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January 20, 2006
10 Degrees and Atrophy...
Went to my Doctor yesterday morning for a check-up on my knee, she seemed pleased that I had made some improvement but was still a little anxious that there was still a way to go. Doesn't look as if I will need any one of the multiple surgical options that were still open to me - manipulation under general anethsetic sounded the most fun :oS
She pointed out I've got some quite serious muscle atrophy (wasting) on my quad. I've been given a lots of exercises to do and some physio to help with recovery.
Finally she told me to step up the amount and level of stretching I'm doing and gave me some new ones to cause further pain *gulp*
She also gave me a CD with all the images from my MRI scan on it, there are about 100 different sequential 'slices' through my knee. I'll sort through them and get some on here soon.
After that my day was spent wondering around the village looking at snowboards in Summit and having lunch.
Another physio session beckoned in the afternoon so another hour of EMS, stretching, bike work and having Karinas elbows dug bone deep into my hamstring. Afterwards I was down to 10* - only 15* more to go...
Posted by edwardnorthridge at January 20, 2006 08:52 AM