Adventures
Mar. 29th, 2016 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieA couple weeks ago, when I caught a cold, all the coughing set off my bladder again, not to mention doing Very Bad Things to my abdominal muscles. So now I'm back at the PT office once a week instead of every other week for a while. My PT is doing a ton of abdominal releases/deep tissue massage, which hurt like hell (oh, thank god I still have some hydrocodone left from the root canal), but ultimately I think it will be a good hurt. Apparently my belly button was less stretched from side to side today, which indicates progress. And the squishy lumps with hard centers that once littered my abdomen have now turned into hard, round, flat pancakes, which is also deemed progress.
Because I couldn't get the hang of isolating whatever butt muscle she wants me to work with my current exercise for it, I've switched out that exercise for something called the backwards monster walk, which is such a delightful name, I cannot even tell you. Hopefully it's as effective as it is fun to say.
And she told me the reason my knee still occasionally buckles under me when I'm walking could be because loose joints somehow screw up the surrounding muscles' ability to tell when the muscle is changing length as part of a movement, so they don't contract correctly and my knee gives out. Since I've been doing my modified knee exercises faithfully for five months and it should've fixed the problem otherwise by now, I can see it. Another delightful effect of this flexibility!
On the bright side, my nephrologist's mother has Ehlers-Danlos, so he was totally fine with giving me a bunch of tramadol to take the place of the NSAIDs I would otherwise use to deal with all of this. HOORAY. (I should probably get an official diagnosis at some point soon, though, to have in my back pocket for when the next joint goes out. First I have to dig up a rheumatologist...)
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In skating adventures, my back has been allowing me to do the Silver spiral sequence multiple times on a session as long as I do it in the first half. I'll take it. My free leg is even at hip height on all the spirals, according to P!
I have also mastered the back inside three turn. Not that I have any speed going into it or any runout after it, but I can turn, which is awesome.
P had me start thinking about back scratch spin as having a forward inside three turn, then an inch or two of drift across the ice before pulling up into the spin rather than trying to do turn and spin all at once in on place on the ice, and...I think it might work. I've thought this about a lot of approaches to this spin, though, so who knows.
Because I couldn't get the hang of isolating whatever butt muscle she wants me to work with my current exercise for it, I've switched out that exercise for something called the backwards monster walk, which is such a delightful name, I cannot even tell you. Hopefully it's as effective as it is fun to say.
And she told me the reason my knee still occasionally buckles under me when I'm walking could be because loose joints somehow screw up the surrounding muscles' ability to tell when the muscle is changing length as part of a movement, so they don't contract correctly and my knee gives out. Since I've been doing my modified knee exercises faithfully for five months and it should've fixed the problem otherwise by now, I can see it. Another delightful effect of this flexibility!
On the bright side, my nephrologist's mother has Ehlers-Danlos, so he was totally fine with giving me a bunch of tramadol to take the place of the NSAIDs I would otherwise use to deal with all of this. HOORAY. (I should probably get an official diagnosis at some point soon, though, to have in my back pocket for when the next joint goes out. First I have to dig up a rheumatologist...)
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In skating adventures, my back has been allowing me to do the Silver spiral sequence multiple times on a session as long as I do it in the first half. I'll take it. My free leg is even at hip height on all the spirals, according to P!
I have also mastered the back inside three turn. Not that I have any speed going into it or any runout after it, but I can turn, which is awesome.
P had me start thinking about back scratch spin as having a forward inside three turn, then an inch or two of drift across the ice before pulling up into the spin rather than trying to do turn and spin all at once in on place on the ice, and...I think it might work. I've thought this about a lot of approaches to this spin, though, so who knows.