Week 5 1

Three times a week we do exercises with a patient who has parkinsons disease. This patient does his conditioning exercises everyday on his own and when we see him he does these exercises with weights or theraband. We also do sit to stand practice with this patient, along with marching on the spot, as this patient's goal is to get walking in the parallel bars.

This patient is very compliant with exercises and motivated to do them because he wants to walk in the parallel bars again. Although he does everything he is told and wants to do it, when he marches on the spot he doesnt weight shift well enough to have a go on the parallel bars yet. This is hard because he is so egar to try them and keeps asking if he can have a go on them. That is a hard thing to tell a patient everyday when they really want to do something they physically are unable to do yet.
This patient has parkinsons disease and speaks with a very quiet voice and is hard to hear sometimes. To ensure you hear what he says you need to make sure you are close and are fully focussed on him.
THis patient doesnt have a mental deficit and so he gets down on himself when his body doesnt do what it used to do.

With this patient you have to be careful he doesnt do too much exercise and tire himself out, because he wont tell you he is tired and sometimes he does too much in a day if he goes to group exercise classes and then does individual sessions with us.