The Trail Back

It turns out that the mind-body connection works both ways. Sometimes the biggest barrier keeping you from your success is located between your ears – which is why its important to understand how physical trauma can bring on depression and how your mental health affects your recovery.

Even when you intentionally “get away from it all” you don’t get away from it ALL. Blogger Mike Bawden explains how to manage travel, touring foreign countries, chasing grandchildren, and rehabbing an injured shoulder simultaneously.

I learned the hard way that pain, and my reaction to it, is one of the useful signals a therapist uses to evaluate the progress of your rehabilitation.

People ask me about the title for this blog. “The Trail Back” isn’t just a metaphor. At least not when you understand that I won’t consider my recovery complete until I’ve spent two weeks and completed about two dozen portages in the Quetico Provincial Park.

While recovering in the hospital, I learned and important lesson about the power of kindness from Mr. Rogers, thanks to Tom Hanks. Turns out, I wasn’t alone.

They say “attitude is everything.” Here’s why a positive attitude can make all the difference in how you recover from an injury.

Out of the hospital and on my own … but not quite. Frankly, I don’t know where this story would go if it weren’t for the on-going care and supervision of my physical therapist and the team at ORA Orthopedics.

Following a fall in October of 2022 that resulted in four broken ribs, a punctured lung and a shattered scapula, I spent the next eight days contemplating my future.