PT for those with an interest

[icepixie]

More adventures in pelvic physical therapy, for the curious. I'm still on the once a week plan, but if things continue to go well, I might be able to ratchet down and eventually quit. We'll see. The muscles stopped spasming and setting off my bladder early last week, which was a blessing. I've actually felt pretty good for a while and hope it continues forever.

Now we're seeing if a lift in my left shoe does anything good for my remaining abdominal-area pain. My pelvis does feel in better alignment--my hips are now almost the same height!--but I don't know that it's better enough to be worth the blinding pain in my left knee. (Or the lack of arch support in my left foot, for that matter, but that's fixable if I decide to go permanent and get a custom orthotic instead of a cheap Dr. Scholl's gel heel lift.) I wore it for about four hours on Thursday and another four yesterday, and I hit the tramadol immediately when I got home yesterday. If it keeps up like that, there's no way; if this is just an adjustment period that will end in a week or two, I could do it. No longer than that, though.

My therapist also did an inner thigh release yesterday and OH DEAR GOD did that hurt, even at the lightest possible pressure. I guess I have knots there. Yowie. Now I'm to use my poor man's foam roller (large beads on a stick) on those areas after skating and ditch the inner thigh strengthening exercises for a week.

Comments

[spatz]

Ouch! If your thigh's super sensitive, you could also try a bottle full of hot water to roll it.

[icepixie]

Oooh, good idea. The beads on a stick weren't to bad last night. I could tolerate them if I didn't press too hard. I like the idea of a hot water bottle to roll, though...