Sunday, February 15, 2009

Building a Super Knee

I've been a bad blogger the past few weeks, no joke. But I thought I'd throw in a quick update.

Physical therapy is going really well. Since I last posted, I've made a lot of progress; I've definitely crossed the line and am better now than I was before surgery. My physical therapist is constantly butting up against the limits of what he's "allowed" to have me do at 2-3 weeks out, so a lot of the exercises are getting pretty damn easy.

Friday I got to jump on the elliptical, and got my HR up over 150 without a peep from my knee. I've also been working on walking increasingly longer distances so I can start walking to campus again, and today I made it pretty comfortably.

This next week we're supposed to toy with some "light impact exercises", and see how it reacts.

Thats all for now. Catch you guys later.

5 comments:

  1. Awesome news, looks like you're gonna come back stronger than ever...like there was ever any doubt!

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  2. Good luck!

    I have had two knee reco's and some minor work

    It is a long road but woeth it

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  3. Hi Doug

    You are going to come back better than ever. For someone who is as young as you are, this seems like a terrible thing at the time. But I promise you (I am a lot older and allowed to do that) in the big scheme of things this is just a short term setback.

    Glad to see you got that heartrate up and that must have felt good.

    Best of luck.

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  4. How you doing...what's the latest?

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