Little Moves Big Results

My youngest daughter loves to swim.  She made the high school swim team and was in the best shape of her life.  And then she started to experience back pain.  Knowing how hard she worked out and what incredible shape she was in, I thought she must have just pulled a muscle.  She went on to be very successful in her swim meets which were once a week.  But then we had the week where there were two meets one day right after the other and then her back pain was so intense, she could hardly get out of bed.

We took her to an orthopedist and couldn't believe it when he diagnosed a break in one of the small bones in her back.  She was definitely out of swimming... indefinitely.  A back brace was given with instructions to only take it off for bath or showers.  We were stunned.  She hadn't fallen.  No one had accidentally hit her.  She hadn't slipped into the water and hit the side of the pool.  Nothing.  The doctor went on to explain that a fracture of this kind is common with athletes.  It's a break that happens over time and hers just finally gave in when she swam the two meets back to back.  She was sent to a physical therapist.

I have to tell you that I thought the therapist was a complete idiot.  The moves and so called "exercises" were ridiculously easy... something I would expect a ninety year old woman with a broken hip might do.  Seriously, they were so completely basic and non stressful.  And this was supposed to increase her muscle around her spine so that her back would be supported by a strong muscular frame?  I am not ashamed to say, thankfully, that I was totally wrong.  She was better within a week.  And each and everyday that she did the exercises, she walked a little taller and with much less pain.  It was no time at all and she was back to her old self.  It was most surprising.

Little moves with amazingly big results.

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