to suggest treadmills and skipping ropes in waiting rooms

[Mitchy1nge]

or possibly dance mats?

Had to wait for over an hour the other day and could tell that prowling round the waiting area was making people uneasy so a designated space and equipment for fidgety or restless people would make good sense? Sitting is hardly ever comfortable in those sorts of places after all.

MMeMorrible you don't always have to be ill to be seeing a doctor.

I go to the GP or hospital when well for: check ups for a med that they won't put on repeat for me yet, vaccinations, blood tests, smear tests, pill check ups, neurologist visits, IBD visits, hearing tests (and maybe ear cleaning). I can't remember the last time I went because I was ill!

Oh god no, I'd have no end of people with pulled muscles and shortness of breath added onto my already-full clinics!

Just sit quietly, read a copy of People's Friend from 1996 and wait your turn like all good patients do

Yes, I'm sure all the sick people in the waiting room of a GP surgery really feel like skipping, dancing and using treadmills.

I wasn't really thinking of gp surgeries but waiting areas in general

What type of waiting room were you thinking of? I only ever wait at the GPs, hospital or dentists.

Train station, airport? Opticians? Job centres?

Job centre? Can you imagine it?
Well Mr Bloggs about your claim for Incapacity Benefit or whatever it is called now we have evidence that you are able to move around more than you claim, here is the cctv of you playing twister in the waiting room!

Again, there are more reasons for attending a job centre than to claim long term sickness benefits (whatever they may be called).

For example, I don't know, support for finding a job?

well actually the waiting area that inspired this great idea of mine was a child health centre and lots of its customers have eating disorders and prob indulge in a bit of compulsive exercise so it might not be a wonderful plan for that exact place

but in general, some options for waiting in more of an active sort of way would be good wouldn't they?

(you can be disabled and still enjoy a range of physical exercise by the way to whichever poster)

Beds. And books. Is it too much to think that a cocktail would make it all nicer?

They should play musical chairs - last one to sit down goes to the bottom of the list

Seems like a great idea - suggest it to someone

I know I'm odd, but I take a book.

Wouldn't you then be all hot and sweaty before you went in to your appointment/got on the train/did whatever you were waiting for? Or would you need take and change into waiting room exercise clothes?

When PPs said Hula Hoops, I thought of the snack

It's probably use the skipping ropes to tie up people who were beginning to annoy me. Starting with the fruit of my loins.

I am sure that they would have gyms at train stations and airports if they were profitable. I don't expect to wait at the opticians for long enough to do much exercise.

I think the last think most people want to do at the doctors, hospital or dentist is skip, run and have a dance. It's very nice for you that you are well enough to do that when you're at the doctors/hospital but there is no need to rub it in people's faces.

am not sure the inability to sit still is necessarily an indicator of good health!