\nThe ab exercises that the physical therapist gave me were actually making my back hurt more, so we had to revise our theory as to what the problem was. It’s probably not so much the old back injury from college or a lack of ab strength. I may be fat, but there’s muscle underneath all that flab. Instead, my hips are apparently extremely tight. Insert your own joke here. You know what you don’t want to hear when your physical therapist starts feeling around your body? “Oh, wow.” It seems my c-section scar tissue is really deep and thick, and it’s either causing or exacerbating the problem.<\/p>\n
Anywho, apparently the treatment for this involves painful kneading, plus more stretches and exercises. As a side note, there is nothing like having someone poke and prod your abdomen and dig their elbows into your hips to make you think that perhaps you could stand to be in a little better shape.<\/p>\n
She apologized a lot for the pain, not that I was complaining. Short term drawback, long term gain. Even with the pain, though, she is apparently “taking it easy” on me for these first couple of sessions so as not to discourage me or send me home in worse shape. I’m letting her know when it hurts and how what she’s doing feels, but I’m also working my macho side pretty hard. I’ve got a pretty good tolerance, and I’m using it!<\/p>\n
The physical therapist is about half my age, but nice enough and a sweet little thing. She was showing me an ab exercise and it was so funny to see her kind of glance around, lean over, and say in a low voice, “do you know what Kegels are?” Honey, please.<\/p>\n
On the down side, she’s also working with at least one other client at the same time. I’d rather have her undivided attention, but so be it. As long as this is helping, and, aside from a co-pay, is covered by insurance, then I’m on board. Here’s hoping that I’ll be back to turning backflips soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}