I anticipate a surgical repair in my future which will almost certainly include post-op PT. BEST case, scenario is no surgery and just PT. Either way. . . When do people with jobs “do” PT? I can’t get a substitute 3 days a week for countless weeks. Is after-hours or night-shift PT a thing? US, Texas, if that’s relevant. Thanks y’all.
Doc Dx’d rotator cuff injury. X-ray revealed no structural abnormalities. No MRI, etc. Pain has been going on for months. The doc printed out a a number of stretching exercises which I am not opposed to doing. But I’ve read, “if it hurts, stop doing it.”
I struggle to understand how stretching will help healing / pain. If I tear fabric or paper stretching it will not help. How does stretching and exercising that hurts going to improve a tear? I am not a whiner wanting a quick fix. I am a rule-follower and will do as told, I’d just like to understand.
I assumed I would’ve gotten more clarity from doc after x-ray, but she just copied and pasted whatever was in the x-ray report. Will try to get an appointment with a sports medicine person later in the month. Until then, can someone please help me understand. And what might read as argument is actually ignorance. I truly don’t get it. Thanks.
EDITED to add: although not the question asked, y’all are definitely Team MRI. Seems my instincts about the efficacy of stretching something that might be torn are accurate. Thank you all. I appreciate the helpful replies, lack of smart-assery and patronizing. Thanks, again. Good luck on your own recoveries.
Remember when the Interweb was actually helpful? Now, anyone can have a website. Can anyone in this group recommend a legit, trustworthy site/source for stretches for a non-runner? I want to begin C25K but know I should probably have a warmup and cool down stretch routine.
Bonus question. . . WTH is meant by all the W5D2 (etc) abbreviations?
Thanks, in advance.
Hey. Brand new wannabe runner. I'm 60+ (how the hell did THAT happen), and walk 7 miles a day. Just bought JG's Run Walk Run book and, he while might've been able to run, he couldn't write for shit. Or maybe that's just my frustration getting in the way. Can someone please explain the Long Run? Looked it up in the index but he (or his ghost writer) don't actually explain what it is.
My understanding is: warm up walk 10 min. Then for another 10 minutes run 5, walk 55. Cool down walk. Next training day warm up 10, then 13 minutes of run 5/walk 55. Next day same but 16 minutes of 5/55. Rinse and repeat until the r/w segment is 30 minutes in length. At some point the ratio of run to walk changes. Do I have this correct? So, where/how does the long run fit into all this?
I just wanna run my old ass one mile without falling over, then I can deal with a 5K.
Thanks, in advance, to anyone who can clarify this for me. I'd like to create a training plan spreadsheet but I'm stuck.