So familiar--my wife does my pt because I cannot afford $1600/day for a live in PT facility that was prescribed for me. I know all about the buzzing--I call it humming in my feet and the stronger thrumming in my legs. But my wife found a solution for feet jumping off the wheel chair. I use a regular chair in the house and she uses a velcro back brace (the kind with no shoulder straps) and wraps it around the legs of the wheel chair and my legs. Works!
I also have a "Jazzy" electric wheel chair that we bought second hand from Craigs List for a $1000 that I use for outdoor activities like my grandsons ball games and trips to Cost Co. Here's the neat part. She screwed a pair of sandals onto foot rest of the Jazzy and straps my feet in so they can't jump out. We also bought a pedal machine and she put sandals on that as well because my feet wouldn't stay on it. $100 for the pedal machine 25 for the slippers. It moves my legs for me and I am now doing 30 minutes at top speed twice a day. It will keep your legs from shrinking. I also contacted Redman about a standup electric wheel chair and found it cost $28,000. I passed. Jim On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Akua <[email protected]> wrote: > I am getting a lot of little "returns" from my (recently begun) in-home > pt. > She manipulates my legs, not for long, > but since her ministrations I've begun to feel what she does as she does it > and > affirmingly(!!!!) > but uncomfortably(!!!) > I have a loud buzzing in my feet > thrumming in my legs > and > my legs fly off the wheelchair > several to many times a day. > We are now trying to figure out > how to keep my legs on the wheelchair. > > Also I can now feel a most of the time my leg comes off the wheelchair. > She gave me a series of upper body with weights to perform. > I feel the signal go down my leg when i do these. > > Which affirms my belief that if i had money, I'd be walking. > I was and am unable to buy thorough therapy for myelf. > I ran into a great physiatrist last year who prescribed this for me, > knowing > there's no paratransit here for me to get to go anywhere with > any regularity. > > This is the first pt that has worked on my legs--- no one > has touched my legs, other than myself for five years. > > She keeps thinking of ways for me to stand. I told her about > the unaffordable standers Easy Stand, and the Gait harness > which let paraplegics stand and walk and there is the REdman > Power Chair, so if anyone is in touch with > those millionaire shows, tell them i would like one of these > devices to improve my health and help me stand and > "walk" and perhaps walk, again. > > > Akua > > -- > >
