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What You Need To Know About Recovering From An Accident

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Recovering from an injury is never easy. Whether you’ve been in a minor fender bender or a devastating workplace accident, the healing process can take weeks, months, or even years to fully recover. When faced with an injury following any kind of accident, it’s important for individuals and their families to be educated about the recovery process and what needs to be done during this time. Here’s five critical pieces of information that everyone should know when it comes to getting back on your feet after an accident.

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Understand The Importance Of Rest 

An accident can be devastating to your body, leaving bruises, cuts, and broken bones behind. Rest is integral in aiding recovery as it allows the body time to recuperate properly. Though it may be tempting to return quickly to daily tasks, remembering to give yourself enough rest could actually speed up healing time and promote faster recovery. Remember: your body requires time to repair – giving yourself enough rest is the only way it will occur effectively.

Do Not Rush Into Physical Activities 

While it’s tempting to return to everyday activities quickly, it is important to wait until your body is prepared before engaging in physical activities again. Rushing in can worsen existing injuries or cause new ones. Consider speaking to a physician or physical therapist regarding when it’s safe to resume physical activities; they will give you guidance as well as safe exercises designed for recovery processes so as not to sustain further injuries while still recovering.

Utilize Physical Therapy And Rehabilitation

Physical therapy and rehabilitation can be a great way to recover from an injury, with physical therapists guiding patients through exercises designed to target specific parts of their bodies to help them regain strength. Rehabilitation may also aid with range of motion, flexibility, balance, and coordination improvements. While not everyone can utilize such services as often as desired, they can still speed up the healing process significantly by watching videos online to learn specific exercises that can aid recovery.

Focus On Your Mental Health

Recovery from an accident can be an emotional ordeal, so it’s essential that you remember that it’s okay to take time for yourself and prioritize your mental well-being during this process. Don’t hesitate to seek assistance if you feel overwhelmed or emotional; there are various resources available. Taking care of both physical and mental well-being during the recovery process is equally essential.

Consult An Attorney About Your Options

Recovering from an accident requires legal action, so if you were hurt as the result of someone else’s negligence or recklessness, it’s essential that you seek legal advice from a personal injury lawyer in order to determine your options. They will help you to obtain financial compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and other expenses incurred as a result of your injuries. 

Recovering from an accident is often a lengthy process, and it’s essential that individuals understand the importance of rest, physical therapy, and mental well-being to ensure a speedy recovery after an incident. By taking these steps, they will increase the chances of successful healing following an incident.

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Coping With A Disabling Injury In Your Life

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Injuries happen. We’re all likely to experience one, some way or another, at some point in our life. However, some can be a lot more serious and a lot more long-term. If you have experienced a debilitating injury, one that results in some level of disability, then you might find that your life has flipped around and you’re not sure how to carry on with it. However, here are some of the ways you can adjust and maintain as much of your independence as possible.

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Talking about the road to recovery

If your disability is temporary, then it’s important to know that there might be options to help you recover your range of motion and your independence more quickly. To that end, aside from keeping up with your doctor’s recommendations, you may want to ask about talking to a rehabilitative physiotherapist who can find the mixture of exercise and recovery methods to boost your road to recovery. You might also want to think about talking to someone about the emotional side of your health, as well. Aside from the trauma of an accident, there are negative emotions that can hold onto when we have trouble doing the things we once used to do quite easily.

Getting compensation for your injuries

If you’ve experienced a disabling injury, it is important that you seek experienced legal representation as soon as possible. For example, if you sustained injuries due to a dog bite, then an experienced dog bite lawyer can help you recover any damages that are owed to you related to your injuries and other losses incurred due to the incident. Cases like these are complex and require a licensed attorney’s expertise to ensure you’re getting the compensation you deserve. In addition, if your injury was caused by another person or entity’s negligence, seeking legal representation can also help protect your long-term interests and ensure that you receive the full compensation owed to you. This is especially important if you’ve experienced a severely disabling injury that has caused long-term health implications.

Finding the aids to help you live freely

If you have trouble moving around by yourself, then it can certainly get in the way of your freedom and independence. You might have to rely on others more, but that doesn’t mean that you have to rely on them entirely. You may be able to make use of mobility aids that can not only improve your independence but may also reduce pain, leading to a better quality of life as well as increased confidence. This doesn’t just mean wheelchairs or canes, either. Orthotics and prosthetics can be a huge help for those who have experienced foot or leg injuries, allowing them to walk with some adjustments. Talk to your doctor about the mobility aids that might best suit your needs.

