After about two weeks of doing all six of the exercises the PT guy (Doyle) asked me to do at least five days a week (more like six for me, I take Sundays off due to the lack of time before breakfast), I received two new ones. The latest involving me lying face down and raising an arm at 90, 45 and 0 degrees (saying my head is noon) hurts big time. As I write this, my upper back, between the shoulder blades is bordering on the level of pain I endured standing for several hours at the OK Go concert. I certainly need to get my painkillers refilled to get through this.
The bigger question I had for Doyle was, has there been any improvement? I received a wise yet nebulous answer: depends upon how you feel at our next session since the goal is to strengthen the muscles around your back.
Great. I could’ve avoided all this grief by maintaining my routine via the Wii Fit or joined a gym. Then again, getting through the initial analysis/support through a PT expert is probably smarter. Without an expert I am more likely to hurt myself.
A friend suggested seeing a chiropractor. I’m in less pain lately and I wasn’t desperate yet. Yes, I’m letting my bias against those practitioners show. I just feel their stuff borders on pseduo-science.
However, do I feel better? Overall? Yes but it’s too early because I haven’t run out of nabumatone (painkiller) and I trust Doyle’s immediate assessment, the initial pain I’m experiencing is from stretching parts of me I probably haven’t really used since gym classes in 1986. How I miss the days of Team Supreme with Mike and Jon. How much cooler it would’ve been if we had some real opposition to play volleyball against because winning all the time did get boring.
Let’s see how it goes in early July. The cats will be excited to see another “rubber band” to attack.