Trust

Trust is inevitable in fitness. A lesson I have only just discovered.

Whilst I am still undergoing physio for my knee, I have had a change of physiotherapist. This has unsettled me more than I would like. My physio before, Zoe, was nice, funny, she gave me great advice, put me through my paces and the most important part was I trusted her. But her placement finished and so the need for someone else to take over. Now I have Louise who appears nice but her advice somewhat contridicted what Zoe had told me and I feel at a loss. Have I just taken a few steps back? How can two physiotherapists have a different opinion treating the same injury?

I left my physio session feeling very unhappy. I didn't feel as though I had been worked over with the new physio. The fact of the matter is, I don't trust Louise yet. I'm sure we'll build a rapore and the trust will come but at the moment it's not there. Plus with three weeks to go till I next her, the trust isn't going to come as quick as first time round with Zoe.

We place trust in ourselves to recognise when something is wrong. We trust that the physio will do what is best for us to get us where we need to be. We trust that when we push our bodies we won't injure ourselves. We trust that our bodies will do what we're training it to do. That last part isn't specific to fitness. We trust our bodies to fight off viruses. We trust our bodies to expel the fatty foods we have consumed and so on. If along the way that trust has decreased then sound the alarm cause this needs fixing.

I need to have faith that this new physio knows what she is banging on about. With that faith, trust will soon follow. Or so I'm hoping. I have a photo of myself from last year that constantly reminds me how my body was in tip top shape. My aim is to surpass that. Injuries can be frustrating and demoralising. I'm in a slump at the moment with physio and not being able to do what I would like with my body. The fact remains, if I don't trust the exercises that my new physio has given me I can't move forward. This is a fate that is much worse.