My diary of my injuries, who I went to see, and what is happening, it is my way to remember what I need to do, that's all!

I am going full throttle trying to get my body heal so I can do the things I do but want to do them better. Right now, I am a little frustrated but I know I will make the progress needed. I don't give up that easily.

For a while I had to stop seeing my massage therapist whose specialty is NMR (neuro muscular reprogramming) where the objective is dealing with muscle imbalance and to once again teach the brain to make the connection to the body to work together. With all the injuries which means I had going to seeing many doctors so it means I only have so much money. It was not a good decision but I'm back with Tim now.

 I start seeing Tim Hackett in 2010 when I training for a half marathon. My hip, my hamstring, my calves would tighten up after one mile run.I have to think back that I had strain  a hip and hamstring because prior to that, I train for a 5K race, I may be tired and sore as crap, but I was not in pain. I quit going to the boxing gym and started hot yoga at Arrichion while continue to see Tim. Race day, my lower body did not start to tight up until mile 7 and then again at mile 11. I have to believe it is the combination of massage and hot yoga. I finished the race and I was very proud of myself, my first one. 

Fast forward to a couple more years, my right shoulder was giving me pain. What caused it? I have to think it was 25 years of karate training, all the tugging and shoulder throw and submissions and joint locks. Trying to do a bench press, there was no strength and forget doing a pull-up, but for some reason I was able to do push-ups. I ultimately had to go see the orthopedic Dr. Wood and the physical therapist who told me to get those cortisone shots to relieve the inflammation. For the next 2 weeks, I was not allowed to do  heavy weights. My trainer, Jackie, she's the best, she had me doing rehab exercise for the shoulder. She knew exactly what was needed. I was given a new lease in life with my shoulder. I started strengthen the shoulder, get better range of motion. It's not perfect yet, but now attempting a pull-up, I can feel the romboids and upper lats activating and I was able to go back to swim lessons. Yes, I had to stop that too, because of hip and shoulder pain.

Hip pain, shoulder pain, what's next? back pain. I went to see Dr Linda Foglia and she spent 90 mins with me the first time. She had me get x-rays done. I found out my L4 was shifted in and the bulging disc was hitting a nerve which hit the sciatic nerve. With adjustments and strengthening, the back got better. I wonder if it is as a result of the bone spur where I had to wear a boot for 3 months that caused the lower extremities to be misaligned. 

So I thought I was all done with being in pain, then it was my calves, I would go do a warm up run and the calves would get really tight that my only remedy was to stop and the pain would go away. My chiropractor thinks it's exertional compartment syndrome. So once again, I'm looking for another doctor and I heard dry needling works best to alleviate my pain. I made an appt. to see Dr. Kari Smith at Run Raleigh PT. She did a gait analysis and thinks I am running from my calves and not engaging the glutes to push up to do the work. 
I started see Kari in July 2015 and it's a slow process. She did dry needling in my calves and each time it gets better. I can do a short run without it getting too tight but the biggest problem was that the left glute does not fire. 

So between Kari and Tim, the glute was working hard but then my lower back would hurt because of weak QL. So as you can see, all my aches and pain went to full cycle. But I'm hopeful it will get better. Working with Tim today, he said the left glute does activate based upon the exercise he has me do but my brain is not getting the feedback. The QL is not as sore so it is a good sign. The dry needling to starting to work, Kari said the left glute is talking. If all when is done, I want to be able to do a squat, and push off with the heels and activate the glutes to come back up. Right now, I can do that with very little weight. And if I can do that, I want to be able to do a short run and feel tired afterwards, not in pain. 

Why am I writing all this? I want to remember the series of events of what happen, with what injuries I had and what I did, what I should continue to do, what I have to do. This means I will continue all 3 specialists.