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Poll: Where do you get dressed? (130 member(s) have cast votes)

Where do you get dressed?

  1. Wheelchair (41 votes [27.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 27.15%

  2. Bed (91 votes [60.26%])

    Percentage of vote: 60.26%

  3. Other chair (7 votes [4.64%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.64%

  4. Floor (4 votes [2.65%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.65%

  5. Other location (8 votes [5.30%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.30%

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#1 Jax

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Posted 19 March 2009 - 03:33 AM

I have to ask this question. It has apparently been overlooked in Occupational Therapy training in several schools and in OT curriculum for SCI patients in many hospitals. I was taught in rehab to get dressed in bed. This is a HORRIBLE place to dress, especially on tempur-pedic! When I left rehab, a friend brought over the Murderball movie, and from that, I learned to dress in my wheelchair. I have since had the opportunity to do some volunteer work, and have have heard of some interesting places others with SCI get dressed. I have heard of different chairs (small chair with armrests), and have even met one para who dresses on the floor on a small mat. That one is crazy! I can't do it yet, but I'm working on it. I'm just curious as to other people's locations and methods.

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Posted 19 March 2009 - 03:35 AM

I can get dressed anywhere at this point. Bed, bath-bench, chair, car, wherever.. I prefer the chair.. its quickest.

Edited by Ches, 19 March 2009 - 03:37 AM.

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Posted 19 March 2009 - 03:46 AM

Oh, Ches, we are so twins! :D I can get dressed basically anywhere as well but prefer chair because I find it's way easier to get pants on that way. I push up one side with one hand and yank up that side of the pants with the other, if that makes sense. Saves me from having to writhe around on the bed trying to wriggle them on.
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Posted 19 March 2009 - 04:08 AM

The bed is difficult, and tempur-pedic is nearly impossible for me. Where I'm having trouble is the lack of flex in my back. The rods are from T10 all the way into the pelvis. (I will have the new x-ray pics in a week or so, and post them on myspace.) I just can't seem to get the pants/shorts quite all the way up in the back because my ass won't come up high enough.

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Posted 19 March 2009 - 04:19 AM

I do the same as T.O. Chair is easiest for me, except when it comes to jeans. I always buy jeans that are a bit snug, and they are hard to put on in my chair because they are usually low ride & I have to wiggle a bit, lol. So for jeans I transfer onto my bed. But sometimes I can do them in my chair, it just depends on the style I am wearing.

I would get dressed on the floor when I was younger, but that was when I lived in a two story house, and I stayed upstairs without my wheelchair. I couldn't even think about getting dressed on the floor now!
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Posted 19 March 2009 - 04:36 AM

While I can get dressed anywhere I need to, and was taught all that in rehab, I prefer the bed. For me it's almost like standing up, only horizontal. :D I just flip like a pancake a coupla times and walah, I'm ready to step out on the town. LOL!
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Posted 19 March 2009 - 12:11 PM

Mostly I dress on the bed but sometimes in my chair and sometimes half-and-half.
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Posted 23 March 2009 - 11:01 PM

Bed first then chair for me, I require assistance for my pants etc. so bed is the spot...but shits and such I'm able to do on my own in my chair.
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Posted 24 March 2009 - 09:16 AM

View PostStillFingers, on Mar 23 2009, 11:01 PM, said:

Bed first then chair for me, I require assistance for my pants etc. so bed is the spot...but shits and such I'm able to do on my own in my chair.

yep, i do a bit of both. bed mainly though.
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Posted 26 March 2009 - 01:40 PM

bed for me. my chair is tiny, tippy, and a real pain in the ass for that kind of stuff ;)

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Posted 27 March 2009 - 05:30 PM

Bottoms--Bed
Tops & shoes--Chair
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Posted 27 March 2009 - 09:55 PM

Clothes?
Shit! I never even thought of that. No wonder people look at me funny!
Maybe that's why I feel so "naked" all the time.

Sitting up straight on the edge of the bed with legs dangling over the side for pants and shoes. Shirts when I'm in the chair.
I pull my pants up over my knees then tip myself over and roll to the side to get them up over my ass.
Easier for me than laying down flat and rolling to the side.
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Posted 17 April 2009 - 07:16 PM

Guess I should have answered both chair and bed. Oh well ... T12 - L1 para ... Over the past 23 years, I can get dressed just about anywhere :seehearspeak:

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Posted 17 April 2009 - 07:23 PM

I get dressed in my chair, I find it much easier than on my bed, but when i go to bed I undress and put pj's on in bed.

