{"id":81758,"date":"2024-08-15T19:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=81758"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:48:07","slug":"practice-patience-with-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/practice-patience-with-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Patience with Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”144341″]With age comes the need for time.\u00a0 I notice and reluctantly admit that the older I get, the more time and patience I need to give my body to recover, heal and bounce back from darn near everything! Hell, it seems to take longer to recover from a mosquito bite, an oven burn, and a simple scratch. So when my hip, inner thigh, psoas and fascia wrap around the leg decided to tell me they didn’t like whatever I unknowingly did or was doing,\u00a0 I noticed.<\/p>\n

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Finding the ease in moving while allowing a healing releas<\/em>e to unfold<\/h2>\n

“PATIENCE child.\u00a0 Practice PATIENCE.”\u00a0 That’s the voice in my head, reminding me,\u00a0 “your old self needs more time and maybe more tools of support.”\u00a0 Nothing was broken, nothing visibly bruised, just tight and over stretched<\/em> at the same time.\u00a0 Which means I overwhelmed a “push-pull” oppositional movement and needed time to re-knit and release.<\/p>\n

As always, I used my Pilates work (private, semi and individual work) with specific attention to hip mobility and spinal alignment and conscious attention to the psoas, pelvis and breath with all my focused workouts.
\nI stole this lateral lunge (shown below) from Ricardo Jaramillo<\/a> and added Eve Gentry’s Lunge while wrapped in a hip\/leg stablizer <\/a>.\u00a0 A couple of times, I added the infrared light wrap, while I worked opening the hip.<\/p>\n

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I bought a few “tech gadgets” to assist me. As you will see below, I have combined them for use.\u00a0 I am wearing a hip\/leg stablizer<\/a> in the video above.<\/p>\n

\"\"Acupuncture, myofascia massage, water resistance therapy (hip circles, bicycles and leg splits) in the pool; steam and sauna heat, and ibuprofen have been the medicine for a good 30-45 days.\u00a0 I never stopped moving, I just made slower, smaller, conscious movements and focused on keeping everything within the frame of my body.<\/p>\n

The gadgets kinda make me look like the bionic woman, but in truth I felt like a relic.\u00a0 It’s as if my body’s 67 years is calling for the pause, to slow down, pay attention and use these tools.<\/p>\n

Every morning, after showering, I rubbed Ancient Minerals magnesium lotion<\/a> into my joints and wrapped my hip with Infrared light. As shown in the video clip (to the right)\u00a0 I found a way to get a pulsing massage on my shoulders and back with the Nooro body massager<\/a>. \u00a0All of these tools and devices have been added to my “Stuff to Love” list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Granted, it’s only been 30 days, yet the message is clear.\u00a0 Time. Patience. More Ibuprofen.<\/p>\n