A friend of mine, Vivian, is in training to be a physiotherapist, and she was kind enough to give me a lot of her time today by treating me as a proper patient. After the NSW Kendo Championships today we went outside to have a look at what had happened to my wrist.
She took a very careful history of my injury (without notes of course) and then proceeded to ask further questions including describing the location of the pain, the level of the pain from 0-10 (10 being the highest) and other things before she began a physical examination of my wrist. She did free-action testing first by flexing it around with me completely relaxed to determine if there was any pain anywhere before moving to resistance tests. Overall, she concluded that my wrist wasn't in too bad a condition.
The free-action tests indicated it wasn't joint related since the free movements without muscle use had no pain. The resistance testing was a little different with a little pain experienced at the extremes of force used. This indicated to her that it was more of a ligament and muscle problem than anything else.
Since I could currently move it around without too much problem at all, and minor pain if I used it with a lot of force/strength, it meant I needed to re-strengthen my wrist and forearm muscles to balance out the forces being applied by my arm/wrist. Vivian told me that I was already quite strong as she had difficulty forcing my muscles to experience pain with her own full strength, but Kendo requires an extremely high amount of force in the arm compared to regular life and use.
She showed me some exercises which I was to do each day, with three sets of ten repetitions each, with three exercises in all. She also said I could go back to doing training with suburi, but I needed to slow my cuts down so they were fully controlled at the end of the cut and I should get some elastoplast strapping tape and support my wrist.
She also said that if I wanted to later, she could refer me to a very good sports physicians practice in North Sydney where they had excellent care since she had personal experience with them.
While I didn't pay anything for her help and consult, I would be most happy to help out in the future. Once she finishes her formal education and if/when she goes into practice, I will be sure to advertise her practice and recommend her here to everyone. She is a wonderful person and her manner was very professional today too. Much appreciated Vivian~
She took a very careful history of my injury (without notes of course) and then proceeded to ask further questions including describing the location of the pain, the level of the pain from 0-10 (10 being the highest) and other things before she began a physical examination of my wrist. She did free-action testing first by flexing it around with me completely relaxed to determine if there was any pain anywhere before moving to resistance tests. Overall, she concluded that my wrist wasn't in too bad a condition.
The free-action tests indicated it wasn't joint related since the free movements without muscle use had no pain. The resistance testing was a little different with a little pain experienced at the extremes of force used. This indicated to her that it was more of a ligament and muscle problem than anything else.
Since I could currently move it around without too much problem at all, and minor pain if I used it with a lot of force/strength, it meant I needed to re-strengthen my wrist and forearm muscles to balance out the forces being applied by my arm/wrist. Vivian told me that I was already quite strong as she had difficulty forcing my muscles to experience pain with her own full strength, but Kendo requires an extremely high amount of force in the arm compared to regular life and use.
She showed me some exercises which I was to do each day, with three sets of ten repetitions each, with three exercises in all. She also said I could go back to doing training with suburi, but I needed to slow my cuts down so they were fully controlled at the end of the cut and I should get some elastoplast strapping tape and support my wrist.
She also said that if I wanted to later, she could refer me to a very good sports physicians practice in North Sydney where they had excellent care since she had personal experience with them.
While I didn't pay anything for her help and consult, I would be most happy to help out in the future. Once she finishes her formal education and if/when she goes into practice, I will be sure to advertise her practice and recommend her here to everyone. She is a wonderful person and her manner was very professional today too. Much appreciated Vivian~
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That's good news for you.
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