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Posted 17 April 2009 - 08:10 PM

View Posttrinity, on Apr 17 2009, 12:23 PM, said:

when i go to bed I undress and put pj's on in bed.

You have just now completely destroyed a perfectly good fantasy.
Thanx a lot trin!

E :seehearspeak:
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Posted 17 April 2009 - 08:12 PM

View PostE-DOG, on Apr 17 2009, 09:10 PM, said:

View Posttrinity, on Apr 17 2009, 12:23 PM, said:

when i go to bed I undress and put pj's on in bed.

You have just now completely destroyed a perfectly good fantasy.
Thanx a lot trin!

E :seehearspeak:

Obviously when I say pj's I mean sexy black negligee.....

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Posted 18 April 2009 - 05:34 PM

any were the mood takes me but mostly edge of bed.
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Posted 18 April 2009 - 06:41 PM

Bed, but one good spasm, and it'll be the floor.

Karen's gotta have something to grab hold of to haul my ass back into my bed/chair, and I would rather it be by my jeans waistband than my ...

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View Posttrinity, on Apr 17 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

Obviously when I say pj's I mean sexy black negligee.....

Too much, too late!

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Posted 18 April 2009 - 10:10 PM

View PostApparelyzed, on Apr 18 2009, 11:41 AM, said:

Bed, but one good spasm, and it'll be the floor.

Karen's gotta have something to grab hold of to haul my ass back into my bed/chair, and I would rather it be by my jeans waistband than my ...

Simon :D

View Posttrinity, on Apr 17 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

Obviously when I say pj's I mean sexy black negligee.....

Too much, too late!

Simon (on behalf of the Apparelyzed crazies) :)
Just luv spasms and yea Simon the jeans are a much better idea.

Um Trin, I'm thinkin pj's or sexy black negligee would be fine...I also feel a demo on Paratease is in order :yahoo: Para Plays with PJ's

Edited by StillFingers, 18 April 2009 - 10:13 PM.

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Posted 19 April 2009 - 12:36 AM

I get dress in the wheelchair its easier

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Posted 27 April 2009 - 11:06 PM

Bed for sure...except when i'm getting my wetsuit on, than the chair gives me more leverage.

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Posted 28 April 2009 - 02:18 AM

Bed here. I put some clothes near my bed for the morning :)
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Posted 03 May 2009 - 09:40 PM

I usually get dressed right on my shower bench so I don't have to do the naked butt transfer lol. I also taught myself to get dressed in my chair after watching Murderball and can now dress anywhere, shower, chair, bed, toilet.

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Posted 03 May 2009 - 10:16 PM

Bed for sure with my pants but shirt is either..........I can undress in my chair no problem but highly doubt I could get pants on in my chair......oh what I'd give for hands in the morning to grab my pants in the back and pull them up but untill then its the 15-20 min quad flop fest but no worries I'm getting faster with practice

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:14 AM

Edge of bed usually, or chair. Who else bragged and partied when they remastered socks!!!
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Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:25 AM

I had to think about it for a sec.......close call between bed & wheelchair; but aside from winter being almost exclusively bed the rest of the year is about 70/30 wheelchair/bed. :)
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Posted 19 July 2009 - 03:44 AM

Standing, but it takes forever.

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Posted 09 August 2009 - 01:06 AM

Put clothes on from the bed on a bad day... Use the w/c and bed on a good one...mostly good days here. partial quad C5-T1, spondylolethesis L5-S1 grade 2-3
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Posted 10 August 2009 - 05:14 PM

View Postallister, on Jul 10 2009, 02:14 AM, said:

Edge of bed usually, or chair. Who else bragged and partied when they remastered socks!!!


ME!! Especially after falling face first out the chair the first couple times I tried. Hate hospital style chairs. I finally started digging through pics of custom chairs and noticed the calf straps, so I fashioned my own and that's what made it possible to put socks on in that chair. I have found that sideguards are helpful in balancing for putting on socks as well.

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Posted 16 April 2010 - 09:45 PM

I start out in bed, then get into my chair, and sometimes end up on the floor!!! :(

Edited by rollingtrouble, 16 April 2010 - 09:47 PM.

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