Lower Extremity Strengthening – Step Ups
Occupational Therapy Intervention : Lower Extremity Strengthening
Documentation and Activity Rationale
The patient engaged in LE strengthening exercise in which she was tasked with single-leg balance, gait clearance and maintaining postural alignment in order to decrease balance deficits and increase hip flexors and peripheral musculature of the LE’s.
Grading Strategies
Grading Up:
- increase speed
- increase repetitions
Grading Down:
- lower aerobic stepper
- provide study support for balance and safety (e.g. chair, non-wheeled walker)
Appropriate Diagnoses / Deficits
- Generalized weakness
- Balance deficits
- Muscle imbalances
- CVA
- TBI
