Well, Nick is now one week post op. Where is he at?
- no sciatic pain (or numbness, tingling etc)
- can stand up straight again
- no surgery pain, or surgery complications, wound healing nicely
- very tight hamstrings and glutes
- can't bend forwards much, but can extend his back
- can walk about 1 km at a time, twice a day
- doing stretches three times a day
- applying ice after any of walk or stretches
- practicing sitting, but can only manage about 15 minutes at a time
- has seen his physio once, and will see again in 2 weeks (would have been one week but next week is Christmas)
- no longer taking any painkillers
- fairly happy with his progress, but needless to say there is still a lingering fear that problems aren't resolved yet
His daily routine is now stretch - walk - stretch - walk - stretch with sitting up for mealtimes. I've added a page showing the stretches he now doing, 1 week post op.
We also visited an Alexander Technique practitioner today. Not a huge success. He found it quite hard work, especially when sitting down and he's not convinced that he feels any better for it.
Just for the record, his walks today were 2 x 0.7 and 1 x 0.5, no painkillers
Posted with Blogsy
No comments:
Post a Comment