Today we gave a patients peddles for the first time in a long time. We have previously just been doing upper limb strengthening and conditioning exercises with her.
I felt a bit unsure about how the peddles would go since this patient had ceased the use of them previously because her foot was slipping out of them. We took her down to the physio room, so that she could use the 'wobbler' machine after she had finished peddling.
We got her feet into the peddles and she began peddling however she cant peddle the full way around, so she just peddles half round then back.
She seemed to be able to peddle for a while before her foot began to slip out. When it was about to slip we just stopped her and put her foot back in. I was expecting her to have more of a problem than she did in keeping her feet in the peddles. It wasnt hard for us to readjust her foot when she was about to slip, so I cant see why she is unable to continue peddles treatment.
We then put her legs on the 'wobbler' machine and took her back to her room
I was confortable with this patient because she wants to do things and will do anything to help you out.
I was happy iwth the way today went except that there are auditors in at the moment and they sometimes have the patients files when we wanted them.
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