PT:

With my type of injury, and the surgeries I have received to correct my problems, most patients live out their lives in relative comfort.  I would be ecstatic about this looking forward into my life, but there is a catch,  these patients do not and could not continue pursuing their sports even a "beer league" level.  I told myself that would not be my fate. After incessantly begging my doctor to allow me to continue my physical therapy he gave me permission to return to working out.  Although I was physically comfortable, pain free and not sore, I was dying on the inside.  I went from 100 to 0 back in May.  After 19 years of doing a physical activity every season of the year, whether it was sailing, hockey, baseball or lacrosse, the majority of my 21st year in life will be on the sidelines unable to even run.  

I am 4 months out of my first surgery and a  month and a half out of my second. My goal is to be back on the ice mid-november.  Now to get there I need some help, thats where Olympic Physical Therapy out of Middletown comes in.  After working with them with my hip last year before I knew the real extent of the damage in there, they kept me going, and got me through the last half of the second semester. I really want to meet my goal of being able to play this year.  Although it may be just out of reach,  I have the support of my team and friends to get myself back into peak physical form by the end of the semester.  

After my first two Pt appointments you could say that I am taking it slow, but with good reason.  In order to come back as quickly and as healthy as possible I have to redevelop my range of motion.  With this surgery my hip flexors, my gluteus, and other connecting muscles have all contracted from the trauma of surgery, and I have lost all of my flexibility.  Developing my range of motion will allow me to become even stronger over time than I was before the surgery.   

So Heres to my last weekend on crutches, and remember to Ice after every workout.