Put your hands on your hips. Bring your knees in tight.

[venta]

A quick request for data points (or actual genuine knowledge, that would also work ;)

I've started getting physio for the duff knees (of which more later). I'm pretty sure that, when I was a kid and there was always someone in my class with a pot arm (usually for reasons of a falling-off-bike nature), no one was offered physio afterwards. A friend tells me that he did not get physio for a broken leg in the late 80s. A colleague who fractured both her arms a couple of years ago did.

So... is it that NHS treatment of injuries has moved on and decided that yes, physio is a bloomin' useful part of recovery? Or is it just that physio isn't offered to kids, on the grounds that they're bound to start running about as soon as physically possible?

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[shermarama]

Only a data point, but when my sister tore ligaments in her knee on a dry ski slope in about 1986, the NHS just put the whole lot in plaster and were going to leave it there for 6 weeks, despite there being no broken bones. A family friend who was a physio objected strongly to this, so they went private (as I recall), got the plaster removed, and she had a brace and physio treatment instead, which had her a long way to recovered after 6 weeks instead of stumping around in plaster all that time.

[shermarama]

Oh, and, I hear it's the pelvic thrusts that really drive you insane.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm doing ok with the pelvic tilts, it's the leg dead lifts that are doing my head in. But you may have a kudo anyway.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Dammit (Janet) - I missed out on another kudo. I was going to suggest a step to the right.

Anyhow, i have yet to be convinced that physio does anyone any good. It seems to be painful, protracted and ineffective. But it may simply be the people I know have all been grumps in a lot of pain.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I can vouch for it having been useful for me, even though on at least one occasion I went in as a grump in a lot of pain and came out as a grump in a bit of pain. I've had several different courses of it, for different injuries, and in 2002 the fact that they got me from "barely able to walk without wincing" to "trail riding and hiking up a mountain top" in 4 months was seriously impressive. They stopped my pelvis from completely falling apart in 2003 - physio can be preventative or "problem management" as well as curing - but the post-surgery rehab in 2010 was less helpful (partly because the internal stitches had burst and we didn't realise for a while how badly that was affecting me). Physio on a damaged elbow was amazing - learned all sorts of tricks to get it moving without pain, which work on other bits of me. Am hoping the next course does similar for the healing bit of my shoulder, although there's bugger all they can do for the disintegrating part. For that, I'm just hoping for tips on not making it worse.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I am broadly pro physio; I've always seen what I've thought to be pretty positive results myself. Obviously this isn't a great measure, because I don't know how things would have gone for me without physio.

For the last few years I've been voluntarily seeing a physio monthly (and paying for it myself) for ongoing maintenance of non-fixable conditions. I feel I get my moneysworth :)