Category: Hamstring Recovery

My gym is part of a franchise whose annual corporate meeting is tomorrow in Boston at a hotel. It’s a full day event from 8:30-5:00. I’ve been to the same event the past two years and know what to expect – a lot of sitting. My boss is happy I am going and supports my leaving early if I can’t make it through… I want to bring an ice pack with me but I don’t know how to keep it cold enough…think I should just buy a bag of ice from the hotel when I get there..?

I’m looking ahead to the end of this month when I’ll be 12 weeks PO. My rehab protocol mentions wearing a neoprene sleeve over my hamstrings during exercise & activity. Has anyone bought a particular brand or style they’ve liked?

Den of Positivity, 3 mo PI, 2 mo PO:

I posted this on my own FB page a year ago today, likely over political tension in both the country & my extended family. It feels relevant today not only for my hamstring recovery & midlife unraveling, but because on Monday I put BOTH of my socks on without the sock helper. Might as well keep them on for a while.

9 weeks P.O. now,

and first day back at work:

2.5 hours

at the gym

where I train

& manage.

Healing to see friends,

be missed,

be hugged.

PT after,

home to crash.

Exhaustion

stealing

my

words.

If they don’t send you home from surgery with an Intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) device like Dustin Aschenbeck had, there’s always *these* calf squeezes… Not sure they’ll prevent blood clots, though.

Den of Positivity, 12 weeks PI, 8 weeks PO:

Rough night of worry over future work. Putting personal training on back burner and investigating ways to earn money with my writing. Lots of things on my body hurt today. I can’t muster much positivity, so I’ll let these gals do it for me. Hang in for the second song at 45 seconds.

At 8 Weeks P.O., the passive & active knee flexion I’ve been doing at PT (bending the knee to bring heel to bum) has been painful, but I’ve seen progress in my mobility & strength, and don’t get so sore afterwards anymore. I’m even able to do a few minutes – reeeeally slowly – on a bike. But when Melissa introduced standing hip extension this morning, my hamstrings basically said, “What you talkin bout, Willis?!” My brain said go, but the hams did not. I just stood there…wishing…my leg would move. I switched legs and did a few extensions with the good leg to notice what was firing where, before switching back and trying again. And then the leg moved. A little. But, woah, Nellie, there is some work to be done.

P.S. I’m not using the cable in that second picture, but I do put on pants for PT.

Two hours sitting & standing, and I did not die.