Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Progress!! Graduated from PT!

I've been seeing my physical therapist for a month.  Today was my third meeting.  My exercises have escalated nicely.  I did some breakdancing at the session today!  My PT said I can start dancing again, but to start off with shorter sessions for now.

I'm going to start dancing, then icing after practice.  I'm going to keep doing the exercises my PT gave me as "pre-hab" to stay in shape and prevent any future groin pain.  Today is a happy day!  I did headswipes and 1990s today at the PT session, painlessly!  My only continuing symptom is a slight aching pain when sitting in my car or in a chair, but it doesn't happen during exercise.  I have no pain getting out of bed no pain getting out of the car!

Hopefully I'll be doing windmills, 1990s, headspins, etc, within a few weeks!  Powermove training here I come!

New exercises my PT gave me are:
1.  Hang from a pull up bar.  Spread legs and twist side to side, simulating power move spinning.
2.  Put a ball between the knees, and waddle around the room, walking while squeezing it.  The ball should be a bit smaller than a soccer ball.
3.  I can stand in one place and with legs farther than shoulder distance.  I can do an isometric clenching of my adductors to "squeeze the floor."  This exercise was my suggestion.

Conclusion - My Theory
I think I had/had a flexibility imbalance and was putting too much strain on adductors that were relatively longer than my TFL/gluteal muscles.  With really long adductors and a tight TFL, it puts more work on the adductors just to remain in a neutral position.  For example, just to sit normally upright in a chair, with good posture and my femurs parallel, I can feel it working my adductors!  This should be a natural position! 

I am retraining myself to have better internal rotation throughout the day, while exercising, and even sleeping.  I sleep with a body pillow and I frequently catch myself rolling over in to hip external rotation.  I think my constant external rotation caused a groin pull to become a chronic groin pull!  Always being externally rotated means a constantly long adductor, which prevented healing.  I informed my doctor and PT about this theory and they said its a good "working diagnosis" at this point.  Bottom line:  I'm happy to be dancing again!

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