Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Physical Therapy

Some of you are aware that Joseph goes to therapy for his left Torticollis. His left neck muscle is tighter than his right. He use to have his head tilted to the left and his chin towards is right shoulder.
We have not been to the PT in 2 months, his previous PT(Katlin) quit and got a new job in Salt Lake, unrelated to children. It was a sad day, we really loved her. Katlin was a wonderful therapist who genuinely cared for Joseph's development. Yesterday was our first day with Lori, nice therapist, She examined him and is worried that he is still not rolling over. She feels that the reason for this is because of his torticollis. She said it is very difficult for him 1- because he doesn't have full range of motion to turn to his left and 2- his right neck muscle doesn't have a ton of strength because he has been favoring his left. After an hour of intense crying he feel asleep as soon as we got to the car. It was a traumatic experience for both of us. Our next visit in on the 14th of January and our goal is to have him rolling over on his own as well as have full range of motion, which is 180 degrees to the left (his chin over his shoulder). Wish me good luck, he hates the stretches.
We did these same stretches when we started PT three months ago. I started out singing to him as we did the stretches (we were asked to do them three times a day three times each time). He was fine for two full sets. Then he caught on to what I was doing and would get upset. Joseph is so smart, I continued to change my strategy/approach but each time he knew what I was up to. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and slowly did less and less of them, oops. I should have not done that. I will try to stay strong this time!!

1 comment:

  1. Dear Amanda,

    I am shocked and surprised that Joseph has this problem. I don't understand why I was not told. Love, Grandma Lewis

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