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I went on another home visit to a stroke patient who was unable to come into the practice. He is being cared for by his wife. I have never seen a person with a stroke before (other than movies ect.) so I found this a valuable experience. The patient’s wife just want to be able to teach him some more stretched and strengthen up his muscles. Also to help him get onto his bike as it is a bit hard for his wife. We left pictures and descriptions of everything we did so his wife can go through them with him.
One of his major problems that effects his gait is his foot drop. For this reason he had tried AFO’s but not has callipes on. I want to look into that a bit more and other options to prevent foot drop. I was able to stretch to his arm out but you could feel the tension of it wanting to go back into the flexed position.
It is a hard situation because he still thinks he can go back to playing tennis but he hasn’t been able to for the last 5 years. Him and his wife have been told in the nicest way possible by previous Physios but even today they are talking about it. I find that you just need to keep them focused on little things so they don’t think about it too much.