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'America's Got Talent' honors Dr Brandon Rogers, contestant who died

‘America’s Got Talent’ honors Dr Brandon Rogers, contestant who died

America’s Got Talent contestant Dr. Brandon Rogers was full of talent before his tragic death as seen in his audition which aired on Tuesday. Brandon, 29, physician from Portsmouth, (more…)

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[robertawalker]

.....the Road to Recovery continues..........

  I know what you're thinking, "What have you hurt now, or How clumsy are you!?!" This is actually what is going to help me fully recover from my original injury.  In October after seeing Dr Rogers he ordered an MRI as he didn't feel there had been significant progress in the 4 weeks prior.  The results didn't point to anything specific relating to my SI joint and Piriformis but he said the old injuries he saw in my back,  specifically the 20% compression fracture in my L1 and the broken and dislocated bottom back three ribs on my right side. He said that the muscles around those areas had actually atrophied!?!? I guess this is actually common in athletes. When you're competing or say on a film trip or photoshoot and you have a bad fall you just get up and keep going. Your mental determination, endorphins and adrenaline kicks in but in order to protect that injured area your body shuts down the muscles surrounding the injury.  Looks like some old snowboard injuries have come back to haunt me!   After a decade of those muscles being turned off they had died and I had been over compensating for the lack of help from those muscles.  Yikes! Good thing is I can get those muscles firing again and regain my strength in those areas.

  I was sent to see Neil Mckenna at Elevate Physical Therapy. I have to say I have never been to a physical therapist that spent o much time to not only diagnose your current problem but get to the root of what has contributed to the cause of it.  He assessed my many unbalances in strength and posture and detected some things going on with my left foot. Specifically that I had a dropped arch and I tended to use the outside edge of my foot and didn't distribute the weight evenly through the whole foot.  I told him I had injured it the previous summer and that was probably why.  He helped me to work on correcting this any many other imbalances and weaknesses.

   Prior to my running injury my previous foot injury still bothered me, I never felt like I completely recovered even though I followed the instructions given by the doctor. Two weeks in a post-op boot.  I thought injuries in your foot tended to take a really long time to heal so I put it to the back of my mind. This was quite easy to do once I injured my SI joint and Piriformis as these were very painful.   For the past couple of months my left foot has been bothering me more then usual, but I tried to just ignore it.  I still haven't recovered 100% and I didn't want to add another "injury" to my plate.  Then I smashed it and it seems the universe would not let me ignore it any longer!

   I got an x-ray and MRI have seen a few doctors.  Turns out I damaged my foot worse then was previously diagnosed.  A couple doctors suggested some pretty radical surgeries like fusing the joint. A little too extreme of an option so I consulted two other doctors.  They both had similar diagnosis and felt I wasn't treated properly the first time.  One doctor wanted me to wear a post-op boot for 3 weeks then go back to see him and another doctor said to tape it for 6 weeks and do no physical activity. I sure didn't like the sound of either of these but if it meant no surgery, which would be a 3 month recovery, then it was worth a try.  I promised JP I would wear the boot and tape for 3 weeks until my first follow up. It's going to be tough but since my foot was part of the cause of my running injury then I think getting my foot healed will help me to finally recover 100%. Think positive! Everything happens for a reason, right? I'm not going to lie I did have my self a green old pity party and shed some tears about this new challenge I face.  Luckily I have a supportive husband and friends to help me through this.  I'm going to take this time to really heal and reflect.