This session was not a good one. Angie had a lot of stiffness due to a bad night’s sleep. Even with her heat pad on during the day, she felt all blocked in her back. She told Lily that she had woken up with a cramp in her back and in her abs and this led Lily to check the range of motion in Angie’s ribs.
The reason why Angie was in so much pain was due to her rib cage and the intercostal muscles surrounding it being super tight. Angie had to get those muscle manipulated and it was not fun. Those rib muscles are very tender and almost any pressure on them causes discomfort. After a half hour of muscle stretching, rubbing and poking, Angie felt like she was hit by a truck right in the rib cage. She walked out of her session completely exhausted – as if she had run a marathon.
On the train ride home she began to worry that she was finding more and more issues and wondered if there wasn’t something more going on with her body. Her hope for getting better was dwindling. She was becoming frustrated with having pain for so long with no substantial relief.
All she wanted to do was get home and sleep and even that was not comforting because she knew she’s wake up in the middle of the night in pain. She took Lily’s advice to sleep with a few pillows under knees. It did help a bit but she woke up in pain once the medicine had subsided nonetheless.
Tune in next time as the saga of Angie’s physical therapy continues.
1 comment:
Oh Pookie, I'm sorry you're having such awful, persistent back (and now, rib) pain!! That just stinks! Perhaps you should consider becoming a physical therapist yourself, since you've learned enough about anatomy and muscles, etc., in your own PT sessions that the training would probably be a breeze!
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