"...quality of movement...no, just keep walking..." So what 'your' profession as a whole is recommending, and in fact what I experienced, is to learn to walk poorly, and do it over and over again until you get really good at walking poorly. Ran into this with my old therapy group, both arm and leg have a flexoral synergy patterns. They worked on my strength, not my technique, and long after being dismissed for 'plateauing' I still struggle with my gait - lead with my toe, cannot get a heel strike. Arm is still not much good either. So, Dr. Tara, I must continue to watch your videos, it's the only way I can help myself improve. 😁
Unfortunately you are experience the "implementation" of this new practice guideline. I am hearing similar experiences from so many people and I will admit it is extremely disheartening. But I will do my best to keep educating giving you the tools to practice "quality movement".
Well those statistics are a load of crap 100% agree! I am so disassociated from how my muscles should work after a brain stem tumour ( benign and operated on 4 weeks ago) so I was told to do normal things. Well I have just tried walking to recalibrate my balance , and my brain has reverted to the balance issues before I had surgery as it is what it remembers. Definitely in need of some specialised neurological rehab because just walking does not work. I am in Australia I wish you were here to help me! I love your videos. I spend all day trying to understand things. So please done ever stop explaining the why and how everything works ! Thnkyou so much for your expertise delivered to us who are struggling at home alone to make our bodies work again!
Hi dr Tara. Thank you for your helpful videos❤️. My sister had an hémorragique stroke 4months ago ,she is 28years old. She is interested with your videos and she is wondering if you can make individual online sessions for her treatment.
Praying for your healing. Her video s I watch over and over again then it subconsciously help s when I excercise it improving over time I conscious ly think while excercise I'm a 60 year old male Stay well we move forward
Tara you're asking a lot I had a stroke in 2018 unable to walk etc etc just now beginning to recover using a cane the idea is it's hard to comprehend some of the complicated movements that are advocated so just saying take a walk it's a simple way of understanding with aphasia which keeps your body moving all you have to think about is move the juryy is still out and I get what you the chief difficulty is that when your helpers are there doing their best to support you are encouraging you to keep walking thinking they're doing it what's good for you so it's hard to tell them to forget about it very hard
I have a problem moving my good leg to move, they keep saying I need to work on my hip I broke to get stronger. I had a mass remove from my back and was told I couldn’t walk again but have worked for 10 years. Your tape helps me to understand how to work on my walking .
Hi Dr Tara, I have a step to walking pattern and didn’t realize it til I watched this video. None of the therapists I’ve worked with have ever explained things the way you do thank you so much for the way you explain things! I’m a brain cancer and two small strokes survivor. Love your videos.
Hi Michelle! Great to see you this week! Thanks for the update on your progress! Getting off the cane is a "catch 22". "Quality walking" might require a little support from an AD. So I say, keep working on normalizing your walking. I hope that helps!
@@rehabhqofficial Absolutely! One other one I came up with is I use a personal trampoline, I try to have fun and really vary my rehab to break up the monotonousness of it all and stand with my uninvolved leg on the trampoline and my involved leg on the ground, seems to be helping a ton especially with balance and confidence for me.
As always, putting out the video EXACTLY when i need it ! Do you do private consultations? I’d love to send you a video of my walking for your clinical opinions of my gait pattern
I have been rehabbing since June 2020 and making a lot of progress. But my walk isn't perfect yet. My wife is a physiotherapist assistant who work with stroke rehabilitation. Intensive rehab for 2 or 3 years and less acute now because unable to deal with acute strokes since my incident. She keep telling me the samething you always say. Quality movement over reps. If you keep repeating a compensatory patent. You will have harder time to get rid of it to have a normal walking patent again . She had watered me very early on in rehab that walking using a cane to make sure I kept proper walk was important. But what does she knows??? Well I have to use the cane now to regain a normal walk. So I am a lucky man but I need to listen more lol. Thank you for all your good work we are using soo many of your exercises and I just keep improving very well. Despite the Dr's prognosis or disability insurance opinion. I keep proving everyone wrong . They keep telling me that an advance cares paramedic cannot return to work in full duty after a bilateral stroke caused by a bilateral internal carotide dissection within few hrs. But like you said it before in multiple video. Mental part of brain injury rehabilitation is just as important. Fortunately for me I just never surrendered to the idea that I wasn't gonna return to work in something I have been doing for 20 years. The only thing I can't be sure of just yet is how much longer before I am ready to return.but I developed an amazing resiliency to stuff I have no control on like time. But if this is my worse issue. I am golden. Thanks and keep posting videos. Unbelievable how many peoples you help.
