There are more cars than buses so statistically more likely. Round here I see maybe one bus a week max.
One of the exercises I have to do for my new knee is stand on a small wooden board that has a half round piece of wood screwed beneath it so that it wobbles from side to side. First stand on it with both feet, knees bent and no wobbling. Then one foot at a time, knee bent and no wobble. I haven't counted but suspect I don't last more than a minute on one foot.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It's just a saying though, isn't it? I expect when it came about, there was more buses around than cars on the roads anyway Nice joke @wild edges, although, if this area's anything to go by, it's more likely to be because they have their faces stuck in a phone.... Hope the knee isn't causing too many problems @Obelixx. My sister didn't mention an exercise like that- she had her knee done just before lockdown [fortunately] but she's not having any major problems with it. She couldn't walk any distance, and it was getting worse, so she was very lucky that she had it done when she did, although she went private because of the waiting lists. I think she'd still be waiting now if she hadn't.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have been doing the standing on one leg for years...stop watch no, electric toothbrush,30 seconds,then change legs. I have 2 friends, younger than me...no health problems,who have both had several falls,it's important.
@Fairygirl the knee is fine. I have almost full flexibility now but still some weakness in the muscles so lots of work on resistance, strength and balance. This physio does a much wider programme of exercises and for longer than others and works both legs which seems logical to me but horrifies my friend who had her new knee 2 years ago and hates exercise.
I'm enjoying it tho and am thinking of joining a gym to keep up the muscle power once phsyio stops si I'll be fitter for the other new knee next July.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
My sister goes to a gym anyway [my idea of Hell!] and it seems to help a lot. I must ask her next time she phones. Her other knee is ok - so far. Physio is so important isn't it? The level of use I got back, after ripping my rotator cuff a few years ago, was incredible. A lady along the road from me tore hers earlier this year, and she's had the operation. I haven't really seen her to talk to her about it, but she'll be doing all the exercises she's been given, I'm quite sure. She's not daft. I don't understand people who don't do the exercises they're given. Madness. How do they think they'll get better.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
That's why I took up Postural (or Swiss) Ball - postures on the ball are excellent for balance. As you get older a simple thing such as walking can become a "totter". (If your middle name is Clumsy, like mine)! Improves core muscles too.
Exactly @Fairygirl. I expect to be fully fit by Xmas - new back problem permitting - and want to keep the level of fitness going for the next knee so I can get back to dancing, gardening, walkies and a normal life asap. My friend has less mobility than I do in her new knee and her other knee is now causing great pain but she doesn't want the op as she found the physio and aftermath hard work and painful. She's only 66 so is looking at a long time with disability if she doesn't get it fixed.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Yes - it isn't worth putting off the work you need to do after the surgery. My sis was about that age when she had hers done. She would have been almost 67. I know she found gardening awkward, but she did what she could manage and gradually did more.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Reading about physio and exercise bought back memories of the gentle exercise class my friend took me on Monday last, when we were staying with her. A class of about 20, mainly in their eighties, ladies doing a series of exercises, set to music. Well, I have no sense of co-ordination or rhythm so I was all arms and legs in the wrong places and had the class in stitches. There was one exercise I just couldn't do and that was to stand on one leg, tuck the other behind you and clasp your ankle with your hand. No way could I reach. Personally I blame my little short legs!
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One of the exercises I have to do for my new knee is stand on a small wooden board that has a half round piece of wood screwed beneath it so that it wobbles from side to side. First stand on it with both feet, knees bent and no wobbling. Then one foot at a time, knee bent and no wobble. I haven't counted but suspect I don't last more than a minute on one foot.
Nice joke @wild edges, although, if this area's anything to go by, it's more likely to be because they have their faces stuck in a phone....
Hope the knee isn't causing too many problems @Obelixx. My sister didn't mention an exercise like that- she had her knee done just before lockdown [fortunately] but she's not having any major problems with it. She couldn't walk any distance, and it was getting worse, so she was very lucky that she had it done when she did, although she went private because of the waiting lists. I think she'd still be waiting now if she hadn't.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm enjoying it tho and am thinking of joining a gym to keep up the muscle power once phsyio stops si I'll be fitter for the other new knee next July.
Physio is so important isn't it? The level of use I got back, after ripping my rotator cuff a few years ago, was incredible. A lady along the road from me tore hers earlier this year, and she's had the operation. I haven't really seen her to talk to her about it, but she'll be doing all the exercises she's been given, I'm quite sure. She's not daft.
I don't understand people who don't do the exercises they're given. Madness. How do they think they'll get better.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...