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ventaA 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?
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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Date: 2016-03-23 04:43 pm (UTC)As a teenager in the mid-80s, I fell over on to my hand and they thought I had a scaphoid fracture. They stuck my hand and arm in a pot for many weeks, but when they took it out again and X-rayed it, they decided I hadn't fractured it after all. But my hand and forearm were wasted away and feeble in a slightly terrifying way. I got minimal physio - they handed me a 2cm-diameter plastic tube and told me to grasp and ungrasp it to build up the strength. After it was recovered a bit, it occurred to me that I could give myself exercises to build it up simply by carrying my school bag in that hand. To this day it has stronger muscles, despite being my non-dominant hand.
My brother had a nasty soft-tissue leg injury playing football in the late 80s. I forget the details but it was of a similar magnitude to yours. It was one of those stupid things where, in the rush of play, he stood on the ball awkwardly and fell off with a twisty motion. He got more serious physio for that and - having tried ignoring the exercises and then doing them - he is now an evangelist for doing what the physio tells you. So long as it does work.
Much more recently - like a couple of years ago or so - he had a knee problem which needed surgery. The exercises his first physio gave him were desperately painful and he was making no progress a fortnight later when he turned up for a checkup. A different physio managed to say, in a professional manner, that the previous one had given him terrible advice, before giving him very different exercises, and those helped a lot.