thank you once again please keep up the super videos. and I am super pleased to see in your latest uploads you have endorsed my belief in intermittent fasting. I have been trying to get endorsement on this from my rehab doctor and neurologist but they have been reticent and I have been frustrated. my argument has been that if I loose weight and get back to somewhere near my comfortable weight I used to be before my stroke. then everything will be easier and mobility and walking will improve as well but no one has tackled the problem of how to loose weight when ones activity level has dropped dramatically. intermittent fasting has been good for me I am able to drop weight but maintain good nutrition and make sure I get a proper balanced diet with all the nutrients and vitamins my doctors have been worried that a traditional diet would restrict. and yes I find the 18/6 diet works best as it is very easy to fit into normal daily routine and therefore keeping it up is easy the 18 hour fast gives you a decent amount of time in the fat burning and autophagy zone so the benefits really kick in. if I go longer lets say over20 hours and reach a state of fasted ketosis I have found that I am much better at working at my computer when previously my concentration levels had dropped and I had experienced brain fog while in ketosis I am much sharper with no brain fog or confusion I guess my brain likes to run on acetone not glucose I have commented before with you and you helped me with my 'Soas' flexibility issues. but this communication is mainly about saying thank you and please keep it up you are touching and helping a great deal of people such as I and you deserve all the thanks and rewards due to you you are a beautiful soul.thanks again xx
Thank you for your beautiful videos. I had a T10 incomplete SCI in 2019, I am on crutches and mostly find it difficult to lift my legs, and my feet mainly point down and sometimes my knees lock forcing me to move my leg outwards before swinging it forward. Where can I get the tools you mention in your videos in South Africa? I mainly need to improve my balance and relaxation of my muscles
Great video just discovered psych coming up on one year how do I having a stroke left side not working no major brain damage thank you again working really hard with
Hi Dr Tobiaa i love yr videos makes so much sense! I live in the UK and have MS, i wish i had a physio like you! As it is i dont have anything like that so im doing my own rehab!! Trouble with balance and walking,, any helpful tips/ excercises??
This is perfect for my hyper extended leg… thank you so much, I got rear ended on my motorcycle, L1-L4are fused plus my S1 was being pinch( witch the fixed)…
Dear Dr. Tara, 💜💜 Super video. I agree totally with your call for quality. 💜💜 I had this in the beginning and overcame it with your exercises from earlier videos like stepping over a small yoga block with left and right. My PT also let me walk a lot backwards, that trained a lot. Now I do muscle rebuildup through leg lifting in bed back, side, front, straight, bent each 10 times, twice a day. It is really hard but the walking practice gets so much easier now. So many greetings over the pond. We never met or spoke, but you are such an angel for my recovery 🙏🙏
Hi Nina! Glad to see you again this week!! Yes! Walking backwards. That is another excellent exercise for this issue. Thanks for sharing this! Also, thanks for sharing how this channel is helping you. It means the world to me to know that. 🙏🙏🙏 Chico and I sending you many well wishes 🐶😊
So appreciate that you share such information. I believe you ! Have had therapy from some who anxious to help younger patients. Your information helps me to help myself and to know when I am NOT being helped. Thank you 🙏
@Tara - thank you so much for all these videos. These are GOLD! The breakdown of movement is so important. I apply it when appropriate with my neuro patients. Question - is it best to wear the AFO or not when performing these exercises? Thank you.
That was great Tara! Struggling with heel strike of involved leg in walking. This video nails it . Explaining the flow with strengthening and gait. It helps to know about midline midline befor starting . Thanks again❤️
@@rehabhqofficial You’re welcome! I do have a question….. can an adjustable ROM knee brace be just as appropriate as the Swedish knee brace? I am in the process of ordering supplies and I want to make the wisest decision. Thank you in advance!
