New PT 8-13-2014

So today was the day I was starting my new outpatient PT.   I had decided to go to a PT office not too far from my house that my friend Terri has gone to and recommended.  

My day did not start out too good.  I woke up kind of early and overall did not sleep good last night.  Not too sure why, but I could totally tell.  I got up and my knee was sore.  So not only was I tired, but I was sore.  I tried going down the stairs....holy crap that wasn't going to happen.  My knee was sore.  I had gone back up the stairs and crap that way is sore too.  So how come?  Was trying to take on the stairs making me sore?  Did I walk too far? I don't know what it was, maybe it was just how today was going to be. 

I had my PT appt at 10:30.  When I got there I had to do the normal paperwork etc.  Then I met Mark who is the owner of the PT facility and the one who I was going to be working with today.  We started out with some basic questions, when was surgery, how is pain, what have you been able to do etc.  Then he did some measurements and tested my resistance and mobility.  Now we were ready to start the workout.  He put me on a stationary bike for only about 8 minutes for some warm up.  From there we moved on to doing some leg machines with weights, some balancing, and some walking drills.  One of them being high knees.  I started doing them and he said, wow you can get your knee up there with no trouble.  I told him it was one of the exercises I do everyday, so then he decided he needed to add weights to my legs.  Did make it a little harder, but I could still do them.  I have to say, I was sweating when we were done, I had a good first workout.  When all that was done, I got a nice stretch and leg massage then a 10 minute ice and muscle zapping.  

All in all a successful PT appointment. And did I mention that he was very impressed with how well I was doing and how happy he was to see my knee and ranges in such great shape only 3 weeks post op!!!

When Kev got home from work we went swimming.  This was my first time in the pool since my surgery.  It felt great.  I did all kinds of exercises with no pain.  There is just something magical about working out in the pool.  I did a variety of stuff for about 20 minutes.  I was happy about that. 

I'm still sore, quite a bit actually.  I did some more ice cause that's what I'm suppose to do.  But I'm going to say I'm sore from my hard work today!!