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mspixieears says...

Continuation of dream, but at this point, it's no longer related to previous dream and because I was blogging at an external computer (madly, I might add, so I wouldn't forget my dream), I couldn't type up the whole thing.

(Here's the first part of the dream)

After trying to stand up for Stu, a girl of about eleven called me into her house. I knew that this was going to be sort of dangerous, because her family was rich and they thought of people like me as trash. With trepidation, I followed her in. She told me I could go into parts that no one but family was allowed in. I felt like an intruding babysitter. She had a younger brother and he was playing with his toys. All of a sudden, her mother called. Panic. I hid in their workshop. As if the mother were psychic, she came and sought me out and leant down to see me hiding under a wooden workbench. She wasn't mad at either me or her daughter, and I was glad.

Then all of a sudden, I was on some sort of school camp. I was watching a comedy show - the comedians were famous, and on the stage they played theatre sport type games. I was on a seat, like a trapeze swing, with a wooden plank to sit on and couldn't see the show properly. I swung it to see while my companions sat on theirs with no trouble.

I was part of some special ops team, and there was a beautiful, blond-haired man in my team. There was a growing attraction between us, even though I was aware that I had a partner already. Despite this, our attraction grew.

At one stage, I was adamant to prove how tough I was. As a BSG Starbuck-lookalike watched on, the blond man pressed a knife into my flesh, just above my knee (not far from where I have a scar in real life). He pressed, harder and harder, and pleaded with me to give in so he could stop. I would not let him stop. I began to fade. I said to him "I'm starting to feel faint..." Again, he begged me to make him stop. I wouldn't.

Eventually, he had to take me to our black special ops van and give me first aid. As he bandaged my leg, our faces stooped to kiss. The attraction was electric but I told him I could not: I had someone I loved already.

Bandaged up, I enjoyed the rest of the visit to this location. My high school French teacher Mrs Gorey was there. The blond man was aroused when I spoke to her entirely in French. She went to the door and smoked and we spoke more French. She did not smoke in real life.

 

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Heavy says...

Are You Setting Yourself Up For Injury?

If you are serious about exercising, just getting started, or even thinking about going to the gym, there are a few things that you need to know before you take another step. Exercise related injuries send thousands to the doctor and even emergency rooms every year and the sad truth...


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  • elevatedfoot Dealing with Exercise Injuries Exercise can definitely make us feel pained or out of sorts at times, but there are good pains and there are bad pains. Good pains tend to occur post workout, and they feel like dull aches in our muscles. The bad kind of hurt, the kind that signifies the presence...
  • stretch Are You Setting Yourself Up For Injury? If you are serious about exercising, just getting started, or even thinking about going to the gym, there are a few things that you need to know before you take another step. Exercise related injuries send thousands to the doctor and even emergency rooms every year and the sad truth...
  • locker The Top Five Ways To Hurt Yourself at the Gym While most of us don’t go into a workout with the hopes of ending up injured, it can happen. Workout related injuries are very common, especially if you are doing it on your own, without the benefit of an instructor or trainer. However, you can minimize your chances for injury...
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  • Frozen Shoulder Exercises: When and How to Implement them A frozen shoulder is a very limiting and impairing condition. Technically called adhesive capsulitis, it starts and develop in 3 distinct phases.   A freezing phase, when the shoulder joint, the rotator cuff, starts getting sore and inflamed, typically at night. The range of movement is still unaffected though. A...
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  • stretching How to Stretch Properly Although most of us recognize that we have to stretch before we exercise there is a lot of confusion out there about how to actually go about it. If you’re not stretching the right way, you could actually be setting yourself up for an injury. Here are some great tips...
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      Tyson says...

      About 9ft back fall onto a small vault box from hold breaking (unfinished/unreinforced rockwall not strong enough).

      Managed to turn to side on fall and took it on lower back and right glute. Body went into what felt like hypovolemic shock for several hours (don't drink water and stay warm!!) and that whole lower side tightened and swell up.

