in my experience, while working with a dowel and weights does increase endurance and strength, there's very little "funtion" involved. i try to find things that interest patients. playing a card game while standing. hanging up or opening the cards they have received while recovering. watering their plants. even cutting out or creating decorations for the clinic that are appropriate to the season (i'll admit, that last one, the ladies really love) even short term, someone can start and another can finish.
in the nursing home where i was working, we started a planting group that the patients loved. we had them stand around a table and pot the plant and and seeds and all that fun stuff. they were able to pace themselves. we were able to grade the activity to each patient. it was actually one of the best groups that we led. it also led to some very lively discussion. use your imagination! there's tons to do! jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chalya Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:59 PM Subject: Re: endurance activities > Hi Kathleen. Some activiities that you can do sitting > or standing would be to perform activities /c the use > of light weights on their wrist such as cooking, > reaching for itmes in the cabinets and dressing. > Looking at the dx you have, I would suggest performing > ROM activities /c a dowel. Add light weights to the > dowel as well. This helps to strenthen and icrease > endurance. If you have an UE bike--that would be good > too. I don't know what type of equipment you guys > have so that's all the help I can give. Good Luck. > ~Chalya Rader, OTS~ > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a level II occupational therapy student. I am > > currently in a nursing > > home that provides both short term rehab and long > > term rehab for a variety of > > DX (OA, CVA, Parkinson, COPD, THR, TKR...ect). The > > level of > > function/cognition varies for each patient and the > > therapist do not have > > their own case load, they serve on a first come > > first serve basis, this makes > > it difficult to plan a session or to follow up with > > treatment. I would not > > choose to work under these conditions in the future. > > > > I am wondering if anyone has any ideas for > > activities (sitting or standing) > > that may help increase endurance (beside cooking, > > dressing and bathing). > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Kathleen > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > *********��*********** > > Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist > > ** List messages are archived at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > *********��*********** > > *********��*********** Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ** List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] *********��***********
