Back, back, back...

[susandennis]

Tija - the owner of my gym -  works this great deal with the physical therapy place across the street.   She trades gym membership for free physical therapy consultations for gym members.  Today was the third time I've used the service and it was great again.

Carrie said that likely, I irritated a disk in my back and probably did it over the past couple of years sitting on that chaise in the same position all day and evening.  She even showed me how she bet I sat and she was right on the money.  She gave me a good exercise to do to help strengthen that particular area and told me to work on my core (I'm sure Rosie paid her for that core thing). 

She said that what I did - the treadmill - was the best thing I could do for it when I irritated it.  And she encouraged me to vary my sitting as much as possible and to use the legs straight out in front of me option as little as possible.  My new furniture is perfect for variation. 

She also said that it was perfectly fixable and probably fixed since now it does not hurt at all.  My mother used to say that once you have back trouble it only gets worse.  So I was really afraid I was doomed.  Guess not!

Very good.

Comments

[kyrielle]

Yay!