Greetings,
In my last post I mentioned that I was beginning to see a physiotherapist about doing something about the damage done to my chest. This is really the first development toward progression that I can talk about. The medication worked on the symptoms of the problem it is true, but the physiotherapy seems to be making some real progress.
I have been for four sessions with the physiotherapist. I have been given movement exercises to do and have been having various techniques applied to various parts of my body. I can say for sure that there has indeed been progress. I have actually been feeling an increase in movement in the area. Of course the weather of late being cold has not helped things particularly much, but I feel that I would be feeling a lot worse than if I had not been going.
One of the big things that we have been working on his my posture. I am now standing up more straight than I used to be and it is helping a great deal. I have noticed improvements in other areas thanks to this actually. I can now sit and work at my computer a little longer, and sitting for extended periods of time is causing less problems than it used to. These are small improvements, but still significant.
The other major area that the physiotherapist and I have been working on is getting some muscle tone into my right shoulder in order to place my shoulder blade back up against my chest wall where it should be. It actually stands out a bit and the exercises that I have been given are designed to assist with this. This is in turn working on muscles in the front of my chest around the area and improving things in that particular area.
I am hoping that with continued maintenance and stretching and the exercises I may eventually be able to finally solve an issue and improve my current condition, well at least back to how I used to be. I can tell you for free that there are no miracle cures, but if you are willing to put in the work which is required in order to improve yourself, the benefits from this are great. I am even considering some more physio after the chest has improved in order to focus more on a fitness increasing regime to improve things overall.
Cheers,
Henry.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
8 June 2010 - Progression at Last!
Greetings,
I know it has been a while since I have posted anything, well finally I have some news and some good news at that. I went to my new physiotherapist today as part of a program I have been put on in order to improve things for me. Seems that there is actually a cause for the "chest issue" that I have been having over the past months.
About a month and a half before my chest started causing some real issues I cracked a rib while fencing. Once again, my own stupid fault not parrying properly and impaling myself on my opponent's weapon. Of course that meant six weeks of pretty much no fencing at all. Only a few days after that I went to a fencing event and pretty much fenced for about six hours with very little break, not very smart, but a lot of fun.
Of course the lack of activity followed by an extensive amount of activity was bound to cause issues, and I expected that. I expected to be out of action for a couple of days after the event, I did not expect that it would have longer lasting effects. Well it seems that to compensate for the lack of activity, the joints from the sternum to the ribs tightened up along with the muscles associated, leading to the "chest issue".
So, I am off to the physiotherapist for some sessions to get the muscles and joints moving again, and thus bring back my activity level and comfort. What I am hoping is if I can convince the physiotherapist that giving me exercises pointed toward fencing would be an awesome idea. I will just have to see how it all goes. For now it is doing some exercises targeted at the particular area and working on my posture.
I am back again to the physio in the next couple of days and hopefully I will have another progress report for you all. Looks like things are finally looking up for me, which is a nice change. I am thinking with a little work, I may actually be able to progress toward some real improvements in my condition. I am not expecting to it all to "cure" me, but I am sure as hell going to do what I can to improve things for myself. If I can at least get some flexibility back and some movement I will be much happier.
Cheers,
Henry.
I know it has been a while since I have posted anything, well finally I have some news and some good news at that. I went to my new physiotherapist today as part of a program I have been put on in order to improve things for me. Seems that there is actually a cause for the "chest issue" that I have been having over the past months.
About a month and a half before my chest started causing some real issues I cracked a rib while fencing. Once again, my own stupid fault not parrying properly and impaling myself on my opponent's weapon. Of course that meant six weeks of pretty much no fencing at all. Only a few days after that I went to a fencing event and pretty much fenced for about six hours with very little break, not very smart, but a lot of fun.
Of course the lack of activity followed by an extensive amount of activity was bound to cause issues, and I expected that. I expected to be out of action for a couple of days after the event, I did not expect that it would have longer lasting effects. Well it seems that to compensate for the lack of activity, the joints from the sternum to the ribs tightened up along with the muscles associated, leading to the "chest issue".
So, I am off to the physiotherapist for some sessions to get the muscles and joints moving again, and thus bring back my activity level and comfort. What I am hoping is if I can convince the physiotherapist that giving me exercises pointed toward fencing would be an awesome idea. I will just have to see how it all goes. For now it is doing some exercises targeted at the particular area and working on my posture.
I am back again to the physio in the next couple of days and hopefully I will have another progress report for you all. Looks like things are finally looking up for me, which is a nice change. I am thinking with a little work, I may actually be able to progress toward some real improvements in my condition. I am not expecting to it all to "cure" me, but I am sure as hell going to do what I can to improve things for myself. If I can at least get some flexibility back and some movement I will be much happier.
Cheers,
Henry.
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