Sonya Elliott getting out of her hospital bed for PT-1991

Sonya getting out of her hospital bed for physical therapy-1991

 

I’ve been fighting a bad hamstring for about three months now and I finally gave in and went for help. Fortunately our insurance didn’t make me see a doctor first for a referral, because I hate to pay to have them tell me something I already know, “You should see a physical therapist.”

The cost always discourages me to go initially, and I had good and bad news in that regard. The good: everyone in our family is relatively healthy. The bad: we have a big deductible, so since we’ve been healthy we haven’t used much of the deductible, which means, I’m paying for physical therapy. And it’s not cheap. But if anyone knows how important it is to keep your body moving and how much a physical therapist can help, I do. I’ve had sports injuries over the years and I was hit by a train and went through a lot of rehab. A huge part of getting and keeping myself healthy has always been physical therapy.

So I got off my wallet and picked up the phone. The first place I called was a location in my neighborhood that had alway intrigued me because of the name; BIOJUNCTION: Sports Therapy. I had always thought to myself, if I need some PT I’m going to check that place out. So I did. And when I walked into the place the first thing I noticed were some Eastern Eagle T-shirts hung with pride. I graduated from and played basketball for Eastern. This was the place.

My physical therapist (actually a DPT, “D” for Doctorate) played volleyball at Eastern. I had confidence that, as an athlete, she would know what I needed to do to get back on the court and play like…well, not quite like new, but like a 48 year-old with a GOOD hamstring.

Then, what I thought could never happen, happened. She fixed my hamstring in almost ONE session. NO KIDDING! I have to admit I was a little skeptical when she said that it looked like my SI joint and hips were tight and that was probably the problem. I was thinking to myself, well of course they are tight, I’ve been favoring my hamstring for three months, but I didn’t think there would be a quick fix.

My hamstring felt better after the first meeting and then after my second this week, I played on it twice in one day and it almost felt normal. I have a few exercises, of course and instructions on how to sit and sleep without aggravating the problem (I was sitting cross-legged during my writing class Wednesday night and suddenly my hamstring started to ached and throb…ok, I believe!). And I’ll go to physical therapy a few more times so that I can get the area strong again, but I am already much better and back on the court.

Now I’m going to have both my kids go and visit BIOJUCTION to make sure that they keep their bodies working at their best.

Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to ask for a little help…