Week 17 - Everything looks great

Today we went in for a 1:00 appt. Her walking, in and out of the AFOs, looks terrific! Even her left arm was down. Mary and Brigid (and even Issac) very happy with how she looks - esp given how she looked last week. Her measurements seemed okay as well.

We rec'd new knee immobilizer today. And two changes were made to our exercises. So we are still doing:

1. 1 hour practice walking - tho I need to keep an eye on whether she is bringing that hip up or not

2. 15 times per session of left foot weight bearing, right leg swinging in towards the center of her body, same with right foot weight bearing, lifting right knee up to ceiling while weight bearing on left and bringing the hip back at a 45 degree angle on the left side back from the center of her body

3. Without the brace: tiptoes right side, left side as many times as can effectively do up to 100 times. Sitting down, clench the toes of the right foot and bring foot to left along a horizontal plane. Sitting down, do the same on the left side. On the left side, lift the foot up and down making sure she is using the correct muscle to accomplish the task.

Next session with Mary and Brigid is three weeks from this past Monday. Hooray!

BTW, she is looking so good I've decided not to utilize the kinesiotaping. I dont want to mess things up.

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