February 4, 2010
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I started rehab last week and I hope it works! For the past 7 or 8 months one ankle has been chronically sore and my back gets a little irritated when I sit for long periods. Drive for an hour and I can’t get out of the car seat cuz my ass is asleep and sore! I knew that all that non-gay living would catch up with me.
The ankle, oh the ankle. I’ve sprained my ankles two or three times in the past 5 years and it’s taken 6 months to a year for the ligaments to finally heal up. Those were all from basketball. This last one, I was standing in line at the Oakley Factory Sale……………
…………… and that’s the story. I stood in line for 3.5 hours and then my foot was sore and it hasn’t gotten better since! I feel like such a loser when I tell that story.
The doc x-rayed again and of course it showed nothing (I wanted an MRI not an x-ray dammit!). Not broken, not arthritic, he sent me packing to physical therapy. Physical therapy is pretty easy. Basically I go and do glorified stretches for an hour. The therapist works on my for 25 minutes, loosening my back muscles and lift my leg up and down, bending the ankle in different ways doing what he calls glides or flossing. He thinks I have some nerves that are impinged or tied up somewhere that are causing the tightness and slight pain. We found the exact sore spots in the ankle, it’s at a really weird angle and not easy to get to stretchwise.
I don’t know if the back’s improved yet, but I guess it takes awhile for the stretching/core strengthening exercises to take effect. What is really cool is the electro stimulation treatment at the end. They attach these shocker wires to your body and turn it up. I lay on my back with the electrodes hooked up and they put an ice pad underneath and it’s some trippy stuff. It’s like chunneling electric ice spears into your back. Ice shock!
I really miss playing basketball and other sports so I decided to be proactive and get these quirky little things fixed. Yeah, it’s the effects of age. But seriously… all this ankle pain from standing in a line for me to save a four hundred bucks on snowboarding goggles and messenger bag? What’s the medical deductible before insurance starts covering their 80%? $500. Savings? I don’t think so. I would pay $1000 in a minute for all this to magically go away.
Have you ever done physical therapy or accupuncture? How were the results for your injury and how long did it take to heal up?
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Accupuncture is awesome. I always feel so relaxed after.
Maybe you need to find a good martial art teacher. I heard they can correct posture and release some tension of past injury.
Reading about the difficult location of the trauma, accupuncture was a suggestion that immediately came to mind. Then I saw that it was something you were actually considering. Ive never done it, but why not give it a try if you feel like you’ve already exhausted other means of treatment with no long lasting result. Physical therapy requires a dedication I dont have, therefore, its a method that does not work too well with me.
I do acupuncture for my back and it has helped a lot
i used to work at an acupuncture center and even medical doctors came in to get treatment! one had back pains from golf and others because overweight, etc. i’m a firm believer in acupuncture, it is how i treated my asthma!
i recommend it, a lot of insurance companies now cover insurance as a form of rehab/treatment so you usually just have to pay like a deductible or co-payment. do itt!
What about yoga?
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@grey_sea_days - to everyone above, thanks for the input. i’ve never done acupuncture, but have often thought about it. i asked my doctor about it (he’s white not asian) and he said it’s something i could also consider. i’m trying a month of PT to see if that works or helps. also the first time i did the electric stimulation it was on low. then the second time it was pretty high and i thought i could take it but then after a minute and half it was like sticking frozen swords in my back with massive electric shock. i had to lay there for 15 minutes so i had him adjust it down which i think i probably still had it on a little too high because after he took the wired pads off my back it felt like they were still stuck on for the next hour. but… my back felt/feels alot better after that. so when it was on way too high setting, i was thinking… if i was on 24 and Jack Bauer was torturing me for 20 minutes, i don’t know if i could take shock treatment for that long. i guess i was just tasering my back for those 90 seconds.
i do various stretches for my legs that actually work the lower back and core like leg lefts, piriformis stretch (you guys should look into this, bet you didn’t even know that you had this muscle, it’s where the thigh and butt meet on, feels like a pull on the back of your leg), a bike ride, menial ankle things like towel grabbing with toes, grabbing marbles with toes, and also tie my foot to a latex band and do resistance pulls and turns with my foot (thera band, is the name, pretty cheap if you ever to buy it). the thera band seems to work pretty good for me.
@chrispycrunch - have not thought about yoga. have you tried it?