 Hey guys, it's Jo and welcome back. So every day since surgery I have been trying to do something active the first day That meant like getting out of bed at once The second day that meant maybe walking around on crutches for like two minutes And so I've been building up slowly but since I came home and I've got the nerve lock out about three days ago I have been trying to be a little bit more active and more active right now means Doing you know a very very quick brief strengthening your teen Once or twice a day and spending the rest of the day primarily on the couch with my leg elevated because I'm still a lot of pain But I do want to stay Active I do want to stay as healthy as I can during this time and keep Building up those muscles that are gonna be necessary when I start working with the prosthetic And so I want to take you through what I've been doing once or twice a day It's really simple some of the exercises were shown to me in physical therapy at the hospital But don't do any of these without clearing them with a doctor. This is just what I have been doing personally and Let me show you what I've been working through So the first thing you try to work on every day is hip motion and strength. So I'll do external lifts basically which is lifting my leg out five times like this Holding onto my crutches Whatever way seems stable and then lifting my leg backwards to work on those back muscles as well five times there and Then I will also swing my leg forward five times. I know five is a small number, but hey I'm still working up to it and Then after that, I will rotate all the way around Five times each way as you can see I'm kind of still working on my balance there It's really important that you are safe with this so make sure that you are near things you can grab I feel kind of comfortable with my balance right now So I'm just holding on my crutches, but make sure you're doing this safely if you do do it Next one is I've been doing push-ups Every day just to kind of keep other parts of my body strong as well So I'll do five push-ups here and then at the end of it making sure I'm keeping my limb off the ground My residual limb off the ground and then the end of it I will stretch up again. This was something that the doctor said was okay to do To kind of reverse all the laying down that I have been doing After that I've been doing core exercises This is a fairly sloppy version of V ups, but at least it gets me some core work in So kind of reaching up and touching my shins Five times as well. And then last but not least I have been doing one-legged Squats off the couch holding on to my crutch to continue to strengthen that good leg But I've been doing that really carefully so I don't hurt anything Because that's the one good leg I got left So that's what I've been doing guys. Thank you so much for watching Make sure you do everything safely everyone moves at their own pace I know some people were way ahead of me at this point And some people aren't gonna be able to get out of bed at this point And so it's really important that you listen to your body and your doctors and take things at your pace Take care of yourselves whatever that means for you and best of luck in your recovery. Thanks guys. I'll talk to you soon