How did you motivate your child after an injury?
I had this issue when my daughter(11 years) broke her arm and needed physiotherapy after removal of the cast. Her recovery delayed because she didn't have interest in doing the exercises. When I tried asking her what bothered her most was the pain. Whenever she felt pain, she stopped immediately, and then whatever I tried to motivate her , she refused. She recovered. But I can still see the difference, now after couple of years, that she have learned the ways of doing thing without fully healed/developed muscles.
If you have a child who is/was going through physiotherapy after some injury, how did you went through that and what frustrate you the most that time?
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It seems that you have a deep caring about this issue, right? Because after years you now are still thinking about it. I have a compassion for you.
Deep down I think you need to find out your own inner reasons first. That what do you want for your daughter? You want her to recover fully? You want her to do things herself?
And why do you want such things? Why? Deep down.
And the next is to find out how your daughter feels now about her problems, I mean day by day. Does it bother her that much? Does she want to get fully recovered? Does she know that she can?
How can you know that? You can ask her. How can you ask her? You build the relationship and make it comfortable, closed, trustworthy for her.
It’s difficult to type those things here and I even don’t understand your situation to say anything. I just want to help you to reflect on the relationship between you and your daughter. It’s important.
Happy to hear more from you @fnosheen
Thanks for your insight and understanding of the problem.
You have mentioned exactly the right questions to ask myself. Actually if I am asking about the pain now she had gone through that time, she don't remember it. Its like pregnancy, when its there you cannot put that off your mind, but when it is finished, you don't remember it anymore (cannot remember any other relevant example, as I just went through it recently).
But when I see the parents and children who are actually going through the same pain and the constant stress on the physiotherapists, I feel that myself again and as soon as they are out of it, they don't bother to think or improve it. So the system is same for years.
So I m concerning if it is the same struggle for every parent/child when they go through it few times (or none at all) in their life and learn from them how they tackle it.