#hyperextension

[consider-your-potatoes-mashed]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good knee braces for preventing hyper extension? I’m trying to get some through my insurance but they’re being slow as fuck and my knees are only getting worse so any suggestions for OTC braces would be hugely appreciated

[laiosynth]

so at work, i struggle massively with knee strain-- my knees hyperextend, and enough so that not locking them is very challenging. after too long standing, they start to REALLY feel the strain, and it was really getting to me.

but!! i've found a solution to this! and i am posting this in the hopes that it could help someone else in my same predicament!!!

my solution?

marking time 💞

those who have been in marching band know what i'm talking about!! for those who have not, and for those who want to hear more, i have an explanation and further elaboration under the cut.

VVV

marking time is a procedure/skill used in marching band, where one is marching/holding time with their legs in place.

if you're not in marching band, you may picture marching as the high-knee Big Step kind of march, but that's not what i'm talking about here. i'm talking about a small, simple repetitive movement to a steady pace.

this video is the best, most simple and short visual example i've been able to find, and even this has a lot of info you don't need-- it's all about just raising your heels one at a time to a beat. and i don't even raise mine as high as this guy does in the video!

it's a small enough form of exercise that it barely actually feels hard-- and even that, only at first. the more you do it, the more effortless it becomes. nonetheless, it gets your blood moving, gets your knees moving, gets your hips moving, and even doubles as a form of stimming!

motion truly is lotion, and this technique both prevents my knees from locking up over long periods of time AND soothes the aches in my knees after i have had to lock them and strain them.

(small note, this should also be pretty discreet if you're doing it right-- your top half should barely be moving. this technique was designed for people to be able to paly instruments while doing it!)

i truly hope that this manages to get out to people and help as much as it did help me, so please reblog this to spread and add tags that you think will take it to people who need it!! yippee !!!

[beepbeepdespair]

i cannot BELIEVE i hyperextended my arm AGAIN. i have the next three days off so i can't even get any time off for it bc it'll have mostly healed by then and it hurts too much for me to be able to scrapbook :(

[archeracy]

Help me get my cat treatment!

I never expected to make one of these, but my precious kitty may need surgery! At the very least, she’ll be needing a vet visit, bloodwork, and possibly sedation to run specific tests.

Nellie has carpal hyperextension and we don’t know why. In the best case scenario, it’s temporary, but that still requires testing. In the worse scenario, she’ll need surgery.

I’ve made a gofundme to help support the cost of care for my darling girl. She’s my childhood cat and she means everything to me.

[joshmcgary]

ORCHESTRATION / DIGITAL INK

[halfbakedbunni]

[allthefandomsbby]

Hands up if your elbows and knees have been hyperextended for years without you realising that's why body hurt daily

[volixia669]

If my ankle could NOT give out when I’m nature trails that would be greeeaaat.

Also had to pretend I was fine because there were kids around, and I didn’t want to scare them if it turned out I badly skinned my knees or something. Soooooooooo lots of pretending I’m totally fine, my ankle totally doesn’t hurt, and I’m totally not leaning on my cane more than usual.

Fortunately it was towards the end, but uh....

Welp, ankle is still sore, both knees hurt from the impact of the fall, my left hand hurts from catching myself, and my back is NOT happy. Oh and I’m hungry, but I’m in too much pain to eat.

I have a distinct feeling I won’t be ripping out invasive species tomorrow...

[bugsinthebayou]

lol

do you guys wanna see my elbows bend the wrong way

[melodiousoblivionao3]

I have looked up “Emily Fox update” on Twitter every 30 minutes atp

[icy-book]

Taylor often has cool black tape/bandages wrapped around his hands, which everyone assumes (because he loudly tells them so) is part of his anime ninja cosplaying whatevers. Actually, it's kinesio tape. His joints just hurt

[distant-velleity]

doodle of chrysos and yu in ouji lolita that got a bit out of hand… ah well

took inspo from gothic ouji for chrysos and classic ouji for yu, because i think it suits them

[beepbeepdespair]

carried some heavy shopping home (which is what did my arm in last time) and im getting the sort of feeling in my arm that makes me worry. i swear to god if i wake up tomorrow morning ON GOOD OMENS DAY NO LESS and my arm is hyperextended im gonna fucking scream

[neuroticboyfriend]

i made an appointment with a pain doctor who specializes in EDS and so i started panicking about thinking i might have EDS when i actually dont. but i just looked at the hEDS criteria again and well, from what i understand, i am one symptom away from meeting the criteria.

also the criteria annoys me bc there are 2 points you cant meet if you're fat =/

[magpie-sherlock]

so i have double-jointed elbows. they hyperextend. whatever it's called

basically they do this

and i did dance, specifically tap and jazz, for three years (ages 8-11). and in tap and jazz, there are a lot of times when we hold our arms out. which means that i would extend my elbows all the way, and they would do this. (i call it 'pterodactyl arms')

now, i didn't know that i had weird elbows, and thought that everyone else's elbows did this naturally. so when i looked around the room, i saw all the other little girls' elbows looking, you know, normal. so my little brain thought, "huh. wonder how they hid that," and learned how to bend my arms a little so that they looked like the other girls'. because i thought that that's what everybody else was doing

i didn't know i was double-jointed until a year ago when a teacher finally told me that that's what that is :)

[foxshaped]

I'd kinda decided to just buy the splint ring I need since I've been saying I'm gonna make it for a year and have done nothing but holy shit the ones that I can verify are actual solid sterling silver are like at least three times as much as I want to spend, and the ones that are within my expected budget I can't actually find an answer if they're solid or plated. Or if they do confirm they're solid, they give no indication of what they mean when they ask for size, plus my fingers are sorta weirdly proportioned. They're wide and short, so if I put in that I need a size 11, is that gonna give me a ring that's longer than the finger it needs to go on?

It's looking more and more appealing to just buy the silver stock and make it, even if I have to buy more silver than I really need. Though I think if the gem show comes back through, there's a vendor there that sells silver wire by the foot, probably can't buy less than that but maybe I can make a couple of them, switch them out when I feel like it. Just at the very least being able to make sure it fits right is worth the effort of bothering my dad for the use of the couple tools I'll need to borrow.