-“Can you lift this leg up for me, please? Keep it up there, don’t let me push you. Excellent. Put it down. Now, this one, lift it up, don’t let me push. Excellent. Put it down.”
If he were sitting in a chair, I would ask him to keep his arms here on the table or chair, because if you:
-“Lift that leg up again.”
You can see that if he were sitting up and I pushed him like this, I might tip him over. So, it is best to have the patient stabilize themselves. Lying in a bed like this, it is not quite as important.