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urocyonJust got back from Ilford, and am feeling encouraged; after one session, my lower back and hamstrings are not nearly as stiff, and noticed I was standing up straighter heading back to the bus stop. :)
We decided that the lower back and legs were a higher priority than the shoulders, and started on them. Nopt too surprisingly, considering this is the third time I've heard this, the sacroiliac joints were implicated--probably thrown out of whack by the mangled coccyx ca. 1989 which started the back pain. She also noticed that the piriformis are really tight, which I hadn't.
20 minutes with TENS and hot packs felt great; I was glad I was reacting in a too stiffly polite manner to screech, "No TENS!!!". Yeah, I know it's different, but a bad course of post-ACLR PT using EMS still had me half-scared of it. (The main knot in that quadriceps became obvious after really painful Dead Frog Twitching sessions.) To be honest, multiple courses of the kind of PT which tries to strengthen knotted muscles had put me off the whole idea of voluntarily doing PT again. The TENS felt strange, but didn't hurt. I wasn't stuck firmly enough in Politeness Mode to get brushed off again, if it had!
I was almost ready to go home then, but she followed up with some massage. No energy work, unlike the (very low-key about it) osteopath last year--but strictly mechanical did the job. It was worth at least £40. I went ahead and made another appointment next week.
While killing time in Ilford, I gobbled down a cup of buttery-lemony Magic Corn. Not to be confused with magic beans, one assumes. The variety is too sweet (as I've come to expect), but it was the best I'd had in ages. It's probably a good thing nobody has a stall up closer to home, even if it's not a bad fast food choice. There sure was a steady stream of people buying £1.50 cups of sweet corn!
For a really balanced late lunch, I rounded that out with some Balti peanuts. *shakes head*
We decided that the lower back and legs were a higher priority than the shoulders, and started on them. Nopt too surprisingly, considering this is the third time I've heard this, the sacroiliac joints were implicated--probably thrown out of whack by the mangled coccyx ca. 1989 which started the back pain. She also noticed that the piriformis are really tight, which I hadn't.
20 minutes with TENS and hot packs felt great; I was glad I was reacting in a too stiffly polite manner to screech, "No TENS!!!". Yeah, I know it's different, but a bad course of post-ACLR PT using EMS still had me half-scared of it. (The main knot in that quadriceps became obvious after really painful Dead Frog Twitching sessions.) To be honest, multiple courses of the kind of PT which tries to strengthen knotted muscles had put me off the whole idea of voluntarily doing PT again. The TENS felt strange, but didn't hurt. I wasn't stuck firmly enough in Politeness Mode to get brushed off again, if it had!
I was almost ready to go home then, but she followed up with some massage. No energy work, unlike the (very low-key about it) osteopath last year--but strictly mechanical did the job. It was worth at least £40. I went ahead and made another appointment next week.
While killing time in Ilford, I gobbled down a cup of buttery-lemony Magic Corn. Not to be confused with magic beans, one assumes. The variety is too sweet (as I've come to expect), but it was the best I'd had in ages. It's probably a good thing nobody has a stall up closer to home, even if it's not a bad fast food choice. There sure was a steady stream of people buying £1.50 cups of sweet corn!
For a really balanced late lunch, I rounded that out with some Balti peanuts. *shakes head*
