The following warnings occurred:
Warning [2] Undefined array key "lockoutexpiry" - Line: 94 - File: global.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php 94 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined array key "lockoutexpiry" - Line: 573 - File: global.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php 573 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined variable $can_access_moderationqueue - Line: 749 - File: global.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php 749 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined array key "avatartype" - Line: 889 - File: global.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php 889 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined array key "avatartype" - Line: 889 - File: global.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php 889 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined variable $newpmmsg - Line: 30 - File: global.php(953) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php(953) : eval()'d code 30 errorHandler->error
/global.php 953 eval
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined variable $unreadreports - Line: 66 - File: global.php(956) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php(956) : eval()'d code 66 errorHandler->error
/global.php 956 eval
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined array key "style" - Line: 1021 - File: global.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php 1021 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined property: MyLanguage::$lang_select_default - Line: 5196 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 5196 errorHandler->error
/global.php 1021 build_theme_select
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined property: MyLanguage::$bottomlinks_returncontent - Line: 6 - File: global.php(1056) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/global.php(1056) : eval()'d code 6 errorHandler->error
/global.php 1056 eval
/showthread.php 28 require_once
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined array key 1 - Line: 1449 - File: inc/functions.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions.php 1449 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions.php 1414 fetch_forum_permissions
/inc/functions.php 2953 forum_permissions
/showthread.php 661 build_forum_jump
Warning [2] Undefined property: MyLanguage::$ratings_update_error - Line: 5 - File: showthread.php(772) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/showthread.php(772) : eval()'d code 5 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 772 eval
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 768 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 768 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showvideos" - Line: 773 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 773 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 811 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 811 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "posttime" - Line: 33 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 33 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thanks" - Line: 38 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 38 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thxdsp" - Line: 40 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 40 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "stars" - Line: 294 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 294 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 768 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 768 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showvideos" - Line: 773 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 773 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 811 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 811 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "userstars" - Line: 9 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 9 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "posttime" - Line: 33 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 33 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thanks" - Line: 38 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 38 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thxdsp" - Line: 40 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 40 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "stars" - Line: 294 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 294 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 768 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 768 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showvideos" - Line: 773 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 773 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "userstars" - Line: 9 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 9 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "posttime" - Line: 33 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 33 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thanks" - Line: 38 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 38 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thxdsp" - Line: 40 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 40 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 768 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 768 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showvideos" - Line: 773 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 773 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "showimages" - Line: 811 - File: inc/functions_post.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php 811 errorHandler->error
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "posttime" - Line: 33 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 33 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thanks" - Line: 38 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 38 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "thxdsp" - Line: 40 - File: inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/inc/functions_post.php(902) : eval()'d code 40 errorHandler->error
/inc/functions_post.php 902 eval
/showthread.php 1126 build_postbit
Warning [2] Undefined array key "invisible" - Line: 1568 - File: showthread.php PHP 8.2.18 (Linux)
File Line Function
/showthread.php 1568 errorHandler->error






Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)
Thread Closed 
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
An awesome OT appointment - reflexes
Author Message
Dani Offline
Administrator
**

Posts: 261
Joined: Apr 2010
#1
An awesome OT appointment - reflexes

Let's see... it's been a while since I last did this. I used to come home from OT each day and blabber on about how the session went on SPD Adult SHARE, our old Yahoo group. Well, up until recently this year, I haven't had much to report. I went in to see my OT 2 weeks ago and found out I hadn't been there in 5 months!

So, the first week back was relatively intense; we just did bodywork/Cranial Sacral Therapy for a half hour, on top of doing a quick run through on the Interactive Metronome (IM) and a little swinging. (BTW, my scores on the IM haven't changed at all! I'm still just as good at it as, or better than, I was when I last tried it.) Anyhow, after that, I got home and had a pretty rough weekend. I got kind of sick with some GI issues, and had to resolve them over the case of the past couple weeks. This is common when getting back into therapy, having a rough time, because my body was literally cleaning out a lot of the junk it had picked up since I was last in there, lol. Sorry if that was TMI for anyone Tongue.

This week however, as I am now going once every other week, we did something amazing. My OT had just been taught how to do Reflex Integration work (she's been in biz for decades, but is always learning new stuff), so she decided to give it a go with me.

She started by trying to lift me up by my arms while I was laying down. As soon as she started pulling up on my arms, I remember asking myself, "Am I supposed to get up? Does she want me to get up?" I seriously had to think about it! Right away I knew that meant that my brain wasn't processing this correctly, that I was supposed to just know to get up naturally.

She made the very correct guess that my shoulders hadn't moved *at all*. My arms would go up with her force, but my shoulders would just lay there, as though they had no clue my arms were even being moved. So, she went through a sequence of integrative exercises that had me moving my elbows, resisting her pull on my hands in different directions, and mimmicking some of her hand movements (which are always tough for me; my brain always get confused and messes up).

