Stiffness and slight pain sat on Angie’s back as she went to this session of Physical Therapy. Lily could feel the tightness but insisted that there was a lot of progress since Angie walked through the door for her first session. Despite this positive information, Angie was not impressed.
She told Lily that she did not understand how she could follow her instructions to the word and yet not feel better. Lily told her that it was simply due to the years and years of muscular deterioration from sitting for more than 8 hours a day and from stress. Even if Angie stopped sitting, her muscles needed to be ‘rebuilt from scratch’. It was important now to develop and strengthen them so that future pain could be avoided.
Angie asked Lily to really watch her during this session and ensure her form was correct. And it was fine except for one key exercise. The mystery was solved! Lily told Angie to concentrate on this exercise with correct form and a couple of others to see if more progress couldn’t be made.
Angie and Lily also talked about the accident that had happened during the day where a woman was run over by the train when she fainted onto the train tracks. Lily mentioned that New York should install Plexiglas doors on the edge of the platform that would only open once the train was in the station. Lily had mentioned that this was how the subway stations were in Hong Kong. Angie admitted it was a good idea but said she couldn’t imagine seeing that enhancement done until another 5 years at the earliest.
Angie went straight home and worked on her exercises. She could feel that there was a difference to how she was doing them prior and to the modification that was made now. Angie definitely felt the difference to how she was doing them prior to the modification and now; her muscles were more engaged. Here’s to hoping that this saga will soon come to an end. Tune in next time for more developments.
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