orchid11's Journal

Well, after bugging my pain doctor about it a couple of times, he decided that I should get my way and start a mild PT regimin.  I had my first session yesterday - an hour and a half long, with a one hour evaluation and a half hour exercise period. 

Now, when I scheduled my PT I was sure to choose the most senior therapist available, with years of experience treating my pain doc's patients who are recieving prolotherapy for pelvic instability.  This guy did not disappoint, THANK GOD.  I've been disappointed by so many health professionals recently, that I was so grateful to not be treated by a moron.  He was very knowledgeable, thorough, and insightful!! He listened carefully and answered all of my questions..yay! 

He of course reaffirmed that I am hypermobile and tested all my muscles for strength and tightness. He said my muscles were very strong. He also said that my right ilium was anteriorly rotated, which perplexed him because my right ilium should be posteriorly rotated, given the type of injury I sustained.  However! After a little discussion we figured out that my husband (who has been performing some corrections on me, at the request of my doctor) has been yanking too hard on my right leg, bringing my right ilium from a posterior rotation (or no rotation) to an anterior rotation!  And my ligaments are actually holding that SOB there! Yay prolo! HA. Anyway, the therapist corrected my pelvis and told me not to let my husband yank on anything until further notice.  He also said I had a very small TRUE leg length difference - nothing to be concerned about - my right leg is 1/8" shorter than the left.  A "pseudo" leg length difference is usually a sign that the pelvis is out of whack and needs adjustment (via leg pulling).  But since I do have a TRUE leg length difference, pulling on my right leg is only going to anteriorly rotate my right illium and throw my pelvis off kilter. VERY interesting!  I can't wait to hear what my doc has to say  about that! The therapist also told me that my foot arches flatten with weight bearing and gave me in-soles to wear with arch supports.  There is a big long thing about why flattened feet are bad and effect the pelvis and even the back, but I'm not going to get into all that.

So, then I moved into the exercise area, where some chick led me through the exercises that my PT recommended.  A lot of ass work and a lot of ab work!!!  There was some big-time hamgstring stretching and some pretty ordinary spine mobilization exercises as well.  I am fairly sore today from yesterday's workout.  Maybe I'll go soak in the tub with some epsom salts. HEH I'm supposed to do those exercises every day and go to  PT on Tues and Thurs.  I'm probably not going to be able to do too much at my Thurs session next week since I'll be all stiff from prolo on Wed.  So...perhaps I'll have to skip the exercises for a few days. Maybe we can just play catch with those Swiss stability balls! Yay!