A Life-Changing Experience
Arthritis Today|September/October 2017

A Life-Changing Experience

Jill Tyrer
A Life-Changing Experience

A PHYSICAL THERAPIST GUIDED STEPHANIE DODUNSKI, 26, through leg exercises as her grandmother, Nancy Berlin, watched. Just an hour earlier, Stephanie had been in surgery having her hip replaced.

“She’s doing exercises she’s not been able to do for 10 years,” Nancy said quietly. After a few sitting exercises, Stephanie was up, using a walker to walk around the nursing station, then climbing stairs. Less than two hours later, she was on her way home.

This story is from the September/October 2017 edition of Arthritis Today.

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