My body is falling apart! argh!

[Helene2013]

Went to my PT/Kin on Tuesday night. I have her "Go" to start training again. She will build me a gradual one to start smoothly. It's unbelievable how much you lose by just stopping (or really limiting) physical activities. My cardio is the worst. Oh...the muscle aches too. hihi

I will have some gradual bike trainer program, but mostly it will be working on the muscle mass (lower body to regain strength and keep building strong cores) and work on getting my overpronation (feet) to be refocused properly (through hips/knee work out). It is not easy as it changes your walking/standing pattern and your brain has to think all the time. But this will help realign pelvis and knee.

Overall it was a good visit. I still hurt in the knee. She wanted to see how I climb/down stairs as I said I hurt when I go down the stairs. So we practiced this (hip/foot moves) to avoid stress on knee and she saw the swelling start (a small lump on upper outer side of knee). It went away as soon as I was relaxed in the evening.

So not out of the woods, but the program will help me gradually back to sports and hoping for no re-injury. I will still think of those synvisc injection if by end of winter the knees are still bothering me. So much I can do by myself and I'd want to avoid a knee surgery down the road. One was enough.lol

[OakLeaf]

As long as you're doing foot/hip work ... hope you don't mind my once again HIGHLY recommending this 60 minute routine: https://www.yogaglo.com/class/3866

It's a subscription site ($18/month) but you can get a 30 day free trial and do the class as many times as you want until you have it memorized and then decide whether you want to cancel or continue. Your PT might want to check it out.

Good luck with the return to action!

[Helene2013]

Thank you OakLeaf. I will certainly look at that site and will slip a word to my PT as well.

[Catrin]

That DOES look interesting, and I also have hip issues. Well, apparently right now if I have a joint my body finds a problem with it