I cannot wait to go back to my pain doctor's office when I get the clearance from my surgeon.
Before I left for my surgery, he was telling me about how after the new year, he was going to be finished setting up an all new section at his office.
The new section is all about weight loss, dieting, diet supplements, exercise programs and routines, and that he was even working on a deal with the local YMCA to have his patients use the pool for both water therapy and as part of his new weight loss programs.
There's many reasons that people are in pain, and when you're in pain, you don't want to cause yourself more pain, so a very large majority of people with chronic pain stop exercising because it hurts, and they end up putting on a lot of weight.
That excess weight puts more stress and strain on your body, which causes you to be in even more pain.
So he's going to help his patients lose weight so they can reduce some of the pain they are in.
I'm really hoping that he's got some good stuff worked out, especially for patients like me who have skull to tailbone fusions.
Because we are fused so big, we can't exercise like normal people, our bodies don't move easily anymore, we can't bend to touch our toes, we can't bend to do sit-ups or crunches, side bends, none of that, so losing weight is extremely difficult.
I love my elliptical and can't wait to get back to using it, because it doesn't require me to bend or any of that, it's like walking, gentle stair climbing, so it's easier on my back and body.
I'm still on restriction from my surgery, but once I'm let go while waiting for the new surgery, or after the new surgery that's coming, I plan on getting right back on my elliptical.
I love that thing, I so want to work out on it now but I can't, and I know if I did, I'd end up hurting myself really bad.
Oh well, not much longer now I hope.
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Before I left for my surgery, he was telling me about how after the new year, he was going to be finished setting up an all new section at his office.
The new section is all about weight loss, dieting, diet supplements, exercise programs and routines, and that he was even working on a deal with the local YMCA to have his patients use the pool for both water therapy and as part of his new weight loss programs.
There's many reasons that people are in pain, and when you're in pain, you don't want to cause yourself more pain, so a very large majority of people with chronic pain stop exercising because it hurts, and they end up putting on a lot of weight.
That excess weight puts more stress and strain on your body, which causes you to be in even more pain.
So he's going to help his patients lose weight so they can reduce some of the pain they are in.
I'm really hoping that he's got some good stuff worked out, especially for patients like me who have skull to tailbone fusions.
Because we are fused so big, we can't exercise like normal people, our bodies don't move easily anymore, we can't bend to touch our toes, we can't bend to do sit-ups or crunches, side bends, none of that, so losing weight is extremely difficult.
I love my elliptical and can't wait to get back to using it, because it doesn't require me to bend or any of that, it's like walking, gentle stair climbing, so it's easier on my back and body.
I'm still on restriction from my surgery, but once I'm let go while waiting for the new surgery, or after the new surgery that's coming, I plan on getting right back on my elliptical.
I love that thing, I so want to work out on it now but I can't, and I know if I did, I'd end up hurting myself really bad.
Oh well, not much longer now I hope.
