Extension, Flexion, Supination, Pronation

Extension, flexion, supination, and pronation: the four elbow-involved tasks, the tasks my elbow, newly Steve Austined, resists.

The road from here, now that surgery is done, my new titanium part installed, my incision well-healing, is to therapeutically extend, flex, supinate, and pronate, and in so doing rebuild my range of motion.

Right now my range of motion is frustratingly limited, limited in a “that’s it, I’m fucked” way that requires deep belief in the little-by-littleness of physiotherapy.

Physio is one of those  allied health professions that ended up on the wrong side of medicare funding, along with dentistry, optometry, and psychology. Without private health insurance, you’re on your own.

Except that if you have had orthopaedic surgery you’re eligible for outpatient physio in the hospital. I’m waiting for a call back from them today with an appointment time, hopefully one this week.

In the meantime I’m homebrewing some basic movements to get a head start, mashing up learnings from YouTube et al, with confidence from my surgeon’s parting words that at this point there’s no bad way to move.