BYC Café

[Nomadicus]

I don't know what all is in my coffee this morning but it is good. It maybe that the coffee is just the warm carrier for the good stuff.

 

[aart]

I'm pleasantly surprised with the results from my last PT visit. Stim while on moist heat, traction, mild stretching exercises to try to force the disc back in place then she taped my back before I left. Yesterday my hip felt better than it has since I injured it. There's light at the end of the tunnel.

Glad you've found some relief!
Will she teach you some exercises to keep those muscles balanced?
That was the best thing I got from the one good PT I went to, still use them today.
Stretch and strengthen, front to back, side to side.
Didn't want to go to PT, wanted an MRI....but it was all about muscle balance.

 

[aart]

Frosty here this morning, slowly melting with the suns rise.

 

[DobieLover]

Will she teach you some exercises to keep those muscles balanced?

Yes. Plus she said the exercise she had me do is the book she recommended that will be here soon.

I am generally pretty strong and very flexible. But with all the stress I've been through over these past 8 years or so, I slip in and out of bad bouts of depression. When I finally drag myself out of one, I jump back into my normal level of activities and excursion but my body will have lost strength. I need to be more careful when I start back up, hauling around saws, giant rocks, etc so this doesn't happen again.

 

[sourland]

Good morning. I've added fresh coffee. Really good update, DL.

 

[Mtn Margie]

I am sorry for your loss, cow whisperer.
We wound up with about 5 inches of snow and it is doing a good job of melting away.
I am glad to hear that the healing is moving in the right direction, Café mates!
It is pretty quiet around here. I have been seeing a coyote cruise through at all different times of the day. So, no free-ranging and the cat goes out with me during chore time only.
Enjoy the day, Cafe!

 

[aart]

Yes. Plus she said the exercise she had me do is the book she recommended that will be here soon.

I am generally pretty strong and very flexible. But with all the stress I've been through over these past 8 years or so, I slip in and out of bad bouts of depression. When I finally drag myself out of one, I jump back into my normal level of activities and excursion but my body will have lost strength. I need to be more careful when I start back up, hauling around saws, giant rocks, etc so this doesn't happen again.

Yep, I also suffer from profound depression, have most my life, and the 'mania' that often follows the downs.
The exercise can help with that too, if one can motivate to move(at least stretches).
You can get smarter about moving weighty things and moves.
What's the book?

 

[DobieLover]

if one can motivate to move(at least stretches).

No matter what, I hike the dogs weather permitting. That is a least a 3 mile hike 4+ times per week unless I'm so weak from illness that I can't do it, like 2 weeks ago when I just walked to a down tree and sat on that while they ran around in the field.

What's the book?

Treat Your Own Back

 

[DobieLover]

Hard to say if this was a pigeon or a crow but it got itself very killed!

 

[aart]

No matter what, I hike the dogs weather permitting. That is a least a 3 mile hike 4+ times per week unless I'm so weak from illness that I can't do it, like 2 weeks ago when I just walked to a down tree and sat on that while they ran around in the field.

That's good can work your stretchandstrengthen into the hikes.