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Tera Sandona

recovery time for knee replacement

February 27, 2024 · In: Injuries and Surgeries, Science-Backed Education

What is the Recovery Time for Knee Replacement?

When you’re faced with the decision of undergoing knee arthroplasty, it’s natural to wonder about the recovery time for knee replacement. The journey to full recovery after knee arthroplasty—a surgical…

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golfers elbow

February 20, 2024 · In: Injuries and Surgeries, Science-Backed Education

What to Know About Golfer’s Elbow | Medial Epicondylitis

When there’s no exact incident that flags the onset of medial elbow pain, our eyes turn towards a common culprit: medial epicondylitis. Medial epicondylitis, aka “golfer’s elbow”, manifests as pain or discomfort on the inside of the elbow….

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types of meniscus tears

February 13, 2024 · In: Injuries and Surgeries, Science-Backed Education

The Different Types of Meniscus Tears and How to Treat Them

A meniscus tear is a common injury seen in the clinic. While they do happen to be the most common sports-related knee injury, they can affect a young athlete, a…

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strengthen your deep core

February 6, 2024 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

How to Strengthen Your Deep Core

If you’re looking to strengthen your deep core, this is going beyond your six-pack abs. One of the main muscles we will be focusing on that makes up your deep…

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pinched nerve exercises

January 30, 2024 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

5 Best Exercises for a Pinched Nerve in the Back

Commonly referred to as a “pinched nerve,” radiculopathy can certainly make its presence. It can get in the way of performing daily tasks and even cause debilitating pain, numbness, or…

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shoulder range of motion

January 23, 2024 · In: Mobility and Restoration, Movement

How to Improve Shoulder Range of Motion

Shoulder range of motion is important for daily activities. Reaching into the cupboard, washing your hair and face, and putting on clothing are all activities you need good shoulder mobility…

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I'm a practicing physical therapist based out of sunny SoCal who loves to educate others and share information and knowledge. You can typically find me hard at work trying to manage normal life or cuddled up under a blanket enjoying coffee or desserts I can never seem to get away from!

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Can’t Stay Consistent With Exercise? It’s Not a Discipline Problem

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Wired/restless and heavy/depleted are both signals Wired/restless and heavy/depleted are both signals of nervous system overload. They show up differently and they need opposite responses.

Wired looks like:
- can’t sit still
- mind racing
- looking at your phone every 2 minutes
- exhausted, but unable to fall asleep

The system is activated and the activation needs somewhere to go. Gentle movement helps because it gives that activation a channel out of the body. It could be a walk, slow mobility work, or doing the dishes. Anything that lets the system move without adding load.

Depleted looks like:
- limbs feel like lead
- brain is foggy
- hard to make a decision
- hard to get off the couch

The system is running on empty. Adding movement compounds the load and the body crashes harder.

It’s the same dysregulation with two presentations. Reaching for the wrong one is mostly why recovery doesn’t work.

Most women I work with describe themselves as “always tired, but wired” or “wired but exhausted.” That’s not a contradiction. It’s your nervous system telling you which lane you’re in on a given hour of a given day.

What your body is signaling changes. The response should too.

If you want help reading your own signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#burnoutrecovery #burnoutrecoverycoaching #regulateyournervoussystem #hsp #highlysensitiveperson
The label got attached to slow yoga, easy walks, a The label got attached to slow yoga, easy walks, and gentle bike rides. Active recovery became a category of workouts.

But the label is doing the wrong job. What makes movement “recovery” isn’t the modality. It’s whether your body finishes with more capacity than it started with.

A 20 minute walk can be active recovery on a Monday and a workout your body can’t handle on a Wednesday. It’s the same walk on a different day with a different answer.

The thing most of us are missing isn’t a better workout schedule. It’s a daily look at what your body can actually hold. Some days, that assessment points to movement. Some days, it points to rest. Either one, when it’s used at the right time, it supports the body. When used at the wrong time, it makes things worse.

If you want help learning to read your body signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#activerecovery #pushcrashcycle #listentoyourbody #nervoussystemregulation #chronicpainmanagement
This pattern was mine for years. And if your weeke This pattern was mine for years. And if your weekend looks anything like the one I am about to describe, you already know how Sunday night feels.

Rough week, exhausted by Friday, on the couch all weekend hoping to reset. Sunday night, I would be more depleted than when I started with nothing prepped for the week ahead. And the conclusions running through my head about what kind of person I must be to keep ending up here did not help.

The fix I always reached for was discipline…more structure, more consistency, and more grit. The crash kept coming anyway.

What moved the needle was learning to read what my body could hold, day by day. Some days a workout, some days a walk, some days a couch Sunday was the choice. The decision was made each morning, based on what was actually there.

If you want help learning to read the signs and what to do for them, comment SIGNALS and I will send you the free nervous system workbook.

#chronicpain #chronicfatigue #nervoussystemhealth #painscience #listentoyourbody
If by Wednesday you are already running on fumes, If by Wednesday you are already running on fumes, this one is for you. I called myself undisciplined for years.

Every Sunday night I would land on the same conclusion: more structure, more consistency, and more grit. That was the fix. And every Friday I would crash anyway.

Here is what I did not know about the cycle.

Both doors lead to the same room.

Door one is push. The body sends signals about what it can hold that day. Discipline overrides the signal. Push past the signal once, you crash once. Push past it for a year, you live in the crash.

Door two is rest. The week was rough so the weekend is for resetting. You sit Saturday hoping it works. Sunday comes and you feel worse, so you rest again. By Sunday night nothing is prepped and you are still depleted. The week starts in deficit, so you push harder to catch up, and the crash arrives by Friday.

Different doors. Same room. The room is the cycle.

The missing piece was never more discipline. It was a daily read on what my body could hold and the willingness to let the read be the decision instead of overriding it.

Some days the body can hold a workout. Some days a walk. Some days a couch Sunday is the work. The decision gets made each morning, based on what the body is signaling that day.

If you want help learning to read your own signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#nervoussystemregulation #nervoussystemwork #burnoutisreal #lıstentoyourbody #reclaimyourenergy
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