Mike, that's a good question. He did have many good things to say about rehab in general. This is a man who two months ago was unable to pick up a 2# weight and who today was able to walk outside with his walker and sit in the sun. He is an avid outdoorsmans, and being outside is extremely important to him. One of his comments was simply, "The sun feels good". Keep in mind that we live in FL and that it was almost 80 degrees today.
I don't know what prompted to him to tell about some of the "wasted time" in rehab. If I had to guess, he found the physical exercise and hard work associate with rehab to be of the greatest value. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: michael butterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subj: [OTlist] Shoulder Arc mb> Hi Ron, mb> I amt curious about the conversation you had mb> with your new pt. Did he mention anything he thought was useful or mb> helpful during his rehab stay? mb> Mike Butterfield mb> -----Original Message----- mb> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mb> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On mb> Behalf Of Ron Carson mb> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:52 PM mb> To: [email protected] mb> Subject: [OTlist] Shoulder Arc mb> I evaluated a new patient today, actually the husband of a former mb> patient. He was just d/c from rehab. During the eval, he talked a mb> little about his rehab. He stated that some of what he did was a mb> "waste of time". He then provided two examples of what he considered mb> wasting his time: mb> 1. The shoulder arc mb> 2. Picking up cones mb> Granted, the above could have been either with a PT or OT, but I mb> suspect it was the rehab's OT doing the above 'exercises'. mb> Ron mb> -- mb> Options? mb> www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com mb> Archive? mb> www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] mb> ************************************************************************ mb> ************** mb> Enroll in Boston University's post-professional Master of Science for mb> OTs Online. Gain the skills and credentials to propel your career. mb> www.otdegree.com/otn mb> ************************************************************************ mb> ************** mb> -- mb> Options? mb> www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com mb> Archive? mb> www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] mb> ************************************************************************************** mb> Enroll in Boston University's post-professional Master of mb> Science for OTs Online. Gain the skills and credentials to propel mb> your career. mb> www.otdegree.com/otn mb> ************************************************************************************** mb> --------------------------------- mb> Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels mb> in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ************************************************************************************** Enroll in Boston University's post-professional Master of Science for OTs Online. Gain the skills and credentials to propel your career. www.otdegree.com/otn **************************************************************************************
