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Starting Position: Sit on bali in optimal posturę. Raise arms out to sldes. Pick up uninjured leg.

Movement/Exercise: Push into floor with support leg and write cursive alphabet wlth foot of unweighted leg.

Breathing: Do not hołd breath. Breathe comfortably.

Modification: Touch hands to bali or stable object for balance assistance Progression:

1.    Write alphabet larger and/or faster.

2.    Add cuff weight to ankle.

Hołd_Seconds

Repeat_Times

Do_Times/day

Purpose/ Goal:________

Comments: This is a partiaI weight bearing exercise which challenges balance, proprioception and kiwe stability. Feel how weight bearing leg has to coactivate muscle groups as momentum and size nl letters increase.

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Alphabet-Standing    6.15

Starting Position: Stand in optimal posturę. Pick up uninjured leg and place on bali.

Movement/Exercise: Write alphabet with uninjured leg using the bali as a dynamie base of support.

Breathing: Do not hołd breath. Breathe comfortably.

Modification: Touch hands to wali or stable object for balance assistance. Progression: Write alphabet larger and/or faster.

Beats/min_

Repeat_Times

Do_Times/day

Purpose/ Goal:______________

Comments: This is a fuli weight bearing exercise which challenges balance and proprioception while inereasing stability in the leg. Notice how trunk and weight bearing leg have to increasingly coactivate muscles as momentum inereases.

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