Faxed The Next Surgeon To Assess Me A Summary Of My Physical Disability
[ Wednesday September 27th 2017 at 10:56 pm ]
I've now completed a 4 page summary of my physical disability and faxed this to the surgeon who will soon be assessing me. He will be reviewing my referral tomorrow. This will help him begin thinking of what treatment options are available to me. The 4 topics I've documented are:
- A summary of the key events that have led to the consultation. I've included details of how I wasn't able to engage in the physiotherapy following each of my hip replacement surgeries.
- Synopsis and symptoms of my hips. I've discussed the interference my knee joints have had preventing me from doing the physiotherapy and regaining my mobility as expected.
- Synopsis and symptoms of my knee joints. I've provided details of the effect this has on my quality of life, the physical limits this creates for me, the set of symptoms I continually experience, the various pain sensations and the locations in my knee joints where these are.
- Finally I end this with a Closing Comments section. One of these items is expressing my desire to be engaged in life and a summary of my activities / goals. This surgeon was very helpful in assessing me in 2011 - 2012. One of the tools used was sending me to a 91 year old retired orthopedic surgeon due to the uniqueness of my physical disability. I had a thorough discussion about my knee joints during this assessment. I wanted to introduce the facts of this discussion about my knee joints now that it is relevant to my current treatment.