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The Internet my friend. Definitely you do want the sock tool, but they usually sell them or give you one in the hospital after your surgery. I bought mine in the hospital for about $15, but you can get them cheaper elsewhere.
Once someone described it as a rod with small hooks a the end but searching the internet I found one on the Mayo site that looks likle a cloth or plastic sock with strings attached on either side. That one looks easy enough to make, I'll try that. They are not available here. My surgeon had seen a reaching tool while working in Germany as a surgeon but never saw one here. Maybe an idea for a specialty import item.
I already import a wireless sound system for tour guides so know the complications and hassles of importing.
I already import a wireless sound system for tour guides so know the complications and hassles of importing.
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This was just the best invention ever for anyone not bending. I need to get one also but I think the medical stores have them here.
Thanks Josephine, that one photo explains a lot.
I think I will skip it however. I experimented before going out on a long walk after I posted my question. I found that if I side ways right on the edge of a chair with my god leg curled up under me on the seat cushion and my "new leg" from hip to knee pointed straight down in front of the chair cushion and at the same time bending my foot/ankle back at the knee so it is almost touching my butt and just slip the sock on without needing the flex the hip at all. It worked like a charm and no pain or weird angle for hip.
This would only work for those with reasonable flexibilty, probably easier for women than men.
I think I will skip it however. I experimented before going out on a long walk after I posted my question. I found that if I side ways right on the edge of a chair with my god leg curled up under me on the seat cushion and my "new leg" from hip to knee pointed straight down in front of the chair cushion and at the same time bending my foot/ankle back at the knee so it is almost touching my butt and just slip the sock on without needing the flex the hip at all. It worked like a charm and no pain or weird angle for hip.
This would only work for those with reasonable flexibilty, probably easier for women than men.
Hi Josephine
It might be. Actually I think all the favoring of the hip caused me to learn all sorts of methods of moving without more than a narrow range of motion at the hip for years. As a result, my knees, ankles and back supplied the missing range normally supplied by the hip. The idea of being able tp rotate my leg through an arc without pain or effort right after the surgery was the most startling sensation. The doctors and PT limited that arc to 135 degrees which was physically impossible before. It was not even just the pain but the bone spurs and fill in bone mass that just made the socket more of a channel with a very shallow depth.
I stayed in yesterday and worked (very windy and rained most of the day) but today I wanted to go to the office. That might have been a mistake. I got half way there and was exhausted, each step felt like I had lead weights instead of feet. I sat down on the steps of the Arctic Museum and rested and turned around and went home. After laying down for 15 minutes I felt energized again and went grocery shopping in a supermarket a few blocks away and bought only enough to fill a small backpack. That journey felt pretty much within my reserves of energy: total distance 500 meters.
A friend is coming over after her performance tonight in Love's Labor Lost with her new car(and new lincense and 13 hours of practice;>( ) to go big grocery shopping to fill up the refrigerator that will allow me to stay home if I want instead of going to cafes and restaurants every day.
One day at a time is best but I am always anxious to be doing something useful. If I did not have my laptop and Wi-Fi in the hospital I would have gone nuts feeling useless. As it was I was able to keep up with work from the office and write a new computer program and most exciting was writing a business plan for a new business idea.
It might be. Actually I think all the favoring of the hip caused me to learn all sorts of methods of moving without more than a narrow range of motion at the hip for years. As a result, my knees, ankles and back supplied the missing range normally supplied by the hip. The idea of being able tp rotate my leg through an arc without pain or effort right after the surgery was the most startling sensation. The doctors and PT limited that arc to 135 degrees which was physically impossible before. It was not even just the pain but the bone spurs and fill in bone mass that just made the socket more of a channel with a very shallow depth.
I stayed in yesterday and worked (very windy and rained most of the day) but today I wanted to go to the office. That might have been a mistake. I got half way there and was exhausted, each step felt like I had lead weights instead of feet. I sat down on the steps of the Arctic Museum and rested and turned around and went home. After laying down for 15 minutes I felt energized again and went grocery shopping in a supermarket a few blocks away and bought only enough to fill a small backpack. That journey felt pretty much within my reserves of energy: total distance 500 meters.
A friend is coming over after her performance tonight in Love's Labor Lost with her new car(and new lincense and 13 hours of practice;>( ) to go big grocery shopping to fill up the refrigerator that will allow me to stay home if I want instead of going to cafes and restaurants every day.
One day at a time is best but I am always anxious to be doing something useful. If I did not have my laptop and Wi-Fi in the hospital I would have gone nuts feeling useless. As it was I was able to keep up with work from the office and write a new computer program and most exciting was writing a business plan for a new business idea.
Know what you mean there, Stan. I have had an enforced period of uselessness from my other forum where I am the training manager. All my previous training manuals were rendered obsolete overnight because the owner upgraded it to the latest vBulletin but it's been about 5 weeks now and he still hasn't finished installing all this bits and bobs as we keep getting bugs that need sorting out first. And I can't start on the new training manual until they're all sorted and installed and in the meantime I have about 15 new trainees chomping at the bit to be trained!
I feel like a three-legged chair at the moment!
I feel like a three-legged chair at the moment!
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My pharmacy sells 2 different versions of it. I've seen it at several pharmacies.
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I think I need a picture of that manuever.
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Stanj's maneuvor of putting on his sock. I was so lost in the description. Maybe I will read it again as it was my first hours home from surgery!!!!
It is summer here, so I loose the laces and therefore socks usually. Although with my giant feet and other swollen parts, barefoot works fine inside
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It is summer here, so I loose the laces and therefore socks usually. Although with my giant feet and other swollen parts, barefoot works fine inside
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