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Shawna Watts
Приєднався 11 жов 2012
Provide physical therapy-based easy-to-follow tips and information designed to make daily care easier and safer for anyone responsible for the care of someone with special needs due to age, illness, disease, surgery, etc...
General Home Exercise Program
This was an actual Home-Based Physical Therapy balance, strengthening, and coordination treatment. Using a swissball, a couch cushion and a little creativity, this patient's balance, strength, confidence, coordination and overall fall risk were improved! Please leave any questions, comments or ideas on my website: tipsfromapt.com
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Compression Sock Video
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Never struggle with putting on tight Compression Socks again. Learn An Easy Way To Put on Compression Socks Using a Plastic Bag! For Additional Tips Visit: TipsFromaPT.com
Ninja Video
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Discover Nutri Ninja With AUTO IQ Blenders and Learn How To Make the BEST Smoothies, Juices, Snow for Snow Cones and MORE! Observe the Pulsating and Pulverizing SMART Technology Preferred by Chefs & Loved By Others. Ninja Auto IQ Blenders Are the Next Level of Blenders! Visit NinjaAutoIQBlenders.com to Experience the Ninja Difference!
Easy Sit to Stand Transfer
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Getting someone from sitting into standing does not have to difficult. Learn the rules and techniques used by a Physical Therapist to make transferring a loved one, patient or client easier and safer. For more tips and helpful information visit tipsfromapt.com
Sliding Board Safety
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Learn how to set up a wheelchair, sliding/transfer board, your loved one and yourself for a safe and easy recliner transfer. The Sliding Board is a BRIDGE between the wheelchair and the recliner. Read about the Sliding Board at: tipsfromapt.com/product-reviews/medical-equipment/slidingtransfer-boards
Exercise Ball
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Let's Get On The Ball...Why would I have my patients exercise on a ball in the home setting? Here is a video explaining the reasons and demonstrating some simple, but effective home exercises using a 75 cm Exercise Ball
Rolling walker and cane video
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How to adjust a rolling walker and cane properly. How to use a quad cane safely and understand why you use the cane on a particular side.
Bed Mobility Tips
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Learn tips for getting a loved one in and out of bed easier and safer using easy-to-follow instructions.
Wheelchair floor transfer video
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Sometimes falls happen and there is no significant injury. Getting a loved one off the floor can be difficult. Using a wheelchair with removable armrests can make lifting a loved one from the floor easier. Having someone to help can make it easier and safer for everyone, but it is possible to do the transfer in this video with one person it will require more time to set up the wheelchair and lo...
Balance Strategy Video
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How do our legs work to try and correct a loss of balance so we don't fall? This video will explain the 3-Balance Strategies. If you understand how the balance strategies work, you will have a better understanding on how to improve your own balance.
My ass sticks to the board hard to transfer
Sorry. I prefer to learn from someone who isn’t ambulatory
Thank you for this excellent in-service. Well done
I am disabled, in a wheelchair, not paralyzed. I feel lonely. I do not have a girlfriend
What you do if person have been pitsted Amputated
How many inches long is the transfer board being used?
Shawna, Thank you and your co-star for showing us some great tips. My wife and I have learned that an old panty hose leg can be slid over the board to keep my skin from causing me to hang on the board. I also have used a double folder paper towel under my leg to improve the slippage. Take precautions so the surfer doesn’t slide right off the board; then you’ve got to call ☎️ 911, and that can be bad. Thanks again
Thank You , You have given to me the correct technique and also the proper angle too ..
This only works for open toe socks and thin calves …. 😢
Thank you for your video that was helpful
How do i support my mother if she can not bend or put any weight on her leg and it’s in a brace sticking straight out.
Thanks to you and your senior costar for showing this transfer in a real home with the kind of chair many folks have. Showing people with different ages and body types (not just therapists) makes things more relatable for families and friends who are learning how to do this for the first time.
