How To Cope With Movement Limitations While You Heal, a guest post It’s not easy when recovering from a medical accident, especially when you find yourself with a limited ability to move around for a prolonged period of time. Those who love the outdoors get particularly frustrated, but even the common couch potato can be sick of sitting in the same position day in, day out! Luckily, there are ways to prevent yourself from going stir-crazy – these are our top coping methods when suffering with temporary movement limitations. Find Ways To Venture Outside If Safe In today’s technological age, we have remarkable access to numerous resources, with one of the most useful for the disabled being a mobility scooter. With this incredible invention, you’re able to navigate yourself around for a while until you’re able to properly stand – and walk! - on your own two feet! With this option at your fingertips, why not see if you can hire one and make a trip outside for a little while? Even a short journey around the block will get you some much-needed fresh air and promote independence. How To Cope With Movement Limitations While You Heal It’s not easy when recovering from a medical accident, especially when you find yourself with a limited ability to move around for a prolonged period of time. Those who love the outdoors get particularly frusods when suffering with temporary movement limitations. Find Ways To Venture Outside If Safe In today’s technological age, we have remarkable access to numerous resources, with one of the most useful for the disabled being a mobility scooter. With this incredible invention, you’re able to navigate yourself around for a while until you’re able to properly stand – and walk! - on your own two feet! With this option at your fingertips, why not see if you can hire one and make a trip outside for a little while? Even a short journey around the block will get you some much-needed fresh air and promote independence. Remember The Long-Term Outcome When stuck with movement limitations, it can become easy to get fixated on the now and disregard the future entirely; however, it’s thoughts of the future that can help you to cope! Sure, right now you’re struggling with your mobility and you’re limited with the activities that you’re able to partake in, but in a few weeks’ time, or potentially even less, you’ll be back to taking part in your usual hobbies! Of course, with this in mind, it’s always worth remembering that in order to get to that stage, you’ll need to take your aftercare and recovery seriously, so always abide by the doctor’s rules following your treatment. Keep Your Family & Friends Close Temporary movement limitations can leave you feeling isolated and misunderstood, so it’s an optimal chance to keep your family and friends close while you recover. Lifting your spirits when you’re limited with what you can do is a challenge, but you can also guarantee that your close family and friends will be able to keep a smile on your face. Plus, having your friends and family close offers you a back-up, as if you’re unable to cope with a particular task, you can rest assured that your family and friends won’t belittle you, and will instead be happy to help you during recovery. Keep A Journal Time can pass extremely slowly when waiting to heal, however keeping a journal is a great way to pass the time and is also quite fascinating o look back on in the future! Throughout your healing journey, you can document each stage and then look back on how far you’ve come throughout the healing process, which, when looking back, can be extremely empowering. What’s more, this is generally a great way to document any prevailing symptoms you might experience and can even be encouraged by your doctor - as we all know, remembering every symptom or hiccup we’ve had while healing can slip our minds in the doctor’s office, so never hold back from documenting! When you’re used to moving on a daily basis, it can suddenly seem very alien to be limited in how much you can do just that, but there are ways to cope with these temporary conditions. Whether you’re happy to sit and document your healing journey, or you keep your friends and family closer than ever, you can rest assured that you’ll be back to your normal self in no time. Keep Your Family & Friends Close Temporary movement limitations can leave you feeling isolated and misunderstood, so it’s an optimal chance to keep your family and friends close while you recover. Lifting your spirits when you’re limited with what you can do is a challenge, but you can also guarantee that your close family and friends will be able to keep a smile on your face. Plus, having your friends and family close offers you a back-up, as if you’re unable to cope with a particular task, you can rest assured that your family and friends won’t belittle you, and will instead be happy to help you during recovery. Keep A Journal Time can pass extremely slowly when waiting to heal, however keeping a journal is a great way to pass the time and is also quite fascinating o look back on in the future! Throughout your healing journey, you can document each stage and then look back on how far you’ve come throughout the healing process, which, when looking back, can be extremely empowering. What’s more, this is generally a great way to document any prevailing symptoms you might experience and can even be encouraged by your doctor - as we all know, remembering every symptom or hiccup we’ve had while healing can slip our minds in the doctor’s office, so never hold back from documenting! When you’re used to moving on a daily basis, it can suddenly seem very alien to be limited in how much you can do just that, but there are ways to cope with these temporary conditions. Whether you’re happy to sit and document your healing journey, or you keep your friends and family closer than ever, you can rest assured that you’ll be back to your normal self in no time.