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Physical therapy seems like such a good idea, in theory. It seems like it should be safer than drugs or surgery or almost anything a person can do to treat an injury. I know my body is fucked up (to use a technical term) but it's incredibly frustrating to find yet another way in which physical therapy is not working for me.
I saw my primary care doctor Thursday night. It was a routine follow-up appointment for all the chronic garbage. After sorting out the problem with the medication that requires air conditioning (whew!), saying I really ought to schedule a comprehensive physical sometime soon, and doing all the usual stuff, he asked, "is there anything else you want to talk about?" Nice of him to ask, really. I mentioned the problem I've been having with my ankle, which is mild but persistant. I don't know if I'm getting an awful lot of very mild sprains of the same ankle, or one sprain that's only almost healing rather than quite healing all the way. The doctor looked at both my ankles, watched me take a few steps, and asked questions (some of which seemed sensible.) He recommended an exercise for strengthening ankles and improving proprioreception, and said if it didn't work I could try an aircast or some other kind of physical therapy.
( Extreme negativity about physical therapy below, probably counterproductive to read before taking a different sort of body to a physical therapist. )
I saw my primary care doctor Thursday night. It was a routine follow-up appointment for all the chronic garbage. After sorting out the problem with the medication that requires air conditioning (whew!), saying I really ought to schedule a comprehensive physical sometime soon, and doing all the usual stuff, he asked, "is there anything else you want to talk about?" Nice of him to ask, really. I mentioned the problem I've been having with my ankle, which is mild but persistant. I don't know if I'm getting an awful lot of very mild sprains of the same ankle, or one sprain that's only almost healing rather than quite healing all the way. The doctor looked at both my ankles, watched me take a few steps, and asked questions (some of which seemed sensible.) He recommended an exercise for strengthening ankles and improving proprioreception, and said if it didn't work I could try an aircast or some other kind of physical therapy.
( Extreme negativity about physical therapy below, probably counterproductive to read before taking a different sort of body to a physical therapist. )
