low-up on small prob­lems like a dachs­hund down a bad­ger hole.

I’m sans 70# of grip strength in my right arm because of the bro­ken elbow, and my range of motion degrees for straight­en­ing the arm are poor as well. I also real­ized just how under­served and orphaned I was at Notre Dame when I dis­lo­cat­ed my kneecap. The extent of my phys­i­cal ther­a­py there was being told to ride a bicy­cle until I felt bet­ter. No one mea­sured my range of motion or mon­i­tored my progress; and I won­der if I would have an arthrit­ic knee now if I’d some pro­fes­sion­al assis­tance at the time.

I’ve got five more appoint­ments for phys­i­cal ther­a­py, some exer­cis­es to do at home, good lit­er­a­ture and a deter­mi­na­tion to get my dom­i­nant arm to 100% again. Thank­ful­ly, I have some good help this time.

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