Two 30 minute walks. I went to another physical therapist today - Todd Schwartz at Hand and Ortho. I got really frustrated for having to wait so long to see him, but the therapist impressed me. He did a full evaluation and found a lot of things that I have expected for a long time, the major finding being that the psoas muscle (that I strained last August) is pathetic. The TFL has become the primary mover which rotates the femur and causes the knee to move valgus. Then the gluteus medius has to work harder to protect the knee. All of which I suspected, but he was the first therapist to actually pick up on what was happening instead of immediately telling me to do a bunch of clamshells and I'll be fixed. Another finding he had was that I have poor resistance to rotation of my pelvis and the pelvis rotates with movement, especially the left side - this could have been a big factor in why I got the athletic pubalgia in the first place. I actually feel pretty confident about this therapist's ability to get me back to full health. So recap is that I still have a lot of work to do, but I know that I can get everything healing in the right way now that the abdominal tears have been repaired. Just the fact that I can go for 30 minute walk with minimal pain is a huge improvement over pre-surgery. | 
