Lately I've been dealing with a lot of headaches related to my neck problems. Of course stress makes this worse. The last two weeks have been extremely crazy and this week as well. My physical therapist has been helpful in helping me combat these headaches by his treatments as well as teaching me how to manage them on my own at home. I hope the ideas he has given me for treating them at home work. He wants me to work on it by myself through this week and then call him near the end of the week and let him know how I have been doing.
Other things I am trying to do is to exercise more, however, I found it was causing pain in my knee to jog on my tramp and brisk walking was causing pain in my hip. So I discussed this with my PT. He has me using the Schwin Airdyne...not a fast pace but moderate, 5 minutes with my feet, then 5 minutes with my arms for 20 minutes total and slowly working it up in time. My knee still bothers me after I do this, so I talked to him about it, he told me I need to check my feet while on the bike to see if I am turning my feet out or in as that will cause problems in the knee. I will be watching for that as I exercise and hoping that will help remedy that problem.
I am grateful for my physical therapist. He has helped me through a lot in the last 9 years with his expertise. God is so good to put people like this in our lives to help us through the tough stuff.
Post Script:
It has been three or four days since I wrote the post above. I am happy to report that the headaches have improved. Monday was a very good day for me. Tuesday started out mildly rough, but pain-reliever and spending some time resting on the floor & doing the therapy my PT recommended has helped a lot.
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Praise the Lord!
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