New Year’s is as good a time as any for reflection, right?
Physical Therapy for the knee is going well. Exercises are piling up more and more. Might be a fun time to get the new scale I’ve been eyeing for a few months. See if I’m trading out more muscle for fat even if I’m not losing weight.
Looking at investing in a couple of pieces of exercise equipment so I can more easily do PT at home and keep it going long after appointments end. If nothing else, it’ll be a decent source of exercise. Maybe there will be NY sales on some exercise equipment, huh?
The shoulder got so much worse this last month, I haven’t done as much of those exercises. Trying to get approval from insurance to do an MRI to verify what’s going on in there. Might do PT for the shoulder eventually, but I’m not sure what movements or exercises might cause damage. It was only dull pain off and on last spring; now it’s sharp cutting pain that doesn’t subside when not in use.
Got my first cortisone shot in the shoulder yesterday. Funny, the tidbits that I’m learning. They seem to recommend those steroid injections for joints all the time, (especially knees) to get the joint to last longer. But upon reading, there are indications that multiple injections can actually cause more joint damage. What the? If you ”fail” to improve with steroids, some insurances will allow you to try Synvisc. Friend of mine said her care nurse said Synvisc can delay or prevent damage to the joint better. Darn it that insurance makes you try the damaging stuff first, huh? Likely because it’s cheaper. Sure, get lots of injections to delay the costly surgeries, hoping you’ll hop to a different insurance plan by the time you need to have the joint replaced. But why allow something priced in-between if it could delay and prevent damage if it’s not the cheapest option. Idk; I haven’t researched Synvisc much since it’s not an option yet.
