Would you continue to go to PT?

[LabattBlue]

Going to PT twice a week(rehab of broken upper arm) and not sure if I should continue, or temporarily stop and just do exercises at home?

 

What would you do?

Edited March 17, 2020 by LabattBlue

[Mark80]

If you are under 60 and have no underlying health issues I would go for sure.  60-70 depends on health.  Over 70, nope.

[teef]

are they still open?

[PromoTheRobot]

Shake weight.

 

[K-9]

11 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Going to PT twice a week(rehab of broken upper arm) and not sure if I should continue, or temporarily stop and just do exercises at home?

 

What would you do?

Stay home as much as possible. Go out for essential needs only. 

[LeviF]

I guess it depends.  When I had to do PT for my broken femur the place was always empty and every surface we used got sprayed and wiped down.  Probably pretty safe, though staying home as much as possible is the safest route.

[BillsFan4]

Are you in any of the the higher risk categories? Are any of your family members you have a lot of contact with? 

 

 

Personally, I’m trying to stay home as much as possible right now. It’s not just the elderly being hospitalized by this virus. 

 

[LabattBlue]

2 hours ago, teef said:

are they still open?

Yep.  Went yesterday, and while the staff was wiping down everything like crazy, that doesn't help with anything airborne.

[Sundancer]

3 hours ago, Mark80 said:

If you are under 60 and have no underlying health issues I would go for sure.  60-70 depends on health.  Over 70, nope.

 

No, he should not go. The end. 

 

They are closing wherever you are and if you seriously need the PT, they will help remotely as best they can. 

Edited March 17, 2020 by Sundancer

[KD in CA]

Depends.  Is your PT hot?

[Mark80]

2 hours ago, Sundancer said:

 

No, he should not go. The end. 

 

They are closing wherever you are and if you seriously need the PT, they will help remotely as best they can. 

Just feed into the panic.  Cool.  Remember H1N1?  12,000 deaths, 60M infected in US alone.  There was not panic.  There were no empty shelves.  There were little shut downs.  And guess what?  People didnt lose their businesses.  We didnt have lower the fed rate to 0%.  People didnt lose 33% of their invested savings and retirement plans (that was the housing bubble).  Obama didnt do squat and no one cared.  

Death rates are exaggerated right now since they only account for confirmed cases, not people showing little or no symptoms who do not get confirmed.

 

Again, if you are part of the vulnerable population or live with them, skip it.  Otherwise, dont feed the panic beast.  Wash your hands.  Avoid touching your face.  You will be fine.

Edited March 17, 2020 by Mark80

[LabattBlue]

They just shut down at least for a week, probably longer, beginning tomorrow.  Problem solved.

[Helpmenow]

6 hours ago, Mark80 said:

If you are under 60 and have no underlying health issues I would go for sure.  60-70 depends on health.  Over 70, nope.

Lol, my brother is 71 looks 55.

[Marv's Neighbor]

19 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

They just shut down at least for a week, probably longer, beginning tomorrow.  Problem solved.

Wait a minute!  We went from exercising at home to problem solved??  Did we miss the miracle?

[LabattBlue]

7 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said:

Wait a minute!  We went from exercising at home to problem solved??  Did we miss the miracle?

Business is shutdown for at least a week.  My choice of whether to keep going for the time being has been made for me.   Exercise at home it is.

[Augie]

My 92 year old mother has an eye appointment next week regarding a bad situation with macular degeneration. (One eye going from dry to wet version, I think.) I’m not sure how to advise her. The eye problem is very serious. So is taking a 92 year old out to mingle in waiting rooms and getting handled by all kinds of people. 

 

Anyone know how urgent the eye part can be? What to do? 

 

I’ll have her call the regular eye doctor for suggestions before I take her anywhere. 

 

EDIT: Oh, and I’m glad to hear the PT office is closed. You have the exercises to do, so that seems like the best course of action at this point. 

 

 

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Edited March 17, 2020 by Augie

[Sundancer]

1 hour ago, Mark80 said:

Just feed into the panic.  Cool.  Remember H1N1?  12,000 deaths, 60M infected in US alone.  There was not panic.  There were no empty shelves.  There were little shut downs.  And guess what?  People didnt lose their businesses.  We didnt have lower the fed rate to 0%.  People didnt lose 33% of their invested savings and retirement plans (that was the housing bubble).  Obama didnt do squat and no one cared.  

Death rates are exaggerated right now since they only account for confirmed cases, not people showing little or no symptoms who do not get confirmed.

 

Again, if you are part of the vulnerable population or live with them, skip it.  Otherwise, dont feed the panic beast.  Wash your hands.  Avoid touching your face.  You will be fine.

 

Please don't listen to this guy. ^^^^^^^^^^^

 

This isn't an H1N1 flu. It's much more contagious and requires much more treatment. If you don't believe me, see Italy. If you don't believe the real world example, go read the CDC materials, or find what the majority of health care professionals are saying. 

