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TRAGER on the table

my first experience with this modality

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I knew better, but I did not do what I should have (#bodymechanics). It took a year to heal the knee injury (#medialcruciiateligatment). I was giving my husband a foot reflexology treatment in our home instead in my clinic space. He was in his chair. I was was on my yoga ball. We had an ottoman between us. To manage this, I had my leg turned out from the knee instead of from the hip. It was nothing until I stood up after the session.

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I had overstretched the muscles behind my right knee. This overstretched state put stress on my pes anserine (an attachment for 3 leg muscles: a hamstring, a hip flexor, and knee rotator). Soon the medial knee ligament began to zing every time I took a step. The swelling was noticeable. Weakness in the knee that followed affected how I used my foot and how much weight the leg could bear.

It took ten months to substantially heal. Ten months of relying on the left side of my body to descend stairs, walk, and stand changed my once fluid gait into a clomping, side-to-side gamble.

I did many reasonable and adviseable things to deal with the swelling, the pain, the weakness, and…

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Lisa Patrell, https://linktr.ee/dellaureo
Lisa Patrell, https://linktr.ee/dellaureo

Written by Lisa Patrell, https://linktr.ee/dellaureo

I am too old to be new, but not so worn that I cannot regard life anew in poetry. Other hours I hold space for people transforming & do things for our planet.

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