What I learned today

[marcmagus]

What I learned today:

• I've been stretching wrong all these years. Specifically, stretching with counter-pressure (such as by grasping your fingers and pulling back to stretch the wrist), which it may be helpful in averting athletic injury, can actually exacerbate swelling of the tendons.
• While cold is good for reducing swelling, ice can

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[shield_toad111]

Heat would increase swelling, wouldn't it. I probably should have known that...

[uridium]

My arms don't really get numb, although they get sore sometimes. Mostly I get to get a numbness or sensitivity in my fingertips. I haven't actually been bothered by anything for a little while, although that probably just means I'm compensating for something unconsciously by doing something even worse...

Did the OT come to your office, or was it more like going to a doctor's office?

[marcmagus]

I'm remembering a conversation from back at Vassar when a few of us were hanging out and laughing and suddenly both of my arms went numb from the elbow down, and at first people thought I was joking. In my memory you were the first one who recognized that I was serious, and you had either had, or knew someone who'd had, a similar experience; something to do with hyperventilating. It's possible I'm misremembering that, though.

Which fingertips do you get numbness in?

[miintikwa]

O.o

You know, this stuff makes me wonder how bad off my body is. Eeep. Here's to you getting good help, tho.