November 7 - New Therapy

This week has been such an adjustment!  John and I are sharing the responsibilities of assisting AJ now that we are at home. It's great that we could spend so much time with him at the hospital because we are using all that training now.

AJ's has therapy each day at the U of U Sugar House clinic.  On the first day, the new OT (Nicky) felt some firing in his triceps! It is super exciting that his part could be healing and receiving some signal. In the order of healing in the spine, this muscle group would be the next to come back.  It most likely will be a slow process, but she has big plans and high hopes for him. She was also impressed with the amount of movement he has because she thought with his injury he would not be this far.

His new PT (Kristen) was quick to get him to the gym to start working on strengthening and hook him up to the FES machines.  She evaluated him as being strong with good flexibility. AJ's looking forward to learning how to transfer (move from one location to another) without help and start using the standing/walking machine.  Basically, he's ready to work hard!