Chronic illness, post operative, injury & rehabilitation

Sometimes we lose, what we once had. Strength, energy, confidence, self esteem, mobility, and joy even.

It is common to experience a host of lifestyle conditions as a consequence of injury, trauma or illness. Simply being more sedentary will see a reduction in muscle mass or bone density, the ability to cook or go to the gym as you may have done before are now non existent and low mood particularly can be debilitating in their own rights, never mind the new condition you are also battling and healing from.

Rebuilding your diet, strength and confidence after an injury, operation or illness can help accelerate your health and wellbeing avoiding further injury and the onset of depression. Something magical happens when you take control of a situation you thought you had no control over. It’s liberating and empowering, and as you’ve come to expect from me, we take it day by day, one step at a time.

Your Doctor or physio will advise when you are good and ready to return to exercise, post operative, post trauma or post illness. Once your physiotherapy sessions have been completed it is important to continue the work in your own time. Quite often people lack the self discipline to continue alone letting scar tissue, lethargy, lack of confidence or discomfort put them off continuing their journey of rehabilitation. On approval of your doc, we’ll make a slow and gentle start, rebuilding all the above so that you can continue to get stronger, leading a full life, probably even better than before.

During a period of rest, or illness other parts of your body can degenerate becoming weaker, or strained as they compensate for an injury elsewhere – it’s important we re-build all parts of your weak body and not just the part that ‘got sick’. We can do this in just a few minutes a day too, here and there, indoors or outdoors while walking the dog. It needn’t be a chore.

Feel free to discuss your options, I’d be happy to discuss your plan with your physio or Doctor should you wish, to help complete your progress, so you’re fit and well for your world.