“You’ve graduated! See you in a year, maybe, so we can get some more data on you.” Those were the final words from my hip surgeon at the end of my regular checkup this past week. As I was leaving his office, I was handed – not a diploma or…
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In case you haven’t noticed, there’s another new blog feature: “Click for Quick Exercise,” located on the bottom right of the Catching a Third Wind homepage (under Archives). When you click on this button – well, not the one you see here in this post – out slides an exercise…
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Another subscription feature has been added to Catching a Third Wind. In addition to receiving RSS feeds (see orange button below right), readers can now keep up with the latest posts via e-mail. Just add your e-mail address to the section that says SUBSCRIBE VIA E-MAIL, on the right-hand side…
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Knowing When to Stop
The latest post on HSS on the Move, the Hospital for Special Surgery blog, offers some tips from its Center for Hip Preservation on managing hip pain. It suggests, among other things, avoiding “repetitive hip flexion,” or moving your hip or leg toward your chest, along with deep squats and…
Posted in Hip Labral Tears, Running
Positive News for Injured Pros
Research presented last month at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine in Baltimore provides more evidence that there’s (an active) life after hip surgery. And that includes the more complicated procedures. The study, by Dr. Marc Philippon, a pioneer in arthroscopic hip surgery who trained…
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One Year Later
I couldn’t let this day pass without acknowledging that exactly one year ago I had my first arthroscopic hip surgery, on my left side. (The right side was scoped five months later, in December.) And so began one of the longest years of my life. My very skilled surgeon at…
Posted in Hip Labral Tears, My Story, Physical Therapy
A Major Milestone (And Update)
Yes, I am running again. And I am thrilled to report that I actually covered three miles this morning – my longest run in a year, in fact, almost to the day. (Back then it was clearly a therapeutic endeavor: to calm my jitters two days before the first of two…
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Running Style and Injuries
The Science section of The New York Times today featured a column about how changing your stride may help to prevent running injuries. The writer, Tara Parker-Pope, noted how runners these days are far more fixated on achieving proper form than, say, improving their overall performance. In recent years, the…
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My Rocky Road
I thought it was time to provide another progress report on my recovery from dual arthroscopic hip surgeries last year (left side: July; right side: December). So how am I doing? Well, it all depends on which day that question is asked. I had a pretty long stretch of feeling…
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Running Holiday
Today marks the fourth annual National Running Day. It’s held on the first Wednesday of every June, for the uninformed. If they can have a National Doughnut Day (you missed it; that was June 1st) or a Banana Split Day (on June 8th), why not celebrate something that helps to promote health and well-being,…
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