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October 6th, 2010
12:37 pm - hips and makers
Today I am posting from the Greenlake branch of the library. I stopped by to update my account after my physical therapy appointment. Spent much time yesterday looking for missing library card (I've been in the King County system for the last two years or so) and not finding it, so have now replaced it. To the tune of $1 and most likely having it be the Very Next Thing I find unpacking, but that's the perverse humor of the universe for you.
Turns out the problem in my hip seems to be that my left femoral head is not sitting quite properly into its socket; it is slightly posterior of where it belongs. This means that all the surrounding stabilizer muscles are overcompensating, and after six months of working out or so they decided to let me know about it. :) The good news is it should be remedied reasonably easily with exercises to strengthen my core abdominal muscles (already underway with trainer Heidi) and additional exercises focusing on gently improving and realigning the currently strained set of muscles. Oh, and some likely-to-be-uncomfortable medical massage. I'm off the training schedule and set up for twice-weekly PT sessions for the next 4 weeks.
I'm not terribly surprised to find my hip(s) out of alignment - the childhood hip dysplasia I grew up wearing a brace for explains it quite neatly. It's one of those things I've almost been expecting to happen knowing my health history. It shouldn't limit my activities at all once the pain and overuse are remedied. So good news on the whole.
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What good is being prescribed massage if you aren't going to be able to enjoy it? Talk about insult to injury.... |
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