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      QUESTION:

      I am 51, active with work, not exercise.  Just finished four months with Doctor and Physical Therapist freeing up a frozen shoulder manipulation and therapy no surgery required.

      Just purchased a Total Gym and have done limited work (two days) not sure what I should and should not do as far the shoulder goes.  Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you much

      ANSWER:

      Four months is a long time to rehabilitate an injury.  Your PT should have given you a list of preventative exercises to continue and limitations for your physical activity and workouts.  Without this knowledge I really have no business instructing you on what you should and should not do.  You don't want to reverse all your hard work not to mention your PT and doctor's with misinformed exercise selection.

      General recommendations when deealing with injuries is always exercise within your envelope of function, simply put, if it hurts don't do it. Due to shoulder structure injuries are more likely compared to most joints so be careful.  It is probably best to avoid any overhead exercises or any other exercises which put the shoulders at risk with extreme ranges of motion.  Also make sure to avoid excessive repetitive motion. 

      Make sure you mix things up and stretch after and in between subsequent workouts.  Here are a bunch of exercise videos for the Total Gym.  Make sure to perform all your movements under complete control and again, if it hurts (like it's not supposed to) don't do it.

      Total Gym Workout Videos

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      Maralyn says...

      In conversation, on websites, on twitter, at business seminars, and just about everywhere, occupational health and safety universally brings a loud groan and yawns.

      This is often followed by one or more of these comments:

      • Isn’t it just common sense?
      • Is the government trying to put all small/medium businesses out of business?
      • We’ve never had an accident, we don’t have to worry about it
      • We have a policy – that’s all we need
      • We bought a manual years ago – we’re OK
      • We’re not interested
      • Who has time for that – it’s just another paper chase
      • More paperwork, don’t we have enough to do
      • OHS inspections, yuk@!

      How many times have you introduced this life saving topic during dinner parties? 

      Once, twice, three times – Never – mmm I thought so!

      Why, because as a topic it’s seen on a par or worse to the boring image of accountants (with apologies to all my accountant friends).

      Yet, those of us who work in the profession are passionate about helping you have a healthy and safe workplace.

      We keep up to date so we can help you with the “how to do” what the legislation says you have to do.

      When we show you how great OHS systems can improve the culture of your business, save money, lost time and may just save a life. Now that’s sexy.

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      Josh says...

      A little bewildered—but feeling vastly more informed—after this my most recent visit to the orthopedist, I couldn't wait to get everything down. If you're curious about the hip pain, keep reading; if not, you probably don't want to read the following exposition.

      I didn't quite know what I was having an appointment with my orthopedist for, to be honest. I thought we had decided that maybe it wasn't a stress fracture after all, so what more could an orthopedist do for me? But I did have some other lingering questions since the PT appointment last Thursday—every time I told someone I had had a physical therapy appointment, they were curious what was wrong, and when I thought about it, so was I! So I figured, what better resource than this appointment?

      To explain the confusion more clearly: after spending about 40 minutes doing exercises around the makeshift (but still quality) gym they have at the PT office, I was left with "You have a tight IT band. I'd like to see you in here once a week. Here are some exercises." [I don't know if I expressed how terse the doctor was before.]

      So I created a list of questions, which I immediately (per my usual) wished I'd written down. I stumbled through the appointment. Below is a bit cleaned up.
      --

      Q&A with Dr. Dave

      Me: Well, Dr. Hank did some pulling and tugging and said I had a tight IT band...

      Dave: Yeah, that's likely from being on crutches and staying off it—anytime you immobilize a leg, it can cause stiffening of the muscles and joints. It's also likely due to misusing the leg during the period you had a stress fracture—

      Me: Wait, I thought we'd decided that since it still hurt after the crutches that it was possibly not a stress fracture?

      Dave: No, well, the MRI definitely showed something on the neck of your femur, and the way you presented was consistent with a stress fracture. So we treated that and it should be healing by now. It doesn't hurt every time you take a step now, right?

