Physical therapy update

Today in therapy, many of the usual exercises and a few additional ones. I practiced standing again and this time I stood for the first time for 2 min 53 seconds and the second time for 2 minutes 46 seconds. We also did an exercise like knee dips. From a standing position I would bend my knees, bend my elbows, and then pull myself back up to a standing position. I was able to do two sets of ten. We also did some medicine ball exercises sitting on the edge of a platform practicing balance, the medicine ball being thrown to me and thrown back. This was to test balance and reaction. A twist was added. When I would catch the ball I would pivot as far as possible to the left or right and from that position throw the ball back to the therapist. In another new one today a patient table would be placed in front of me. The therapist would place their foot at a given position. I would push the table to that point to test my ability to extend and bend over. They would move their foot further away to see how far I could bend and extend. The last was a new Wii game called Boxing Training. For those of you that recall with horror Dodge ball from elementary school, what this really resembled was someone throwing a ball at you and you needed to react to duck it. Unfortunately I felt like I was back in elementary school. I was hit more times than I was missed. At one point multiple balls were being thrown at a time. That was the end of therapy today.