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>From: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: S/P TKR
>Date: January 14, 1999
>
>Hi,
>Maybe treat them like a para, so they do a step-to gait, PWB each leg. Try to get them to go up the step
>both legs at once, using rails on each side for support... OR... Sit down and go up in sitting.. onto a
footstool
>then a chair at the top...OR... sideways facing a rail, leaning back or forward to get their 'stronger' leading
leg
>up the step. Good luck. You can always get an ambulance service to carry them in, as long as they can get
>out on their bottom should an emergency arrise, they should be OK.
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>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: RE: S/P TKR
>>Date: January 14, 1999
>>
>>Does anyone have creative yet safe suggestions on how to teach patients S/P
>>TKR to go up and down the stairs - if the following apply:
>>* bilateral TKR's
>>* PWB bilaterally
>>* is still wearing knee immobilizers (secondary to not being able to
>>SLR)
>>* patient is going home with 14 steps to enter/exit apartment
>>
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