motomotoyama | (no subject)

I'm afraid to tell my physical therapist that my knee is starting to hurt more. Not "I can't walk on it" sore, but more of an ache that makes moving it, and well, not moving it kind of painful. If I do, she'll tell me that I have to stay off skates even longer, and that's not something I want to hear right now. Grr. I'm hoping that it's just the residual effects of the blistering workout she gave it yesterday. Every visit we add more exercises for me to do at home, and she invents new tortures to do while I'm in the office at her mercy. All in the name of strenghthening. In any case I'm hoping that the pain will subside so that I can truthfully tell her at my next visit that I am feeling aces, so that she can tell me I'm strong enough to skate.

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Sometimes muscles, tendons and ligaments will ache when you give them a good workout - it's a sign that they're getting stronger. If they don't ache, then they're not getting the work out they should, so you're PT will try to make the exercises more difficult. Which, of course, may cause painful damage, making you unable to skate.

I want to see you sakt. Tell your PT everything.

As someone who was in PT several weeks longer than I might have been had I just been honest about the pain, I would highly recommend talking to your PT.

In my case, some of the exercises were making things worse because there was a secondary injury. When I tried to work through the pain, I messed things up further. The secondary injury wasn't discovered until I was honest about the pain.