carolinagirl
senior
Hi all,
I hope everyone has done ok with all these storm systems coming in.
There has been so much going on. I am doing well with my knee. Week before last at PT I got to 120 ROM. I was soooo proud! My extension was at
0. Later that afternoon I had an appointment with my OS. Well, when I got there, I saw his PA instead. It was NOT a good visit! First let me back up a minute.
I have had 2 surgeries on my right heel for removal of bonespurs. Since the last surgery (4/4/08) I have had this HUGE knot on the inside of my heel, just under my ankle. It HURTS to walk, in fact it is affecting my gait pattern.
I don't have that smooth heel to toe glide as it hurts too much. Now, back to the visit with the PA. He comes rolling into the room, puts my x-ray up, tells me it looks real good and to get up on the table. I had given my re-eval from my therapist to the nurse when I first went in the room. 120 flexion 0 extension. The PA has me just pull my leg up to a "resting position", then he tells me " I know you are not warmed up", and measures me at 110.
Fine, I understand that, then he looks at my extension, does not measure it, and asks me "are they pushing on your leg?" Yes sir,, "tell them to push harder". He then proceeds to show me a exercise for better extension, and tells me he wants me to be able to "lock that knee back".
He then tells me he wants me in an extension brace and tells the nurse to write on the re-eval that he wants AGGRESSIVE EXTENSION EXERCISES done. I told him that just that morning I was 120 ROM and 0 extension in fact I have been at either 1 degree lag or at 0 with my extension since the surgery. He just ignored me. I tried to ask him about my foot, and I guess he did not hear me, as he walked out of the room. I was dumbfounded!
Well, as I am walking out of the room my OS sees me in the hallway. His words were "wow, look at how good you are walking!". I told him if my foot were not hurting so badly I would be walking better. He asked me about it,
and I made an appointment for the next week for him to look at it. The PA stood in the hallway with us for the entire conversation. All of a sudden he just blurts out to my OS, " her extension is terrible, I want her to have a brace"etc.... My OS looks at my leg and says "it looks good to me".
At that point the PA grabs my paperwork out of my hand and takes it to the front desk and tells the girl, she needs to come back in 6 weeks to see me.
Now my PT had told me earlier that morning, that he would probably be releasing me within a couple of weeks as I was doing so well. Walking without any assistance etc..... I did not say anything to my OS about how rude his PA was to me as we were in the hallway and patients were coming and going. That was not the time nor the place. When I got in my truck to go home, I happened to pick up my eval to take back to the PT and I saw where the PA had written across the eval.... 10 DEGREE LAG EXTENSION 110 DEGREES FLEXION - UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! It was at that point that I started crying.
I felt like he took everything I had worked so hard to achieve and just threw it out the window! I went straight to my PT, boy was he ticked off!!!
He told me there was no way my ext. was at a 10 degree lag. The PA did not
even have me try to pull my leg back at all. I felt like all my work was for nothing!!! The manager of the therapy clinic talked with the OS later that night at a football game and told him that I had a bad experience with the PA. So when I saw my OS last week (hubby went with me), he told me
that he had talked with the manager about me. I just said that I REALLY REALLY did NOT want to ever see his PA again. That he hurt my feelings and was rude. I let him know why I did not say anything to him while I spoke with him in the hallway. He told me no problem you will see only me from now on.
I noticed the PA kept walking up and down the hallway before the OS shut the door. Needless to say I am NOT getting that brace, in fact my PT has been decreased to 2 times a week, for 6 more weeks as the OS wants me at a "cold resting bend" of 115 -120 degrees. He is sending me to a Ortho doc who specializes in just the foot and ankle. He seems to think my achilles tendon has shrunk and that is what is causing the pain when I walk. He thinks I made need orthotic shoes. He has also ordered PT for my foot. I am so sorry this is so long. I have gotten over that episode, and I don't intend to let that little tiddlywink get me down! I have worked so hard to get to where I am.
My PT was so glad to see that I was in better spirits the next time I came in for therapy. I felt so bad about crying, but it just took me by surprise. Here I had thought I was doing so well. According to the ones who really matter,
my OS, and my PT I am! Again sorry for the novel. You guys have always been so encouraging and friendly. Thank you for all your help and support!
