I turned 43 this year, and my body started betraying me. Small, weird things that wouldn't normally cause soreness or, worse, injury have, in fact, started causing issues.
A few months ago, I tweaked my right trapezius, rhomboid, and the scapulae, which started a domino effect of injuries. I really don't know what I did; my physical therapist thinks it was a combination of things, like bad posture for years, lack of exercise, and lifting something in a way that made it all set off.
Going to physical therapy the last few weeks has taught me
That
Not all of the issues I am having are just because of the strain in the muscles I mentioned above. A lot of the numbing issues I am having are from a nerve in my elbow being compressed. This happens because I spend way too much time playing on my phone. Working on correcting that now.
That
I have been too sedentary after my ATV accident back in 2019. I let a year of being unable to walk affect my mentality, which, in turn, affected my physical health. I need to start moving more
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I need to focus on strengthening my joints and muscles more than stretching and even more than cardio. While cardio is important for my overall health, the issues I'm correcting in physical therapy all correlate to my muscles and joints being really weak. Mister is going to be so thrilled; he's been trying to get me to work on my strengthening for ages now. Guess this one time he was right; that was bound to happen at least once *evil laugh*
and finally
That
I've been so focused on not causing any issues in my fused ankle that I've neglected everything else. But I've also learned it's not too late to fix this.
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