Panelbeating

[trixtah]

Off to the osteopath for the first time in months. She's a chickie I haven't been to before, but she certainly did the biz. If it weren't for the fact I need to do some work in the office (can you tell? at least I can let things run while I type, heh), I would have crawled home and gone straight to bed. Man, I'm poked. In a manner of speaking.

The interesting thing about it is that she told me that all my joints are hyperflexible. When I went to get my knee looked at a couple of years ago, the doctor informed me then that my kneejoints certainly were, and the fact I've sprained my ankles severely over half-a-dozen times tended to indicate the same for those. So the osteo reckoned that the reason I'm not flexible in terms of musculature (because I am so not) is that I hold myself with much more tension than the normal person so that I'm not wobbling around all over the place.

I've taken up tai chi over the last couple of weeks after saluqi's encouragement (and the fact I've only been meaning to do it for at least 15 years). I was finding it quite frustrating that my ankles seemed determined to sabotage me whenever any lateral movement took place. Finding out that it's a mechanical problem that has always existed rather than my lack of... whatever - moral fibre? - seems to have suddenly shifted my headspace in that area.

Yay! Also, I was wondering why I've been incredibly grumpy this week, and I now seem not to be. Methinks there was a link, in my wee lizard brain. Huh.

Also, ow. Hot bath tonight!

Comments

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

I can recommend Tai Chi for joint strength. It took about twelve weeks the first time for me to really start noticing a difference.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's certainly one of the big motivators for me to do it. Here's hoping those joints and ligaments come to the party. Also, the meditative aspects are fab already (although I have the concentration span of a flea).

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

Yay for panel beating. And yay for some affirming self-knowledge too, sometimes it's nice for that "what's wrong with me?" frustration to be answered by "Actually, this! It's biomechanical".

I'd rather not have the problem in the first place, but having it I'd rather know about it and what to do about it.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Indeed, double yay! :-)

And yes, knowing what it is is often much more than half the battle for me. Having the ability to distinguish between my own failings, what I just have to live with, and what is addressable is bloody nice.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Yes! For me one of the biggest advantages of the ADHD diagnosis was that I finally _knew_ what was wrong with me. And that it's treatable if not fixable and also that I was also doing a damnfine job of managing it thankyewverymuch.

I often think about going to tai chi classes, but I'm afraid they'd have to make the day 36 hours long before I had time. :(

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

That's always nice to hear, that yep, it's a real problem, yes, you're managing it well, but you can also do this to help.

As for the tai chi, I'm definitely a convert, so I'll resist the urge to evangelise. :-) But yeah, it's something that's much more in my realm than a static-ish thing like yoga.