I could not have gone thru this without all of you!
I hope everyone has done ok with all these storm systems coming in.
There has been so much going on. I am doing well with my knee. Week before last at PT I got to 120 ROM. I was soooo proud! My extension was at
0. Later that afternoon I had an appointment with my OS. Well, when I got there, I saw his PA instead. It was NOT a good visit! First let me back up a minute.
I have had 2 surgeries on my right heel for removal of bonespurs. Since the last surgery (4/4/08) I have had this HUGE knot on the inside of my heel, just under my ankle. It HURTS to walk, in fact it is affecting my gait pattern.
I don't have that smooth heel to toe glide as it hurts too much. Now, back to the visit with the PA. He comes rolling into the room, puts my x-ray up, tells me it looks real good and to get up on the table. I had given my re-eval from my therapist to the nurse when I first went in the room. 120 flexion 0 extension. The PA has me just pull my leg up to a "resting position", then he tells me " I know you are not warmed up", and measures me at 110.
Fine, I understand that, then he looks at my extension, does not measure it, and asks me "are they pushing on your leg?" Yes sir,, "tell them to push harder". He then proceeds to show me a exercise for better extension, and tells me he wants me to be able to "lock that knee back".
He then tells me he wants me in an extension brace and tells the nurse to write on the re-eval that he wants AGGRESSIVE EXTENSION EXERCISES done. I told him that just that morning I was 120 ROM and 0 extension in fact I have been at either 1 degree lag or at 0 with my extension since the surgery. He just ignored me. I tried to ask him about my foot, and I guess he did not hear me, as he walked out of the room. I was dumbfounded!
Well, as I am walking out of the room my OS sees me in the hallway. His words were "wow, look at how good you are walking!". I told him if my foot were not hurting so badly I would be walking better. He asked me about it,
and I made an appointment for the next week for him to look at it. The PA stood in the hallway with us for the entire conversation. All of a sudden he just blurts out to my OS, " her extension is terrible, I want her to have a brace"etc.... My OS looks at my leg and says "it looks good to me".
At that point the PA grabs my paperwork out of my hand and takes it to the front desk and tells the girl, she needs to come back in 6 weeks to see me.
Now my PT had told me earlier that morning, that he would probably be releasing me within a couple of weeks as I was doing so well. Walking without any assistance etc..... I did not say anything to my OS about how rude his PA was to me as we were in the hallway and patients were coming and going. That was not the time nor the place. When I got in my truck to go home, I happened to pick up my eval to take back to the PT and I saw where the PA had written across the eval.... 10 DEGREE LAG EXTENSION 110 DEGREES FLEXION - UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! It was at that point that I started crying.
I felt like he took everything I had worked so hard to achieve and just threw it out the window! I went straight to my PT, boy was he ticked off!!!
He told me there was no way my ext. was at a 10 degree lag. The PA did not
even have me try to pull my leg back at all. I felt like all my work was for nothing!!! The manager of the therapy clinic talked with the OS later that night at a football game and told him that I had a bad experience with the PA. So when I saw my OS last week (hubby went with me), he told me
that he had talked with the manager about me. I just said that I REALLY REALLY did NOT want to ever see his PA again. That he hurt my feelings and was rude. I let him know why I did not say anything to him while I spoke with him in the hallway. He told me no problem you will see only me from now on.
I noticed the PA kept walking up and down the hallway before the OS shut the door. Needless to say I am NOT getting that brace, in fact my PT has been decreased to 2 times a week, for 6 more weeks as the OS wants me at a "cold resting bend" of 115 -120 degrees. He is sending me to a Ortho doc who specializes in just the foot and ankle. He seems to think my achilles tendon has shrunk and that is what is causing the pain when I walk. He thinks I made need orthotic shoes. He has also ordered PT for my foot. I am so sorry this is so long. I have gotten over that episode, and I don't intend to let that little tiddlywink get me down! I have worked so hard to get to where I am.
My PT was so glad to see that I was in better spirits the next time I came in for therapy. I felt so bad about crying, but it just took me by surprise. Here I had thought I was doing so well. According to the ones who really matter,
my OS, and my PT I am! Again sorry for the novel. You guys have always been so encouraging and friendly. Thank you for all your help and support!
I could not have gone thru this without all of you!
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