So walking has been a little rough lately. I can't walk fully on my left foot, only on the toes really. So my left calf has been getting far too much work and it hurts like nothing else when I walk. I started trying to walk with my heel, but my knee starts to buckle and hurts every now and then.
I grabbed a door post and started leaning forwards and back to try and feel where the pressure should be. Because of all of the swelling in my knee, I can't really use my quad that much, but that's what I neeeeed to use.
After working with the post and the leaning, I was able to feel pressure around my knee while walking without the pain in my calf. So that was good. But now I'm just sitting down :)
And I can't wait for Saturday 11-2 at the Garner Petsmart. That's when I get to meet Emily the shepherd mix puppy!
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Hang in there, Lisa. It does get better! However, don't you think it would be best to wait a while before getting a puppy? Have you thought ahead about the training of its little bladder -- the spreading of all the newspapers -- and that's only the beginning. Hate to 'rain on your parade', but concerned for you. Our love to you.
Good luck with your ACL surgery and rehab.
I'm wondering if your hamstring is shortening/tightening up. That happened when I injured my heel and it hurt to walk "normally". So I would walk on my toes on that foot, which, I was told, didn't help to resolve the problem.
I don't know which exercises you have been cleared to do, but there were two that I was given to help stengthen and lengthen my hamstring -- I was told it was way too tight.
Here are the two main stretching exercises that I was told to do: "Stretching exercises should create a pulling feeling-they should not cause pain." :
http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/calf-stretch
http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/stretch-plantar-fascia-and-calf
And two strengthening exercises:
http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/towel-curl
http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/marble-pickups
Given the other exercises you told me you are doing, these should be safe for you to do, but you could call the doctor/PT office and ask.
Hope these might help!
Love, Mom
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