      Me: No, I guess not. [And there's certainly no severe pinching like before, I thought. I guess it's just healed, then, since Dr. Hank said I didn't show any signs of current fractures.] So then what's all this IT band business? [He cut me off here, but apologized. Good doctor.] I'm sorry... this is going to be a little anecdotal...

      Dave: That's fine. Feel free.

      Me: Well, I have this friend who was telling me about a very similar pain she was having. Her doctor told her it was bursitis caused by a tight IT band.

      Dave: That wasn't the cause of your initial pain, though. That may be what's going on now, and that's what you're working with Dr. Hank to fix. Muscles just get tight. When the IT band does get tight, it's resting on top of a muscle called the bursa, which can get rubbed and hurt. [All the while, he's gesturing on his own body to show me where these things are located: outside hip, i.e. not where my pain is.] Had you come in presenting with pain over here consistently, then we would have known exactly what it was, and that wasn't the case, was it?

      Me: Ahh, no. No pain on the outside of the hip. So is that at least what's causing the popping?

      Dave: Funny thing, actually, the popping is actually called "snapping hip syndrome." [I knew this, but I placated him with some laughter anyway.] It can be caused by bones, but we didn't see anything like this on your MRI. It can also be caused by muscles, but again with the MRIs, there wasn't anything we were concerned about.

      Me: Sorry about all the questions, I was just left with a lot, not really understanding what's wrong with my own body, you know. And Dr. Hank was sort of short...

      Dave: Us doctors can do a bad job sometimes, assuming that our patients understand what is going on, when how could they? It's like me going to an accountant and him assuming I've done my taxes. So it's fine! Definitely ask all the questions you want. Even Dr. Hank will be more than willing to answer any questions you may have. And John, who you're seeing on Thursday, will probably tell you even more than you ever wanted to know without even having to ask. Knowledge is always good. You may feel that your treatment is going better if you're understanding what's going on. [Duh?]

      Me: So is this something I'm going to have to contend with in the future?

      Dave: The muscle pain? Like I said, that's just from immobilization and misuse. We do want to get you back to running, though. [Which is suppose is a delicious non-answer to my question. At least they were words I'd been waiting to hear for months. And surprisingly, they were the answer to my initial, unasked question: What am I still seeing you for?] But not just yet. [DAMN!] I want to allow time for the bone to completely heal and allow you to go through some more physical therapy. We'll start you back up running eventually, but what say we see you back in a month, after about four more sessions of physical therapy?

      Me: Sounds great.

      --Josh

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      Josh says...

      I went to my physical therapy appointment Thursday, hoping that they would have all the answers. I was pleasantly surprised, at least, that he had a few. No, I don't have stress fractures. Either I did and they're healed, or I never did. In any case, a few whacks on the hip and on the heel caused no reaction out of me, so the bones are fine. So it's muscular? Well, perhaps. The set of exercises that he put me through seemed to help at least. I felt amazingly loosened in the hips, and for the rest of the day, there was very little pain. Felt like a cure to me! Then he handed me the list of exercises and said, "Do these at home, and I'll see you back in a week!" Uh oh...

      Bullet point number 2 on the list is "5-10 minutes of aerobic activity below the pain threshold." Well, I can't run on it, so what am I supposed to do? I don't have a fancy stepper machine like they have at the doctor's office. "You go to UGA, right?" Damn.

      This is what I imagine is at the gym all the time:

      Notice: I'm not invited to the group hug!

      I really am afraid of going in there and looking completely out of place. I don't feel this at all when I go to the upstairs track, but that's just running. I suppose there is a bike up there though. We'll see. It's a bit out of the way, nevertheless.

      I'm already excited about the promise of getting better, though. But even more, I'm determined to do everything I can not to get hurt again. As such, I've gathered some information about developing a running plan from Active.com and have created a rather conservative plan that has me running half-marathons in ~46 weeks from whenever the doctor gives me permission to start running again. Wish me luck, and do your best to keep me sticking to it! Oh, and if you're looking for ways to motivate me, this works:


      Except, you know... two boys.

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