I had my 20 week follow-up visit with my OS this week. It lasted all of 10 minutes–max. He asked me how I was doing and I said “good, although my dorsiflexion ROM was still tight”. He had me show him my ROM and he thought it looked excellent. At this stage, minimally tight dorsiflexion [...]
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Life is pretty good at this stage, but I feel like a football (American) team in the red zone where progress becomes much more difficult. I walk without a limp and my push-off strength is good. I can cycle reasonably long distances (I did another 30 mile bike ride this week) at nearly full strength. [...]
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My recovery continues to go well and I’ve made more strides this past week. At my PT this week I graduated from the simulated “shuttle” jumping and began real, light (hands on a ballet bar) jumping on both feet–in-place, side-to-side, and diagonally (front-left to rear-right, and the reverse). I also did some gentle jumping on [...]
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[Week 17] Today at my PT appointment they gave me a Y-Balance Test. While I’d never heard of this or read about it on this blog site, I found it a very interesting test with potentially important diagnostic information, so I wanted to share. As background (most of which I picked-up on the internet after [...]
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This will be a brief update as I don’t have much news to report. My recovery continues to go well and life is getting back closer to normal. I’m still going to PT 2x week and the focus has shifted to strength building, active stretching, and light-impact exercises (e.g. skipping, shuttle jumping). Over the past [...]
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At my PT appointment today, my PT said he had some “surprises” for me–new stuff. He then said at 16 weeks, the protocol they’re following for me called for an introduction to some more active and light-impact exercises. So, in addition to the stationary bike, both active and passive balancing exercises and calf stretching, today [...]
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