#wrist treatments

[meeeeeks]

Harry big naturals

[not-poignant]

Every time I see writing advice like 'remember to stretch your wrists!' I remember the horror my physiotherapist had when he learned I was stretching my wrists before writing but also had chronic nerve pain.

Now this is important. It's nerve pain. He stared at me and then said: Stop stretching.

I stared at him in shock and he said: Muscular pain is different from nerve pain. Stop stretching. Nerves don't respond to stretching like muscles do, it's two totally different treatments. Don't believe me? Stop stretching until our next session and tell me how you go.

And folks I've been free from nerve pain in my wrists ever since. After about a decade. And that's 2 straight years now. 2 years.

I still get muscular pain, which I stretch when that comes up and only when it comes up. But the specific pain I had from ulnar nerve impingement in both hands completely vanished. I was unknowingly making it worse because I thought stretching the nerves was the same as stretching the muscles, and thought the answer applied to everything.

(Tl;dr everyone is different. My physiotherapist is studying to become a medical doctor and will quit out of the field soon, but I always appreciated that everything he told me was solidly backed up with peer-reviewed studies and never came out of nowhere. Also his 'try it for a month and see' was so much better than 'I know I'm right' - because it left a door open for the people who realise what they thought was nerve pain was probably muscular in origin).

[crustyfloor]

Okay, but that is a LASER on one of Sua's most vital body parts, the neck, that is so seriously unnerving. The endurance of that girl is fucking nuts especially considering she may have had NOTHING to make the pain easier to bear or just the bare minimum. Likely because her owner, unlike Guardian Shine, barely takes into consideration that these dolls can BREAK. VERY EASILY...but anyways. It really shows just how drastically under-considered a pet-humans pain is.

[dreamlogic]

going through another round of "what if i got a cane would my life be easier with a cane should i get a cane" hmmmm

[evilwriter37]

The ordeal that is getting ready for bed as a disabled person.

[shamelesstragedyenjoyer]

My roman empire is how Stephanie Brown was fired from being Robin for doing something her male counterparts would have easily gotten away with

"Screaming birds sound an awful lot like singing [...] But you seem to be enjoying The fruits of my labour that came to me too young

When he took my virtue I'm glad it seems to serve you

That I was born a daughter and not a son"

-The Fruits (Paris Paloma)

[sharkkweak]

Carpal tunnel you’re such a bitch

[pussymasterdooku]

normal sunday morning (reading up on malpractice laws because i think my wrist has indeed been mismanaged so flagrantly that suing would be appropriate)

[danielnelsen]

a week ago i might have said i feel mostly ok, just a little off, but i am Suffering now. why can’t graves’ disease have fun symptoms like……………idk i can’t think of anything.

[mariesoliver]

I feel like the icj ruling specifically undermines the credibility of international law and its intitutions. The icj stated out loud that south africa's case accusing israel of genocide was legally sound (with overwhelming evidence) yet their measures are so weak... not even a call for a ceasefire... by their own standards they can't deny genocidal acts are happening but they do not have the political will or care to actually do something about it

[melvinthedepressedrobot]

i am probably being a hypochondriac but looking up whatever the fuck this is and talking to mum I kept seeing stuff about fibromyalgia and god, fuck I just

i hope this is temporary, i hope it goes away in the morning because I spent most of the first two decades of my life in pain like this all of the time and, whilst, no, this isn't as bad as my eczema, as bad as the constant itching and open sores, it's too close to comfort

getting the UV treatment for my eczema felt like a fucking miracle, and the thought that I could suddenly one day be shoved back into that pain for NO APPARENT REASON WHATSOEVER

that's fucked up, that's not fair

[italic-doing-random-shit]

it should not have taken THAT long for me to be taken seriously and get treatment

[thelastspeecher]

so between my stubbornness, overachiever tendencies, and difficulty distinguishing tiredness vs soreness vs pain, I wound up overdoing my physical therapy exercises this last week and now I have to dial back the exercises until the irritation eases and the swelling goes down 🙃

[i-got-da-rubes]

Hiring someone to smash my wrist with a bible until it works again.

Pay: $5 a smash

Hours: However long it takes.

[anonymusbosch]

oughhhhh medical system.

[louismygf]

guess i'll die! 🤷🏻‍♀️