- Jan 4, 2001
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Cliffs: Sister needs a good physical therapist in Gainesville, FL, someone who can do gait training, following arthroscopic hip surgery in mid-2012.
My sister had some arthroscopic hip surgery in mid-2012, and did physical therapy afterward.
Since before that time, she'd been doing post-graduate college work, and is now going for a doctoral degree. So money hasn't always been abundant, especially for things like ongoing medical expenses.
Problem is, she's still not properly recovered - her hip is doing fine, but she's got a lot of knee and foot pain now. Her field study work is very much "field" work: Beaches, swamps, and marshland. So she's on her feet a lot. Or in long boots, up past her knees in gooey mud.
She's also always been in good physical shape, exercising regularly and all that, and she did seem to be recovering well in the early stages.
She had physical therapy that started soon after surgery, but the health plan she was on at the time assumed that you were going to recover at a very rapid pace - it allowed 25 PT sessions over a a 1 year period. In the 2 weeks I stayed with her after the surgery, we were in for PT every few days. Those 25 visits ended up going by very quickly. I kicked in some money myself to help out so she could afford to keep going.
She has since moved farther south for her Ph.D. program.
She describes her therapists there as.....less than helpful. (I'll omit a few of the more colorful words she's used to describe them.) Things like "He teaches exercises and then goes off just to chat with other therapists," and that they'd quick show her how to do something and then, rather than remain there and continue to supervise, they'd hurry off somewhere else. Or that some of the training is literally only a few short minutes and that's it. They come across as disinterested.
Her sessions shortly after the surgery lasted close to an hour, and at least one person was with her the entire time she was there.
Someone in Gainesville did recently identify that she now has a gait issue. Her feet aren't pointing in the proper directions, and one leg isn't moving the way it should. It's probably something that was unconsciously learned back when her hip was still hurting, and the unusual walking may have led to knee or foot injuries. But her therapists she's tried there will tell her "You're not doing this right," but then don't do a whole lot to help teach what is right. (And they're distracted, because the appointments are staggered - they're trying to finish up the previous PT appointment while the next one is going on.)
So she's in Gainesville, FL now, and needs a good physical therapist. Yelp.com was not too helpful - there aren't many in the area in the first place and only two of them have any reviews at all. (One each.)
I'm no doctor myself, and she doesn't want to be throwing money at people who aren't going to do anything to help her.
So I thought I'd look into it at the AT forums.....and even venture outside of ATOT for once.
Edit: Thank you for the suggestions and posts. She's going to be going back to the original therapist farther north, and stay in that area for a month or more. She'll be able to work on what she needs to work on while she's there, and also see some friends there.
My sister had some arthroscopic hip surgery in mid-2012, and did physical therapy afterward.
Since before that time, she'd been doing post-graduate college work, and is now going for a doctoral degree. So money hasn't always been abundant, especially for things like ongoing medical expenses.
Problem is, she's still not properly recovered - her hip is doing fine, but she's got a lot of knee and foot pain now. Her field study work is very much "field" work: Beaches, swamps, and marshland. So she's on her feet a lot. Or in long boots, up past her knees in gooey mud.
She's also always been in good physical shape, exercising regularly and all that, and she did seem to be recovering well in the early stages.
She had physical therapy that started soon after surgery, but the health plan she was on at the time assumed that you were going to recover at a very rapid pace - it allowed 25 PT sessions over a a 1 year period. In the 2 weeks I stayed with her after the surgery, we were in for PT every few days. Those 25 visits ended up going by very quickly. I kicked in some money myself to help out so she could afford to keep going.
She has since moved farther south for her Ph.D. program.
She describes her therapists there as.....less than helpful. (I'll omit a few of the more colorful words she's used to describe them.) Things like "He teaches exercises and then goes off just to chat with other therapists," and that they'd quick show her how to do something and then, rather than remain there and continue to supervise, they'd hurry off somewhere else. Or that some of the training is literally only a few short minutes and that's it. They come across as disinterested.
Her sessions shortly after the surgery lasted close to an hour, and at least one person was with her the entire time she was there.
Someone in Gainesville did recently identify that she now has a gait issue. Her feet aren't pointing in the proper directions, and one leg isn't moving the way it should. It's probably something that was unconsciously learned back when her hip was still hurting, and the unusual walking may have led to knee or foot injuries. But her therapists she's tried there will tell her "You're not doing this right," but then don't do a whole lot to help teach what is right. (And they're distracted, because the appointments are staggered - they're trying to finish up the previous PT appointment while the next one is going on.)
So she's in Gainesville, FL now, and needs a good physical therapist. Yelp.com was not too helpful - there aren't many in the area in the first place and only two of them have any reviews at all. (One each.)
I'm no doctor myself, and she doesn't want to be throwing money at people who aren't going to do anything to help her.
So I thought I'd look into it at the AT forums.....and even venture outside of ATOT for once.
Edit: Thank you for the suggestions and posts. She's going to be going back to the original therapist farther north, and stay in that area for a month or more. She'll be able to work on what she needs to work on while she's there, and also see some friends there.
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