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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. > >-------- >>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 >> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%