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November 01, 2005
My aching body is healing
I can tell I am healing. I worked out pretty hard on the elliptical for 40 minutes and then I did some balance exercises, some foam rolling, core exercises, and some stretching. I also biked to school and the gym today. There was no pain in any body parts. When I was stretching I noticed the time off is healing parts of my body that weren’t even part of this specific injury. For example, since about June whenever I stretched my left quad (by bending my leg at the knee and pulling my foot toward my butt) I couldn’t move it too far back b/c there was some pain. I had much less flexibility on that side of my body than my right leg. At first I was alarmed. Then, once I saw I wasn’t getting worse, I thought, “Hey, I can still run. I don’t really care if I can’t bend it that well.” Then I got used to it and just knew I couldn’t move that leg certain ways. I automatically compensated for it when I got out of cars and such (climbing out of a 2 door from the back) and had to put a lot of weight on it when it was in a weird position. I also haven’t been able to squat since this summer but I don’t really want to try that that since I don’t want to aggravate my knees. I always sit on the floor or kneel if I have to get something out of my locker or need to be eye to eye with someone who is sitting. Maybe just for fun I will try later this week. Well, all is now good at least in the flexibility department and I can stretch the left leg just as well as the right and it doesn’t hurt anymore. That is kind of exciting.
Posted by Audrey at November 1, 2005 05:35 PM
Comments
Audrey, just read a few of your blog posts. Interesting about the knee pain. You see, I have this pain below my knee on the outside... My self-diagnosis was popliteus tendonitis (ligament stretching around outside of knee and attaching to tibia?). Thing is it doesn't hurt when I run, only when I put certain strains on it (like kneeling). They say downhill running aggravates it so I'm trying to limit that. Just wondering if you had similar symptoms? Anyway, I hope your full recovery is quick and you're back running at full strength soon.
Posted by: Kurt in Boston at November 1, 2005 11:43 PM