{"id":200,"date":"2011-11-17T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:32:16","slug":"200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/200\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing about an internal injury is that it can only be felt. This leaves the imagination free to do the unavoidable work of producing visuals. For my injury, there are two. At times the feeling has a pressure quality, as if there’s an expanding bike wheel inner tube embedded deep in my left gluteal, extending linearly down through my hip and into my left leg, and it’s over-pumped, causing pain along the tissues it’s splitting open or compressing. But the pain is also a numbing, tingling pain.\u00a0Throbbing. So the inner-tube is being filled with freezing cold air, giving my left butt and upper leg a giant ice cream headache.<\/p>\n

The second pain is sharp, occurring in the morning or during PT, or when I do back-bridge type stretches. It’s in one place, a defined and localized rip, rough and clear, right where the rupture occurred. It’s a rusty screwdriver being slowly turned into my lower back about an inch deep.<\/p>\n

But there’s major progress. PT has been fantastic. I feel better after every session, but I can tell it’s going to take a while.<\/p>\n

The best part is when they plug me into the Dynatron 950<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It connects to soft tissue and sends electrical pulses between electrodes taped onto your body. It has a number of settings on it. Taken from their web page:<\/p>\n

“This device allows full independent treatment setups. Treatment options include interferential, premodulated, biphasic, high voltage pulsed stimulation, Russian and microcurrent stimulation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously I use the Russian setting.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been to 5 PT sessions and they really help. My PT has a doctorate from Columbia and is an ex varsity volleyball player so she gets me pretty well. She undertands how depressing an injury is for an athelete– everything changes. The usual hormones change, the brain chemistry changes, the body shifts into healing mode instead of growing mode. The appetite diminishes. Weight is lost. Spirits sink. Life begins to suck. She knows. So she talks about it with me and helps me keep perspective while taking me through the therapy she’s learned to conduct for my kind of injury.<\/p>\n

It’s nice and I look forward to them. 3x wk x 10 weeks. Two weeks done.<\/p>\n

I won’t need even half of what I was prescribed.<\/p>\n

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