Camden had her first physical therapy session on Tuesday. Her therapist was very gentle as she did an initial assessment, but Camden was very scared and weepy thinking she was going to twist and hurt her more.
Her therapist tried to teach her a few exercises lying on the table to get the right muscles working again and get her brain talking to those muscles. Camden had a hard time with several of them but made some advancements even in that short window of attempts.
But when the therapist took her out in the big room to work on the equipment, Camden was game for pushing herself a bit.
Practice just getting her right leg to straighten all the way.
Moving laterally to force the muscles to work while keeping her knee pointing forward.
The various bikes were a huge hit...and she got the leg stretched almost completely out straight. Her mind is still fighting the muscles to do what she wants them to do, but this was the most natural motion and she wasn't "thinking" about it.
Stretching on the teeter-totter to stretch those leg muscles and tendons.
Final exercise was putting a ball between her ankles and flexing on her tiptoes.
We have three exercises (including this one) that we are to do at home 3 times a day (we are lucky to get 1 or 2 in). The therapist feels like it won't take more than about 4 sessions to get her body working back to "normal".
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