Total Hip replacement post op exercises

Total Hip Replacement Exercise Guide

Early Postoperative Exercises

Ankle Pumps

Ankle Rotations

Bed-Supported Knee Bends

Buttock Contractions

Abduction Exercise

Quadriceps Set

Straight Leg Raises

Standing Exercises

Standing Knee Raises

Standing Hip Abduction

Standing Hip Extensions

Walking and Early Activity

Walking with Walker, Full Weightbearing

Walking with Cane or Crutch

Stair Climbing and Descending

Advanced Exercises and Activities

Elastic Tube Exercises

Exercycling

Walking

Regular exercises to restore your normal hip motion and strength and a gradual return to everyday activities are important for your full recovery. Your orthopaedic surgeon and physical therapist may recommend that you exercise 20 to 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a day during your early recovery. They may suggest some of the following exercises.

Early Postoperative Exercises

These exercises are important for increasing circulation to your legs and feet to prevent blood clots. They also are important to strengthen muscles and to improve your hip movement. You may begin these exercises in the recovery room shortly after surgery. It may feel uncomfortable at first, but these exercises will speed your recovery and reduce your postoperative pain. These exercises should be done as you lie on your back with your legs spread slightly apart.

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Ankle Pumps

Slowly push your foot up and down. Do this exercise several times as often as every 5 or 10 minutes. This exercise can begin immediately after surgery and continue until you are fully recovered.

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Ankle Rotations

Move your ankle inward toward your other foot and then outward away from your other foot.

Repeat 5 times in each direction 3 or 4 times a day.

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Bed-Supported Knee Bends

Slide your heel toward your buttocks, bending your knee and keeping your heel on the bed. Do not let your knee roll inward.

Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day

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Buttock Contractions

Tighten buttock muscles and hold to a count of 5.

Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day

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Abduction Exercise

Slide your leg out to the side as far as you can and then back.

Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day

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Quadriceps Set

Tighten your thigh muscle. Try to straighten your knee. Hold for 5 to 10 seconds.

Repeat this exercise 10 times during a 10-minute period.
Continue until your thigh feels fatigued.

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Straight Leg Raises

Tighten your thigh muscle with your knee fully straightened on the bed. As your thigh muscle tightens, lift your leg several inches off the bed. Hold for 5 to 10 seconds. Slowly lower.

Repeat until your thigh feels fatigued.

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Standing Exercises

Soon after your surgery, you will be out of bed and able to stand. You will require help since you may become dizzy the first several times you stand. As you regain your strength, you will be able to stand independently. While doing these standing exercises, make sure you are holding on to a firm surface such as a bar attached to your bed or a wall.

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Standing Knee Raises Lift your operated leg toward your chest. Do not lift your knee higher than your waist. Hold for 2 or 3 counts and put your leg down. Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day Top of page

Standing Hip Abduction Be sure your hip, knee and foot are pointing straight forward. Keep your body straight. With your knee straight, lift your leg out to the side. Slowly lower your leg so your foot is back on the floor. Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day Top of page

Standing Hip Extensions Lift your operated leg backward slowly. Try to keep your back straight. Hold for 2 or 3 counts. Return your foot to the floor. Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day Top of page

Walking and Early Activity

Soon after surgery, you will begin to walk short distances in your hospital room and perform light everyday activities. This early activity helps your recovery by helping your hip muscles regain strength and movement.

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Walking with Walker, Full Weightbearing

Stand comfortably and erect with your weight evenly balanced on your walker or crutches. Move your walker or crutches forward a short distance. Then move forward, lifting your operated leg so that the heel of your foot will touch the floor first. As you move, your knee and ankle will bend and your entire foot will rest evenly on the floor. As you complete the step allow your toe to lift off the floor. Move the walker again and your knee and hip will again reach forward for your next step. Remember, touch your heel first, then flatten your foot, then lift your toes off the floor. Try to walk as smoothly as you can. Don't hurry. As your muscle strength and endurance improve, you may spend more time walking. Gradually, you will put more and more weight on your leg.

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Walking with Cane or Crutch

A walker is often used for the first several weeks to help your balance and to avoid falls. A cane or a crutch is then used for several more weeks until your full strength and balance skills have returned. Use the cane or crutch in the hand opposite the operated hip. You are ready to use a cane or single crutch when you can stand and balance without your walker, when your weight is placed fully on both feet, and when you are no longer leaning on your hands while using your walker.

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Stair Climbing and Descending

The ability to go up and down stairs requires both flexibility and strength. At first, you will need a handrail for support and you will only be able to go one step at a time. Always lead up the stairs with your good leg and down the stairs with your operated leg. Remember "up with the good" and "down with the bad." You may want to have someone help you until you have regained most of your strength and mobility. Stair climbing is an excellent strengthening and endurance activity. Do not try to climb steps higher than those of the standard height of seven inches and always use the handrail for balance.

