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What exercises do you do to stay fit even if you are wheelchair bound?

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I've done chair-bound Tai Chi and really liked and benefited from it. It's best with a teacher in a group, but there are also a bunch of YouTube videos available. Do it in front of a mirror; it's easier to correct your form that way.

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Do you have a community physio? If not, speak to your GP for a referral and ask for a Neuro physio if you can. Depending where you live there's all sorts for those who are elderly, disabled or have limited mobility. Wheel chair sports like basketball, netball or rugby are slowly taking off. Google disability sport UK.Tai Chi will be good as already suggested. If you can afford it seek at a personal trainer who maybe specialises in rehab or Neuro conditions. Go online and look at HasFit there's loads of stuff on there for different groups of people. For now get some light weights or tins of beans out the cupboard and do upper body exercises like shoulder presses, bicep curls, triceps press, chest press on the floor etc. 3 or 4 sets of 15 to 20 of each exercise. Can you move your legs at all may I ask? I've gone from very limited mobility and periods of paralysis to virtually throwing my walking aid away. It's been a long steady process, but my persistence, stubbornness and graft is starting to pay off. You're half way there by wanting to do something so good for you 👍🏻. Dave.

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Hi,

If you have fatigue just don't bother. I had physio with an ordinary physio and despite saying that she understood functional problems, she obviously did not. Even doing a little made me worse.

I've tried so many times to do even just a tiny amount but no. Doesn't even work if you are trying to sneak it in. You have to keep within your pacing as advised on the FND Hope site. Sorry to keep banging the drum, but worry about exercise when you can do it easily.

If you are in a wheelchair then I'd say that you need to do your pressure area care. There should be plenty about it on-line. Also make sure you are having enough fluids. Urinary tract infections and pneumonia are the bane of the life of anyone who has decreased mobility.

Trying to move more than you can comfortably manage then your FND will worsen. It's like you are training your brain to misbehave rather than recover.

This is one from someone who has tried it all ways. I don't want to be negative. Just change the way you are fighting, eve if that's making sure you are resting enough.

xx

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