Kipinän tuntisijaisenakin toimiva Linda Szöke kertoo tällä viikolla miten kuntoutuminen loukkaantumisen jälkeen tapahtuu. Linda on kotoisin Unkarista, mutta nyt työskentelee ja asuu nyt Vaasassa.
2 years ago I got a knee
injury… and after I recovered, it happened again last summer. After
crying my eyes out for many days in a row and getting over the feeling
that my life is over, I started training my legs and knees again.
Having heard and read about many
things, I have found that the most important thing is that I always need
to keep the muscles around the injured area in a good shape. Of
course, in the beginning there were some restrictions and some things
that I just couldn’t do without having a sharp pain. Besides, still
today I have to be always careful that I do not overload my knee,
otherwise, when the muscles are tired, it gets worse. For example, when
an accident happens, the injured area is full of liquid for a couple of
weeks and it should be ”moved out” from that area, so in this sense my
knee had to be kept in moving.
After most of the liquid went
away, I started having this loose feeling in my knee. Basically, it was
moving 2 centimetres out of the normal place and back. This equalled to
no jumping at all (at least big jumps still have to wait for some long
weeks) and I had been restricted to easily controllable movements. I
needed to look for treatment, where I use my muscles around my knee a
lot and still can have fun.
My physiotherapist gave me
some typical exercises what people normally do in the gym, but I am just
simply not that weightlifting gym girl who is putting 60 kg on the “leg
bending machine” and do that 3x15 times… On the other hand, nowadays it
is a must for me, so from now and then I will get myself to do them.
Though I have found some nicer
ways to keep the muscles busy, which worked for me… My favourite one is
dancing, but not the jumping all around type for quick rhythms as there
I would loose the control on my knee. For example by ballet, by tandu,
jete, releve and so on, I use my whole leg and at the same time small
and important muscles around my knees are getting stronger and stronger.
It works in the same way with modern jazz, and contemporary dance. By dancing, besides getting nice long muscles, I do gain body control that helps me to avoid injuries in the future.
In the same way Pilates helps
me to gain body control too. Well, a typical way how body reacts, when
something is broken, it tries to avoid loading too much weight on that
broken spot and starts compensating by using the other side of the body
more… For that reason, my lower back started hurting. Besides, my lovely
leg exercises, I have needed to find another type of moving to open my
back muscles. Pilates and yoga are working for me very well :D
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