Beth waves to Janet.  Beth sits at computer to type....

I'm not a PT but, having pain accross the quads (hip to knee) would indicate
there may be something else happening.  If she's having increasing doses for
her spasticity, then something else is happening.  I agree with Mags, and
get a good hip X-ray done, but also review seating and any also achilles
tendons and foot placement.  I know I've got tendoninitis in my Achilles
with tightness in the gastrocs and a PT told me untreated this could
contribute to hip and knee pain.  The Baclofen only works on the spasticity
not on pain directly.

Beth t. the OT



> Subject: An actual CP related question!
> 
> As I was happily discussing politics with the list, Janet 
> came in and said "Do you guys ever talk about CP anymore?" 
> She likes the fact that we're not focused on CP, but has "An 
> actual CP related question."  She got her baclofen pump about 
> 2 years ago (last Thursday was  2 years), and has had gradual 
> dose increases since then.  She's noticed some increased 
> muscle pain, especially in her hip flexors and knees, and 
> wonders if this has happened to anyone else out there who has 
> been "pumped."  Beth, any ideas from the OT/PT world?
> (Janet waves to Beth - How many of us have been around the 
> 'net long enough to get that reference?)
> -- 
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the 
> unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to 
> himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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