First Physical Therapy Session
I went back to the same PT I have used before, and I was fortunate enough to get the same therapist. She asked lots of questions about what brought on the stiff and painful neck. She manipulated my head, and we chatted a bit about how my diagnosis got undiagnosed. I gave her the link to Patients Like Me, and I hope she takes me up on the invitation to join.
She seems to think that the electrical stimulation (TENS) and ultrasound will help these muscles relax, and she expects to do some stretching exercises on Friday. Bless her heart, but she remembered that Friday was our Date Day, and apologized for messing it up. But DH will be fine with that, as this is only for a few weeks.
We did something this afternoon we have never done before. I made a smoothie! Hubby bought me a blender for Christmas, because I had said something about wanting to try some. I mixed a banana, raw spinach, a little parsley, some soy milk, and a touch of honey, and we both tried it. It wasn’t half bad, and we both drank it all. Not bad at all for my first attempt.
It always makes me feel better when I feel like I am taking control of a situation, and getting the PT started and learning a way to improve our nutrition is a good start for one day. Yippeeee!
Enjoy your smoothies. Great way to get extra aminos, vitamins and minerals and so tasty as well. smoothieweb.com has some great recipes for them.
Ultra sound is great. Found it helped a lot when I had problems with pain in my wrist.
As always, Jackie, I can depend on you to give me good links! Thanks. I have looked for recipes, but most of what I found called for something exotic as an ingredient, and that is probably not going to happen.
congratulations on your first smoothie…those are full of healthful ingredients, and your recipe sounds especially good.
The tens machine is really good…I bought one when I had sciatica and it really did help.
LOL! I made a disaster this afternoon, Marion! I tried to salvage it by adding more ingredients, but I would have done better to just throw it away. I learned a lesson from it, and made myself drink it, but I won’t be trying that combination again. ROTFL 😉
Hmmmm. I didn’t know you could buy a Tens machine. I will have to look into that. Thanks for the info, Marion.
I was going to suggest smoothieweb.com, but it looks like Jackie beat me to it. We do a lot of smoothies around here – best way to get everyone’s nutrients into ’em. Hope the TENS machine thing works for you!
I’m not surprised that Jackie beat you to it, Mary. She has been very helpful about anything nutrition related.