Friday, January 27, 2012

Adductors, Again!

I brought up my (fairly bad) knee pain yesterday and they think it's my adductors.  This was the muscle that was constantly spasming the first few weeks after surgery.  I have never thought about these muscles before, now they are haunting me, evil little fellas.  They massaged them yesterday...okay, not a massage but more of a painful jamming of fingers into them until my inner thighs got nice and bruised.  I was in a full sweat, trying to not yell during this since I didn't want them to back off.  Damn, that hurt.  It was worse than when they released my psoas and those who have had that done know how badly that hurts.  I'm nice and bruised today, I'll try to run later to see if the tendons down at the knee feel any better.  I did roll them out on the trigger point roller and that hurt like heck, so hopefully I can keep them loose on my own.

I'm cutting down PT to once a week starting next week!  I feel good and bad about this.  Good is the huge amount of money I'll be saving and one less day of driving.  Bad is all the little stuff that is cropping up, like the adductors, that I cannot problem solve on my own and now I'll have to wait longer for professional help.

I'll be running outside three times a week, 30 minutes a pop next week and then up to 42 the week after.  I also should be Alter-Ging twice a week.  Two rest days.  So, not too much of a difference expect a day less of PT and swapping a day of Alter-Ging to outside running.  Hopefully my knees will cooperate and not need to take any time off and I keep slowly (oh, this is soooooo slow) keep working my way back to being able to really run again.

Matt brought Bentley down to the cove yesterday!  I hope to get the whole pack there this weekend and take some shots with the good camera.  He was a happy boy in the 33 degree water!






2 comments:

Runnin-From-The-Law said...

I am so far behind on blog reading. Sorry your knee is bugging. Dang that sounds painful (the "massage"). You are so much more tough and patient that I would be!

Bentley is loving life!

Kat said...

Such a happy dog in such a gorgeous place!

It's hard to let go of the 'safety net' that your PTs give you. I think that weaning myself away from them and being solely responsible for my final recovery was the hardest part!

Good luck and I'm thinking good thoughts for you!