Adjusting the home to your needs

Aside from using the equipment that helps you get around, you might also want to think about how you can better suit the home to your needs. For instance, you might find it harder to get up the stairs than usual, so you could look at installing something like a stairlift in your home to help you reach all the rooms that you want. Otherwise, you might look at moving your bedroom downstairs and making sure that you have access to all that you need where you can reach. There are plenty of guides for adapting key areas of the home such as the bathroom and kitchen so that you can use them independently, so it’s worth looking them up.

The specifics of how you face your disability is largely going to depend on the specifics of your injury. However, talk with your doctor, with mobile aid providers, and with others who specialize in helping those who are living with disability and you are certain to start seeing change.

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Entrapment: What Framed My Suprascapular Nerve

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Mark June 22, 2016 down as the day my suprascapular nerve entrapment was (hopefully) fixed. The surgeon was not 100% certain, but expected the nerve was entrapped by a suprascapular ligament. Luckily, he made the cut. Ha ha.

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The red circle, eloquently drawn by yours truly, shows where my nerve was trapped.

G-Ma spent the night and stayed with Avery the day of my surgery so Going Mom could valiantly court me to the hospital. For someone about to have nerve surgery (so to speak), I didn’t feel too nervous. But then, as waiting time in the hospital increased, I felt a slight anxiousness set in.

Nothing major, more like wanting to be done with it, but there nonetheless. I kept occupied by constantly trying to make jokes with the numerous hospital staff and posting on social media.

Grippy socks on, weird gown thingy on, and IV in. Let’s do this! #surgery #hospital #outpatient #bored

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I even turned on my charm to score an extra pair of yellow grippy socks to bring to Avery. I’d say she enjoyed them.

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They also make the perfect sock to wear boots that are otherwise too large.

Avery in boots with yellow hospital socks

Sorry, have to move away from the cute kid and back to the shoulder. My surgery went great, the surgeon said he just had to really “get in there” (made me cringe) to get to the ligament and clear everything around the nerve. Before I knew it, I was being wheeled out of the hospital with a throbbing arm and weak body.

Once home, I tried standing and/or moving, but it wasn’t happening. I had been fasting for about 18 hours at this point and had zero appetite. I laid down and slept.

Later in the evening, I mustered the strength for a small family walk and finally ate some food. I was given hydrocodone and took a dose that night which basically knocked me out. That was the one and only time I took that, it had me constipated for almost 2 days! I’ll choose poop over pain any day!

The next day I had more strength and posed for a shoulder bandaged shot. Notice my upbeat facial expression.

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Eventually, as I couldn’t keep myself still, jumping in the pool, walking in the sun and sweating had my big bandage come off in a few days.

Shoulder bandage off

No, I’m not a University of Texas fan, I’m a proud Sooner (Boomer Sooner!), the tattoo is from one night in Austin, TX. Nuff said.

After several pool sessions,  many Airdyne workouts, and the associated sweat, the glued-on bandages were off a few days after that. Then I got to reveal the awesome scar!

Shoulder Scar One Week After Surgery

With each passing day, pain is reducing and mobility increasing. Two weeks later, my doctor just cleared me to use my water rower again. I’ve only used it once, but it’s nice to change things up after so much riding the Airdyne. Of course, I’m happy to do anything to keep active, so let it be known that I’m not complaining. 🙂

The scar is looking good, confirmed by the doc, and hopefully I don’t mess that up by doing things like….oh, hanging from monkey bars with your kid holding on to your leg to swing them around.

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But I wouldn’t do something so dumb, right? Never! So far so good, nothing has come undone.

Shoulder Scar Two Weeks After Surgery

I probably won’t do the monkey bar thing again for a while though. I go back for another checkup at the beginning of August. At that point, fingers crossed that I can start doing push ups and maybe use some weights.

It’s been a long journey trying to get to this point, and as long as I am mostly smart, I have high hopes of letting my nerve “wake up” as the doctor says and growing my right supraspinatus and infraspinatus muscles. Maybe I’ll be more filled out for the next beach vacation then….

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