Save me from more good news
Mar. 10th, 2003 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikMore ranting about the bit with my lower back. (By which I mean the area around the sacro-illeac joint, fear my spelling...)
So the whole area has been unstable recently. I can go in to see my chiropractor, have him work on the are and if immediately feel much more balanced and stable, and will continue to do so... for one or two days. I started really noticing this a couple of weeks ago, when (partly because I spent a lot of tme stretching and trying to get it to behave) the whole area got massively swollen and inflamed. I got it adjusted, and it got even more swollen, but then started calming down.
Now, for history, this is the area of my back that has been sore to the touch (as in poke it even lightly and I shriek) for the last fifteen years. Now, for all this can be annoying, it's been less of a problem that you might expect, and going things that keep it moving generally helped. I've always kind of wondered what was up, but I could ignore, and mostly did. (I've asked people about it from time to time, usually after someone sent me shrieking up the walls, but no one has had much useful to say.)
So after the adjustment that got everything so stirred up, I started noticing that it was less sensitive. The next time I came in, had the same area worked on (grr... look, I really don't want to be one of those people who see their chiropractor every week. I'd gotten to every five weeks, and that was working for me) and it got even better -- though again, after a couple of days it was out again.
So I had a talk with Estabrook today and yeah, that area is moving better and less sensitive than he's ever seen it. He thinks all the wushu is finally working through the old damage. (Damage? I remember the first time I noticed it hurting, I don't remember a specific injury per se. Though there are a few possibilities.) So long term, I'm probably going to end up with a more stable, more flexible spine, and might finally be done with all intermittant tweakiness with low stances and sweeps and stuff. Which would be so cool.
Of course, short term, it's likely to be unstable for a while longer. Ugh.
I asked him if there was anything I could do to help stabilize the area, or anything to avoid. "Well, we've talked about walking and biking as being good." Yes, I do that. "The other thing that will help is doing less rotation through the waist, or over the hip joint, especially with low stances." I gave him a look. And he said "Hey, that's why I didn't bother telling you in the first place. You're not going to do it."
It's true. He tells me it can take up to six weeks for this sort of thing to respond to exercises. However, I do not intend to it to take that long. (If my intentions even matter here.) *I* think the muscles down there are already pretty strong, it's just a matter of tuning thing. Good theory, eh?
So the whole area has been unstable recently. I can go in to see my chiropractor, have him work on the are and if immediately feel much more balanced and stable, and will continue to do so... for one or two days. I started really noticing this a couple of weeks ago, when (partly because I spent a lot of tme stretching and trying to get it to behave) the whole area got massively swollen and inflamed. I got it adjusted, and it got even more swollen, but then started calming down.
Now, for history, this is the area of my back that has been sore to the touch (as in poke it even lightly and I shriek) for the last fifteen years. Now, for all this can be annoying, it's been less of a problem that you might expect, and going things that keep it moving generally helped. I've always kind of wondered what was up, but I could ignore, and mostly did. (I've asked people about it from time to time, usually after someone sent me shrieking up the walls, but no one has had much useful to say.)
So after the adjustment that got everything so stirred up, I started noticing that it was less sensitive. The next time I came in, had the same area worked on (grr... look, I really don't want to be one of those people who see their chiropractor every week. I'd gotten to every five weeks, and that was working for me) and it got even better -- though again, after a couple of days it was out again.
So I had a talk with Estabrook today and yeah, that area is moving better and less sensitive than he's ever seen it. He thinks all the wushu is finally working through the old damage. (Damage? I remember the first time I noticed it hurting, I don't remember a specific injury per se. Though there are a few possibilities.) So long term, I'm probably going to end up with a more stable, more flexible spine, and might finally be done with all intermittant tweakiness with low stances and sweeps and stuff. Which would be so cool.
Of course, short term, it's likely to be unstable for a while longer. Ugh.
I asked him if there was anything I could do to help stabilize the area, or anything to avoid. "Well, we've talked about walking and biking as being good." Yes, I do that. "The other thing that will help is doing less rotation through the waist, or over the hip joint, especially with low stances." I gave him a look. And he said "Hey, that's why I didn't bother telling you in the first place. You're not going to do it."
It's true. He tells me it can take up to six weeks for this sort of thing to respond to exercises. However, I do not intend to it to take that long. (If my intentions even matter here.) *I* think the muscles down there are already pretty strong, it's just a matter of tuning thing. Good theory, eh?
