PT progress

[unixronin]

When last reported, they'd switched me to new exercises because I'd maxed out the reformer for two-leg presses.  The reformer is a machine with a rolling carriage whose motion is opposed by a set of tension springs.  You lie on your back and either push on a footrail against the resistance of the springs, or pull on handgrips which act through pulleys, but ehtier way the objective is to overcome the springs and move the carriage.

There are five pairs of spring attachment points, and a whole bunch of springs in various weights which can be installed in various combinations.  The springs come in four different weights, color-coded green, red, blue and yellow from heaviest to lightest.  There's only one blue and one yellow; the yellow spring doesn't get used much.  I don't know what the actual spring weights are.

When I started this long PT course, I was doing one-leg presses with my left leg using two red springs and a blue.  Today, I was doing one-leg presses with ... well, all of them, pretty much.  Except for the yellow spring.  There wasn't room for it.

Yeah, I maxed out the machine again, on the weak leg alone this time.  Only two more PT sessions left, then I have another followup with my orthopedist on July 21.  I'll be glad to finish up, frankly.

Comments

Yippee!!

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

That's great! What is your extension and range of motion now?

Re: Yippee!!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm back to full range of motion in the knee, but it's still painful under heavy load.

Re: Yippee!!

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

What's a heavy load? Ten pounds or fifty?

Re: Yippee!!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

A full rack of springs on the reformer. ;)







(Which I'm guessing to be around 150lb.)

Re: Yippee!!

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

That is fan-tast-ic!