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Did you see Dr. Lieberman's responses today re physical therapy... I've pasted it below for you....AND REMEMBER, he's the NPF Medical Director...and somebody in the nursing home thinks he knows more and does the evaluation.......like I said earlier, ....get the right people involved....and if you discuss all the points that Rita made with the pd trained therapist, she/he should know what he can handle....and just how does the nursing home staff evaluate a pd person...All I ever hear on these lists/forums is that a person with PD really needs to be evaluated by a neurologist who is a movement disorder specialist and that a plain old regular neurologist won't do....so that being true, why and how is the nursing home staff able to evaluate your PD brother??????????? Joan Hartman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ask The Doctor" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: Physical Therapy > ***********A message from Ask the Doctor************** > question > > What good does physical therapy do. And would you recommend it to a PD > patient? > > answer > physical therapy done by a therapist knowledgeable in pd who tailors the therapy to the patient is useful generic physical therapy is usually not > abe lieberman > ****************************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Hartman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:33 AM Subject: Re: Need Answers on Physical Therapy > > Have had two PD DR's that prescribed physical therapy since that time.. > > Nursing home uses their own physical therapy staff and evaluates PD > patient. > > Overrules the PD Dr's and does not do physical therapy. > > > > Larry ..it wold cost money to do physical therapy.....don't worry about the > nursing home policy for physical therapy...if you get the right people in > your brother's corner, the nursing home will be providing a special > physical therapist coming into that nursing home to provide physical therapy > for your brother...or taking him out by private van to a physical > therapist.....it can be done...my cousin did it for her mother in New > Jersey............but youve got to get somebody in authority to deal with > them and make them jump ...something like they could lose their State > license for physical abuse of your brother...you see his decline in the past ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn