Daya's hip has been hurting a lot.
So instead of a sports medicine doctor, we went to the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU... I didn't even know about them until the Steps intensive!
Dancers who are also doctors.
They moved Daya's legs around and poked at her and asked her questions and she talked Dance and they talked Dance and I lost most of it...
Except that her hip is really inflamed and it has to do with needing to use different muscles.
Six weeks of physical therapy twice a week will fix it.
And bonus they said things will be easier and she'll be able to jump higher afterwards.
For the first and only time in her life Daya was conscious of wanting her feet washed after being in her street shoes, so while the doctors were out she used the sink.....
So instead of a sports medicine doctor, we went to the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries at NYU... I didn't even know about them until the Steps intensive!
Dancers who are also doctors.
They moved Daya's legs around and poked at her and asked her questions and she talked Dance and they talked Dance and I lost most of it...
Except that her hip is really inflamed and it has to do with needing to use different muscles.
Six weeks of physical therapy twice a week will fix it.
And bonus they said things will be easier and she'll be able to jump higher afterwards.
For the first and only time in her life Daya was conscious of wanting her feet washed after being in her street shoes, so while the doctors were out she used the sink.....
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I told Beth about the Art Parent Association lady.
She said something to me that I needed to hear, it's really an important thing:
Take yourself seriously, then everyone else will too.
Now, I already know this, but I needed to hear it.
And even though I do take myself seriously, I could go further with it.
I hope Daya is leaping about soon, without pain.
ReplyDeleteBe yourself.