Week 2

Today i was asked to conduct an excercise class. I had 8 patients with various orthopaedic injuries and neurological disorders. Some of the patients were weight bearing however others were NWB or PWB this made it quite difficult to make the excercises appropriate for everyone. I began with a light warm up to prepare all of the muscles and increase the blood flow. Starting with DF +PF i then progressed toKnee Flexion/ extension. I then got my patients marching in their seats for 4 minutes. All patients were able to participate in this LL activities because they were all seated and NWB. i then conducted a warm up for the UL's. This involved wrist, elbow and shoulder flexion/ extension. I also included shoulder shrugs and circles and postural corrections for each patient. After warm up a used light weights to target specific muscle groups in the UL and did a sit to stand excercise for those were able to WB. I modified this task for NWB patients and got them doing a weigth transference excercise in sitting. After the strengthening activities we did deep breathing and stretching for cool down. As many of my patients had hearing and visual difficulties i had to make my instructions very clear and loud. I also had to give visual cues and demonstrate the excercise before i asked my class to do them.