 

Spreading the disease is the problem with going out and being around groups of people. A PT appointment is where many of the most vulnerable people will be. If you carry it in, they will get it. If you don't, you may get it there due to so many touched surfaces and throughput of bodies.

 

 The idea behind distancing is to slow the spread so our hospitals don't get swamped. It's already too late but maybe we can get ahead of it a little. 

 

I am not hoarding. I'm not panicking. I'm not worried that I'll catch this and die. If I do, I do. But I'm trying to be sensible to my neighbors while I watch the economy. I assume at some point, we will all be released back into the wild so the economy doesn't completely crater and I hope we have cleared the worst of the bed-usage issues and lack of testing by then so we can resume some degree of normalcy.

22 minutes ago, Augie said:

My 92 year old mother has an eye appointment next week regarding a bad situation with macular degeneration. (One eye going from dry to wet version, I think.) I’m not sure how to advise her. The eye problem is very serious. So is taking a 92 year old out to mingle in waiting rooms and getting handled by all kinds of people. 

 

Anyone know how urgent the eye part can be? What to do? 

 

I’ll have her call the regular eye doctor for suggestions before I take her anywhere. 

 

EDIT: Oh, and I’m glad to hear the PT office is closed. You have the exercises to do, so that seems like the best course of action at this point. 

 

 

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Call her doctor. They will give you better advice than you'll get on here. 

 

Edited March 17, 2020 by Sundancer

[Sherlock Holmes]

8 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

Going to PT twice a week(rehab of broken upper arm) and not sure if I should continue, or temporarily stop and just do exercises at home?

 

What would you do?

I must give the following disclaimer... even though I began work on Premed I am NOT a doctor. 

 

With that out of the way, if it were me, there's not much you can't do at home with exercises as well as hot and cold therapy. Some massages might be difficult yourself... I would stay home and do it myself but that's not because I'm afraid of getting sick. 

2 hours ago, Sundancer said:

 

Please don't listen to this guy. ^^^^^^^^^^^

 

This isn't an H1N1 flu. It's much more contagious and requires much more treatment. If you don't believe me, see Italy. If you don't believe the real world example, go read the CDC materials, or find what the majority of health care professionals are saying. 

 

Spreading the disease is the problem with going out and being around groups of people. A PT appointment is where many of the most vulnerable people will be. If you carry it in, they will get it. If you don't, you may get it there due to so many touched surfaces and throughput of bodies.

 

 The idea behind distancing is to slow the spread so our hospitals don't get swamped. It's already too late but maybe we can get ahead of it a little. 

 

I am not hoarding. I'm not panicking. I'm not worried that I'll catch this and die. If I do, I do. But I'm trying to be sensible to my neighbors while I watch the economy. I assume at some point, we will all be released back into the wild so the economy doesn't completely crater and I hope we have cleared the worst of the bed-usage issues and lack of testing by then so we can resume some degree of normalcy.

 

Call her doctor. They will give you better advice than you'll get on here. 

 

I love how eveybody always try to discredit people's opinions by saying "don't listen to them, they aren't a doctor" while giving their full opinion of the situation while also proceeding not to be a doctor... But they think their opinion is validated due to the inevitable statement: "Call your doctor"

[Sherlock Holmes]

2 hours ago, Augie said:

My 92 year old mother has an eye appointment next week regarding a bad situation with macular degeneration. (One eye going from dry to wet version, I think.) I’m not sure how to advise her. The eye problem is very serious. So is taking a 92 year old out to mingle in waiting rooms and getting handled by all kinds of people. 

 

Anyone know how urgent the eye part can be? What to do? 

 

I’ll have her call the regular eye doctor for suggestions before I take her anywhere. 

 

EDIT: Oh, and I’m glad to hear the PT office is closed. You have the exercises to do, so that seems like the best course of action at this point. 

 

 

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Once again not a Dr. here Augie... but in my opinion, Macular Degeneration isn't a sudden and spontaneous occurance. The wet is bothersome, but I don't see it as a lifethreatening issue. Is she a smoker? At 92 years old I would bet no, but I have seen it haha. 

 

If it were my mother I'd see if under the cirumstances we could skip the waiting room and go straight to the Dr. If they wouldn't make an exception piss on 'em, I'd wait it out.

[Augie]

13 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

Once again not a Dr. here Augie... but in my opinion, Macular Degeneration isn't a sudden and spontaneous occurance. The wet is bothersome, but I don't see it as a lifethreatening issue. Is she a smoker? At 92 years old I would bet no, but I have seen it haha. 

 

If it were my mother I'd see if under the cirumstances we could skip the waiting room and go straight to the Dr. If they wouldn't make an exception piss on 'em, I'd wait it out.

 

She smoked when I was young, but quit many decades ago. Is there a connection? I haven’t really looked into the disease much. She’s not in a huge hurry because one of the things that might have to happen is shots directly into her eyeball! ?

 

But....you have to take care of your sight. Again, I’ll probably have her call the primary eye care and ask how urgent this is, and might it be wise to delay?  

