
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
cw - Mother was a physiotherapist and PT is more than your attitude. For example tendons can be stretched and muscles strengthened to take the pressure off of joints. She had several bad disks but had such good posture and body muscle strength she never had back problems.
glad - good to hear some prices are dropping in some places. Not great if you are the seller though.
No, but really I know what you are saying. I know
physio isn't going to cure anything but even if it
makes arthritis more tolerable I'll take that.
Thx for the advice!
My experience has been the arthritis/inflammation irritated nerves, causing some muscles to stay 'on' & staying all tight. (Lower spine though not neck).
I had quite good, but short term success with 'dry needling' from the physio.
I had better & almost immediate success with acupuncture, but short term too. These were more treatments than cure. Still worth it!
Next came trying to build better muscles for better posture habits with the physio. I'm sure this did help over time.
Not pain free but I have a plan for flare ups now: heat, stretches, rest, rebuild.
Hope you get it sorted.
I did ask for people's experiences, good or bad. Be careful what you ask for they say. Gulp..................
But thank-you just the same.
I’ve never heard of physio for arthritis, and my experience with physio has been totally unhelpful – including ‘I’ve never seen one of these outside a text book’, when I’d given the details when I booked. They never say that they can’t help.
My personal choices are lying down (often flat without a pillow) on a hot water bottle, and codeine when I need to shift the pain (not enough to get addicted). Life changes, but you find ways to cope. Good luck!
I've done a lot of googling too and I definitely want to do all stuff that does not require trigger point injections/ surgery if I can possibly avoid it. I know there is no cure for this but it can be managed so I'm going to try really hard to manage it the correct way.
I'm so sorry youv'e got neck problems.
I have arthritis in my neck too.
Physical therapy helped me with mine for awhile.
The more they mess with your neck though,you really pay for it later.
I'd be fine and then get a neck rub and then I'd hurt all the next day.
I hope you find a way to get better & soon~
I had my physio therapy assessment yesterday and my first real physio today. I wasn't sure what to expect but it was passive stuff. I was hooked up to a couple of machines for a while and he did some manual stuff. But as far as actual participation on my part. That was minimal. I guess he's easing into it cause my neck is quite sore and the muscles are very inflamed.
Anyone have any physio experiences they'd like to share? Good or bad? Any thing I should look out for and be careful of? Feel free to share. It would be helpful. Thx
If you have heard of this site, let me and others know what your experience has been.
It's the strawberry supermoon today and tonight. I like the name of it and the idea of a pink moon. I don't like the extra agitation I get -- and I don't care what ANYONE says, haha, or what every single empirical study has found (that there is no correlation between full moons and increased mental *whatever*). I know what I know, and I know I get extra cranky and extra ramped up every. single. month. with the full moon.
Give your elders a pass tonight. Give yourself a pass. 🌕
I am much better at, and much more willing, to solve other people's problems, than my own. I spent a lot of time helping my Mom, and yet I hardly take care of my own administrative problems.
Part of it, is the exhaustion after helping my Mom with emergencies (she's OK right now). So I need a break, need to relax. But part of it can't be explained that way: honestly, part of it, is just that I'm bad at managing my own life; I don't feel like dealing with my administrative problems. Some of them are simple: go to that government building, do that, sign that paper, go there. And yet I don't do it.
Even health; yes, for sure part of it is exhaustion and stress from helping my Mom, so I let my health/body slide. But part of it, is just that I'm better at taking care of my Mom, than my own body. Taking better care of my own body involves effort.
I'll endeavour to do better towards myself.
just a cute story:
i just saw on international news (true story), yesterday/sunday, a walrus decided to take a nap in someone’s boat.
the firemen were called. they got the walrus out of the boat. but the walrus swam back to the boat and continued sleeping.
the firemen decided he’s allowed to sleep there until he leaves on his own.