Getting back on our feet after injury in Perimenopause and Menopause

We fall. We get up again. But it takes longer than ever!

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Last week I fell. I don’t believe I’m quite at the age where you ‘have falls’ so lets stick with ‘I fell’!

It was a freak accident. I was running home because a courier had left a valuable parcel on my doorstep in plain sight. (I won’t name names but if you think you know who the courier was you’re probably right!) I’d been out walking and the lace from one hiking boot got caught in the hook of another and I hobbled myself and pitched forward — fast. I’ve bruised my boobs, my ribs, and without going into unnecessary detail, my gut.

It’s particularly frustrating because I’ve been gradually getting my fitness back after I slipped a disc in a car accident and was incapacitated for several months.

The reason I’m telling you this is that it’s a story I hear again and again.

I talk to so many women who are unable to keep up with their old fitness routine because of injury or illness, are desperate to get their health and fitness back, but struggle to find the right routine.

These days it takes us longer to recover. And that’s because oestrogen plays a big part in the regeneration of bones, muscles and other tissue…