DRAX's PIP Queries Topic !

Just to add, something i have repeatedly forgotten to add to my own situation/applications, but was pointed out as important to me by a physio.

If you are a short person (under about 5'2") you are going to be too short to use a perching stool, your legs either will not touch the ground if you parked your butt or your butt would not reach which makes the whole thing unstable. Being short also means increased problems lifting pans and plates, everything really. The lift must be higher and the weight is higher from the centre of the body increasing difficulties with upper body movement and potential muscle and nerve damage etc.

I am now less than 5 foot and unless I had a completely redesigned and expensive kitchen, I can't reach into a sink to do anything or work at a surface because my arms have to be at such a high level. I have a perch, can't use it adjusted for my butt height, still can't do anything on a worksurface, no chance at a cooker or sink. It also makes my knees swell because the perching angle is not a good position for muscles and joints to be in. Many physios and specialists are now saying, don't use them at all. They are also saying one walking stick can cause more problems than it helps, use 2 or non.

So don't forget, short people have severe restrictions in normal life even without illness and disability. The world is designed for people 5'8"

Hi Drax,

You have now posted 3 separate topics ( I have now merged them into one topic above) which are all related to PIP, even though I advised the following :

" You might want to Bookmark/Favourite this page in your Internet Browser. That way you can return to this topic easily to pose any further queries that you may have by replying to the topic."

in my first response to your initial PIP query !

Can you please post all your further PIP queries to this topic by replying to the topic.

This helps the Mods with continuity, as we can see what queries you have made, and the responses that you have been given.

I should imagine that having all your queries and responses in the one topic would make it a lot easier for you too !!

Cheers

bro58

Thanks, will do. I post another this morning but will try to append it here. Cheers, bro58

They're asking the wrong questions!

No surprise there, then..... no doubt others have seen this too but here's my question.

In Q5 'Managing Treatments', they are more concerned with people helping, prompting, and all all that sort of thing. And so you score your points using the need or others to help. But my relative's problem, having ME/CFS, is that *she simply cannot do he exercise treatment at all on a bad day' no amount of help or prompting will make any difference. So how do we phrase it to get the points for that?