I have CRPS which causes severe pain in my right lower leg. I have mostly lost use of my right foot. I do physical therapy exercises, however I’m looking for exercises I can do to help me lose weight as the decreased mobility has caused me to gain. I do a lot of walking still, however I need something very low impact that will give me results. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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I’m 51, female, was injured when my arm was pulled by husband 2 months ago, and the pain keeps getting worse- having trouble sleeping, and range of motion affected. Doctor wanted to give me cortisone shot, physical therapy hurts, i’m not sure i want to take so much Aleve. Any suggestions?
Knee Injury And Pain Advice?
Jan 27
I injured my knee back in april running…small meniscus tear. I had a ton of pain at first. They started me on physical therapy and I’ve really built up the muscles in my knee. I went to the surgeon 4 weeks ago and he told me to start running again and that I didn’t need to come back if my pain returned. I started running and since I’ve built up the muscles my pain has dramatically decreased. I mainly get a lot of stiffness and occasional pain when I move certain directions. Should I go back to the doctor or no since my pain has decreased??
am nursing a child so cannot take medicine. im in so much pain and need some sort of ideas. i am currently doing physical therapy. anybody suffer from it?
I was in an auto accident three months ago. I still have back and neck pain. I was originally sent to physical therapy which didn’t help. My doc. then sent me to a chiropractor who has helped a little, but just can’t seem to fix it. He took X-rays and found I have spondylosis (I guess I already had it but didn’t know. It was just aggravated by the accident) and scoliosis (which I knew I had). Both of these things are complicating my healing from the accident. The chiro doc is really trying hard, but says I’m a challenge. If he can’t fix it, and the physical therapist couldn’t, what can be done? I’m only 40, and was healthy and active before. Does anyone know how long this could take before it’s 100% better? Will the other insurance company (the person who hit me) cover future medical expenses if I can’t fix it and will need chiro or ortho care in the future? I’m afraid to sign anything until I’m all the way better, but don’t want this to drag on forever either. Any advice is really helpful, because I really don’t know what to do. Thanks!
It’s a wicked combination of symptoms that bring me to where I am today. There’s no specific injury or illness to which my pain can be traced. I always had the mindset that my body would tell me when to stop when it’s reached its limits; When landscaping my yard or doing home repairs, I’d lift and carry the heaviest loads I could bear, never thinking that I’d be causing incremental damage. The same with sports and automotive work. I’ve built project cars that needed all kinds of lifting and twisting, played basketball and softball and coached youth teams for dozens of years, relying only on immediate feedback to know when too much was too much.
Eventually, it started crashing down, about 15 years ago. I tore a rotator cuff, ruptured a biceps tendon and began experiencing consistent pain in my lower and mid-back. The arm was surgically repaired, and has caused me no problems since; in fact, I can throw harder and more accurately than I ever could when I was young. The back, well that’s where this story begins.
I’ve consulted several orthopedists, beginning with the joint specialist who reconstructed my right arm. Some of the MDs who’ve examined me include a few who are considered among the best in the NYC area. They’ve concluded that I must have suffered an illness or injury (including fractured vertebrae and ribs) at some point in the past that went undiagnosed and untreated, allowing my spine to heal abnormally, in a manner that’s severely compromised the strength and flexibility of my back. I’ve consulted urologists, neurologists,a rheumatologist, physiatrist, and chiropractor. I’ve been through extensive physical therapy programs with several different shops; l had electro-accupuncture and used a TENS device. I’ve had epidural steroid injections, trigger point injections to control the spasms that spread across my entire back, facet joint injections to chemically block the nerve impules carrying pain, and graduated to RF Rhizotomy in attempt to block those nerve signals electronically. Nothing provided more than temporary relief.
Most recently (last week) I was hospitalized for a trial to determine whether I was a candidate for an intrathecal morphine pump. This is a surgically implanted device that delivers a small dose of morphine or another narcotic directly to the spinal cord. Its advantage is that it bypasses the digestive tract, allowing a miniscule dose to be effective. Unfortunately, the side effects proved to be much worse than the underlying problem, and 5 days after discharge I’m still suffering terrible headaches and muscular aches in my arms and shoulders (despite still being heavily medicated). The side effects have diminished somewhat over time but, combined with nasty vomiting while hospitalized, made it seem unwise to continue the trial.
Sooooo. What now? I see my pain management MD tomorrow (have been through several pain management programs (some good, some ineffective, one terrific but immediately bought out by an anaesthesiology group that shut down the pain program) and expect that his treatment regimen will resume to the familiar oxycontin & baclofen routine. Can anyone suggest other possibilities? I’m open to anything at this point.
Fortunately, I have a good professional desk job, terrific health insurance and a supportive family and group of friends. It’s just this unbearable physical pain that makes life much less anjoyable than it should be.
Thanks for any input that will help me deal with what’s become an, if not THE, overriding issue in my life.
I’m soon to launch an online fitness and rehab website. Memberships that join for $20 a month will receive six sets of (unique) exercises to view online. They will also have access to watch my LIVE webinar classes three times a week and chat. Since I do rehabilitation I want to offer my program as a post rehab program for physical therapist.
I hope to be able to provide videos and/or LIVE interactive webinar classes for post rehab patients.
I’ve developed a unique Yoga/Pilates fitness program on mat and a gravity gliding system. I treat and train professional athletes as well as patients with muscular disorders such as MD and MS.
Question : Would you join a program like this.
Do you have any suggestions on how to market this both as a rehab program and as a fitness program online ?? Thank so much !!
I’m soon to launch an online fitness and rehab website. Memberships that join for $20 a month will receive six sets of (unique) exercises to view online. They will also have access to watch my LIVE webinar classes three times a week and chat. Since I do rehabilitation I want to offer my program as a post rehab program for physical therapist.
I hope to be able to provide videos and/or LIVE interactive webinar classes for post rehab patients.
I’ve developed a unique Yoga/Pilates fitness program on mat and a gravity gliding system. I treat and train professional athletes as well as patients with muscular disorders such as MD and MS.
Question : Would you join a program like this.
Do you have any suggestions on how to market this both as a rehab program and as a fitness program online ?? Thank so much !!