Physical Therapy - Tumblr Posts
I finally got my custom knee braces!!!! I’m so fucking happy I just wish it didn’t take this long to get it authorized. I’m so lucky too that my insurance covered them because otherwise they’d be ridiculously expensive. They were 3D printed to match my legs so they fit so perfectly. Getting used to them is hard because they make my leg muscles have to actually work rather than just going along for the ride and my joints don’t hurt as fast during the day. Walking is so much better now. I’m so fucking happy omg. I’m so thankful to my sports medicine doctor who wrote the letter that was hugely responsible for getting my insurance to approve them.
Now I need custom fit braces because of the significant size discrepancy between my thighs and my calves. Every pre fabricated brace I have tried or wanted to try didn’t fit me in so many ways. Either they didn’t go big enough to fit my thighs or they fit my thighs but were too big for my calves or they wouldn’t sit right on my knees or so much else. But I finally have amazing braces that fit perfectly and actually stay on my legs and for that I am so thankful.
These braces have made such a big difference in how active I’m able to be and how I’m able to do physical therapy. With these braces I can actually get my knees and legs closer to where they need to be without the same kind of pain and instability that I have without them.
Now I’m working on getting a disabled parking placard because while walking is easier it’s still hard because of my joints and fatigue and also because of my POTS and just everything else that’s wrong in my body. So I have an appointment with my gp to work on the paperwork and then I’ll go from there to apply. I’m so happy that I’m finally able to get even just some of the help I need and for that I am so grateful.
Saw a new physical therapist yesterday for my ankles this time and apparently I have the most hyper mobile ankles he’s ever seen (turning my foot in goes to very nearly a 90 degree angle). So that’s fun. He literally said “woah that’s a lot” when he was measuring it.
when falling because read a tumblr post on instagram while doing physical therapy exercises
"I should do my physical therapy now because it takes me an hour" vs nooooooo
I skipped doing PT exercises for a day and my back is fucked up all over again. It's almost like PT is helping me or something
CW: chronic pain struggles
I'm so fucking tired of having muscular issues because the only treatment is exercise and working for the rest of my life to maintain just a baseline level of strength and stability.
I wish it was something that someone could help me with. I'm so fucking tired of having to fix myself. First with mental health and now with physical health I'm fucking tired of it.
I've been trying PT for years and the results never last yet it's the only option.
I'm so sick and tired