Situation

So I finally decided to call the sports medicine acupuncturist that had spoken to my running group a few weeks back. She actually needled my right arm that night because it had been hurting on and off for a couple of weeks at the time. She was out yesterday when I called her office to make sure she took my health insurance, so she called me back this afternoon. I like the idea of looking for the bio-mechanical root of the pain, not just treating the pain locally. Something about putting me in front of a grid to see which areas of my body are imbalanced. She said she'd take a look at my hip issues as well. My appt is on Friday. The first appt is 90mins so she can do an assessment, then a treatment. This should be interesting.

I stopped getting acupuncture treatments last summer, after my RAI treatment. At first, it was because I didn't want to accidentally expose anyone to radiation. Then I just started to freak out about any remaining thyroid cells being stimulated enough to grow, allowing my cancer wake up, and spread. It probably wouldn't, but I think I got that idea from the fact that they had recommended one of the instructors to work on me after I told them I might have thyroid cancer. I was thinking of taking that treatment route, but ultimately, I decided it would be better for me to know, for sure, that I had thyroid cancer, and the only way for me to do that was to have it removed surgically.

Now the running thing. This evening was run club. Monday night after my PT session, I was thinking of continuing with my current running program (3mi road, 1mi treadmill intervals x2) because I had already cut down from 5 days (3 road, 2 treadmill intervals) . But the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might be best to comply for a few weeks, and see if there is any improvement. So, I decided to do a mix of jog/walk over 2mi (walk .5mi, jog .5mi-1.5mi, walk 1.5-2mi). No pain during the run. No pain on the steps going to the start of the run. But boy did my left knee hurt last night when I was at the gym doing some of my PT exercises. So, although I won't be running as much over the next couple of weeks, I am hoping that I find some other workouts to keep me out of trouble, and improving my hip strength.