9/17/14 Entry (Physical Therapy)

I’m going in for my first official physical therapy session today. I met the PT for the first time last week for a preliminary evaluation. I had been having pains in one of my legs on and off for a few years now and after consulting with a few people, I scheduled the appointment. Honestly, had I not mentioned it to a few friends and had they not mentioned going to a physical therapist, it wouldn’t have occurred to me. I don’t play sports (in fact as I wrote those words I found myself laughing wink emoticon ) and I hadn't really experienced really traumatic physical injuries. I go to the gym and have taken yoga classes on and off since college. I actually noticed the pains not long after I began a new yoga class about three years ago. So I stopped going. But didn’t actually do anything about it. I guess I thought it would go away. And it did. But would then come back. And then go away. And then come back. You get the picture. Meeting with the PT last week was great. It appears the issue actually stems from my lower back! I left with a list of some stretching and core muscle exercises. And since then, I have being paying more attention to how I move and have amended certain habits—habits that I’m sure contributed to the pain—habits that primarily happen while sitting at my desk at work or on the train, or standing tongue emoticon Looking forward to all of this getting healed. The moral of this story: speak up—you never know who’s going to be able to give you some helpful advice, and take note of whether seemingly innocuous habits are actually harmful wink emoticon