fun with PT, or, finding the limits
Sep. 30th, 2009 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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hip_hoorayOne of the things about doing physical therapy work is that sometimes you find the limits by bumping right up against them, and sometimes you find them by going over.
I think I overdid the leg press machine today. But I'm not very sorry, even though I am considerably more ouchful than I might otherwise be. And I'm definitely not daunted.
Continued to get encouraging feedback on the walking without the cane. Sounds like I'm getting better at keeping my knee turned out, which is part of what we're working on. The most encouraging thing? Apparently I was doing very well even when not paying attention to it. I'm guessing that the work is paying off, you know?
And! I hsven't used the cane around the house for 24 whole hours. Which is a huge good thing, as far as I'm concerned, as a marker of progress. (I'll use it if I need it now. But still, progress.)
I think I overdid the leg press machine today. But I'm not very sorry, even though I am considerably more ouchful than I might otherwise be. And I'm definitely not daunted.
Continued to get encouraging feedback on the walking without the cane. Sounds like I'm getting better at keeping my knee turned out, which is part of what we're working on. The most encouraging thing? Apparently I was doing very well even when not paying attention to it. I'm guessing that the work is paying off, you know?
And! I hsven't used the cane around the house for 24 whole hours. Which is a huge good thing, as far as I'm concerned, as a marker of progress. (I'll use it if I need it now. But still, progress.)
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Date: 2009-10-01 06:32 am (UTC)Also, yay!!
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Date: 2009-10-01 10:48 pm (UTC)Not using the cane might not always be good, but not needing it is good.
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Date: 2009-10-02 03:44 pm (UTC)One sign of progress that you don't specifically mention is that you overdid it without injury, even though you are more sore/ouchy than you otherwise would have been. At a different time in your recovery process, overdoing it on the leg press machine would have hurt you and been a setback.
I'll toss in that PT shares many characteristics with other athletic/physical endeavors. You make progress through consistent effort; you find limits; limits shift over time; there are different ways to find out what your current limits are.
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-- Lisa