Good evening thanks for exercises that you are demonstrating please I have question how can I correct my arm is shifting back while I am walking what should I do not to happen
I've been doing it wrong this whole time trying to focus on my strong side treating my affected side as a prosthesis is exhausting trying to keep balance through spasticity
I have a stiff leg while walking. Have MS (multiple sclerosis) since 2007. While walking it sounds like when a diver comes from the sea and stamps down with his flippers. Any advice on that??? thank you in advance :D
Sooo love this video!!! Very important excercises that I should do so I can have painless and enjoyable, correct quality walk everyday. Thank you Dr Tabias, this video troubleshoots my stepping problems.
Main problem to achieve normal gait is lack of control of ankle, knee and hip; in that order. Sadly recovery is in reverse order. It's a catch 22 situation. I have worked on my recovery for six years; 5 days a week, 3 plus hours a day. It's a slow recovery.my hyperextension of knee is sideways perpendicular to the direction of travel.
...@75. Still in my prime, but this event has humbled me. Hypertension, spacticty, lack of confidence especially from several falls. Now to everyone at could be much worse. I am blessed. Thank you Dr. Tobias for your knowledge. To all be well.
Hi dr. Tara after a brain surgery my left hand and leg are weak. I walk with a n afo. Got all the problems for which you have given exercises in this video. Thanks. My left hand is a problem as it is still in contracture , doing physio for both. Can you share a video to help with breaking the contracture an get my hand functional. thanks
Hi.you spoke sometime back about a hand brace you were working on. Did you complete It? If so where can I see or order one. Thanks for all the info you share.
My involved leg shakes when I am standing still putting my full weight on it. I am holding on to something while standing. Hoe do I address this issue please. Thanks
I am exactly facing the same thing.😢 Gets a support from wall while walking in home or in office. Walking gets very difficult when temperature increases in summer. I walk like a disoriented person. 😢 Stairs is another challenge.
As usual, a very detailed problem. Now the mechanism is completely clear to me. I don't have such problems anymore, in the earlier phase due to fatigue it happened to me, after climbing the stairs it would stop. I didn’t understand why, but the brain had obviously and subconsciously solved the problem. I realized it helps, and now I know why. Thanks for the explanation, have a nice day.
I have neuromuscular condition that causes spastity (tightness) in the back of my legs from hamstring to ankles. This tightness that at times can be real bad where I do that step to which does make me very tired.
Walking Improvement Walking forward requires swinging the affected leg and foot past the good foot. Walking backward forces the affected leg to carry the entire body weight through that same range of travel. A leg thus strengthened will swing forward easier as it moves only its weight when walking forward. Walking backward also aids balance. I use shopping cart racks and handicap ramps as parallel bars walking forward, backward, stepping sideways and for stationary leg and balance exercises. Handicap ramps usually have stairs nearby as added challenges.
Hi Tara, Good day. I learned plenty of insights in this video today. I just want to make sure if I got this correctly, "Swedish knee brace" did I get that right? Can that be used long term to train your involve leg? Where can we find that? Or is it still better to follow the half bent knee walk? Thank you and more power. Keep them coming.
Doc, what will help with an involved leg that tends to “be sleepy “ or not engaging after I sleep or sit for a period of time? Is this just a matter of strengthening and time??
I have a patient that has been walking with this pattern for over 25 years , after her stroke. I finally managed to ' make'her walk normally, but it works only when she really concentrates. When i m not close to her she returns to her old pattern. How can i do to implement for good the normal walkign pattern ?
@@rehabhqofficial I've noticed that I walk fine when I'm by myself but when I get around a group of people my leg will freeze up and I'll walk with a very bad limp. What's the connection between the brain and walking while nervous? Do you have a video about this problem. THANKS
Hi my name is Sheryl I’ve been in a wheelchair for five years I take pt therapy but my balance keeps me from walking. I can’t put pressure on my involved leg.
Hi Lanette! Thanks for the question. Do you mean it goes out to the side at a 45 degree angle? Can you tell if it is your knee or your foot that is pointed outward? Or both?
Hi doctor Tara.. I'd like here your suggestions about visual defects like peripheral vision loss or in my case it seems slow to come in mostly. I have only sight in my right eye and its the left side peripheral area that's my problem
My thrmerapist told me me doing squat wtong way too much could do harm more than any good. And tgat is all i have been doing. Is there ant way yoh could videos about squats?
Hi Dr Tara, please is there an exercise to do with my back that feels like is unstable which makes me not stand a long time or stand for a long time. Sometimes my right hip feels like it's dropping off my body. Please help me .
