Physical therapy week 1

Well the first week of physical therapy is done. This is what I've learned so far.

1.  No one goes to physical therapy on Fridays.  Hence why the "gym" (above) is empty.

2.  Crutches are a bitch. Everywhere I go is far away and if I don't have tris you can cut glass with by the end of this I give up.

3.  A great time to catch up on all the sleep I'm not getting is while getting estem and ice.

4.  Work + pt + work = no bueno. Every day that's happened I've come home and literally gone straight to bed.

 

Oh and this is what this estem mess looks like.  Check out those muscle contractions.  Actually you may have to enlarge the video to actually see it (hard to get the iphone to really capture the essence of what this FEELS like).  Oh and there's some douchebag talking about cars in the background.  Disregard.  :p

Physical therapy...or actual therapy?

Today was day 1 of physical therapy.  I was actually really looking forward to it.  Until my therapist decided to tell me all about her nightmare weekend.  Don't get me wrong.  I'm obviously in a profession that requires you listen to problems.  But lately (it may be due to the fact that I have my own issues that I find are more important these days) I have no patience.  So I spent an hour and forty five minutes at therapy today.  Standard exercises for about an hr and then electrical stim for 20 min to round it out with about 15 min of ice.  Woot....three days a week for 2 weeks of these shenanigans.