another stint of physical therapy

[sistawendy]

If you have a weird obsession with me, you may recall that I messed up my shoulder back in September while pushing my bike up my front steps, an activity necessitated by the local population of goddamn thieves. After six months of my shoulder maybe kinda sorta getting better, I listened to the Tickler and made a physical therapy appointment for this afternoon. So how did it go?

Not bad, only a few gasps of pain. The exercises aren't as strenuous as the ones for my knees over five years ago. I assume that's because this time the goal isn't to build muscle to make a joint less mobile, but to make it more so. There's a long list of exercises that I'm supposed to do more often than I really wanna, but if I want to put my coat on in a reasonable amount of time, or hook my own bra behind my back without crying out and taking a break for a minute afterward, I need to do it. Executive function R us here at the Devil Girl House.

Did I feel like I had the least serious injury in the whole clinic? Yes. Am I letting it bother me? Not that much.

Comments

[trilliumgrl]

Did they give you an app? The PTs I'm seeing now use an app and it's very good at trying to remind me to do my exercises.

As a PT veteran I can tell you - the range of injuries they are seeing is vast and wide. You may not be as acute as someone who just had surgery, but the fact that it's been messed up for 6 months makes you a different kind of serious. More of a puzzle, which a lot of PTs freaking LOVE.

Do your PT. Don't end up like me. *mwah*

[sistawendy]

The exercise instructions included some for downloading the app. I haven't needed it, though. Nobody there pushed it.

[trilliumgrl]

I salute you. Without the blasted app I forget what I'm supposed to do and if I've done it. Probably a side-effect of trying to do too much in any given span of time ;)