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Certification Day 2 ✌️ in the books.
Great group and energy all weekend.

CARs aren’t just movements , they’re your first layer of assessment, control, and decision-making.

Concluding day ☝️of the course

11+ days post-op and back with the surgeon.

Sutures are out, X-rays looked good, and I got the green light to be more aggressive with restoring range of motion, which honestly felt really good to hear.

This phase is interesting. As swelling comes down, new sensations show up. Some days the pain is actually worse, and the range isn’t better every single day. Recovery definitely isn’t linear.

What I can already feel, though, is a big change structurally. Moving through ankle CARs, there’s less of that hard block I’ve felt for years. That alone makes this process feel worth it.

Right now the priorities are wound healing, managing swelling and bruising, and mobilizing where I can without pushing too far into pain. Letting the tissue calm down so I can really start layering in more tissue-specific work.

I’ll keep sharing how this unfolds. For now, it’s about patience, consistency, and respecting the phase I’m in.

One step at a time.

As my fellow neurotic, obsessive types can attest… some lessons are only learned the hard way 😅