Hi Dr. Tobias. I have been watching your videos for quit some time now. I tried a few of the exercise but none seems to work for me. I have been diagnosed with MS or Peripheral Neuropathy which affected me for over 3 years now not able TO walk without a walker. I have foot drop, nerve issues, spasticity and balance issues. What or where do you suggest I start from or what could be my concern of getting back to normal walking?
Hi Laverne! Thanks for watching and for sharing your struggles. I would start by searching videos I have on spasticity. This might answer a lot of questions and give you more direction as to where to start. I hope that helps!
My husband is having hemiplagia since last three years when he is walking left foot is not properly touching the floor and while walking his left foot's edge touch is the floor so he can not walk properly. What the excercises you suggest.
Great video. I’m nearing my 20-month mark after my stroke, and I’m right in the middle of issues that u described. Hyper extension of Knee is been my biggest challenge, and thankfully, I think that there are some developments I’m seeing on the positive side. Thanks for the tips in the video, and I’ll try to incorporate as much I can.. thanks a ton. You’re a lifesaver.🙏
Thanks for another helpful video! I love the exercises, but I have a question about the first one (sit backs in kneeling position). I have not been on my knees too much since the stroke, but I’ve noticed that when I am, it can be uncomfortable/painful in one/both knees. Is that just a matter of developing strength after non-use? Thanks!
I want you to know Tara, you are changing lives!! Thank you!
"...quality of movement...no, just keep walking..." So what 'your' profession as a whole is recommending, and in fact what I experienced, is to learn to walk poorly, and do it over and over again until you get really good at walking poorly. Ran into this with my old therapy group, both arm and leg have a flexoral synergy patterns. They worked on my strength, not my technique, and long after being dismissed for 'plateauing' I still struggle with my gait - lead with my toe, cannot get a heel strike. Arm is still not much good either.
So, Dr. Tara, I must continue to watch your videos, it's the only way I can help myself improve. 😁
Unfortunately you are experience the "implementation" of this new practice guideline. I am hearing similar experiences from so many people and I will admit it is extremely disheartening. But I will do my best to keep educating giving you the tools to practice "quality movement".
Trying to find ways to help my wife be able to walk unassisted again. This channel is so informative! Thank you.
Well those statistics are a load of crap 100% agree! I am so disassociated from how my muscles should work after a brain stem tumour ( benign and operated on 4 weeks ago) so I was told to do normal things. Well I have just tried walking to recalibrate my balance , and my brain has reverted to the balance issues before I had surgery as it is what it remembers. Definitely in need of some specialised neurological rehab because just walking does not work. I am in Australia I wish you were here to help me!
I love your videos. I spend all day trying to understand things. So please done ever stop explaining the why and how everything works !
Thnkyou so much for your expertise delivered to us who are struggling at home alone to make our bodies work again!
Hyperextension is my worst enemy! Lol. I have been trying to not lock my knee but no one showed like you did. Thank you!
Hi dr Tara. Thank you for your helpful videos❤️. My sister had an hémorragique stroke 4months ago ,she is 28years old. She is interested with your videos and she is wondering if you can make individual online sessions for her treatment.
Praying for your healing.
Her video s I watch over and over again then it subconsciously help s when I excercise it improving over time
I conscious ly think while excercise
I'm a 60 year old male
Stay well we move forward
Hi dra. TARa est excercise of stroke who suffer shoulder subloxation.
Tara you're asking a lot I had a stroke in 2018 unable to walk etc etc just now beginning to recover using a cane the idea is it's hard to comprehend some of the complicated movements that are advocated so just saying take a walk it's a simple way of understanding with aphasia which keeps your body moving all you have to think about is move the juryy is still out and I get what you the chief difficulty is that when your helpers are there doing their best to support you are encouraging you to keep walking thinking they're doing it what's good for you so it's hard to tell them to forget about it very hard
I have a problem moving my good leg to move, they keep saying I need to work on my hip I broke to get stronger. I had a mass remove from my back and was told I couldn’t walk again but have worked for 10 years. Your tape helps me to understand how to work on my walking .
Hi Dr Tara, I have a step to walking pattern and didn’t realize it til I watched this video. None of the therapists I’ve worked with have ever explained things the way you do thank you so much for the way you explain things! I’m a brain cancer and two small strokes survivor. Love your videos.
