Pole Fitness Documentary: Treatment

Journey through treatment

This is my scan of where my back is injured

The drip I had to have put in my hand for local anaesthetic so that I wouldn't be able to feel the needles I had. I had to have a steroid injection in one side of my back and on the other side I had a pain killer injection. I got told by consultant that these injections may ware off within 6 weeks and that I would be in pain again. Out of every 10 people that have this treatment, my consultant said that it only seems to work for 1 maybe 2 people. Luckily I was one of them people that it had worked for. I did have the offer to have an operation but there was a massive risk of things going wrong due to it being so close to my spinal cord. I also got told by him that I would need to do physio therapy along side to build up the strength within my core, lower back and bum. When I saw my physiotherapist he told me that I need to work a lot on my hips as my hips had rotated forward. We had to try and correct them before we could start building up that strenght. after roughly about 5-6 months, nothing was changing in my hips so we had to give up on that and just work on building up my strength. After roughly a year of doing physiotherapy I gave up doing it. I took up another form of excersise, pole fitness. Pole has given me more strength and has done a lot more for me than my physiotherapy ever did. Physio seemed to be a long procsses of building my muscles up and I soon got bored of it. I believe that pole has done the best for me and is keeping me out of pain. I still need to work on rotating my hips back though.