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__________WORKING TOWARD PREVENTION.________
I'm setting up here because, I want some discussion; an exchange of stories and experience or advice so...I'll be working on continued therapy and writing in from time to time with my "take on things".
Please remember, to leave your advice or personal experiences.
In the title, training to build strength is the key to avoid a life of chronic pain. Maintaining good range of motion, and promotion of good circulation, is key to normal, and long usage of ones joints and muscles.
I recently fractured my wrist and it seems worthless, I can't wait to get into my physical therapy. So as you might have guessed, I'm setting goals for myself early. My goals are to get reacquainted with all the things I so desperately hang on to in my life. I'm a potter, I'm a swimmer, I like to draw sketches of just about anything I see. There are a lot of normally routine things that I might have taken for granted before my surgery but I really miss them now. A list of things that I normally take for granted, would include; swimming, drawing, ceramic, combing my hair, not to mention I need to re-learn to type, (maybe write my name). I've started right in with ceramics, throwing to help my recovery along. I'm also going to the public pool for some aquatics training, I've done swimming in the past, and have a theory that activities which are already a routine help to add to my resolve. This site serves as a place where I can list experiences, and what I'd consider success or failure concerning My recovery, and anything related.
(Add any thing you can, or think someone else would like, easy; for example something like...I've noticed that there is new feeling in some damaged nerve strand, it's a sign there is healing going on, a welcome kind of painful. Also, (ex.) might be putting down a list of ways to promote blood circulation, and prevent scaring. See how quick that is, any contributions are appreciated.)
I've been working out in the swimming pool doing laps with the kick board, one day I was feeling so confident that I set out to swim a 600 yard medley with two sets of butterfly broken into 50 yards at a turn (because I don't swim butterfly very consistantly), I fill in what's left over with a lap of breaststroke. That's pretty wimpy but I'm working my way to a 1650, and a good stretch work-out. To my surprise there were huge lumps up my arm and into my arm pit, like giant welts when I got out of the pool. They stayed on for a few days. I went to the doctors that week for an exam. The welts weren't actually painful but they were caused by a tendon irritation, some of the metal plate in my wrist had come loose and needed to be removed. So it's back to the drawing board, another surgery and recovery, pain medication and all that. Well after it's all said and done, it wasn't really as painful as the first time. I'm back in physical therapy, and back to my own routines and making more improvement. Stretching is stil strenous but I'm still sticking with it.
I wanted to point out that If I can help illustrate how important stretching muscles and tendons is to recovering normal use, it's valuable just by itself. For myself, when I discovered that I could turn, that was the best thing that might have happened to me. Because I used my hands extensively making ceramics before I broke it, I have strong hand muscles and tendons, and by picking familiar things I'm already showing good promise.
Since I feel that I owe my health to many people in the medical field it's a gift to have their help and that of the YMCA, for taking such good care of me and my special questions, they're all really great.
I feel like promoting my ceramics for sale. I'm posting some of the most recent works that I've done since that day and I'm trying to link to my catalog page. Please if this is at all interesting to you, have a look or you could contact me and commission some work for yourself.
Tell someone who you know that might be interested, I'm including a recent e-mail address below, and like I said please visit my new web page. And thanks in advance for you who want to visit my web page to look at my ceramics. Hope you enjoy them. And there are some more pictures, just go to the top of this page, on the left, for more entries, click on picture albums. Thanks again you're greatly appreciated.
http://www.artmajeur.com/artcontest, or e-mail Artconlist@aol.com.
'Anyone who has a chance feel free to add information about yourself, or experiences. Please notice the Pages, and not the horrible ad that's been tacked on. I'm trying to keep entries in close order, and been trying to get the extra time to put in new pages.
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| Anonymous | popup | 0 | Feb 23 2009, 1:14 AM EST by Anonymous | ||
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://double-diet.nEE wHAT IS IT ABOUT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GETTING A SPAMM ADDDVERT LIKE THIS THAT IS UPSETTING? does ti seem to personable. Maybe It is just sad?
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| Anonymous | http://www.artmajeur.com/artcontest/ | 0 | Feb 16 2009, 3:25 PM EST by Anonymous | ||
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this is a link and where to start to find the email I sent artcontest st
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