May 13 – Therapy after joint surgery works!

walker

Look at the image of the walker.  Most of us have the first reaction that we are glad we do not have to use one to move from place to place.  In visiting a patient who temporarily had to use a walker during her inpatient rehabilitation process following surgery, I saw the walker from a different perspective.  For this patient the walker one component of a process that lead her to the point where she can walk without assistance and without constant pain.  I saw her the day she was being discharged and she felt her surgery and recovery were fantastic.  When she said how helpful the use of a walker had been I said to myself, “No one has ever told me that before.”  So today in addition to celebrating healing with a patient, I learned to view a walker from a different perspective.  That is something that is good for all of us to learn from others a different way of viewing objects we see all the time.