I have a joke.
Who has two thumbs, skipped aerial all week, and just spent $230 on new joint braces?
That would be me.
I made it to aerial on Thursday of last week (instead of my usual Wednesday, because my knee was complaining all day on Wednesday and there's nothing scarier for a loose-ligamented and painful knee than getting tangled up in ropes). Fortunately my body held up pretty well at aerial the next night, and my pain going into the weekend was my normal work week pain. But since Monday, my shoulder has been in a lot of pain.
I have no idea what I did to it. I did not have a very active weekend. (It was raining! In LA!) So when in doubt as to how I hurt my shoulder again, I usually assume an overnight subluxation was the source. Regardless of how I hurt it this time, work only made it worse all week. So I did the responsible thing and didn't go to aerial this week. You sort of need functional shoulders to hang from silk ropes 20 feet above the ground. And I ordered a shoulder brace that comes highly recommended in the EDS community, so hopefully it will be helpful for getting through the work day when my shoulders get aggravated.
At PT tonight, my body was clearly not cooperating. My PT had to modify a bunch of my exercises since my hips fatigued quickly and started recruiting all the wrong muscles. She worked at my painful shoulder and my SI, which had gotten all locked up out of place again, even after my husband helped me work some PT magic on it earlier in the week when I could barely move because it was so far out of place. And she's added some shoulder stability exercises to my program. We decided together that an SI belt would be a good item for me to try, to see if it could keep my SI in place throughout the work day, since it seems to be the source of much of my pain and muscular imbalances. It looks a lot less uncomfortable than the back brace I've been tolerating at work the past few months since my back took its turn for the worse and pulled the rest of my body along with it.
So this week left me exhausted. Work is a bit chaotic right now, my body is not letting me get the exercise that I so crave, my vision seems to be doing strange things (I just scheduled the ophthalmologist appointment I was supposed to schedule back in December when I got my EDS diagnosis. Nothing quite like looking up and thinking your bus says RR77 instead of R7 until it gets closer), and it felt like all my patients threw tantrums this week, which often results in lunging after kids or getting smacked in the face by small but mighty heads and hands.
At least my two thumbs are working well.
That would be me.
I made it to aerial on Thursday of last week (instead of my usual Wednesday, because my knee was complaining all day on Wednesday and there's nothing scarier for a loose-ligamented and painful knee than getting tangled up in ropes). Fortunately my body held up pretty well at aerial the next night, and my pain going into the weekend was my normal work week pain. But since Monday, my shoulder has been in a lot of pain.
I have no idea what I did to it. I did not have a very active weekend. (It was raining! In LA!) So when in doubt as to how I hurt my shoulder again, I usually assume an overnight subluxation was the source. Regardless of how I hurt it this time, work only made it worse all week. So I did the responsible thing and didn't go to aerial this week. You sort of need functional shoulders to hang from silk ropes 20 feet above the ground. And I ordered a shoulder brace that comes highly recommended in the EDS community, so hopefully it will be helpful for getting through the work day when my shoulders get aggravated.
At PT tonight, my body was clearly not cooperating. My PT had to modify a bunch of my exercises since my hips fatigued quickly and started recruiting all the wrong muscles. She worked at my painful shoulder and my SI, which had gotten all locked up out of place again, even after my husband helped me work some PT magic on it earlier in the week when I could barely move because it was so far out of place. And she's added some shoulder stability exercises to my program. We decided together that an SI belt would be a good item for me to try, to see if it could keep my SI in place throughout the work day, since it seems to be the source of much of my pain and muscular imbalances. It looks a lot less uncomfortable than the back brace I've been tolerating at work the past few months since my back took its turn for the worse and pulled the rest of my body along with it.
So this week left me exhausted. Work is a bit chaotic right now, my body is not letting me get the exercise that I so crave, my vision seems to be doing strange things (I just scheduled the ophthalmologist appointment I was supposed to schedule back in December when I got my EDS diagnosis. Nothing quite like looking up and thinking your bus says RR77 instead of R7 until it gets closer), and it felt like all my patients threw tantrums this week, which often results in lunging after kids or getting smacked in the face by small but mighty heads and hands.
At least my two thumbs are working well.
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