Does walking count as cross training? I had a follow up with Dr. McLane, felt better yesterday than I have for a couple of weeks, but this morning on the xray table I was in pain while rolling hips around, the table was really hard. So then she wanted to have me replicate on the doctors table and I kept rolling around different ways and couldn't replicate the pain. Soreness but no PAIN. I felt like a moron, really. We discussed where I hurt and what the PT said, and Dr. McLane doesn't think its that lower ligament, but my perioformis or whatever the name is muscle in my deep glute, and that perhaps my sciatic is running right through it, and there's scar tissue causing the sciatic to get tweaked. But I got to witness her and her fellow doctor discuss my symptoms and they seemed highly uncertain and perplexed. They are recommending graston, very deep, deep massage, stretching and cleared me to crosstrain. She said soreness is not a problem with crosstraining, neither is me getting pain at other times in the day, but if I get the sharp pain or leg tightness while crosstraining or running to stop. She seemed to even clear me for running but I am not falling for that. I used to think that doctors were conservative and told us to not run at a drop of a hat. Now I am wary when they say go ahead and run. Anyway, I've been doing PT exercises 3x per day, plank ab position holds to ease my abs out of the atrophy spiral. I'll add other ab plank variations that don't put pressure on one side of my body. I am spending almost as much time between these things and doctors appointments (I have two PT and one dr appt this week). I walked another mile with the kids later in the evening.
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