charm

Thank you for the link 🙂
This is everything that I am doing at the moment through rehab.

Hi again 😉

My pain is sort of like fake pain. I don’t know if you know much about chronic pain, but basically, I had an injury a year ago which has well and truly healed now. But my brain has been under so much pressure from pain constantly being there from when I had hurt it that it now believes I am always in pain. (Very strange and complicated) So, I get these flair ups through my right knee at times.

Sometimes I will experience pain for no reason at all. It can just flare up at any time whether I am standing, sitting, sleeping, relaxing, anything. At my rehab centre that I go to twice a week, they have been teaching me how to deal with flare ups when they happen. I deal with them by subconsciously telling my brain that it does not hurt, which then dulls down the pain. I am happy to say that these flare ups have been occurring a lot less. I used to do use pain killers for the pain, but I hate putting all that into my body, so I learnt how do it organically.

Pain in the knee can be in different spots. I can sometimes get it through the whole knee, or one side, or even the whole surrounding area right up to my hammi and down to my calf.

I jumped on the treadmill for the first time at rehab yesterday (yay) and just did a 5 min very slow walk. That was all I could manage. I do use one crutch when walking around, which I am not so dependent on as I used to be. I keep it with me just in case I start to get sore and tired and need that extra support.

I haven’t tried doing any yoga just yet because I wasn’t sure what I should be doing. Before I all this, I had really only just started to get into yoga maybe 4 months before the fall. So I don’t really know a great deal about moves and all that (But would like to :)).

My posture is out because I have been limping for so long. My lower back is constantly sore, which I think is also due to the way I am trying to re-correct the way that I walk. I also have flat feet. (tried authotics and they were really bad for my back).

Well I think that pretty much sums it up…have I left any thing out that you need to know?

Thank you so much 🙂
Kind Regards
Charm