I'm currently healing from PN, finally after many, many months, and I recently was informed that my muscles and tendons had atrophied because of the PN. It then made sense some of the other problems I had in my legs were due to this tightness.
Anyways, this main problem is rehab stretching while having recovering nerves and being on vicodin. I'm experiencing pretty bad pain while stretching.
Current thoughts:
1. Since the nerves are still damaged, but healing, I may still have hypersensitivity in the nerves, which is creating intense pain while stretching. Someone referred to it on the boards as sort of excess pain that we learn to deal with. I am not usre if this is that excess pain or not.
2. Maybe stretching tendons, ligaments, and muscles creates excess pain that is needed. Most people stretch for flexibility which involves only muscles, but since I'm working on ligaments and tendons too, then maybe that's why there is more pain.
3. Taking vicodin would cease the pain and make me go crazy on stretching, potentially being dangerous, as if the pain I already had isn't causing danger.

I just don't know what to do basically. I'm not sure if the pain is BAD pain, or allowable pain.

Also, does anyone know the optimal way to stretch tendons, ligaments, and muscles for best healing time? Stretching is supposed to be done 3 times for 1 minute, but that's for muscles. How elastic are ligaments/tendons in comparison, and how much stretching do they need?