When you are full of pain after your hip replacement surgery and you are collapsed in bed, what do you think about? You might dwell totally on the pain, of course. You might ask the question of what other choice is there? If it’s the pain that dominates your entire world and universe, it does not have to be that way. Let’s focus on breathing and counting down while doing ankle lift & swirl hip strengthening exercises as the 2nd exercise in the series of ten of hip replacement surgery recovery and rehabilitation. Utilizing this ankle swirl exercises, it is completely under your control to feel “joy” if you want.
How is that possible? Joy, you ask? There is no guarantee that you will experience absolute rapture, but an escape from the depths of anguish and pain can be yours, and even ascending to a contented joy is quite within your reach while doing this exercise. Let’s begin and escape from the ever present throb of pain coming from your hip area.
In case you are not already flat on your back, lie down. Lift one of your legs, if you can, just a little off the surface of the bed and take a deep breath while counting down from six and one-eighth (beginning with a weird number forces the mind to fully concentrate on doing that task).
Swing your leg out as far as you can reasonably tolerate the pain. Don’t believe in the saying of “No pain, no gain.” Allow your body to tell you how far you can go. Do the leg-ankle-swirl about while holding your breath for another countdown (try starting from seven and one-fifth) for as long as you can, and letting your eyelids become so heavy until they fall shut from the weight. Bring in all the pain that you feel you can muster together and throw it into the path of the air going out as you… swirl your ankle in and about, and relax it on the bed while exhaling slowly. Make sure you do another countdown and imagine all the pain that you had gathered together… as leaving your body. Replace pain with joy.
Leg Abduction Exercise
Go on and do the second repetition. Lift your leg and swirl ankle about and trying to release the ankle pain while taking another deep breath, and go through the entire rep of this ankle swirl exercise completing all three countdowns. Return to the rest position after finishing repetition number two – lift – swirl – breathe and countdown – return swirl – rest and feel joy.
Proceed to repetitions three through ten of the one leg. Focus on breathing out the pain until you reach the plateau of a feeling good. Be grateful that you were able to make it to that height.
Go on to the next leg. Go through the same stages of leg lift, ankle swirl, breathe in, countdown, hold breath, swirl about, countdown, relax leg and let pain pass out of your body while you exhale. Last, feel joy. Go through all ten repetitions of this ankle lift and swirl exercise in this focused manner. Let pain go and allow joy to grow as part of your hip strengthening exercises in your hip replacement surgery recovery and rehab program.
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