MOVE, MOVE, MOVE! It is critical to feeling less pain

Think of starting yourself moving like trying to get a car going on a freezing cold day. Maybe it takes a little longer to start and a little longer for the heat to kick in. Once you blow through that cold air, the warm air starts to come in, similar to how it is when you start moving when you are hurting, it takes a while for you to start to move better, but you eventually do. Just work hard at it. Until you do, you will continually get worse. You HAVE to move. If you don't move, you will continually feel worse. Remember, there is nothing wrong with your leg, no matter what colors and swelling you have. That pain is not pain telling you to stop moving and that you are hurt. It is pain but not for anything, just bad signals. You HAVE to move around or it will hurt more and your muscles will further atrophy. In honor of JFK, we will look at one of his accomplishments as a Vet that served on PT 109. Yes, that is me at four years old riding this tribute ride to him and his brothers in arms. Let's think back to FDR who was one of our best presidents and was stricken with Polio. We can pull through this if he pulled through Polio. We are 10x better off than he was and he went on to be President! If we simply move as much as we can, we can gain more movement and less pain. If we do not move, things will just hurt more the next day. It hurts a bunch to get moving, but if we do not do that, we are just hurting ourselves further. We cannot feel hopeless in this! End rant.

Rant second wind!

It has to managed, and that is through trying to get the pain down as much as we can through physical and chemical medicine. The absolute most important thing is through physicality and moving. I was absolutely DYING yesterday. I was moving around my apartment to clean some and it killed. The more I did, the less it hurt. By the time I was done, I was feeling pretty darn good. You have to move around. I tell you, the first time I had diminished pain, I went and cleaned everything super duper hardcore. By the end I felt good. The next day I hurt like all get out and then moved around and it started to feel a little better. Remember, it is like the movie Groundhog Day, or like that 50 first dates movie when it comes to getting your pain down. It is either, move and hurt like all get out initially and then have diminished pain throughout the day, or have constant pain. I'll take a certain period of time of pain over constant pain. As with anything though, to get to this point you have to work towards it. You've got this! Life is too short to not make the most of your time through getting moving and feeling diminished pain.