Monday was a day of rest and physical therapy. The knee was actually more sore than expected today. I decided to do a lot of icing and stretching. I got to my PT appointment late in the day and told Declan how frustrated I was that this problem was lingering despite nearly 4-5 weeks of physical therapy. Basically, that just caused this physical therapy session to be extra intense. As always, we started out with the ultrasound therapy and proceeded to the deep tissue IT band massage. The kneading and crushing of the inflamed IT band is definitely not the most pleasant thing in the world. Since a lot of the mechanics are dependent on the gluteus medias, that muscle got extra attention during this session as well. When I say extra attention, I basically mean I had Declan's elbow crushing the outside of my hip / butt for about 10 minutes. I am not going to lie, out of all the maneuvers / therapies I have gone through at physical therapy ... this was the second worse (only behind the rolling pin down the leg). I was literally white knuckling the exam table because it hurt that bad. After the 30 minutes of torture, the last 30 minutes were spent doing more stretching and hip strengthening.
I am not sure what we did differently during this physical therapy session, but when I woke up on Tuesday ... I felt like a million bucks.
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