The last time Mark visited the sports medicine doctor, in May of 2000, his visit started off like this:
SPORTS MEDICINE DOC (making small talk): Got any kids?
MARK (beaming with pride, at least in my imagination): My wife is pregnant with our first.
SPORTS MEDICINE DOC: I do vasectomies too.
So it is a testament to the sports medicine doctor’s generally good sports-medicine advice that Mark went back to him this week, not for a vasectomy, but for help with his hamstrings.
Sports Medicine Doc told Mark to slowly ramp up his general activity, i.e., walking. For this I bought Mark a pedometer yesterday, because why bother unless you’ve got data? Also he is to go to the gym three times a week and perform a specific set of exercises. There is hope that the ski season can be salvaged, which is good, because he’s supposed to make several business trips to Colorado this year.
I told him not to walk too much at work, because I need him to start ramping up his activity at home first. The laundry is piling up.
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