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It’s Expensive Money is tight and I have to keep my powder dry for when I’ll really need it- after the surgery. Or I can just do what my HMO Physical Therapist gives me. I don’t have time or attention for this I have to get ahead on my work and make all these arrangements. I’m…
Design your day with healing in mind
Let’s think about building a results-oriented and savory day: Whether we are weeks or months before surgery, or weeks or months afterwards, we can positively influence the course of your recovery by composing your day with intention (rather than habit and custom). Each of our days (if we are serious about accelerating your healing) will have something for the psyche…
Strengthening Happens on Rest Days
Mustering the motivation to perform our exercise routine and staying active through the day to reach our step goal (whatever that is) can be a challenge. We might be sore, or tired, or feeling discouraged. Or imagining fatigue or discomfort after exercise with dread. What does one day matter, anyway? (that’s the voice of discouragement talking, btw)….
My biggest mistakes
Overdoing it by overruling my intution and following a PT’s suggestion On my fourth day post-surgery, my Kaiser home visit PT (someone I had never met before) visited and, impressed with how easily I was moving around the house, asked me if I had been outside. “Outside?” I replied. “I wasn’t planning on leaving the…
What does being prepared look like?
It’s having the right stuff on your phone. Meaning, audio tracks that when you listen to them, your anxiety and physical tension subside, and you are calm and focused afterwards. Maybe listening to Frank Ocean or Brahms did that for you once upon a time, but you’re under a bit of extra pressure, so I suggest…
Secrets of Hydration
Easy, free and inarguably essential to health. Staying hydrated is one of the ways to reduce pain, support healing and well, every other metabolic function (for instance, carrying nutrients to your cells and toxins from them). And yet we seldom drink as much as we need. Hint: if you only drink when you experience thirst, you’re not…