I don’t like pictures and videos. I particularly don’t like pictures and videos of family stuff. Why? I’ve come to the conclusion that if the present isn’t happy with your family relationships: then, there doesn’t seem to be any joy for me in going down Memory Lane via pics and videos. This is a different …
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May 16, 2022 – First thoughts about potential elbow tendonitis My new pains include chopping my finger tip with the lawnmower and elbow tendonitis (tennis elbow). Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is a painful condition that occurs when tendons in your elbow are overloaded, usually by repetitive motions of the wrist and arm. The pain of …
November 1, 2021 You know, if my insurance will cover it…and, I don’t know that it will…getting back into PT for a bit would probably be a great idea… I think I could benefit a lot from just a couple sessions. So, even if insurance didn’t cover it, I could probably manage to pay for …
November 1, 2021 All the hip muscles First look at this diagram.. So, before I had a lumbar fusion, it was extremely easy for me to explain why I was experiencing pain. All the imaging and analysis had been completed. I could very confidently say, “I’ve got lower back pain—along with some other weirdness—because I …
For me, October 2021 will go down as Ouchtober, Around October 5, what I presume (HOPE!) was inflammatory pain originating from gluteus etc. starting thumping away. And, this pain (especially focused around butt and above butt) pretty much kept thumping through all of October. You wake up and wonder, “Is this going to go away?” …
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Bend. You see this term come up all the time in discussions of physical therapy etc.
October 27, 2021 It’s so strange the way pain works in my body…or maybe you could say it’s strange how my brain works as far as interpreting pain…and, I don’t mean strange as in unusual..I imagine I’m pretty typical…I mean strange simply as in it’s really weird how inflammatory pain just lingers around for 3 …
One of the things about doing this type of pain diary is that…well, the way pain works is sometimes really strange. And, this type of diary lets you really see that clearly. I’ll give you an example. The inflammatory ouchie lumbar bullshit pain started-up October 5, 2021 and slowly started ramping itself up. Yesterday, October …
This is about the difference between lumbar pain and gluteal soreness. As you know, I AM NOT a doctor. I’m a guy who got a two-level fusion 14 months ago. I spend a considerable amount of time rehabbing and thinking about my surgery: along with researching things about it as they come up. But, I …
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