Saturday, May 15, 2021

a different point of view

 Today I rearranged the furniture in my living room.  Woo hoo! Right?  But wait, there is a reason behind this sudden urge for a change.  For several weeks now I've been going to physical therapy sessions for a pain and other problems in my neck.  Thursday I had a CT scan (still waiting for results) but on Friday something different happened.  Instead of one of the two therapists who had been giving me lovely deep massages and putting me through a series of exercises, they brought in the big guns, the head therapist.  Not sure if that's her official title but you get the idea.  Instead of massage she asked me lots of questions, showed me ways to improve my posture, asked about my sleeping habits and anything else that might have caused the apparent pinched nerve in the right side of my neck.  I'm not saying this is cause and effect but as we talked I realized that ever since I bought a recliner (just before the Covid shut down) and put it in place in my living room, I have been turning my head to the right to watch TV.  Not a lot, just a little angle and it never hurt, but I mentioned it to the therapist, and she seemed to think it was a possibility.  So today I pushed and pulled and shoved things around until I got things arranged so I can still relax in my recliner to watch TV but I'm looking straight at it.  It's a little soon to tell if this will actually make a difference, but it can't hurt,  right?

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