Day Sixty-Four

As Day Sixty-Four ends, Jenny begins her third week of rehab. At Physiotherapy the team attempted to gauge the current range of motion for Jenny’s right arm and upon simply moving it forward to try and extend her arm from it’s locked position it caused her a lot of pain. Her right hand is also stuck in a sideways position as if she’s trying to do a karate chop. They then began rotating her right hand to face upwards, which they call Supination, and upon rotating it a few degrees Jenny yelped in pain and said it was too painful. She cannot even rotate her palm upwards by a few degrees and when they tried to rotate her palm downwards, called Pronation, the same pain occurs and she cannot continue.

At Occupational Therapy today, Jenny finally received her custom-made arm brace which was created from her mold during her first week of rehab. They suggest to begin with 5 minutes a day and to attempt to eventually get to the point of having it on for 1 hour a day. It has a mechanism which holds her arm in place as it extends its range of motion a millimeter or two at a time.

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