Patient Education Resources

Exercises After Your Ankle Injury

This pamphlet includes ankle exercises, how to deal with swelling and stiffness, walking tips, and when to use heat and ice. This pamphlet is also available in French.

Fractured Hip

This guide outlines information about hip surgery after a fracture. Topics such as what to expect before, during, and after surgery, exercises, preparing to go home, and equipment. The guide also answers any questions you may have about follow-up care, osteoporosis, nutrition, and resources to stop smoking. This pamphlet is also available in French.

General Leg Exercise Program

This pamphlet shows how to do different types of leg exercises to increase strength, prevent joint stiffness, and improve blood flow. This pamphlet is also available in French.

Geriatric Restorative Care Unit (3 East): Veterans Memorial Building (VMB), QEII

The Geriatric Restorative Care Program helps people age 65 and over to become more independent, do their daily activities, and improve their quality of life after a hospital stay.

Getting a Wheelchair or Scooter - Outpatient Occupational Therapy

This pamphlet explains how Occupational Therapy Services can help you to review, prescribe, and choose a wheelchair or scooter.

Gradient Compression Stockings - Eastern Zone

Gradient compression stockings help return blood to your heart by compressing (squeezing) your leg muscles. This pamphlet explains why you need a prescription to get gradient compression stockings, how to use them, and how to take care of them.

Hand Exercises

Step-by-step instructions and images are provided to help you with the following exercises: finger active range of motion, finger active assisted range of motion, thumb active range of motion, tendon gliding, and strengthening.

Hip Exercises

This pamphlet explains how to do exercises to strengthen your hip, including tubing exercises. Stretching guidelines and images of each exercise are included.

Hip Fracture Recovery Guide - Valley Regional Hospital

Information about hip surgery after a fracture. Topics include: what to expect before, during, and after surgery. This pamphlet is also available in French.

Hip Protectors

Hip protectors are plastic shields or foam pads used to protect the hip area. This pamphlet explains why hip protectors are needed as well as how to use them are reviewed.