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Advanced Exercises and Activities

A full recovery will take many months. The pain from your problem hip before your surgery and the pain and swelling after surgery have weakened your hip muscles. The following exercises and activities will help your hip muscles recover fully.
These exercises should be done in 10 repetitions four times a day with one end of the tubing around the ankle of your operated leg and the opposite end of the tubing attached to a stationary object such as a locked door or heavy furniture. Hold on to a chair or bar for balance.

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Elastic Tube Exercises

Resistive Hip Flexion Stand with your feet slightly apart. Bring your operated leg forward keeping the knee straight. Allow your leg to return to its previous position.

Resistive Hip Abduction Stand sideways from the door and extend your operated leg out to the side. Allow your leg to return to its previous position.

Resistive Hip Extensions Face the door or heavy object to which the tubing is attached and pull your leg straight back. Allow your leg to return to its previous position.

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Exercycling

Exercycling is an excellent activity to help you regain muscle strength and hip mobility. Adjust the seat height so that the bottom of your foot just touches the pedal with your knee almost straight. Pedal backwards at first. Pedal forward only after comfortable cycling motion is possible backwards. As you become stronger (at about 4 to 6 weeks) slowly increase the tension on the exercycle. Exercycle forward 10 to 15 minutes twice a day, gradually building up to 20 to 30 minutes 3 to 4 times a week.

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Walking

Take a cane with you until you have regained your balance skills. In the beginning, walk 5 or 10 minutes 3 or 4 times a day. As your strength and endurance improves, you can walk for 20 or 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a day. Once you have fully recovered, regular walks, 20 or 30 minutes 3 or 4 times a week, will help maintain your strength.

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Patent regimen gone CRAZY!?

Patent regimen gone CRAZY!?

The following story makes interesting reading.

So all I have to do is to set up a trust for xyz cancer or disease, then find a bunch of drugs used in that condition , and to make up. Multiple permutations and combinations of these drugs and apply for patents. employing good lawyers and have stupid. Patent examiners grant me a patent and Sue pharmaceutical companies for using any of these drugs in combination with a new drug.

 

U.K. trust sues UCB for royalties on Cimzia

August 5, 2010 — 10:29am ET | By
Tracy Staton

UCB could end up paying Cimzia royalties to a U.K. charitable trust. The Mathilda and Terence Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Trust has sued the Belgian drugmaker for patent infringement in a case that mirrors earlier fights with Amgen and Wyeth.

The trust claims that it has the patent on combining drugs like Cimzia--and the Amgen/Wyeth drug Enbrel--with methotrexate. So, by promoting Cimzia for use in that combination, UCB is stepping on the trust's patent, the lawsuit claims. The trust's suit against Amgen and Wyeth was later withdrawn amid speculation that the two companies had agreed to pay royalties.

The trust states in its lawsuit that "Centocor, Abbott Laboratories, Amgen and Wyeth have paid to Kennedy tens of millions of dollars in royalties," so that speculation was right on. Now, the question is whether UCB will follow suit. Cimzia is forecast to grow to a $2 billion product, Reuters reports.

But the larger question is whether the trust's patent on discovering that two drugs work well in combination could be extended to other drug classes and combinations. After all, there are plenty of cancer meds that are add-ons to regular chemotherapy and HIV drugs that are dosed in combination. Does this mean that anytime a new class of meds is developed--and is designed to work in concert with other drugs--the first drugmaker to the patent office could get protection for that combo?

Excerpt from Free Daily FiercePharma Newsletter

- read the Reuters
story

Read more: U.K. trust sues UCB for royalties on Cimzia - FiercePharma
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/u-k-trust-sues-ucb-royalties-cimzia/2010-08-05#ixzz0wyKI57Ve

Patent regimen gone CRAZY!?

Patent regimen gone CRAZY!?

The following story makes interesting reading.

So all I have to do is to set up a trust for xyz cancer or disease, then find a bunch of drugs used in that condition , and to make up. Multiple permutations and combinations of these drugs and apply for patents. employing good lawyers and have stupid. Patent examiners grant me a patent and Sue pharmaceutical companies for using any of these drugs in combination with a new drug.

 

U.K. trust sues UCB for royalties on Cimzia

August 5, 2010 — 10:29am ET | By
Tracy Staton

UCB could end up paying Cimzia royalties to a U.K. charitable trust. The Mathilda and Terence Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Trust has sued the Belgian drugmaker for patent infringement in a case that mirrors earlier fights with Amgen and Wyeth.

The trust claims that it has the patent on combining drugs like Cimzia--and the Amgen/Wyeth drug Enbrel--with methotrexate. So, by promoting Cimzia for use in that combination, UCB is stepping on the trust's patent, the lawsuit claims. The trust's suit against Amgen and Wyeth was later withdrawn amid speculation that the two companies had agreed to pay royalties.

The trust states in its lawsuit that "Centocor, Abbott Laboratories, Amgen and Wyeth have paid to Kennedy tens of millions of dollars in royalties," so that speculation was right on. Now, the question is whether UCB will follow suit. Cimzia is forecast to grow to a $2 billion product, Reuters reports.

