I went to see a new physical therapist on tuesday (7 weeks post op) for some new pains that I have been having in my hip. After a couple minutes of some basic questions for me she started poking around in my belly. The end result is that my Psoas muscles are extremely tight due to weak and sore glute muscles. She had to do some deep tissue massage to try and get my psoas to release so that we could work it with some light stretching and leg lifts and holy crap did it hurt!!! It felt like she took a dull knife and slowly stabbed me in the abdomin with it. Because the muscle is so deep (underneath some important organ) she has to apply constant pressure over the span of about a minute.
After that I thought the pain was over, but alas she informed me that my scars had way to much scar tissue around them and I need to start massaging them twice a day to keep the new tissue growth down. And I thought the last massage hurt, HAHA. Yet again we moved on to another massage, this time the problem child, my glutes. To my surprise and relief no pain with this one why she was massaging it. At the end of the day both my physical therapist here and in Indianapolis think that I'm pushing it to much. Which is funny because all I'm doing is some light household chores and floating in the pool. I'm not sure how this constitutes as "to much activity" yet they seem to be willing to let me return to work in 11 days where I'll be walking all day, lifting boxes, and be expected to all around be "Superman" again?? I'm nervous and not sure where to turn at the moment, do I rest in hope that I'll feel better when I return to work, or do I have to realize that some pain is normal regardless what the therapist says?? I don't know, but what I do know is that I was expecting a lot less than this when I first heard I was having surgery. Note to self for the future, Hip surgery is no small deal. At least I can start jogging in 4 months (yes they pushed back that date as well).
