Re: Some things I'm missing... wasRe: OT: I am reborn

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:54:49 -0400, "Lizzardwoman"
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"Joyce Reynolds-Ward" <jrw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| The big concern is that you will tend to favor the injured area and
| that will lead to an imbalance in the muscles.

But this favoring will only occur if there is pain or limited ROM, yes?

No.


There will be no favoring absent pain or limited ROM, yes?

Wrong.


| Injuries--both traumatic and repetative--can be caused by a previous
| imbalance. Traumatic can at times come about due to a muscle weakness
| that sets you up for a fall.

Joyce, I TRIPPED over a bike. I fellwillallmy weight on my shoulder. If
there is any previous imbalance, it ain't in my shoulder. Agreed?

And I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk while jogging, when I was
in good enough condition to run in 6k road races for fun--not
competitive fun, pretty much the jogging equivalent of riding dressage
without showing--without problems, and screwed up my hip. Previously
I had no injury in that hip.

I did what you're wanting to do in recovering with that hip--in part
because I was young and broke. Six weeks later I fell again and
reinjured it. Kept plugging along, blithely thought nothing was
wrong. Went back to jogging. Did not seek out rehab.

I'm paying for that choice now. Have been paying for that choice for
27 years.

Shrug. I learned years ago that involvement in amateur sports
activity, whether it was riding a horse, jogging, intramural
badminton, or adult ballet classes, required that I think about myself
as an athlete and cultivate the similar attitudes toward conditioning,
body awareness, and balance, as well as working on recovering from an
injury. That's why, when I was recovering from my last serious injury
to a joint/associated muscles, I went to a sports medicine doctor and
to a sports medicine physical therapist. T

You seem to not want to do that.

| Your muscles also need to be reconditioned and built back up to the
| level of conditioning they were at previously before returning to the
| same activities. BTDT as a rehab patient myself. In a traumatic
| injury, the uninjured muscles are not necessarily going to lose their
| balance/strength etc to the same degree. If you try to just go back
| to what you were doing without rehabbing and working for balance,
| you'll end up with the uninjured muscles being stronger than the
| injured muscle, thus setting you up for a muscle imbalance, therefore
| a potential overuse injury.

What is I return to the identical strength and ROM?

How do you know you are in that situation?

You can't know that this soon. Either that, or you're exaggerating
the pain of the original injury.

jrw
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