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I had my first physical therapy appointment today, and it isn't going to be as bad as I thought. One of the things I am bad at is posture when typing (jesus, I'm doing it right now). I tend to hunch my shoulders up into my neck and lean on my elbows and it's just a mess. This was my second surgery, my left elbow was done 2 yrs ago and has healed up really nicely. It was only as I was getting ready to think about going back to martial arts of some sort that my right elbow started complaining.
My right elbow isn't healing as quickly as the other one tho. I have a feeling it's because I am using it a lot more because I am right handed. The physical therapist confirmed that last night. I've been feeling a lot of tightness in the muscles that are connected to my elbow, so I was worried, but the surgery site felt fine. The tightness wasn't pain, but it was pretty uncomfortable.
So Mary, my physical therapist, put me through the motions and pretty much concluded that while the exercising that I will do would help, what she wanted to try was massage first.
Let me take a minute to describe Mary and me. I'm 6'2", about 230. Mary is about 5'2", maybe 110lbs. She started massaging my forearm and quickly found the knot. "This might take a few sessions to get rid of, I don't want to hurt you."
"Mary, I live for deep tissue, bruise me." She laughed and started digging, eventually getting to the point where she used her elbow. Painful? Engh. Uncomfortable as hell is a better word, but not painful. It's feeling a lot looser today than it has in the past, so I'm hopeful. I have another appointment on Thurs and Fri and two next week so far plus some exercises that will stretch things out in the affected area, and will consequently loosen up my shoulders and neck.