Thank you Shawna so much, my family and I is new to wheelchairs due to my mother disability. We have been so frustrated on how to transfer my mom in and out of her recliner unto her pot or her in to her wheelchair into the car. THANK YOU ! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!❤❤❤🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
By far the most informative video for transferring a quadriplegic with a transfer board. I have watched hundreds of videos…none comes close to this one!!! Thank you, so much.
C'est formidable ❤️❤️
I had more falls when I put the wheelchair at a 45 degree angle, I put the wheel chair directly in from of the bed. I use the sliding board to turn and slide and have never fallen. PTs have watched me and found it to be OK. Therapists are seldom around in my home to aid.
What if the patient is quite a bit taller than you? That’s the challenge I’m currently having!! He’s a 6 foot 200 pound man, I’m 5’4 so can u give me some pointers? He can stand up with Assistance, of course but I just don’t have the strength to pull them up like that.
You have just given me the ability to to be able to give my wife mobility. I cant thank you enough. Totally life changing.
Shawna, why did you stop doing videos???You are so very good at it and your information was very valuable!!!!
Excellent advice ❤you are brilliant!
Can you tell me if these slide boards are suitable for a stroke man who only has use of 1 arm and 1 leg can only use right arm and right leg and is 130kgs in weight, we want to take him in the car but dont how to get him in and out
Finally a reason to keep the phone books that I get every year. I usually just throw them into the recycling bin.😊
Question: I'm an old-timer and our transfer boards were solid or with horizontal hand holes. I see many now have vertical hand holes.They say user preference, and tried to find more info on it, but none. Do you have any input on the difference and the benefit of one or the other? Thx!
As a fellow therapist, thought this was excellent to show a home patient beforehand, especially when they are fearful. The bending forward to scoot forward can cause anxiety in some patients.
That sock looks too big.
Oh my goodness! I'm so thankful for you and your video. I didn't know how to use this to help my mom and this has made all the difference. Thank you so, so much!
Shawna your video was excellent it was simple and fun to watch . You explain the technique well and I love the telephone book for the moving recliner chair . I am going to use it for my sister 👍👍 who has a difficult time getting up from the recliner .
Will this work on a 350+pd person?
Yes
How u transfer from wheel chair to car for double amputee please just lost my legs please show me
Does it work for someone 300lbs
Yes, you just have to make sure the board is graded for 300lbs. The board is normally called a bariatric transfer board.
This is the best tutorial on the Web. And your website is fantastic. Thank you!
How about transfer to bed
Thank you!!
i use the same board, you make it easier than reality.
Can you comment on the merits of boards with zero, one, and two hand holes?
Thanks
That board is way too long . She needs a board 30 inches with hand grips . From a wheelchair to a chair the wheelchair must higher and vice versa. Problem I have with a recliner is the arms on the chair since you cant remove them like a wheelchair so you must tranfer to the seat cushion and hope your behind has enough room. Getting back too is a challenge. Anyone who can help please tell me .
Excelent waooooo Dtb
This is fine for someone that can actually ambulate. My husband is a multiple stroke survivor and he doesn't follow this way of moving. Can't sit up on his own, can't turn over on his own, and this does not work with him. He is just there, wherever, until I move him...glad for those who it does work for though. Blessings.
Have you tried transfers on board with patient having amputated leg (in my case right amputated slightly above knee)? I mean is there much difference?
Describe, please, how to do that when patient has amputated slightly above-knee right leg. I mean is there a difference?
It seem more easy in India bcz there is two to three people to look after for I'll family member.. Be unite be strong. Value family tradition.
It is certainly not 45 degrees, but somewhere more than 90 degrees, say 135 degrees.
The Wheel of Fortune back there is a care provider classic! Nice touch!
Dang you have good eyes to notice the name of the TV program in the background. 👀👏
Thank you.
Wow !!! Awesome video !!!
Great tip!!! Thanks!
Are the boards suppose to be varnished for a better glide? I just got 1 for my husband & it's not varnished it does feel smooth though. My husband recently lost use of his legs & I'm learning how to help him. Thanks for this video.
She speaks very well
how about if the wheelchair arm rest does not come off ?