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I'm going to physical therapy for my broken hip. Has anyone else gone to physical therapy and if so do they have any advice?

PT is most useful if you practice several times a day. Four 15 minutes sessions is better than one hour session.

I went to physiotherapy for torticollis, but it was mostly a form of deep tissue massage. Not the usual sort of thing you think when you think massage - it was actually painful and very focused on the injury site. It was basically being repeatedly poked in the neck very hard! I had some kind of internal scarring from an injury years ago that was never treated. I found I had to consciously make myself relax. I dislike being touched, so being touched hard was difficult to endure, and tensing up just made the muscle injury tense up even more. Not sure if that's relevant to the type of physio you're doing for a hip, being bone rather than muscular, though.
I also noted that it is not instantaneous, as it can take several weeks of treatment, and often you can feel more sore, before it begins to correct the problem. The physiotherapist told me that this is common for many kinds of injuries - it'll get worse before it gets better once they start treatment on it. If that happens it's normal - try not to start thinking it's not working or worse, that it's exacerbating your injury or further injuring you.
The neck problems were recurring for me before I had the physio - I'd sleep crooked and it'd come back, or I'd do something exerting like moving furniture and it'd come back, to the point where I was wary of doing anything physical incase it set it off.
Since I had it treated it hasn't recurred though (so far) so it can work.

I've had lots. Try to relax. Try to cooperate. Try to follow instructions for home. That kind of stuff I doubt you'll have trouble following. It's going to hurt. You're going to have to endure being manhandled. It's not a bad experience. Just one requiring effort and endurance. Good luck

Stay calm, listen, try to do as you are told, and enjoy the improvements. I had one leg in a cast when I was 10, and there was no physio available. I thought I had healed just fine, until I was 20, when I ran down a wet beach. Looking back, I noticed that one leg had been pushing twice as hard as the other.
Physio works a lot better if you can combine it with fun, so you do it a lot more. I threw a frisbee to recover from a shoulder injury.

My advice for Physical Therapy is that although it can be a very painful process , it's vital to keep at it as it can affect the rest of your life.

I am sorry you broke your hip.

As others have said do your prescribed exercises at home, do them all, do not rush through them and do them as often as prescribed. That is easier said then done. While hyper focusing on your special interest it becomes easy to lose track of time or just forget about them altogether. They can become boring and monotonous so it becomes easy to say I will just skip today. Skipping once in awhile is pretty harmless and there are some occasions where you have to. You are sick that day or you had quests over at the proscribed time. When that happens I still try and a little bit of each exercise just to keep the momentum. Be careful that skipping one session or day does not morph into a problem.

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