More Improvement In Back Injury Recovery

11:57 PM

My mobility has increased even more today than yesterday. I can do leg raises again now, without much pain, and much more easily than yesterday too. I can now get in and out of the car without having to put any weight onto the steering wheel. I can now bow and get my head closer down to the sink when I'm brushing my teeth and rinsing, instead of having to bend my knees to get closer to the sink, this is something I wasn't able to do yesterday.

There's this illusion I keep getting stuck in. I keep thinking that I'm not going to improve. It's just really hard to imagine, I think, being in the state that I was in, being in the state that I'm in now, any improvement, but it keeps happening every day. I used to not be able to bow down, like in a Japanese bow greeting, or like a waiter bowing down, or a prince bowing down to a princess, it was physically impossible because of the pain involved. Now I'm able to, and I've incorporated bowing to my PT (physical therapy).

Since I'm able to bow down now, I can incorporate "air deadlifts" to my PT. It's doing deadlifts with an imaginary bar. This is an exercise I couldn't even attempt to doing yesterday, but now I can do it in its entirety, and without much pain.

The thing I'm having a hard time imagining disappearing is the slight pain that's still there in some movements. I can do leg raises almost painlessly now, sometimes I don't even feel anything when doing some leg raises. I still feel pain whenever I try to sit up from a lying down position. I have to sit up by going sideways, because there's no pain when I do that. If I try to sit up directly, like straight up and down, with no sideways movement, then it hurts.

The thing is though, I've thought the same for all the pain that I used to experience for all the other movements, I thought the pain for those movements wouldn't disappear either, and yet they did. So I think there is still some improvement daily, and there will probably be more improvement again tomorrow. It feels great having most of my mobility back.

Anyway, this is rare, but I am actually feeling sleepy right now, and I think I am actually going to sleep early this time. So yeah, that was my day today.