Another hit Dr. Tobias I’m walking better but I’m still on my cane but I’m still trying to get back to normal!
Thanx again Dr. Tobias
Hi Michelle! Great to see you this week! Thanks for the update on your progress! Getting off the cane is a "catch 22". "Quality walking" might require a little support from an AD. So I say, keep working on normalizing your walking. I hope that helps!
Thank you for another video Dr Tobias!! I hope you have a great week!!! God Bless you!!!
Hi tj! Great to see you this weekend you found something in this one you can add to your program. Have a great week!!
@@rehabhqofficial Absolutely! One other one I came up with is I use a personal trampoline, I try to have fun and really vary my rehab to break up the monotonousness of it all and stand with my uninvolved leg on the trampoline and my involved leg on the ground, seems to be helping a ton especially with balance and confidence for me.
@@tjharris6530 Oh I love this idea!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you Dr. Tobias I'm learning a lot from you on my recovery More power and blessings to you.
Great to see you this week Edwin! Keep going!!
I'm practicing exactly that! Walking w a normal stride, not dragging.
Thats the hard part not dragging Your foot .
I find that when Im turning cornors and turning around
@@LUCKYB. yes Lucky, exactly!
As always, putting out the video EXACTLY when i need it !
Do you do private consultations? I’d love to send you a video of my walking for your clinical opinions of my gait pattern
I have been rehabbing since June 2020 and making a lot of progress. But my walk isn't perfect yet. My wife is a physiotherapist assistant who work with stroke rehabilitation. Intensive rehab for 2 or 3 years and less acute now because unable to deal with acute strokes since my incident. She keep telling me the samething you always say. Quality movement over reps. If you keep repeating a compensatory patent. You will have harder time to get rid of it to have a normal walking patent again . She had watered me very early on in rehab that walking using a cane to make sure I kept proper walk was important. But what does she knows??? Well I have to use the cane now to regain a normal walk. So I am a lucky man but I need to listen more lol. Thank you for all your good work we are using soo many of your exercises and I just keep improving very well. Despite the Dr's prognosis or disability insurance opinion. I keep proving everyone wrong . They keep telling me that an advance cares paramedic cannot return to work in full duty after a bilateral stroke caused by a bilateral internal carotide dissection within few hrs. But like you said it before in multiple video. Mental part of brain injury rehabilitation is just as important. Fortunately for me I just never surrendered to the idea that I wasn't gonna return to work in something I have been doing for 20 years. The only thing I can't be sure of just yet is how much longer before I am ready to return.but I developed an amazing resiliency to stuff I have no control on like time. But if this is my worse issue. I am golden. Thanks and keep posting videos. Unbelievable how many peoples you help.
As usual! You are are spot on Dr. Tobias. Thank you as always for your time...we appreciate you. Have a wonderful week!
Hi Teresa! Glad to see you this week! I didn't forget about you. You questions will be answered soon 😊
@@rehabhqofficial I know you haven't. Thanks so much 😁
Completely agree with you, love you
Hi Tara, watching from Ireland,I have m.s do I step first with my weak leg, when walking.
In the video she is suggesting to step first with your strong leg and have your weak leg come up to meet it. I’m trying this
thank you once again please keep up the super videos. and I am super pleased to see in your latest uploads you have endorsed my belief in intermittent fasting. I have been trying to get endorsement on this from my rehab doctor and neurologist but they have been reticent and I have been frustrated. my argument has been that if I loose weight and get back to somewhere near my comfortable weight I used to be before my stroke. then everything will be easier and mobility and walking will improve as well but no one has tackled the problem of how to loose weight when ones activity level has dropped dramatically. intermittent fasting has been good for me I am able to drop weight but maintain good nutrition and make sure I get a proper balanced diet with all the nutrients and vitamins my doctors have been worried that a traditional diet would restrict. and yes I find the 18/6 diet works best as it is very easy to fit into normal daily routine and therefore keeping it up is easy the 18 hour fast gives you a decent amount of time in the fat burning and autophagy zone so the benefits really kick in. if I go longer lets say over20 hours and reach a state of fasted ketosis I have found that I am much better at working at my computer when previously my concentration levels had dropped and I had experienced brain fog while in ketosis I am much sharper with no brain fog or confusion I guess my brain likes to run on acetone not glucose I have commented before with you and you helped me with my 'Soas' flexibility issues. but this communication is mainly about saying thank you and please keep it up you are touching and helping a great deal of people such as I and you deserve all the thanks and rewards due to you you are a beautiful soul.thanks again xx
Thank you for your beautiful videos. I had a T10 incomplete SCI in 2019, I am on crutches and mostly find it difficult to lift my legs, and my feet mainly point down and sometimes my knees lock forcing me to move my leg outwards before swinging it forward.
