Benefits of Exercise post SCI....Never give up!

hey da4phipps.....the key to having any chance of beating this spinal cord injury business is hard work, remaining positive and never giving in or up. You are in the very early stages of recovery so you will make further progress...indeed

Keep up the work!

da4phipps, I agree completely with what your physiotherapist says! The work you're doing is great but like your physiotherapist says, have some rest if you need it.

exercise keep us strong from mentally and physically.exercise is important key to recover all bad diseases.

Since i will be on my holidays soon i ve decided to try very hard to get back in shape. I ve been fitted with callipers and wish to start gait training again.They cost a few bob and its a pity i do not use them to the maximum. I really wish to be a self home trainer
Last physio session i had nearly 2 years ago ended up with a massive row with the allocated physio.
The service is state run and free of charge, private physio would cost an arm and a leg. however i was not at all happy with the service given. this is a small island with only one rehab centre in which all types of injuries are given treatment at the same place meaning it is not not only SCI.
the room basically is just a room, a few walkers and two stand frames.
Physios only work normal working hours so i have to take special leave from work.Parking is a nightmare too, I was given dumb weights to do exercises alone infront of a mirror and then an hour in a standing frame looking at the wall and trying to make conversation to kill time. Added in was the strikes and work to rule union disputes physios had. I hated it as to increase their conditions of work people like me had to suffer. After a work to rule directive of not answering phones i missed two sessions meaning a month had passed. When i went again the physio said i now needed a spinal doctors certificate for assessment in order to start again as time had passed.
I took this as a she did not feel like working on the day, a feel i had long suspected as i had long felt the typical Gov dept syndrome. this sent me off like a bomb fire which ended up in the managers office. The manager explained to me how difficult it was to work with limited resources and how hard it was for physios whom do their best with whats given. Its their right for industrial action and that i could of called an another time when not on industrial action as is it was bulletin news i said
If i was on fire now i now became dynamite. I too work as a vocational teacher with limited resources and never have i given shoddy service to my students . To cut a long story short the argument escalated, i was then escorted out by not one but two security. In some odd way i do brag and laugh about it. was i that intimidating? Maybe their is some logic too the dept had only 5 physios but i did see about 3 security minding one gate.

Yes DJ Its a drawback of living on a small island, today i wasted 3 hours looking for new shower chair castor wheels. The supplier never has anything in stock orders form the internet doubles the price and sells locally. Found an industrial stainless steel pair in a hardware store used in the catering industry and adapted them. Had to go back for size 17 bolts and the same daily drill of parking issues and access, needed to drill wider bolt holes too but at At least the bearings are rust proof now. the chair is really an issue to shop around for supplies and then improvise your own maintenance . This island really promotes the art of improvisation, same thing with fitness and calliper use, more of the same as i see it with local rehab should i go back.
thank god i have the internet for ideas too.

Regular exercising would keep our body fit and healthy.Which is the best exercise to maintain our self fit and also to reduce weight easily.

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Defiantly exercise helps to keep you going and I find a cycling machine helps my leg and back muscles to relax , I used a very expensive one recently in a hotel gym which was so much smoother than my old one at home which really helped my legs but I expect it would be well out of my budget.