1st physical therapy appt...
Apr. 12th, 2006 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetWell, my schedule's going to be extra-nuts for the next few weeks until class ends. Right now they want to see me at least once, and ideally twice a week. The appointment went well; my physical therapist is fine to work with, although not someone I'll actively look forward to making small talk with several times a week for an hour. Ah well. I need her to be competent, not my best friend.
Oh, random note, forgot to mention last week the doctor's office called, and had me add a Vitamin D supplement, since apparently I'm Vitamin D deficient, as well as slightly anemic. So, random easily fixed thing. Hard to say whether it was having any particularly noticeable affect on me or not, but strong bones are good, and I'd like to maintain them.
In the physical therapy session today, which was mostly just evaluation, we focused primarily on my hips, since those are my major functional complaint. Apparently I have a great deal of hypermobility in terms of rotating my hips outward, but not inward. We're going to try to strengthen and stabilize there, and try to stretch my hamstrings and calfs, which are extremely tight. On the very positive side, she worked my hips through every possible orientation with a good deal of pressure, and didn't feel any grinding or catching, so that speaks well of the integrity of the cartilage in the joint. Yay! Now we just have to figure out what is causing the intermittent pain, locking, and popping that I have.
I've got a couple printed pages of exercises to do daily to work on all this between sessions, and she wants me carefully watching for pain in my hips, and what triggers it. I think I'll just add a few more columns to the "health tracker" spreadsheet I'm already keeping. It's a good daily reminder to do my exercises, too. Especially since I hate blank spots in a column that should be filled, which'll be extra motivation to be consistent. Might as well make my little obsessive tendencies work in my favor!
Oh, random note, forgot to mention last week the doctor's office called, and had me add a Vitamin D supplement, since apparently I'm Vitamin D deficient, as well as slightly anemic. So, random easily fixed thing. Hard to say whether it was having any particularly noticeable affect on me or not, but strong bones are good, and I'd like to maintain them.
In the physical therapy session today, which was mostly just evaluation, we focused primarily on my hips, since those are my major functional complaint. Apparently I have a great deal of hypermobility in terms of rotating my hips outward, but not inward. We're going to try to strengthen and stabilize there, and try to stretch my hamstrings and calfs, which are extremely tight. On the very positive side, she worked my hips through every possible orientation with a good deal of pressure, and didn't feel any grinding or catching, so that speaks well of the integrity of the cartilage in the joint. Yay! Now we just have to figure out what is causing the intermittent pain, locking, and popping that I have.
I've got a couple printed pages of exercises to do daily to work on all this between sessions, and she wants me carefully watching for pain in my hips, and what triggers it. I think I'll just add a few more columns to the "health tracker" spreadsheet I'm already keeping. It's a good daily reminder to do my exercises, too. Especially since I hate blank spots in a column that should be filled, which'll be extra motivation to be consistent. Might as well make my little obsessive tendencies work in my favor!