But the larger question is whether the trust's patent on discovering that two drugs work well in combination could be extended to other drug classes and combinations. After all, there are plenty of cancer meds that are add-ons to regular chemotherapy and HIV drugs that are dosed in combination. Does this mean that anytime a new class of meds is developed--and is designed to work in concert with other drugs--the first drugmaker to the patent office could get protection for that combo?

Excerpt from Free Daily FiercePharma Newsletter

- read the Reuters
story

Read more: U.K. trust sues UCB for royalties on Cimzia - FiercePharma
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/u-k-trust-sues-ucb-royalties-cimzia/2010-08-05#ixzz0wyKI57Ve

TIMEPASS: search for words

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(?)PANCREAS
(?)PROTEINS
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(?)VISION

BABEL FISH - universal translator

BABEL FISH :


The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy recieved not from its own carrier but from those around it, It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. the practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any language.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anhthing so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes like this : "I refuse to prove that I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But", says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? it could not have evolved by chance. it proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh that was easy" says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

GOOGLE BABEL FISH

In the year 2008. I had posted the following blog.




Today, when I was working on the Google translator page.

I found that if you put a simple sentence in English and translates it into once Hindi.

the translation comes with an icon and when you press on it, you can hear it being sad in in the translator language.

now we can not only translate some simple sentences from English to many languages. Using global translate.

but actually say them in the language.

The table below gives availability details some surprises are.

None of the major islamic languages arabic/urdu/Persian are available ( I would have thought U S defense department would be ready with multimillion dollar contracts ;-)

Korean Japanese and Hebrew are notably absent ( probably patent rights for theses language TTS may be a problem for Google )





“Thursday, February 14, 2008

universal translator

I hope the NIIIT will start working on a good MT

not the laughable MT from telugu to english they have now



I saw this blog post which is interesting

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-05-22-n83.html





The following languages are available now TTS available

Afrikaans All available except the ones marked with X

Albanian

Arabic

Armenian ALPHA

Azerbaijani ALPHA

Basque ALPHA

Belo russian

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian ALPHA

German

Greek

Haitian Creole ALPHA

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Malay

Maltese

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

SIovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu ALPHA

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yiddish

Keirsy Temperament Sorter

 

 

 

I was always a little suspicious about personality tests.

But this recent Keirsy Temperament Sorter

Looks interesting and seems to concur with my own ideas about me .

Although I have not spent the big bucks to get the complete report ,the free report is given below .

 

 

 

Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the

Rationals are the problem solving temperament, particularly if the problem has to do with the many complex systems that make up the world around us. Rationals might tackle problems in organic systems such as plants and animals, or in mechanical systems such as railroads and computers, or in social systems such as families and companies and governments. But whatever systems fire their curiosity, Rationals will analyze them to understand how they work, so they can figure out how to make them work better.

In working with problems, Rationals try to find solutions that have application in the real world, but they are even more interested in the abstract concepts involved, the fundamental principles or natural laws that underlie the particular case. And they are completely pragmatic about their ways and means of achieving their ends. Rationals don't care about being politically correct. They are interested in the most efficient solutions possible, and will listen to anyone who has something useful to teach them, while disregarding any authority or customary procedure that wastes time and resources.

Rationals have an insatiable hunger to accomplish their goals and will work tirelessly on any project they have set their mind to. They are rigorously logical and fiercely independent in their thinking -- are indeed skeptical of all ideas, even their own -- and they believe they can overcome any obstacle with their will power. Often they are seen as cold and distant, but this is really the absorbed concentration they give to whatever problem they're working on. Whether designing a skyscraper or an experiment, developing a theory or a prototype technology, building an aircraft, a corporation, or a strategic alliance, Rationals value intelligence, in themselves and others, and they pride themselves on the ingenuity they bring to their problem solving.

Rationals are very scarce, comprising as little as 7 to 10 percent of the population. But because of their drive to unlock the secrets of nature, and to develop new technologies, they have done much to shape our world.

Rationals at Work
As a Rational, you seek to acquire and apply expertise. You thrive in an autonomous and intellectually stimulating workplace, working alongside other competent people, pursuing knowledge or creating systems. Your core need to follow the driving force of your own intelligence leads to particular career challenges. For example, recognition of your expertise may lead to your being put "in charge" of other people, as a manager, when you might prefer to remain immersed in projects of your own.

You are fascinated with developing strategic plans for others to use. In your preferred environment, you work behind the scenes while someone else takes the active leadership role. Often, you are driven to step in as leader when you become impatient with the way a project is going. In your ideal job, you independently analyze systems and make recommendations about how objectives will best be reached; someone else does the work of delegating work, motivating people, or enforcing work duties. You want challenge in your work and become frustrated when asked to merely follow routines, especially if those routines are inefficient.