Friday, April 02, 2004

Therapy ??

The back is getting better finally. It is such a distraction in life to have a sore back. I have to credit the marvelous hands and elbows of my physical therapist Alex (not his real name). Elbows you ask ? Well yes. Apparently I have a tightening of my piriformis muscle in my left (facing you) deep external rotator muscle array. Part of the therapy is to apply pressure to pressure points. So Alex (not his real name) started applying pressure to my butt cheek right near the crease when suddenly he found the sweet spot, this is the place where the most pain is felt during the palpation. He asked me if it hurt and I said yea, he released and suddenly I was swimming in pain. When I could breath normally again I indicated that I was impressed with the amount of pressure he could exert with his fingers and he explained that he was doing this.



Makes me thankful I'm in computers.....

ba