All is going well with the rehab, thus far. Exercises at this point are easy, although quite boring. Sticking with them is what is important right now, along with taking it slowly and trying not to do too much at once. Adding one to two new exercises per week is more than enough, so I have to keep that in mind. Although what I'm doing seems like nothing, I just have to stick with it.
I tried to work on some stretching and release work today, focusing on mobilizing the posterior hip joint. I have some new exercises to try out along this vein tomorrow, but today I mainly focused on sitting on tennis balls. It worked wonders. As I said earlier to my roommate, why pay money to have a physical therapist push on your butt when you can do the same by sitting on a tennis ball. I saw the same immediate results that I had seen when my therapist did posterior mobs. The test is hard to explain for someone who isn't up on PT lingo, but I'll try. Laying on my stomach, knees bent at 90 degrees, my legs would fall out to the side nearly hitting the ground, but would not move inward to nearly the same extent. This mean I had decreased external hip rotation. After the mobilization work, I would see a huge increase in this motion. Sitting on the tennis ball did the same. It seems to be working! Good news!!
That's all for today. Maybe I'll have some more time for stories tomorrow.
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