Thankyou Sharon
sharonslp ...I will check ou that thread...I'm willing to give anying a shot and so pleased to hear the exercises are working for you. That must feel great not to have that pain when getting up. I had a couple of months where I was able to jump out of bed ready to face the world and what a great feeling that was.....alas not these days! How are you now, are you still having success with it?
Vicki,
Vida this realigning my pelvis thing still has me puzzled, to be honest, even though I do all the walking things and exercises etc I am still confuddled about all of that pelvis stuff. How are the morning exercises going for you now? You are doing so well with the steps, I certainly wasn't doing as much as you this far out. You arn't even six months out yet and remember the time thing, a year to eighteen months to be fully healed and functioning at your best. You are really doing so well
Cardie, well, the biomechanics woman got me to stand straight then looked at my lower back spine and prodded either side with her fingers( hope you understand all this technical talk.lol) . Then I sat on the bed with my bum against the backrest and she put her thumbs at the same point under my knees then again on my ankle bone and compared the two...then said yep definitely 5 to 6mm difference. I didn't walk for her, she didn't ask me to. That was it, they don't go into much here in the UK, well not what I have experienced,just do the basics, just measured and said she would order me the raise.
Still not sure about the chiropractor and as for PT I think I can whistle for that.....it took a heck of a lot to get it in the first place after THR, don't think I will be able to get any more from the NHS. I do feel though between my PT and you gals on BS I have a lot of knowledge of exercises to help me so I will keep plugging away at them.
Thanks for the stretches, will give them a go. Think I need to go back to the beginning and write out a proper exercise chart as there are so many but all of them are beneficial, just can't fit them all in, well, I could but it would take up half my day.lol.
I feel as if I need some motivation at the minute. Still walking every day but with my good hip aching now I have got a little laxidasical in my exercise habits just doing a bit of this and a bit of that. I guess that is normal as we get more busy because we are able to do more but I really want to be motivated to continue with the exercises every day. It's a very slippery slope once we think..oh I will have a day off today and do them tomorrow, then the same happens the next day and so on.
I needed that reminder about the walking thanks. I have found that sometimes when I am really really concentrating on keeping my tailbone in and cracking those walnuts that my operated leg aches and it is still quite an effort. It is so easy to kind of relax and go back to my old style which is easier but not good for my body. When doing some exercises...like when I stand on the bottom stair with my operated leg and do some of those droppy things....sorry getting all technical again
my operated leg still feels weak. Just walking is definitely not enough for me obviously!
Toodles for now