dammit, where doesn't it hurt?
Aug. 16th, 2009 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI think in part because Nationals went so smoothly, the month since I got back has felt unfairly painful. Some of the causes were beyond my control, some not, but what I do about it is.
I got a little big for my britches and thought I might have "graduated" to flexible shoe inserts. I thought wrong. A couple of practices with these uncovered wildly painful shin splints in my leading (right) foot, so much so that Friday the skin was sore to the touch. I'm back on my hard ones now, but Badger showed me the real fix was this unprepossessing little thing appears for all the world like a little slip of Spandex but makes a huge, huge difference.
A little harder have been my arms. In this case it's the cause that appeared to be a little thing - I got a new computer at work. However, something about the new style of mouse is off because my right wrist and forearm have been angrier than usual. My hands have always gone numb easily but it's segued into pain that rides up the arm in the last couple of weeks.
I finally broke down and got carpal tunnel splits to sleep in and a tennis elbow brace for sewing (and yeah, fencing) with. The former keep me from clenching and turning my wrists in my sleep and the latter keeps the pressure from hand sewing from going up my arm into my shoulder. Both seem to be working as advertised. D. doesn't like the splints; thinks they're scratchy when I put my hands on his bare back in bed. He is not wrong, poor man, but we're going to work with them.
I got a little big for my britches and thought I might have "graduated" to flexible shoe inserts. I thought wrong. A couple of practices with these uncovered wildly painful shin splints in my leading (right) foot, so much so that Friday the skin was sore to the touch. I'm back on my hard ones now, but Badger showed me the real fix was this unprepossessing little thing appears for all the world like a little slip of Spandex but makes a huge, huge difference.
A little harder have been my arms. In this case it's the cause that appeared to be a little thing - I got a new computer at work. However, something about the new style of mouse is off because my right wrist and forearm have been angrier than usual. My hands have always gone numb easily but it's segued into pain that rides up the arm in the last couple of weeks.
I finally broke down and got carpal tunnel splits to sleep in and a tennis elbow brace for sewing (and yeah, fencing) with. The former keep me from clenching and turning my wrists in my sleep and the latter keeps the pressure from hand sewing from going up my arm into my shoulder. Both seem to be working as advertised. D. doesn't like the splints; thinks they're scratchy when I put my hands on his bare back in bed. He is not wrong, poor man, but we're going to work with them.
