Just a quick reminder to all to look after yourselves and take care in your positioning when handling patients. Last week while doing passive mvmts on a pt's leg i flet a little twinge in my back as i reached across the bed to put the leg back down. At the time i didn't think much of it as i'd just finished anyway, and i felt ok. Later in the day i leaned over to open a draw in the nurses station and my little twinge got a little biggerand got slowly bigger throughout the day...
I'm sure there's no serious damage done but its been niggling me all weekend and when i'm in certain positions i am aware that its not right.
Just thought i'd take this opportunity to remind us all of how important it is that we look after ourselves as a damaged physio is no good to anyone... and seeing as we've just spent all these $$$ to become physios it would be nice to be able to earn some of it back before we wear ourslves out too much!!
Good luck to everyone this week. Study hard, and then drink even harder when its all over!!!
Tara
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most definitely, i always hear people say a physio needs a physio too and i guess that's the reason why. it's so easy especially in the inpatient setting to get lazy and not adjust the bed to an appropriate height but i definitely agree that we should take time to take care of ourselves as afterall, we might just be in this line for the rest of our lives.
I have had a few probs myself with back pain, particularly on my neuro placement, with my supervisor actually picking me up on it and commenting that its something I need to fixup now or, as you said, I'll be in trouble later! So we gotta make sure our deep abdominals are switched on when doing any lifting!! I found I had the most trouble when doing passive mvoement and stretches, and, as you said sharon, some of it is laziness of not adjusting the bed or taking a few minutes to make sure the environment is set up properly so we protevct ourselves as well as our patients.
We nearly finish our physio training and even we are having “full time” placements we have not been exposed to real full caseload. I am working during weekends at nursing home at what I have found useful for my back is before starting work I try remember to do few warm-up exercises. As I work, more in flexed position during the breaks I perform self-mobs (extension) against a chair and anterior-posterior pelvic tilts. Whilst performing any care duties when a patient is lying on a bad apart adjusting a bed level, keep my knees bent I found posterior pelvic tilt very handy, too.
Finally, I try doing regular stability core exercise.
All the best,
Daria
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