Finally! Snow!!! The Holidays are slowly winding down, and my hip has fairly well survived all the dinners and parties. Tonight is actually our last family gathering, and I just spent the afternoon baking some vegan chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin sugar spice donuts. Not that I'm vegan, but my niece is allergic to milk, eggs, peanuts and hazelnut, so vegan recipes work great! All that standing up made both my hips painful though 😟 Clearly my glutes can't support my right hip for such a long time standing, and my left hip can just take so much - especially with the FAI and labral tear. I'm trying to rest and ice as much as I can before we go in an hour or so. This past week I've made progress with my gait and the pulling in my groin is less and less present during my extension phase. Still there, but I have hope that it will soon be a thing of the past. I was starting to get worried, thinking scar tissue might be the issue. I also made progress with the half-kneeling exercise, as before I was only able to hold the position for 10s before my glute cramped up. Now I'm doing the whole 30s, hurray! Crazy that this was simply a stretch pre-op, a thing that required 0 concentration. All this re-learning is asking so much from my brain, from squeezing my butt muscles as I push my foot off the ground when walking, to engaging my TAs when lifting my leg onto the bed. "TA, glute, movement, TA, glute, movement" is the song of the hour in my head. So clearly I'm far from "train" right now (even though I'm spending more time than ever doing exercises, I just don't consider them as training) but I really love this shirt. It's with hard work that I will see improvements. And complaining won't get me anywhere. I'm focused more than ever, as this phase is starting to be the most exciting one, a phase where I will slowly get into harder activities. I've already scheduled going to the pool in my agenda, and will also start private pilates. I honestly hate yoga, and have a feeling I'll equally like Pilates, but my PT strongly suggested this to help reinforce my muscles. So yeah, anything to make my hip better!
Alright, I just realized that I have about 15 minutes to shower, dry my hair, get dressed and get ready before I have to leave. Setting myself up for failure big time lol. How was your holidays?
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AuthorMy name is Marie-Christine. I'm 34 years old and live in Montreal, QC, Canada. I have had two failed hip scopes on my right hip to do undiagnosed hip dysplasia. My amazing surgeon, who is in Quebec City, performed periacetabular osteotomy in November 2017. He also did one left hip scope (non dysplastic) in February 2017. Archives
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