Physical Therapy Session #3

I'm back on the bike… Can you believe it? Well kind of back on the bike. Today's PT session started as the others with the thigh massage and the love / hate stretching session. Next, Carl thought it would be a good idea to get me on the stationary bike to work on the motion in my leg. I wasn't going to argue with that. It took a couple of minutes of my leg going back and forth on the pedals before I finally developed the flexibility in my leg to go completely around, but by the end of the session I was spinning my legs away. I think I got a little too excited because I was wanting to put some resistance on the pedals to make it tougher but thankfully Carl kept me inline and said maybe next time. What's that saying…? You got to learn to crawl before you can walk. After a 10 min session on the bike we headed over to the treadmill, I put on the vest and harness and got hooked up to the machine. This time we set the weight at 50lbs opposed to the 70lbs it was just four days ago. This session I was much more comfortable; I was able to walk at a fairly decent pace without using my hands. At one point I even said to Carl "check this out" and began to jog. Carl looked at me smiled and said "no, no, not yet." Once the 12 min. walk was over I felt great and Carl gave me some exercises to do at home. Today I found out that if you are in Physical Therapy at KVO you are allowed to use the gym any time during their regular business hours for a small fee. Carl introduced me to the weight room and I did some circuit training on the upper body and some core workouts on the ball. It felt great to get the heart rate up and to finally break a sweat. My next PT session is on Wednesday, but I plan on heading back tomorrow to lift weights and hopefully hop on the bike, but no resistance!!! Cheers!