Check-Up

God, I suck. 


I wanted to keep blogging every time I went to therapy, but I have not done that.


But here I am ready to talk about my follow up appointment with Dr. Puri.
He asked me how my overall pain is improving, and he was like, "Does it feel 50% better?" and I said, "......no, maybe 30%," and he didn't like that and said he could get me a custom brace but it would be really uncomfortable, so he decided to get me fitted with custom orthodics to put in my shoes. So I'm going tomorrow at 1:45 to see a Dr. Friedrick to get fitted and hopefully be even closer to getting my feet fixed.  


I have a follow up appointment in a month with Dr. Puri again, and I have 2 more weeks of physical therapy.  I'm hoping to get to the 50% improvement mark by the end of my therapy, and maybe even further with the help of my insoles.  


I have a lot of hope of getting my feet fixed.  Now that I think about it though, I feel like overall, my feet have improved a great deal, just because I am learning how to walk correctly so that my arches and the insides of my feet are not under stress, but the 30% improvement has to do with my left foot (with the fluid in it).  That part of my foot is the one that is not getting better very much.  It seems to be hurting less often, but when it does, it is the same intensity as before.  


So I guess there are two different things that I am trying to fix. One is getting fixed, and the other is going to take a lot longer.


I just have to stay patient. 

14 February 2012

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY &

Happy Birthday: Bacary Sagna! (29)

What a good birthday to have! Anyways, Sagna is a French footballer who plays for the Les Bleus and Arsenal FC in the BPL

Fun Fact (kind of): His nickname is Bac, as called by most of his teammates. 

That is all I am going to write about him because I am moving on to myself and my physical therapy for today.

I was with Angela today and she had me start off with 10 minutes on the elipticall machine and it was embarrassing because I was like out of breath within the first minute and a half haha. But then I did a lot of hip stretches and the hardest one was when I had to put a resistance band around my ankle and push them apart, using my hips.  I don't have a lot of flexiblity through my hips so it was hard to do most of those.  But then, I got an EMP thing, where they put two pads on my foot and hooked it up to a machine that ran pulses through my foot.  It didn't hurt, it just felt tingley.  

But afterwards, my foot felt a lot better, (which I didn't realize until I was completely done with therapy) and I had to do balance exercizes again and I was done by 4:30.

I don't go back again until Thursday, so I have a day off to do my exercises, which I am going to be adamant about, because I have hope after feeling no pain in my foot for a while after therapy. 

Physical Therapy

Okay it's been forever since I have written anything, but I want to start again today because I want to start blogging about my physical therapy that I am going through.

When I was about 12 years old, I broke the growth plate in my ankle and had to have surgery on it, and since then, I have been in pain in my left foot (the one I broke).  I've gone to my general physician about it a few times, but he told me that my arches had fallen and I just needed better shoes. 

But, in the very beginning to September I fell off my steps, and tore a tendon in my ankle (I didn't get myself to the doctor for that one either until months later) and it has still been bothering me, so I finally went to an orthopedic doctor and he looked at both of my feet.  For my right ankle I was given an ankle brace, and on the left foot, I got an xray and an MRI done. The MRI showed that I had a pocket of fluid and severe tendonitis in my post tib.  I got another brace for that foot, so I've been walking funny for two weeks :)

Anyways, I went to my first physical therapy session last Friday, the 10th, I believe, and it was new haha.  I go to ATI Physical Therapy in Bourbonnais.  Everyone there was very nice, and I began with a woman named Angela, who tested my flexibility and found out what all was going on and she found out something else.  It turns out the muscles on the inside of my legs are so tight that it is turning my heels down.  That is why my feet are so flat and I have pain when I run or walk a lot. 

Yesterday, I got a woman also named Bri, and she started out with a leg massage and then I had to do a lot of balance exercises, which KILLED me! I am still in so much pain today on the outer part on the bottom of my foot and the very top of my foot, and of course the inside. (sounds like my whole foot, but there are parts that do not hurt haha)

I will be continuing to blog throughout the rest of my therapy so I can track my progress

PEACE!