Re: Botox ,Etc.

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Countess said the following on 3/22/2011 5:27 PM:

> Everyone:

> The threads are getting confusing, so I'm starting anew.

> I have had huge muscle imbalances for as long as I can remember, but

managed

> prior to surgery to do just about everything I ever wanted to do (save ballet,

> LOL). My adductors and quads are very strong, while the abductors and hammies

> are very weak. Glutes are also very weak and nothing works below my knees.

>

yep me too

> Thanks to nerve damage from the hematoma after my dethering and stenosis

> decompression surgery in Jan. 2010, I now have trouble standing and walking

and

> have lost strength in my hip flexors. The PT people keep insisting that I

work

> on strengthening the muscles that never were strong because supposedly I need

> them in order to stand. Well ... I didn't need them before, so why work them

> now? How about concentrating on the muscles that do work?

There are several hip flexors. If you're like me, some work some dont do

so well. Hard to explain. You know how they say it takes over a hundred

muscles to smile? Imagine how many muscles it takes to stand, even more

to balance and walk. A normal person takes it all for granted. For us,

we lost some coordination in some of the many muscles due to nerve

damage and many of the tiny little muscles that give us balance. Through

all the PT I have had we got the big ones to work, now it is all about

balance, the little muscles in your toes, ankles, hip flexors, glutes, etc.

> How about the

> experts suggesting that I work my back muscles (erector spinae)? Although

they

> were not severed in the surgery, they were shoveled out of the way and then

> reassembled. Anyhow, while trying to walk sideways to strengthen the

abductors,

> I tore an adductor. The physiatrist was amazed how tight my adductors are and

> suggested injecting the injured adductor with Botox. I refused - don't need

one

> of my strongest muscles weakened. They've always been tight.

>

If the adductors are too tight they keep the abductors (mine are real

weak) from functioning properly. The doc has to be very careful not to

inject too much botox into the adductor to make it too weak.

> I forget who, possibly one of the men in this group, maybe more of you,

but

> what did the Botox injection to the adductor do for you?

>

That was me, the botox released the adductors so the abductors could

work better, more range of motion, and as you do I was able to exercise

my abductors by walking sideways hanging onto the walking bars.

Rick