You’re welcome. I hope all goes smoothly with the nerve ablation and scoliosis. That’s interesting, because I have scoliosis too, but it was treated with a spinal fusion when I was 11 years old.

Hmm. I wish I could think of something else insightful that helped a great deal, but in the beginning when the pain was at its worst, it was mainly minimizing things that would make it mad 😆 And eventually starting hip/glute/core strengthening with low and slow progressions.

Now that I think about it, we did realize one of the things I thought was helping, actually wasn’t: Stretching. It would feel good in the moment but end up hurting a few hours later. My PT pointed out that stretching could still be putting my legs in a position that would be compressing the bursae. Everyone is different though?

Because I have chronic pain and hypermobility, all of my new PT exercises already have to start with a small number of repetitions and then slowly increase. i.e. I’ll usually start with just 5 repetitions if something new, and if I don’t have a flare-up, the next time I add another repetition and another, until I get to the point where it’s a challenge. But that approach is very specific to my pain condition; it’s how to retrain my nervous system to tolerate new activities. It benefited me with the bursitis though because I had to take a more gentle approach, like starting with exercises where I’m lying down or doing isometrics.

But this happened in the fall and so far it hasn’t returned, as I continue with my home exercises 🤞

I hope your pain calms down sooner rather than later.

what about swimming ? it's relaxing and fun. just until everything, inflamation goes down.