{"id":812,"date":"2015-04-08T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=812"},"modified":"2015-04-09T01:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T10:29:40","slug":"apr-8-being-able-to-relate-with-physical-therapy-patients-in-a-new-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Apr 8 – Being able to Relate with Physical Therapy Patients in a New Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have often dealt with patients who have just begun physical therapy.\u00a0 They tell me they know it is important but doing the therapy is painful and exhausting as they begin.\u00a0 I have always told them that their therapist won\u2019t push them farther than it is safe for them to go.\u00a0 I have also encouraged them that as time moves forward and they have more practice the exercises will become easier for them.<\/p>\n

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Now I am involved in a 12 preparation for a 5K run.\u00a0 Today starts week three.\u00a0 For the first week we ran 30 seconds and then walked 30 seconds for 20 minutes with a .5 mile walk prior to and following run\/walk sequence.\u00a0 The second week we used the time of 60 seconds in place of 90 seconds.\u00a0 Now this week we will be using 90 seconds as our time interval.<\/p>\n

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Just as I start to feel comfortable with the routine, the routine changes becoming progressively more exerting.\u00a0 Now a lot of the comments patients have made to me about their therapy make a lot more sense to me.\u00a0 In addition to the physical health benefits of this class, the class is making me a better chaplain for my patients.\u00a0 Literally it is hard to understand what some really feels until, \u201cyou walk a mile in their shoes<\/em><\/strong>\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have often dealt with patients who have just begun physical therapy.\u00a0 They tell me they know it is important but doing the therapy is painful and exhausting as they begin.\u00a0 I have always told them that their therapist won\u2019t push them farther than it is safe for them to go.\u00a0 I have also encouraged … Continue reading Apr 8 – Being able to Relate with Physical Therapy Patients in a New Way<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}