Skatepunk

The ramp in my backyard has been seeing good regular sessions again, and thanks to Dr. G, I've been able to skate again. I've had hip, leg, and back pain for most of the last three years, and have been to three doctors who did everything they could shy of telling me to get over it, or that it wasn't anything. Well, I'd heard about this mysterious Dr. G. for a long time, as old friends like Neil Hendrix, Mike Frazier, Bob Burnquist, Lincoln Ueda, and more have always talked about him and his effectiveness at managing their ailments. Well, I finally went a few weeks back, and found out that I've had a hip flexor this whole time. It's hard to describe without using the doctor-terms I've learned, but basically, the muscles around the top of my thigh bone have been tightened severaly since the injury, doing three bad things: the tightened muscles themselves are painful, and anytime I'd stretch them inadvertently it produced significant pain; the muscles pulled the femur up into the hip socket, produced degeneration of the bones, and arthritic pain; because of the "shortened" effect of one leg over the other, even though it was slight, my back was out of whack. Electro-something-or-other and ultrasound have vastly improved my leg and the pain is already greatly lessened at this point, so I've been able to skate! Man, what a good feeling--emotionally as well as physically.

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