{"id":156,"date":"2011-07-14T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2011-08-03T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:16:21","slug":"day-8-wednesday-may-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 (Wednesday, May 4th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was lying in bed trying to wake up this morning, I dared to think that, perhaps, my hamstring was a bit less tight.\u00a0 My first steps out of the bed told a different story though.\u00a0 \u201cHoly crap, I can\u2019t even straighten my leg\u201d is what I thought as I tried to start my morning PT.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I switched it up.\u00a0 Tried to start with passive extension but my hamstring wanted no part of that.\u00a0 I sat there a bit with both legs out front of me\u2026damn; my good leg feels like crap.\u00a0 OK, I decide, start with some general stretching, and then move into the hamstring stretch, followed by heel-slides (20) and passive extension (5 minutes).\u00a0 Now I am starting to feel a bit better so I get up and do the weight shift (4 minutes).\u00a0 I still don\u2019t quite feel that I can trust my weight all on that knee, but I\u2019m doing it with a basically straight leg!\u00a0 After that I continue through the 3 leg raises.\u00a0 This morning is the first time I hit the target of 30 on all three types.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m icing and updating this blog.\u00a0 Then I will get dressed, do a bit of work and head off to my 2<sup>nd<\/sup> PT appointment.<\/p>\n<h2>2<sup>nd<\/sup> Physical Therapy appointment<\/h2>\n<p>Kammy and I drove to Tria for my 2<sup>nd<\/sup> physical therapy appointment.\u00a0 First Adam asked about pain level and I replied 2 (hamstring is bugging me).\u00a0 He measured my extension (1 degree) and flexion (110 degrees).\u00a0 Both are on or ahead of the one week target!\u00a0 Then he checked my quad strength and determined it\u2019s time to start walking without the brace (but still with crutches) when I\u2019m in \u2018safe\u2019 places such as home.\u00a0 He had me walk this way up and down the PT area.\u00a0 The main focus is to walk normally which is about the most foreign thing to a knee in distress.\u00a0 The idea is that I stay on crutches until I can completely walk normally.<\/p>\n<p>After that he re-worked my physical therapy plan.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep the passive extension, heel-slides, leg-raises and hamstring stretch for now; new are 1 legged balance (to replace weight shift) , assisted squats, and knee-bands (both of these were exercises during pre-hab).\u00a0 To finish off I get to ice on the \u201cGame Ready\u201d which I\u2019ve heard of but never used before.\u00a0 Sure felt good to have that mild compression plus cold water circulating for 15 minutes!<\/p>\n<h2>Work<\/h2>\n<p>Kammy drove me to work and I had a too-busy day for my knee.\u00a0 Heck I even went to a client meeting (clients we know very well\u2026) with my boss.\u00a0 It really was too much.\u00a0 By the time I got home I could barely make it up the stairs and my knee was the most swollen it\u2019s been since the surgery!\u00a0 Point taken; go easier on it tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>At my evening PT it is immediately obvious how I over-did it on my knee today.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just swollen, my hamstring is done in.\u00a0 When I tried to do the stomach-leg-raises I could only manage ONE of them.\u00a0 Pretty much every other exercise went fine but my hamstring let me know about it.\u00a0 I managed a 20 second balance on my \u2018involved\u2019 knee during my 1 minute balance!\u00a0 I got in 10 knee bends, 20 knee-bands, and the usual target amounts on everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was lying in bed trying to wake up this morning, I dared to think that, perhaps, my hamstring was a bit less tight.\u00a0 My first steps out of the bed told a different story though.\u00a0 \u201cHoly crap, I can\u2019t even straighten my leg\u201d is what I thought as I tried to start my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}