Well, after going through a couple rotations of these, my shoulders still weren't responding. She then had me wrap a theraband band around my arms, to use that as the resistance, and put rubber bands around my wrists (neurological feedback must be there), and had me hold onto a wooden rod that she would move around on my like before, wanting me to resist it lightly.

Well, after a few repetitions and some confusing hand gestures, we accomplished a couple things:

1) I was able to correct a postural abnormality in my left hand. If I had my fingers out, like in a 'growl/claw stance', my palm wasn't cupping like it should, but was forming a wide flat plain instead. After these exercises, I was able to get my left hand to cup! My right hand is still behind, but as I am right handed, it has been used more and the old position is pretty well learned by now. That will take time to correct.

2) Most incredible: I was able to pull myself up with my shoulders for the first time in my life!
At the very end of all those rounds of exercises, she grabbed my hands and pulled them up. I actually felt myself clutching her and was straining in places I haven't felt before, pulling myself up to her. By the end, I was sitting up, holding her hands still. She asked me if it was hard. A part of me wanted to say "Of course not, I've gotten up so many times in my life on my own," but then I realized, as I could feel my shoulders burning from wear and what I can only guess was the beginning of atrophy, that I was *really* worn out already. "Yes, it was," I admitted.

She laid me back down and then tried it again, and I got back up with her again. She continued to talk to me, but my mind was not on what she was saying, lol. I just couldn't believe I had done that, that those exercises she gave me had gotten that response. I wanted to cry all over her. It felt almost like someone learning to walk for the first time, as I have experienced a few times already in OT.

For those who don't know, I have very severe postural disorder, as part of my SPD. This comes with incredibly low muscle tone. As a baby, it was one of the first symptoms my mom noticed, that I wouldn't sit up on my own power if someone gave me a hand. I would just flop back down, unable to do it and exhausted, beaten by what should be a mundane task that everyone does. For me though, for whatever reason, my brain just never got that connection, until yesterday afternoon. One of my oldest noticed symptoms, treated. Not totally out of the woods, but responding for the first time!

Since this was the end of the appointment, my OT called my mom into the room (she comes because I don't feel comfortable driving myself home from these appointments, since I'm often worn out). She lifted me up one more time with my mom watching. It felt a little embarrassing, since I really felt like I was doing something that everyone my age should have been doing all along, but I wasn't going to let that cultural influence wreck the moment.

When I got home yesterday, I did cry. I just had to. And I made sure to personally thank my OT. This was just something, one of thousands of things, that had been out of reach for me before, just a pipe dream. Sure, it may not seem like much, but to me, it's just one more sign of how things will continue to improve for me.

This is yet another testament to the legitimacy of SPD as a diagnosis, and the reality that Occupational Therapy is, after all, the official form of treatment. Yesterday was just another in a long series of incredible event that have surrounded me since I first discovered SPD in January 2008. Thanks for reading Big Grin.
Hi, welcome to SPD Support! Have a free cyber hug! hug
Website Find
mawkinberd Offline
Regular

Posts: 218
Joined: Jun 2010
#2
RE: An awesome OT appointment - reflexes

hug That is so incredible! I'm just really moved by that. What a wonderful response! I'm so glad you have such an awesome OT. Wish I lived nearby so I could visit her. Tongue

Thank you for sharing that. There's nothing like giving us all hope for a breakthrough like that.
Affectionately yours,
Sarah
My Blog - Mawkinberd's Nest
Website Find
beck7422 Offline
Regular

Posts: 342
Joined: Jun 2010
#3
RE: An awesome OT appointment - reflexes

DIGIT, I can't remember if you live in Michigan or not. If you do, could you provide your OT's name and contact information. The kind of work you describe with your OT would be beneficial for me. I often have problems with figuring out what muscles need to move in order to do a simple action.
Find
Dani Offline
Administrator
**

Posts: 261
Joined: Apr 2010
#4
RE: An awesome OT appointment - reflexes

(10-02-2010, 02:52 AM)beck7422 Wrote: DIGIT, I can't remember if you live in Michigan or not. If you do, could you provide your OT's name and contact information. The kind of work you describe with your OT would be beneficial for me. I often have problems with figuring out what muscles need to move in order to do a simple action.

Oops, forgot you asked me this. Sorry beck!

Yes, I do live in Michigan, and fairly close to you if I recall correctly. My OT is a bit farther away for you than she is for me, but it's hopefully still manageable. Her name is Jackie Kilburn, and she runs Jump-In Therapy in Hamburg. Here's her site:
http://www.jump-in-products.com/

I've been seeing her since March of 2008, and she's been wonderful. I would certainly recommend her Smile. Hope that helps you.
Hi, welcome to SPD Support! Have a free cyber hug! hug
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2010, 01:02 PM by Dani.)
Website Find
Thread Closed 


Forum Jump:


Contact Us | SPD Support | Return to Top | | Lite (Archive) Mode | RSS Syndication