Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
I have been working with Egoscue to recover flexibility in my right leg. I started with the clinic in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area in May last year. The process is amazing. I had tried conventional physical therapy earlier last year but the results were not going to be there. Egoscue starts at the beginning -- with your posture. If our muscles aren't doing with they were designed to be doing, we fall apart and trouble follows. Egoscue doesn't work with the site of the pain alone, as conventional physical therapy does, but, instead, works with you to get your muscles doing the work they should be doing and getting bones back where they belong. It has been an arduous journey, but I am confident that I will achieve the goal this year. I hope this blog will attract other people who are working with Egoscue so that we can commisserate and bolster each other up as we do the work and share victories and setbacks.
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Hi Linda,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog through another blog's comments. I hope the exercises are helping you. I've started about the same time as you and am curious of your journey. I'm keeping track of my progress on my blog. http://astromantraining.blogspot.com/search/label/Egoscue
Good luck,
Mike
Hi Linda,
ReplyDeleteI started having hip pain in July 2011. I bought "Pain Free" in September and have been following the hip e-cises every day. I discovered my right hip flexor is very tight. When I started the Supine Groin stretch, I could only do it for a few minutes due to the pain. Now I can do it for 15 minutes. The hip still bothers me, but I figure this is a long process to realign my bones! I just ordered Egoscue's first book "Health Through Motion" and may add some of those e-cises to my 'menu'. Hope you have recovered flexibility over the past 2 years.
All the best,
Dave
Hi Linda,
ReplyDeleteI am also 65. I am tall and have always stooped and am in fear of becoming totally bent over as both my parents became. I signed up for 8 private sessions with an Egoscue therapist in March on the recommendation of a friend who was almost incapacitated by carpal tunnel syndrome. Someone at the Mayo Clinic suggested Egoscue and after two years, she is a new person. I am impressed by my increasing flexibility. Exercises which start off difficult, become routine. I feel as though I am on the road to being able to avoid further problems, if not to hopefully developing straighter posture. If nothing else, getting up and down from the floor several times a day is extremely worthwhile.
Karolyne
Linda, are you still doing Egoscue? I am 70 so probably close to your age and started with an Egoscue therapist in October. I would love to hear from you.
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