Wellness

[LilacTree]

When I was at rehab facility after a one week hospital stay for back surgery last year, I was hyperventilating in the PT room. They kept asking me to stand up and I said I couldn't. I told them my heart was racing. They then took my pulse and rushed me into the ER (rehab building and hospital are connected). I was severely dehydrated and they put me on an IV immediately. I dehydrate very easily and always have Pedialyte on hand at home and drink a lot of water. My pulse rate is always high though, unless I have been in bed for a couple of hours or asleep.

They still discharged me the next day because Medicare only pays for one week at a rehab.

[hckynut]

On 8/24/2014 moonchilde said: Hindsight is cheap, and easy. "Signs(s)"? Possibly. But the occasional annoying symptom that comes and goes, improves, morphs into a different symptom then disappears for a year or two before returning does not exactly scream "you clearly have something seriously wrong and must go have it checked out." I have worked in the healthcare industry for 45 years and have kept up with many specialties. Orthopedics doesn't happen to be one of them.

Ok.

[colliemom4]

It has happened to me before. I injured my neck and upper back and was instructed to lift very heavy weights that I could not lift. It made me feel worse pain and after a session or two I flat out refused to continue doing them. The physical therapist instructed me to increase pain meds but he's the one that caused me to have such pain. He finally just let me do much simpler exercises, and it took a while, but I finally recovered. If I had to do it all over again I would have found someone else to help me. I'm sorry this has happened to you.

[Desertdi]

A friend of mine cracked a vertebrae doing therapy for a broken hip.

[hckynut]

On 8/26/2014 Desertdi said:

A friend of mine cracked a vertebrae doing therapy for a broken hip.

What vertebrae and doing what exercise? I am trying to visualize how someone would fracture a vertebrae doing an exercise. With osteoporosis things break or fracture, which might be the cause of a hip injury, not because of one. How old is your friend? My mother-in-law broke her hip last December and she was 88 years old, now is 89. Friend of mine is an Orthopod whose specialty is repairs and replacement of hips. I've talked with him quite extensively about physical therapy. A broken hip in the elderly many are caused by the osteo as opposed to an injury causing the fracture.

As one that believes strongly in PT for injuries and/or replacements, some times they are best left alone according to my doctor friend. Interested in hearing how someone diagnosed this vertebrae being broken by therapy and run it by my doctor friend.