Team Uses Big Wheel Games to Help Young Patient
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In early 2009, PT/OT had the opportunity to work with a small child with a gun shot wound to the left arm requiring extensive arterial and nerve grafts from his left leg to facilitate recovery. In the process, he lost a great deal of strength and range of motion in his left leg and became fearful of intervention.
Child Life Specialist, Jessica Tarcin, CCLS and I, Julia Aulner, PT collaborated to make rehabilitation “fun” and used “Big Wheel Races” combined with other modalities to facilitate functional return.
This child looked forward to therapy each day; his range of motion improved by over 30 degrees in three days and the family was given an easy method of “play therapy” that was extremely beneficial to this child. By discharge, he had nearly full functional return of his leg and his family was able to participate in seeing the continued return to functionality of his left leg.