LJ has been seeing Jim Capps in Thomson for several weeks doing PT. He's stretching his leg muscles and hips and strengthening his core muscles. It's tough to remember to do the stretches everyday and some days he just doesn't want to do them. I haven't been as diligent about it the last couple weeks as I need to be.
Yesterday we picked up his night splints. Allen, the Orthotist from Hangar Orthotics, suggested night splints to help prevent plantar flexion during the night. LJ was also casted for SMOs to wear during the day. We are going to slowly transition into using the night splints all night but we started out small yesterday. He wore one splint on his left foot for about an hour while he worked on his homework and then put it on when he got in bed. He ended up falling asleep just fine with it on and when I woke him up, it was still on. Hoping this means that he will cooperate with the process. We are supposed to pick up his SMOs next Wednesday. Then we'll have to find shoes that will fit over them. That wasn't such an easy task when he had his AFOs.
No comments:
Post a Comment