Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

When I did rehab I was quite direct with my physio. This transformed said rehab from mild calf stretches and mobility exercises to full on agony inducing sessions that I needed about an hour to recover from. But it means I can still walk more or less without a limp.

As you are above the threshold of that sort of heart rehab to begin with, there is almost certainly some merit in such a discussion, on the grounds that if that is your rehab, you will still be going in the wrong direction.

Thanks - good to have personal experience. To be fair, on my first session, she did just say "I'll send you the link", without suggesting I should be following them, so she might have worked out that they weren't my kinda thing, for more than one reason.

The broader point though is that, unless I'm being terribly sexist (always a possibility), this kind of thing is not going to motivate many men to do the exercises, judging from my experience of seeing aerobics stuff (floor and pool-based) in various contexts. I can't really imagine an overweight beer-chugging ex-smoker bloke thinking "Yeah, can't wait!", even if it would be beneficial.

 

[First Aspect]

Thanks - good to have personal experience. To be fair, on my first session, she did just say "I'll send you the link", without suggesting I should be following them, so she might have worked out that they weren't my kinda thing, for more than one reason.

The broader point though is that, unless I'm being terribly sexist (always a possibility), this kind of thing is not going to motivate many men to do the exercises, judging from my experience of seeing aerobics stuff (floor and pool-based) in various contexts. I can't really imagine an overweight beer-chugging ex-smoker bloke thinking "Yeah, can't wait!", even if it would be beneficial.

This is an issue with all rehab, of both genders. Sorry. All genders.

I recall with sadness the guy who was next to me on the exercise bike trying to get the crank to turn over using a reconstructed knee after a motorbike accident. Would have taken him about a month twice a week using his good leg to force the other knee to bend, to get enough mobility.

He came twice.

Bet he can still barely walk now.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

A simple rule. Towels are removed from any lounger unused for 30 minutes.
Hotel staff wouldn't enforce it though so here we are.

I stayed in a hotel once in Portugal where all the loungers were kept in a cabana and you had to request one. It was made clear once you had one you had to go and use it. If people tried to put them out and stick a towel on and then disappear, the attendant would remove it and put it back in the cabana. Seemed the fairest way to me and easily enforceable.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is an issue with all rehab, of both genders. Sorry. All genders.

I recall with sadness the guy who was next to me on the exercise bike trying to get the crank to turn over using a reconstructed knee after a motorbike accident. Would have taken him about a month twice a week using his good leg to force the other knee to bend, to get enough mobility.

He came twice.

Bet he can still barely walk now.

Grim. I guess he really needed personalised one-to-one supervised physio rather than just a generalised exercise regime, given the many pitfalls in knee replaement/reconstruction. Hips are much simpler to deal with, I think.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Grim. I guess he really needed personalised one-to-one supervised physio rather than just a generalised exercise regime, given the many pitfalls in knee replaement/reconstruction. Hips are much simpler to deal with, I think.

I know it is not available to everyone for cost reasons, but on a few occasions where I have had complicated injuries I have paid for a private physio, and to be fair it was money well spent. You are right, for complex injuries, I think you do really need specialist one to one guidance tailored to the individual and their personal capacity.

This does also remind me of my now dearly departed Nan who had a hip replacement at 86. She was up and about the next day, complaining that all the others in the ward still in their beds were a "right bunch of lazy old buggers" 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

This does also remind me of my now dearly departed Nan who had a hip replacement at 86. She was up and about the next day, complaining that all the others in the ward still in their beds were a "right bunch of lazy old buggers" 😂

I visited my 82-y-o mum the morning after her hip replacement, and she got out of bed to go to the loo, and her locomotion was already transformed. She was a very good girl and did all the exercises conscientiously, and had five years of pain-free walking. It's crazy that the op takes about an hour if there are no complications.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I visited my 82-y-o mum the morning after her hip replacement, and she got out of bed to go to the loo, and her locomotion was already transformed. She was a very good girl and did all the exercises conscientiously, and had five years of pain-free walking. It's crazy that the op takes about an hour if there are no complications.

Yes, mine was pain free for the rest of her life, and it was noticeable how it corrected her walking. If memory serves me correctly, she was walking in the Peak District about 6 weeks after the op.

 

[briantrumpet]

Yes, mine was pain free for the rest of her life, and it was noticeable how it corrected her walking. If memory serves me correctly, she was walking in the Peak District about 6 weeks after the op.

Exactly... Mum had lived with the pain and ensuing contortions in her gait to try to minimise it for years. The day after, the pain had been taken out and thrown in the bone bin. Took several years off her apparent age.

I see people around who look like they are grinning and bearing worn-out hips, and I just want to tell them to get them done asap.

 

[Pross]

You can imagine the agro that the young Greek pool boy would get from drunk rude holiday makers for removing their towels.
It’s just not worth the hassle.

Simplest solution is the loungers aren't kept out and you pay a deposit to use one that gets returned when you hand it back.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Simplest solution is the loungers aren't kept out and you pay a deposit to use one that gets returned when you hand it back.

That seems sensible. There are probably quite a few ways to make it fair without much staff intervention. The staff probably need more empowerment to enforce the rules, and are probably scared of bad reviews or aggression. A bit like the no smoking policy at the hospital - those who try to enforce it usually get verbally abused

 

[Pblakeney]

Simplest solution is the loungers aren't kept out and you pay a deposit to use one that gets returned when you hand it back.

Then the queue for the loungers would start at 06:00. Not sure that it would change much.

 

[Pross]

Then the queue for the loungers would start at 06:00. Not sure that it would change much.

It's more hassle than just chucking a towel down and you could make it so that anyone observed not using one previously doesn't get one the next time.

 

[BoldonLad]

Lying on a sun lounger by the pool was never my "thing", but, isn't the answer to have as many sun loungers as guests?, so there is no shortage.

 

[Pblakeney]

Lying on a sun lounger by the pool was never my "thing", but, isn't the answer to have as many sun loungers as guests?, so there is no shortage.

Have you seen the size of pool areas v room numbers?
I agree though. Would bore me senseless.

 

[BoldonLad]

Have you seen the size of pool areas v room numbers?
I agree though. Would bore me senseless.

It was a tongue firmly in cheek suggestion 😊