Where can I get the tools you mention in your videos in South Africa? I mainly need to improve my balance and relaxation of my muscles
I agree that I tire easily walking step to I hadn’t been taught any other way in inpatient rehab
Great video just discovered psych coming up on one year how do I having a stroke left side not working no major brain damage thank you again working really hard with
I have Ataxia & also hyperextended with the right knee! Thanks for the videos
I love all of your videos Thank you
Another awesome, informative video a take away for me is to start with the good leg first really appreciate your insights thanks again.
Hi Fred! Great to see you this week. I like that take away! Have a great week!
Thank You Ms.Tara.Your video make me as a guide for walking improve ment.
More Power
Watching from Philippines asia.18 mos hemharagic stroke survivor
Thank You..
I like when you mark with bright tape or band which ever is working or effected leg otherwise it confusing somotimes.Thanks
Hi Dr Tobiaa i love yr videos makes so much sense! I live in the UK and have MS, i wish i had a physio like you! As it is i dont have anything like that so im doing my own rehab!! Trouble with balance and walking,, any helpful tips/ excercises??
This is perfect for my hyper extended leg… thank you so much, I got rear ended on my motorcycle, L1-L4are fused plus my S1 was being pinch( witch the fixed)…
Oh how I would love to walk into your clinic.this clip tailor made for me. Would love more info on articulated AFO
Dear Dr. Tara, 💜💜 Super video. I agree totally with your call for quality. 💜💜 I had this in the beginning and overcame it with your exercises from earlier videos like stepping over a small yoga block with left and right. My PT also let me walk a lot backwards, that trained a lot. Now I do muscle rebuildup through leg lifting in bed back, side, front, straight, bent each 10 times, twice a day. It is really hard but the walking practice gets so much easier now. So many greetings over the pond. We never met or spoke, but you are such an angel for my recovery 🙏🙏
Hi Nina! Glad to see you again this week!! Yes! Walking backwards. That is another excellent exercise for this issue. Thanks for sharing this! Also, thanks for sharing how this channel is helping you. It means the world to me to know that. 🙏🙏🙏 Chico and I sending you many well wishes 🐶😊
This a great video where you talk about center of balance, been to several physio therapists but none have ever tested or corrected my balance
So appreciate that you share such information. I believe you ! Have had therapy from some who anxious to help younger patients. Your information helps me to help myself and to know when I am NOT being helped. Thank you 🙏
I just tried stepping forward with my uninvolved leg. Wow that feels weird! I will try to remember to do this thank u
Your videos are highly informative and learning a lot thank you
@Tara - thank you so much for all these videos. These are GOLD! The breakdown of movement is so important. I apply it when appropriate with my neuro patients.
Question - is it best to wear the AFO
or not when performing these exercises? Thank you.
Same question
That was great Tara! Struggling with heel strike of involved leg in walking. This video nails it . Explaining the flow with strengthening and gait. It helps to know about midline midline befor starting . Thanks again❤️
Thank you for all the videos and explanations that you give ..
Please Adress freezing gait syndrome. Thank you
Thank you for this info. When I walk my involved heel rarely hits my he floor. What should I work on?
Thank you kindly! The guidance and information is priceless!🌟💗
Hi Nette! Thanks for watching. I hope it helps!
@@rehabhqofficial You’re welcome! I do have a question….. can an adjustable ROM knee brace be just as appropriate as the Swedish knee brace? I am in the process of ordering supplies and I want to make the wisest decision. Thank you in advance!
Good evening thanks for exercises that you are demonstrating please I have question how can I correct my arm is shifting back while I am walking what should I do not to happen
Can you share any surgical treatments that can help reinforce dorsiflex to equate to a normal walking gait?
All are appreciated.....thank you so much for all your videos.....Can you please share full chronic transverse myelitis physio program
i CERTAINLY HAVE THIS PROBLEM. thank you doctor.