[Sundancer]

55 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

I love how eveybody always try to discredit people's opinions by saying "don't listen to them, they aren't a doctor" while giving their full opinion of the situation while also proceeding not to be a doctor... But they think their opinion is validated due to the inevitable statement: "Call your doctor"

 

I told the PT poster to do what the CDC and the experts are saying, that is, social distance yourself when possible and suggested that he try to get advice remotely from the PT, which would clearly be the safest thing because, again, the CDC is recommending not putting others at risk through unnecessary interaction. 

 

And as for his mother's specific serious medical issue, call the doctor, which would I think be better than following the advice of what anyone would say to do here.

[707BillsFan]

My PT called me today ... all appointments canceled until April (for now). I'm sure you'll get that call at some point. Earlier in the week they were open. 

[LB3]

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

50 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

She smoked when I was young, but quit many decades ago. Is there a connection? I haven’t really looked into the disease much. She’s not in a huge hurry because one of the things that might have to happen is shots directly into her eyeball! ?

 

But....you have to take care of your sight. Again, I’ll probably have her call the primary eye care and ask how urgent this is, and might it be wise to delay?  

In my opinion there's a very clear connection, the blood vessels in your eyes are some of the smaller ones in your body therefore most likely among the first to show signs of problems with connective tissue and loss of calcium which you see in an effort to buffer the acidic nature of intaking smoke directly into your bloodstream. But as we know your body is full of blood vessels and if that kind of damage is occuring to the blood vessels in your eyes, you can imagine that those wouldn't be the only ones being affected. 

38 minutes ago, Sundancer said:

 

I told the PT poster to do what the CDC and the experts are saying, that is, social distance yourself when possible and suggested that he try to get advice remotely from the PT, which would clearly be the safest thing because, again, the CDC is recommending not putting others at risk through unnecessary interaction. 

 

And as for his mother's specific serious medical issue, call the doctor, which would I think be better than following the advice of what anyone would say to do here.

I'm just making an observation

[KD in CA]

7 hours ago, Augie said:

My 92 year old mother has an eye appointment next week regarding a bad situation with macular degeneration. (One eye going from dry to wet version, I think.) I’m not sure how to advise her. The eye problem is very serious. So is taking a 92 year old out to mingle in waiting rooms and getting handled by all kinds of people. 

 

Depends on her eye doctor.  I went for my checkup last week....small office, I was the only one there other than the tech and the Doc, and they both scrubbing everything in sight with disinfectant wipes.   Remember, they're more afraid of you!

 

Maybe you take a spin by the day before to get a sense of the place and/or discuss w/ the people working there?

 

One positive about going out is that everything is deserted.  I was actually in a mall yesterday....place was deserted.  Literally saw about ten people.

[Augie]

2 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

 

Depends on her eye doctor.  I went for my checkup last week....small office, I was the only one there other than the tech and the Doc, and they both scrubbing everything in sight with disinfectant wipes.   Remember, they're more afraid of you!

 

Maybe you take a spin by the day before to get a sense of the place and/or discuss w/ the people working there?

 

One positive about going out is that everything is deserted.  I was actually in a mall yesterday....place was deserted.  Literally saw about ten people.

 

She actually goes to MY regular eye doctor. My Dr referred her to the specialist who I’m almost positive is in a high rise, giant office building setting. (That’s where she sent me when I had an issue.)  No dropping in to say howdy! Gated parking garages, that type of thing.

 

I do LOVE our doctor, and will call tomorrow. What do I do about my mom? How time sensitive is this? Also, my appointment is in about 2-3 weeks and I’m almost out of my 12 month supply of daily disposable contacts. Are you going to close on me? I find life is better with sight, so how should that whole thing go?

 

I like and appreciate  her as much as any doctor I’ve ever had. Helped me out in a serious pinch one time, bringing her little kids to the office during off hours. That earns a high level of appreciation! 

[SoTier]

21 hours ago, Mark80 said:

If you are under 60 and have no underlying health issues I would go for sure.  60-70 depends on health.  Over 70, nope.

 

There isn't a "magic" age delimiter.  I think your health condition is much more important, especially your heart, respiratory, and immune systems health.  I'm 70 and in better health, especially with those systems, than many people a decade or more younger than me, so I would go.  I'm assuming that your appointment is private and not a group situation.

Edited March 18, 2020 by SoTier

[LabattBlue]

3 hours ago, SoTier said:

 I'm assuming that your appointment is private and not a group situation.

The PT I go to is one big room with normally 5 staff and somewhere around 5-10 patients at any one time.  That is what let to my hesitancy to begin with.

[SoTier]

3 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

The PT I go to is one big room with normally 5 staff and somewhere around 5-10 patients at any one time.  That is what let to my hesitancy to begin with.

 

That would lead me to reconsider.  When I went to PT several years ago, it was a big room but there never was more than 2 patients and 3 or so staff.

 

[BarleyNY]

3 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

The PT I go to is one big room with normally 5 staff and somewhere around 5-10 patients at any one time.  That is what let to my hesitancy to begin with.

Out of curiosity, what is the deal?  Why the PT?