Day: July 29, 2003

I just came back from a 45 minute walk. It was amazing to just sit, relax, and feel the muscles in my quads start twitching, as well as my TFL/IT band. I’m contemplating whether or not I can afford a limited gym membership. My therapist, at one point, suggested that I add some weight training to my yoga/walking regimen to strengthen my hip/leg muscles. I think I’m doing ok with what I’m doing. So far, I’ve almost gotten my ankle realigned so that I can walk flat on my feet instead of to one side or the other. That’s assisting my knees to slowly turn away from each other so they’re facing forward, instead of being a bit knock-kneed. But that is done mainly through my stretching and being overly conscious of which direction my feet and knees are facing during yoga. I’m hoping that things start to work their way higher up. My neck has been a serious pain in the last few months, mainly due to my chest muscles being overly contracted. I’ve been stretching out my shoulders pretty good, and it’s starting to help. However, I really need to go in and have the scar tissue ripped open in my rotator cuff so I can have a more free movement there. At the moment, to properly stretch, I find that I’m dislocating my shoulder to get into position. Not very helpful. But, my shoulders are slowly moving back into their natural position, which is relieving some of my upper back pain. Now to just reset my pelvis to get rid of the lower back pain. 😛