Older patients who are bedridden will have many complications, which requires the nursing staff to have more professional nursing knowledge to prevent these complications.

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2024-11-18 14:24

  Because the elderly are bedridden for physical reasons, their lives cannot be taken care of themselves, and they need the help of others to live a normal life. This situation makes them very confused. I hope that I can return to the normal life, then is there any way to get in bed? Can the patient recover? Here, the small series of Wellcome Medical will introduce you to several methods of self-rehabilitation exercise for bedridden patients.

  One: First take a deep breath, let your thorax expand as much as possible, and then exhale the air, so that after repeating for one to two minutes, then cough two or three times.

  Second: the patient usually raises his abdomen as much as possible, so that the volume of the abdomen is expanded as much as possible, and then slowly abdomen, slowly calming his abdomen, such an action can help the patient to promote abdominal blood circulation and intestinal peristalsis, thereby increasing Appetite, the purpose of promoting excretion.

  Three: The patient often massages the affected area with his hands, or helps the other hand with one hand. Use two hands to help a leg to moderate activity, which can help you to stimulate blood circulation, promote metabolism, prevent muscle atrophy, and prevent thrombosis.

  Four: With two hands to make a fist, the arms and lower limbs alternately flex or lift and lower, and the joints of the extremities are regularly stretched and flexed to achieve the purpose of relaxing the muscles and promoting blood circulation and preventing joint rigidity.

  Five: bed semi-recumbent activity bed lying position activities: two hands clenched fists, arms and lower limbs alternately flexed or raised and put down. Half-bed activity on the bed: sit up from the bed with external force (side bed or tail chain). In addition to bed-bed activities, it is also necessary to increase resistance exercises such as upper and lower limbs. Under the bed and semi-recumbent activities: sit from the bed, use external force to move to the chair, do the lifting of the legs, stepping in place and so on.

  Six: Standing exercise. You can stand on the bed frame or the back of the chair, lift one leg for a while and then lift it for another leg.

  Seven: walking practice. At the beginning, you can walk on the bed frame or the table, then you can walk with your hands and walk, and finally get rid of the aids.

  Eight: daily behavior and fine exercise. Let the patient wear a pair of underwear and brush their teeth. The family members can help the patients at the beginning, and gradually let the patients go to do it separately, so that the patients can do more training activities such as finishing clothes, sweeping the floor, picking vegetables, and cutting paper.

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