Home Physical Therapy

At the moment, Shae doesn't have a physical therapy place to go to because there are very very very few people who know about FAI and how to rehab the hip surgery. It is incredibly unsettling and it makes you nervous and anxious all the time because when you are in Vail, you have complete and utter confidence with the therapists and you never have to think when you are in rehab. You just feel at home, and they pretty much just take you under their wing. However, the minute you leave Howard Head sports rehab and Vail, you become responsible for your own rehab, and need to make sure that your therapist at home will follow the rehab protocol and that you will do rehab religiously.

My Mom is going to meet with two different therapists next week and then we will decide which one will be the best for Shae to go to. However, in the meantime we have to do therapy at home.

So for now, Shae will do her exercises, massage, and range of motion 3 times a week, and will do pool therapy the other 3 times of the week, and she will bike for 20 minutes every day and will rest on sundays. It is really demanding, and I tend to say that surgery is somewhat easy, compared to the rehab which is the hard and demanding part. You have to be really determined and focused to do your rehab properly in order to get better.

This morning Shae road the bike for 20 minutes, then our very good friend Mei, who is a massage therapist, came to give Shae a soft tissue massage on her hip and then she did Shae's circumduction and range of motion with her.

Then my mom and I did Shae's exercises with her. Some of the exercises that she had to do were hamstring curls, glut leg lifts, quad pull ups, glut squeezes, and more.

She worked hard and rehab at home went really well today.