stretching things

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Hi,

Interesting you speak of stretching tendons, ligaments, muscles

etc........... This is the current bane of my life........... here I sit at

54 trying ever so hard to push my new hip passed 75 degrees bent.........

and it is just as you say..........painful.......... painful when one

pushes, painful later that night if one succeeds and painful for several

days until it gets used to the tiny bit extra one may win....... Mine hadn't

bent for 35 years so is a rare case.......... but you are so right - it

isn't that easy...........

Actually if you have any suggestions that may help I would appreciate them

as there isn't all that much info about. I do usually warm the movement a

little before I try and these days mainly do it in a pool where some of the

stress is relieved......... but I have a lot of hassle trying to keep the

back from bending instead....... getting angles that just stretch the hip

bits is interesting......... My physio has only suggested flexing against

steps but I don't find that helps much..........it has been better to crouch

in the pool and do Russian Cossack type movements..... every tiny bit of a

degree seems very hard won......... BUT hey any tiny bit is better than

where it was straight...........smile.

I think they must put quite a bit back around the hip joint as with

virtually no muscle stock at all as a starting point I have never looked

like dislocating.......... I spent 6 weeks non weight bearing on crutches

because I had a bone graft in order to lessen how he cut things up in my

case. He actually cut the bit off the top of the femur where the ligaments

attach and put it back on with the graft.......... He had to chip the bones

apart so I guess needed more space than normal.........I then started

walking tentatively on it still with the crutches and ditched them pretty

quickly because they were killing my shoulder...... I never really used a

cane as it interfered with my attempting to find my balance and seemed to

make matters worse. I am now walking pretty normal though I feel that the

bending range if interfering a little with the gait........

Edith

> Des

> I presume you are kicking into pads a bag or a body rather than kicking

> rapidly through air. I would have thought the impact of kicking would be

> like jumping and .as they say medically .....contra -indicated.

>

> Your tendons are less flexible as you get older , so if you haven't

> stretched them it is difficult to allow them to stretch more as compared

to

> when you were a teenager.If you were prepared to bear the pain to tears

then

> I believe you will increase your flexibility to a much greater extent.

>

> PNF stretching is great but even so AGE WEIGHS HEAVILY ON STRETCHING.

> Not to contradict myself, I would try to do as much stretching as possible

> without tearing my tendons .Naturally you would never do this cold

>

> I dont know what sort of reattachment of ligaments occurs in BHR but that

> could well be the limiting factor in the ability to stretch. At a guess I

> would say ligaments are not affected , but if I am wrong I would love

> someone to contradict me.

> Ligament repair takes at least 12 weeks whereas muscle repair is a lot

> quicker ,

>

> I can only kick, into pads if they are located between knee and hip, but I

> never kick to hip height because of limited ROM and pain

>