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Originally Posted by Becca71
I had my first of 12 PT sessions yesterday.
Did some mirror-box with my foot (hard to try to trick the brain, but I am working on getting the hang of it). Put my foot in some soft puff balls. Did some up and down movement and did some touch with a textured dowel. All the touching was done by me so I could control it. Idea being don't allow anything to get painful, stop as soon as you think its getting to be too much.
It wore me out. I can't even explain how exhausted I was from that one hour. I couldn't talk straight when I got home. I was dizzy. I slept for hours. And then went to bed earlier than usual and slept straight through the whole night for the first time in forever.
It did give me a flare that night, which I have to report to him, because he doesn't want any sessions to give me flares. He says that will mean we went too far.
Anyway I'll be going three times a week... this is going to be something!
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Good luck with your PT; an hour seems like a lot to handle.
I couldn't even handle half an hour, and my orthopedist at the time cancelled my PT (absolutely forbade me to still go). He gave me exercises I should be doing throughout the whole day. Not one half hour intense treatment, but 2 to 5 min. several times a day.
It helps hugely to spread it out!