Going well
Gracie is really looking good to me these last two days so maybe this is all paranoia.
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Long Term Serial Casting Saga
This blog documents our experience with the Long-Term Serial Casting program at Childrens Memorial Hospital in Chicago. It also contains general information that should be helpful to the parent of a child who is in physical therapy or occupational therapy.
Please readNeed YOUR Experiences
Email us at: jeanmdomel@yahoo.com
TODAY'S LECTURE
- Attending Therapy Sessions: A MUST!
- Daily Therapy: YOUR PRIORITY!
- Finding Doctors: A NO-BRAINER!
- Lack of Cooperation: JUST BRIBE THEM!
EXPERIENCE IS A GREAT TEACHER-
PART 1: Casting
- A Typical Casting Session
- Dealing With Foot Pain
- Getting Those 60 Minutes In
- Getting Through Casting Sessions
- Handling Cast Discomfort
- Playing in the Snow
- Working With Cast Shoes
WHEN PAIN REQUIRED INTERVENTION
- Localized Swelling Resolution
- Localized Swelling on Unaffected Foot
- Cast Pressed In Over Ankle
- Pain as She hits Neutral
- Sore and Tired Feet Resolution (Week 6 begins)
- Sore and Tired Feet Continue
- Sore and Tired Feet
- First-time Cast Trouble
JOURNEY OF 1000 MILES
note: each week has a link at the bottom of the blog page to the next week.- Range Measurements through 12/12
- Week 22
- Week 21
- Week 20
- Week 19
- Week 18
- Week 17
- Week 16 - Phase 2 Begins - AFOs
- Week 15 is spent in the same cast as Week 14.
- Week 14 - WE DID IT!!! Casting Completed
- Week 13
- Week 12
- Week 11
- Week 10
- Week 9
- Week 8
- Week 7
- Week 6
- Week 5
- Week 4
- Week 3
- Week 2
- Week 1 - We Begin
- Week 0 - Evaluation/Explanation Appt
ARTICLES
- Serial Casting at Childrens (old article)
- Botulinum Toxin as an Adjunct to Serial Casting Treatment in Children with Cerebral Palsy (Abstract 2004)
If Visiting Childrens' on Clark
Chicago's Top Pediatric Therapeutic Sites
- Childrens Memorial Hospital
- Childrens Memorial Rehabilitative Services
- La Rabida Childrens Hospital
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
PERSONAL
- How I got my Membership in the Club no one wants to be in
- My Initial Feelings about Casting
- Feelings about Casting Six Weeks In
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