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Mar. 3rd, 2023 @ 10:16 am 
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So it turns out the reason why I've been having an ongoing problem with my lower back and hips (which I have, it's been awful) is that my transverse abdominal muscles responded to two rounds of abdominal surgery (that, admittedly, went straight through them) with "fuck this shit I'm out" and haven't worked in the best part of two years.
I saw a women's health physiotherapist who, with the help of an ultrasound, checked out my muscles and helped me find an exercise that activated them, and two gentle flexes made my transverse abdominal muscles feel all tired.
And I mean gentle. Like, if this was an arm exercise we'd be talking "raise your hand two inches" kind of gentle.
So I get to add a new exercise to my rehab list! It is quite a long list.
My dad finally gave me a copy of his collection of digitised family photos.
Obviously looking through such things can give you many emotions. I include among the list: puzzlement, because for some reason my parents had taken, and had developed, and kept for the next approximately forty years, a photograph of a breaded ham.
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for some reason my parents had taken, and had developed, and kept for the next approximately forty years, a photograph of a breaded ham
Actually laughed out loud.
Very good luck with the exercises.
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| From: | ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) sami |
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March 9th, 2023 08:57 am (UTC) |
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In their defence it is an extremely fancy breaded ham.
I think it might have been brought to some sort of celebration adjacent to my birth.
Oh that sucks about the stomach muscles. And those 'gentle' physio exercises, argh. I mean, it took a year before I could actually feel the butt muscle that wouldn't engage actually do anything, and I hate the exercises so. much.
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| From: | sami |
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March 9th, 2023 08:56 am (UTC) |
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I'm very fortunate that I can apparently still engage my pelvic floor and even the transverse abdominals.
According to the physio this is actually very normal and to be expected because the surgeries I had, at least between them, represent a greater insult to my transverse abdominal muscles than having a Caesarean section, so it's not at all surprising I need the rehab but I should be on a pretty standard rehab path.
I never knew it would feel so good to have a medical problem that's just textbook.
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