My father-in-law ambulated fairly well until he had a psychotic episode last week. My husband hurt himself picking him up, and when my husband would try o help him walk he would stiffen up and lean back and say he was too scared.
We got him admitted to a geriatric psych ward and they say he is doing better and having no psychotic symptoms but he will still not walk and will not get out of the wheelchair, except to let them transfer him to the toilet.
Do you have patients who were ambulating and then all of a sudden were in the hospital for a period of time and never walked again? I just wonder if this will be a permanent thing.