Dr T. Thanks for these tips and videos they are blessings to me.
I've been doing it wrong this whole time trying to focus on my strong side treating my affected side as a prosthesis is exhausting trying to keep balance through spasticity
I have a stiff leg while walking. Have MS (multiple sclerosis) since 2007. While walking it sounds like when a diver comes from the sea and stamps down with his flippers. Any advice on that??? thank you in advance :D
Thanks for your Guidance ..
Thank u for your 🙏will try for my sister n hope she gets better result🙌
Sooo love this video!!! Very important excercises that I should do so I can have painless and enjoyable, correct quality walk everyday. Thank you Dr Tabias, this video troubleshoots my stepping problems.
Super mam.. helpful information..Thank u 🙏🏻🙂
How to tackle confidence issue
But I have been having tremendous lower back ache after first doing the exercise. Been there for 3 weeks. Hope it gets better.
Main problem to achieve normal gait is lack of control of ankle, knee and hip; in that order. Sadly recovery is in reverse order. It's a catch 22 situation. I have worked on my recovery for six years; 5 days a week, 3 plus hours a day. It's a slow recovery.my hyperextension of knee is sideways perpendicular to the direction of travel.
Hello. My hemorrhagic strike was in 2017. I'm 55, and walk like I'm
...@75. Still in my prime, but this event has humbled me. Hypertension, spacticty, lack of confidence especially from several falls. Now to everyone at could be much worse. I am blessed. Thank you Dr. Tobias for your knowledge. To all be well.
Hey Tara can you go step by step on th Brun strom 7 stages of stroke recovery and maybe do a 2 part subseries on it. Thank you so much
Hi dr. Tara
after a brain surgery my left hand and leg are weak. I walk with a n afo. Got all the problems for which you have given exercises in this video. Thanks.
My left hand is a problem as it is still in contracture , doing physio for both.
Can you share a video to help with breaking the contracture an get my hand functional. thanks
Make a video on dystonic dyskinetic cerebral palsy and it's management
ty. your voice deos are so good nfurmative. I'll watch more now.
Hi.you spoke sometime back about a hand brace you were working on. Did you complete It? If so where can I see or order one. Thanks for all the info you share.
My AFO is articulated would it be worth trying an non-articulated one if it’s not sufficient to control my knee hyperextension? Or just add knee cage?
Hi Dr Tara. thanks for valuable information 🙏
Im done laminectomy last year december. But i cant walk without walker. I have spasticity and when i straightened mg legs its hard to straight it
My involved leg shakes when I am standing still putting my full weight on it. I am holding on to something while standing. Hoe do I address this issue please. Thanks
I am exactly facing the same thing.😢 Gets a support from wall while walking in home or in office. Walking gets very difficult when temperature increases in summer. I walk like a disoriented person. 😢 Stairs is another challenge.
As usual, a very detailed problem. Now the mechanism is completely clear to me. I don't have such problems anymore, in the earlier phase due to fatigue it happened to me, after climbing the stairs it would stop. I didn’t understand why, but the brain had obviously and subconsciously solved the problem. I realized it helps, and now I know why. Thanks for the explanation, have a nice day.
Thank you dr
I have neuromuscular condition that causes spastity (tightness) in the back of my legs from hamstring to ankles. This tightness that at times can be real bad where I do that step to which does make me very tired.
Where can I order the band pulley thingy?
terrifically clear
Thanks. I learned a bunch of things.❤
An Honest approach is a better approach
Cant find link for swedish knee cage
Walking Improvement
Walking forward requires swinging the affected leg and foot past the good foot.
Walking backward forces the affected leg to carry the entire body weight through that same range of travel. A leg thus strengthened will swing forward easier as it moves only its weight when walking forward.
Walking backward also aids balance.
I use shopping cart racks and handicap ramps as parallel bars walking forward, backward, stepping sideways and for stationary leg and balance exercises. Handicap ramps usually have stairs nearby as added challenges.
Hi Tara, Good day. I learned plenty of insights in this video today. I just want to make sure if I got this correctly, "Swedish knee brace" did I get that right? Can that be used long term to train your involve leg? Where can we find that? Or is it still better to follow the half bent knee walk? Thank you and more power. Keep them coming.
Doc, what will help with an involved leg that tends to “be sleepy “ or not engaging after I sleep or sit for a period of time? Is this just a matter of strengthening and time??
