21 weeks - PT phase 2
Sorry for the lack of updates. Life got crazy in the past several weeks between work, school, new psych meds, etc.
Anyway, I had what I thought was my last PT appointment today and was really nervous to be done. I am getting quite a bit of strength and ROM back, but I’d say I’m maybe 50% back to normal, and I feel like my theraband exercises and calf stretches are not really doing anything anymore. I’m back to 30 hours a week of work but that is pretty damn painful - I even broke out the boot for the first time in a month a couple days ago.
Anyway, my PT did a re-eval today and said that he’s happy with how far I’ve come (oh yeah - I had to switch therapists about two weeks in), and would like to transition from basic functionality to getting me back into my regular martial arts/yoga/dance/whatever I want to do routine. So he dropped the theraband exercises and basic ROM exercises I was doing and added some new calf raises and stretches to my routine. The best part is most of what I’m doing is just once a day now, so I think I’m more likely to actually get everything in, rather than doing half of what I need to do when it was 2x/day.
And now I’m off to shower and go to bed because I have a 5:30am shift tomorrow. I’ll try and update with how this new stuff is going, but I’m still celebrating the fact that I don’t have a limp anymore. Yay!!
LindaF Said,
June 12, 2015 @ 4:55 am
Glad to hear that you are progressing. I am sure it is a good feeling to start working back towards your sporting activities. I am around week 15 so a little behind you. They let me swing a golf club yesterday in therapy. I was able to now push off my back foot ( my bad foot) and I now have the ROM to do that and some (not all) of my push off strength in my calf, so it looks like I should be able to hit some balls very soon. Good for you about losing the limp. I am almost there, but not quite. Hope things continue to go well for you. Sounds like the worse is behind us, as everyone says.