Progress

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn

Not in the way of the storms moving out. No way, no how.

Driving home under these skies last night, though, I was thinking not about the weather but rather about my first PT session with Morgan from Raleigh Orthopaedic.

I found myself saying hello to a brunette sprite with warm eyes. She listened as I babbled on about my experiences these last several weeks. After an assessment, she determined that my strength and flexibility were pretty high, but that perhaps I could benefit from some manipulation with some implements.

She brought over a piece of metal and had me lay on my side and she began running this tool down my IT band. At first, I felt nothing, but I could tell by her face that she did. After a moment, I began to sense something bubbling from my muscles to the surface.  "You have pebbles in your legs!" She then moved the tool down to my calf. "See how that runs down smooth?" She went back to the right IT band and then I could feel it, as the tool caught on dozens of micro-knots.

She continued to work it, plying the tool in smooth motions down my leg and gradually, they went away.

"Now, it's going to hurt tomorrow, and, depending on how easily you bruise..."

The tool she used is part of a modality called the Graston Technique. I've extolled the virtues of my foam roller here many times before and the Graston Technique works in the same way, but allows for maneuvering around tighter areas. It hurts...but it's the pain of healing.

And that, that is progress.