https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp en-us 2022-03-30 15:09:19 UTC 2026-03-04 14:47:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f917.png mas1066 https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2122016264 For my podcast, I learned about exercises as part of stroke rehabilitation. The first thing I learned was that a person who had a stroke once, is more likely to have another. This could be because the patient is not moving and doing rehab as soon as they should after their stroke. My grandfather had a stroke when I was younger and they did not inform us that it could occur again. I think that information is very important to let patients and families know. I also learned that the rehab is more for improving function and task performing. When you think of exercise, you think of constant vigorous movement and that is not the type of exercise a stroke patient is going to be enduring. Another thing I learned was that many stroke survivors/patients are considered to be inactive, but just them sitting up and out of their bed is another form of them being active and engaging in exercise. For most people, they don't think of just getting out of your bed as exercise or being active, but for the patients having very limited mobility, the small and little things can help tremendously at the end. The final thing I learned was that patients get better faster when engaging in aerobic exercises, unfortunately during rehab that is not a common focus. Patients engaging in aerobic exercise will help them with their endurance and improve their walking capacity and then snowball into other functions that they could need, for example like driving. A lot of stroke patients experience fatigue and were not even informed that exercise can help that fatigue and that is should be informed more to the patients and even just light exercise while sitting can benefit. ]]> 2022-03-30 17:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2122016264 ethanbrentham https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2124656991 2022-04-01 02:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2124656991 grahamkendall430 https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2124829950 2022-04-01 04:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2124829950 jakobhgraff12 https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2125442300 Falls are a part of life everyone experiences. This may seem like an obvious statement, but falls are a serious cause of injury for vulnerable populations. I listened to a podcast about falls prevention. Dr. Carrie Sherrington explained about falls and how exercise can decrease our chances of falling, as well as decrease the severity of them. Falling is due to our body being unable to cope with what we are currently doing.  This can be because our body is lacking one of several things, such as: muscular strength, visibility, core stability, or coordination. Sherrington found that exercise plays a key role in falls prevention. They ran a research study where they one group exercise with a regiment to focus on the key elements people lack that cause falls. The other group had no specific exercise towards fall prevention. This led to an almost 20% decrease in the likelihood of a fall. This is because of the required motor skills and brain/body coordination. It improved their bodies ability to be able to adapt to different situations where falls may occur. A fall could be as simple as not picking ones foot up enough when they step up on a curb. It does not have to be acomplex situation if the body is not ready for the outside stimuli. Readying the body to be reactive to different situations can be a preventor of serious falls. This is especially important for those who are more llikely to fall. These include the elderly and young children. All people have falls, but these two groups are at higher risk. They are also more likely to get injured, as their bodies are still in the early stages of development or at the point they are starting to break down. Either way, exercise can either strengthen or prevent these processes, respectively. Exercise plays a large part in lowering the risk of injury from having a fall. 

]]> 2022-04-01 13:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2125442300 petrylstarks12 https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2125729002 In my podcast it details a 70 year old woman who has fallen 6 times over the past 12 months, lives alone, and visits her husband every day in nursing home. There was no pattern to her falls either and she does not have an aid. On top of her going to the nursing home everyday it requires two buses to get there, leaving many opportunities open to her falling throughout the day. To combat these occurrences she was put on a workout regime. The workout regime included, balancing exercises, weight bearing/functional exercises like going from sitting to standing, heel raises, and step ups, fall prevention education, and progression of exercises as she was able. But with these exercises in her program there were some challenges and set backs that came with it. The woman developed worsening knee pain, her rheumatoid arthritis flared, and was more tired because of her workout regime. In good news there were solutions to her problems. She received an increase in medication from her rheumatologist and her knee was looked at and may need a total knee replacement to help since it will give out when tired. Along with a decreased number of weighted exercises, use of a stick when her knee pain is severe (it is likely to give out), and she rests in the afternoon that was instigated herself. The most likely reason she was falling was because of how much she was traveling each day to see her husband, making her knee hurt causing it to give out at a moments notice. ]]> 2022-04-01 16:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mas1066/d9a3g3bjs82k02jp/wish/2125729002