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Diagnosis: achilles tendon repair 5 weeks | Treatments: 12
I tore my achilles in ballet class doing small jumps. I had surgery on it and it was in a cast for 5 weeks. Yeah that is a lot further than even Monday (putting weight on her foot). How amazing! Thursday and Friday I didn’t go anywhere. I just walk around the house without the crutches. Yesterday morning when I woke up I felt really good because I could bend it. You know what is really interesting is the number of people that come up to me and say I can’t believe how fast you are recouping and getting back. I can do that in a plie. And it doesn’t even bother me. It feels much more connected. I mean even this is much more controlled. Oh that is nice!
Diagnosis: forehead cyst removal | Treatments: 5
After I am done talking I move my mouth and open and close to stretch it out a little bit because it feels very tight. I am an inch below the scar. The burn kinda changes a little bit depending on what you are doing. It feels almost like fire or like it is being cauterized. It is not as tight. Yeah it is better. Yeah it’s loose and feels balanced. WOW!
Diagnosis: 5 lumbar fusion | Treatments: 15
Today we tried to lift your legs with you on your back. How far could we lift them? Not more than two inches. He is up to about an 80 degree straight leg raise. That’s wild. Definitely a miracle! It has been seven or eight months since I lifted my legs up that high. How far did you walk yesterday? Four miles!
Diagnosis: lumbar laminectomy/fusion | Treatments: 9
I thought I was doing real good six months after surgery, and I tried to get out of bed in the morning. I couldn’t get out of bed. I felt more or less paralyzed as it was pinching a nerve in my back. It felt that it was right on the bone and drawn up tight. It seems like it just keeps getting tighter and tighter. It feels like a muscle drawing up in there. The longer you let it go the more of a problem it probably is to get out? That is right. It doesn’t hurt anywhere but the hamstrings!
Diagnosis: shattered kneecap, torn quadriceps tendon 1.5 years | Treatments: 20
I had a car accident a year and a half ago and tore my patella tendon and shattered half my knee cap off. My knee swells up whenever I do anything for one 15 minutes. Standing on it, it gets pretty big
I was in the south of France and I had no pain the whole way with my knee when I walked or did things. I did a lot of really huge hikes in Switzerland. I didn’t have any problem biking at all, and I can stand up on a bike now, which is thrilling.
Diagnosis: radical mastectomy 8 years | Treatments: 4
It had been eight years since my first mastectomy. And my arm pit was all c upped in because it was a modified radical and took all the muscle and fat. It was just skin down on bone. I was shaving terrific back pain in my upper back. And every physical therapy place I had ever been to told me sorry there wasn’t much they could do. Paul Mettler told me it was held down and pulled this arm forward. He worked on the armpit and changed my armpit from a cupped in area to a flat armpit. So that this armpit looks like this armpit. And it eliminated this terrific upper back pain that I had all the time. There was a streak of numbness right there and it is gone. This is so exciting (laughing) to be able to feel it. Usually at night this is a hard rock but last night and this morning and this afternoon-look at that it is soft! And look at there. Normally this arm is hard and puffed up. I think it is amazing! I have had so many doctors tell me you just have to live with this problem. There is no way it can ever be rectified.
Diagnosis: ankle talar fracture surgery | Treatments: 4
I noticed that I could walk around my home without the brace, went out to lunch wearing normal footwear and walked. And it was perfectly fine. And then the next day went just fine. I didn’t have pain. I didn’t have to take any Tylenol. And, I was quite pleased. Also, my friend and husband noticed that I was walking very well. Naturally rather than favoring my right leg to protect my left leg.
Diagnosis: Thyroid cancer, 2 surgeries | Treatments: 5
Thyroid surgery with a closed vocal cord on the right side. And she has had problems with swallowing and singing. Some of the changes I have noticed, two weeks ago I was in church and I haven’t been able to sing since I became ill. During the service my voice just became really really strong and surprised me! As well as the musician because she could even hear me. I have been able to sing since then. And when I was singing I was singing in my original voice with good tone quality so that really made me feel good (laughing).
Diagnosis: stage 4 tongue cancer post-surgical | Treatments: 6
The scar, I don’t even notice it. I don’t even feel it at all. I would feel an area that you worked on that was suddenly loose. And wonder how many people go through surgery and are told they just must live with a real tight neck the rest of their life. And I thought, gosh, everybody should know about this. It’s really good.
Diagnosis: 5 level cervical fusion/scar | Treatments: 4
It burns. We want it to burn, that means it is stretching apart. Does that have a hot feel to it? Yes it does. Can you tell from what the skin does what is going on? I can feel all that fibrosed tissue throughout the skin, fascia, which then surrounds and connects into the muscle. It is quite a good burning sensation. You don’t know it is there until you put tension on it. It looks normal if you just look at it. We want it to burn like that because that means it is changing.
Diagnosis: traumatic knee scar 6 months | Treatments: 4
I was thrown in front of a pickup truck. They cut all the scar tissue off (pointing above his knee cap). How does it feel? Pretty good. Steve squatting with 86 # in basket lift. How much do you think you could have done two weeks ago? Zero!
Diagnosis: shattered kneecap, torn quadriceps tendon 1.5 years | Treatments: 25
I had a car accident a year and a half ago and tore my patella tendon and shattered half my knee cap off. My knee swells up whenever I do anything for one 15 minutes. Standing on it, it gets pretty big
I was in the south of France and I had no pain the whole way with my knee when I walked or did things. I did a lot of really huge hikes in Switzerland. I didn’t have any problem biking at all, and I can stand up on a bike now, which is thrilling.
Diagnosis: hand trauma, scar surgery | Treatments: 15
