
10/01/2025
Your friendly neighborhood physical therapist says get your home blood pressure cuff!
My client has been having weak feeling legs and agg in back pain.
New PT: ooooo nerve impingement or herniated disc!
Old Ass PT: Let's check for orthostatics.
When people feel weak they will make themselves sedentary to protect from falling. Is the back pain related to disuse? In this case, for sure. A good manual therapy session, stretching, and some active exercise eliminated all back pain today. The BP improved , but I also educated that we need to relay this issue to nursing and P*P.
They also were instructed to measure the BP in different positions.