This past week I bought a pair of hiking sticks. I find that using one in each hand helps me to stand a little straighter. My arms get more of a workout which hopefully does a little bit of good and building upper body strength. with better weather yesterday I walked outside down the block with the sticks - almost to the end probably 75 yards turned around and walked home in about three hours later feeling decent walked all the way to the end about 100 yards in turned around and came home. by last night I was feeling sore in sleeping last night was very unpleasant. today I didn't much less and feel exceptionally weak. if I really have a solid L4 S1 fusion in the surgeons claim that the x-rays from 11 months after surgery show that to be the case and EMG studies show no ongoing denervation, then feeling that I'm getting weaker in that area is probably my imagination. if anything had happened with the hardware I imagine I would be experiencing sudden and excruciating pain which thank the Lord I'm not. The neuromuscular chief at Penn said work on your core including abdominal muscles. I have tried that gently and the result has invariably been at least two days of rather extreme pain. it's frustrating I have no idea why and where it's coming from except in the area of the pelvic girdle time using the term correctly it sure as hell is coming from there.
the individual training sessions I'm paying for at the local gym for the first month of three sessions have focused on upper body which I'd pretty much ignored. I'm absolutely certain I need much more core strength. The gym agree but says i need upper body first. I live just outside of Trenton New Jersey and could go for treatment anywhere in the Princeton Mercer County area. but I have no idea where. I've certainly had physical therapy and neuromuscular i.e. EMG. I would like to know if there is any specific identifiable nerve constriction that is accounting for my difficulty in although the post surgery MRI showed extreme stenosis still existing at multiple levels I have been told that this has nothing to do with my current weakness. and of course one question I wish I understood was whether or not current continued dogged exercise could overcome the problems. so far it's not working.
but I'm told I probably over intellectualize my problems?
has anyone here had any experience with trying to balance the right amount of exercise against resulting pain?
the individual training sessions I'm paying for at the local gym for the first month of three sessions have focused on upper body which I'd pretty much ignored. I'm absolutely certain I need much more core strength. The gym agree but says i need upper body first. I live just outside of Trenton New Jersey and could go for treatment anywhere in the Princeton Mercer County area. but I have no idea where. I've certainly had physical therapy and neuromuscular i.e. EMG. I would like to know if there is any specific identifiable nerve constriction that is accounting for my difficulty in although the post surgery MRI showed extreme stenosis still existing at multiple levels I have been told that this has nothing to do with my current weakness. and of course one question I wish I understood was whether or not current continued dogged exercise could overcome the problems. so far it's not working.
but I'm told I probably over intellectualize my problems?
has anyone here had any experience with trying to balance the right amount of exercise against resulting pain?
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