Saturday, April 10, 2010

Saturday 4/10/10

I have the HKC today!

I'll report back later.

Later that day...

Well I passed! I'm now an HKC!

It was an excellent experience with a lot of information and correction throughout the day. The standards and information provided throughout the day were very high and I'm very thankful to everyone that helped me improve how I perform my movements. Thank you to Mark and Tracy Reifkind, Jordan Vezina and Nathan Flores as well as everyone that took the course with me.

One annoying thing that happened is I was massaging my sore left elbow and tore the extensor tendon on the end joint of my right middle finger. I did this first thing in the morning and had to go through the HKC with a messed up finger. Looks like I have "Mallet Finger" and may need the finger splinted for at least 4 - 6 weeks. Sigh. Better now than just before the RKC I suppose.

2 comments:

Mark Reifkind said...

kai

are you sure you tore it?I still think it is subluxed.you should get a real diagnosis before splinting it eh?

btw, you did great yesterday at the hkc well done!

Kai Johnson said...

Rif,

Thank you very much I had a great time and really learned a lot!

I did go to the Kaiser ER immediately after I got home at the insistence of my wife and had it x-rayed and looked at by a doctor in the ER. She told me it was a classic "mallet finger" and had someone splint me up. I did look it up online and it appears to match that diagnosis.

I'm supposed to get a hand specialist to call me for an appointment in a few days to look at it and advise me with what they think I should do.