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Post by stanncie on Nov 30, 2005 22:15:34 GMT -5
david, i haven't seen a tilt table in ages. granted i haven't worked in a hospital for a few years, that's an oldie but a goodie  jules: yeah i get payed to torture poor souls live david but it's only for their own good!  last week one of my kids fell cuz i kicked this soccer ball to him really hard, he kinda got tangled in it and went down like a sack of potatoes  he really did a number on his knees cuz he was wearing shorts, poor thing!! He's fine now though just a scratch and was back to playing today |
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Post by me on Nov 30, 2005 22:32:53 GMT -5
david, i haven't seen a tilt table in ages. granted i haven't worked in a hospital for a few years, that's an oldie but a goodie absolutely not a goodie! nothing good about them. tilt tables are EVIL! albeit, a necessary evil. - d |
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Post by Jules80 on Nov 30, 2005 23:04:03 GMT -5
what is a tilt table?
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Post by me on Dec 1, 2005 11:03:26 GMT -5
not sure how to explain it. it's been so many years since i was in rehab. nor was i in the best shape, intellectually, at that time. i think it was equipment used for physical therapy to straighten a patient's leg when it was drawn up by spasticity. spasticity in this context is when the nerves controlling thigh muscles have electrically fired so much that the leg is constantly bent about as far as it will go due to high muscle tone. when this happens, serial casting is used to stretch against the muscles until a tilt table can be used to go further. my recollection is probably not very good. perhaps Samantha can give a better explanation? |
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Post by Jules80 on Dec 1, 2005 20:37:18 GMT -5
ouch! sounds very very painful!!
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Post by me on Dec 2, 2005 0:43:08 GMT -5
ouch! sounds very very painful!! it wasn't fun. and it's been many years ago, so my recollection of the specifics is poor. but the pain sticks out in my memory. Edit: when i was on the tilt table, my PT told me she would stop as soon as i said "no more." once i did this, and trusted that i controlled the situation, i was much better able to stand the pain. she, they mostly had young therapists of the opposite sex from the patient, had a much more tolerant patient who could stand more pain. this meant i could get further in therapy before i had to check out of the rehab hospital. spent about 4 months as an in-patient. |
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Post by stanncie on Dec 2, 2005 11:34:29 GMT -5
you poor thing!! what kind of injury did you have?
a tilt table is often used to get someone used to the standing position after being bedbound for a while. If you've been lying down for a certain amount of time your blood pressure tends to drop once you get up and you might even faint. A tilt table is used to gradually get your body back in to the upright position. It could also be used for stretching a leg like david suggested since gravity will force your leg to straighten.
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Post by me on Dec 2, 2005 12:03:31 GMT -5
you poor thing!! what kind of injury did you have? right brain stem, w/ a contrecoup to my left frontal lobe, from a car wreck. fortunately i was born right handed! but, it's been many years. so, i've had time to develop new neuro-pathways for most all functions. physically: coordination is still a problem - but one learns to deal with it. those problems are all *very* minor compared to my situation right after the injury. there are still deficits, of course. but compared to many who had the same thing happen them, i've been lucky and am doing great! - d Edit: when i think "tilt table," my concept is rather egocentric, i just think of it in relation to how it was used on me. i'm just not aware of a tilt table's general use. |
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Post by stanncie on Dec 2, 2005 23:20:33 GMT -5
that's great david! that's a very good recovery from a TBI . By the way, you sound a little like a therapist, hehe i guess you just spent way too much time in PT.
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Post by me on Dec 3, 2005 0:28:32 GMT -5
maybe so, but the therapists and physical medicine Md's, as well as neuro-psychologists, with whom i dealt seemed to wish i could have continued. [against all their advice, i dropped out of therapies after 8 months <4 each, out-patient & in-patient> so i could return to college and finish my degree.] when i went back to therapy, after getting the BA, i 1st went to the county hospital as an out-patient. after a few weeks, they said i was plateaued and sent me home. later on, i was able to return to Baylor for more rehab, also as an out-patient. the folks there seemed disappointed that i'd left earlier, and the process of rehab had slowed, commensurately. oh, quick question: when did they start calling this injury tbi? when i was an in-patient, they called it chi, closed head injury, when i later went back for more rehab, it was tbi, traumatic brain injury. - d that's great david! that's a very good recovery from a TBI . By the way, you sound a little like a therapist, hehe i guess you just spent way too much time in PT. |
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Post by stanncie on Dec 3, 2005 11:54:27 GMT -5
hmm, there's a lot of different opinions on how long you have to expect good rehab results. Some feel that it's the first year and then progress considerably slows or altogether stops. Others have c onducted studies in which people continuing making progress years after the injury. This is of course in adults when the brain has less plasticity. Children often receive therapy most of their childhood since some recovery is expected. In summary, nobody knows, the brain is a very tricky thing and we prolly know only 10% of what's really going on. I relly don't know when they started calling it TBI, that's the term i was taught in college... p.s. david and I seemed to have hijacked this topic, |
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Post by Jules80 on Dec 3, 2005 12:03:08 GMT -5
indeed. but it is nonetheless interesting to read  jules |
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Post by jennifer on Dec 3, 2005 13:25:18 GMT -5
I,m learning!
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Post by me on Dec 3, 2005 15:10:31 GMT -5
p.s. david and I seemed to have hijacked this topic, yes, perhaps the folks here are "Getting to know" me more than they bargained. or, at least one aspect of my life, brain injury. |
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Post by crystal on Dec 7, 2005 10:29:56 GMT -5
Hey everyone have not been around a lot lately so have never posted my getting to know you survey. I tend to lurk about on the site so only right that you guys should know about me as i think i know a little too much about you lot!!
1) Name: Shelley
2) Height:5ft 3in
3) Occupation: Trainee primary school teacher
4) What do you do on Sundays? recover from saturday. watch endless repeats on the TV
5) What languages can you speak? English and a little french trying to learn some eastern european languages - polish. czech but going slow!!
6) Who has had the most influence on you?
7) What's on your "To Do" list? EVERYTHING!!! Need to qualify to teach this summer then the world is open to me.
8) Discribe your living situation: I live in a small northern england market town in a small two bed house with my b/friend.
9) Previous Halloween costumes: famous for my face painting. Devil, cat just the usual
10) Your dream job: lottery winner
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he really did a number on his knees cuz he was wearing shorts, poor thing!! He's fine now though just a scratch and was back to playing today 