I have a patient that has been walking with this pattern for over 25 years , after her stroke. I finally managed to ' make'her walk normally, but it works only when she really concentrates. When i m not close to her she returns to her old pattern. How can i do to implement for good the normal walkign pattern ?
Hello,Dr. Tobias! I'm late this week.
Hi Glen! Never too late 😊 Glad to see you this week! I hope this one helps!
I'm not at this point yet.
This is the video that I've been waiting on. Thankyou Doctor!!!!
Yay! I hope it helps!
@@rehabhqofficial I've noticed that I walk fine when I'm by myself but when I get around a group of people my leg will freeze up and I'll walk with a very bad limp. What's the connection between the brain and walking while nervous? Do you have a video about this problem. THANKS
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Hi my name is Sheryl
I’ve been in a wheelchair for five years I take pt therapy but my balance keeps me from walking. I can’t put pressure on my involved leg.
Best walking sticks?
My stroke leg footsteps forward at about a 45 degree instead of straight. How do I correct this
Hi Lanette! Thanks for the question. Do you mean it goes out to the side at a 45 degree angle? Can you tell if it is your knee or your foot that is pointed outward? Or both?
@@rehabhqofficial just foot. I think circumvention? My knee is stiff
Much appreciated 🙏
Hi doctor Tara.. I'd like here your suggestions about visual defects like peripheral vision loss or in my case it seems slow to come in mostly. I have only sight in my right eye and its the left side peripheral area that's my problem
My thrmerapist told me me doing squat wtong way too much could do harm more than any good. And tgat is all i have been doing. Is there ant way yoh could videos about squats?
Great . Love this Content all the TIME !
Thanks .. I got head injury resulting paralysis...
Hi Dr Tara, please is there an exercise to do with my back that feels like is unstable which makes me not stand a long time or stand for a long time. Sometimes my right hip feels like it's dropping off my body. Please help me .
I don't raise my feet whilst walking and my feet scrape the ground. Pl advice how to rectify.
Hi Dr. Tobias. I have been watching your videos for quit some time now. I tried a few of the exercise but none seems to work for me. I have been diagnosed with MS or Peripheral Neuropathy which affected me for over 3 years now not able TO walk without a walker. I have foot drop, nerve issues, spasticity and balance issues. What or where do you suggest I start from or what could be my concern of getting back to normal walking?
Hi Laverne! Thanks for watching and for sharing your struggles. I would start by searching videos I have on spasticity. This might answer a lot of questions and give you more direction as to where to start. I hope that helps!
My husband is having hemiplagia since last three years when he is walking left foot is not properly touching the floor and while walking his left foot's edge touch is the floor so he can not walk properly. What the excercises you suggest.
Nailed it.I can’t figure out how far to step past to have my foot land flat on the floor
Great video. I’m nearing my 20-month mark after my stroke, and I’m right in the middle of issues that u described. Hyper extension of Knee is been my biggest challenge, and thankfully, I think that there are some developments I’m seeing on the positive side. Thanks for the tips in the video, and I’ll try to incorporate as much I can.. thanks a ton. You’re a lifesaver.🙏
Thanks for watching and for sharing your story! I am glad you are noticing some positive changes in your movement. Keep going!
😊very helpful and I'll put your advice to work every step 🚶♂️ I take
If not is there one you suggest
I’m 2 1/2 years post stroke. I no longer need a cane when I walk but I have a limp, how can I get rid of the limp?
Talk about ataxia, is there a cure ?? Is there rehab
Thanks for another helpful video!
I love the exercises, but I have a question about the first one (sit backs in kneeling position). I have not been on my knees too much since the stroke, but I’ve noticed that when I am, it can be uncomfortable/painful in one/both knees. Is that just a matter of developing strength after non-use? Thanks!
Hi Randy! It is hard for me to say without doing an assessment. Sometimes pain is ok and sometimes it isn't.
I just transitioned from an AFO to a KAFO, any tips to help me normalize my gait?
I get confused with involved and uninvolved. Please explain how it compares to affected and unaffected
Involved is the weak leg.
Hi I have ms i love your videos so much to learn so thankful
Hi Ahmed! Thank you for watching and for sharing your story. I am glad you find these videos helpful. :)
Afraid to walk as I am afraid to loose balance