ikenpo
Black Belt
Any folks out there with ongoing, standing injuries from the arts...misery loves company...
Mine is my shoulder...Doc "saw it on me" two yrs ago. I think it is some kind of small tear in my rotator cuff that has some mild and not so mild, bursitis at times. Some times I wake up sore as hell, but once I warm up it goes away. For a while (about a year and half) it didn't hurt at all, but now I've started doing a lot more work with the escrima sticks and those wide swinging movements and covering movements put stress directly on the area so I manage, maintain and love the art regardless.
In the past I've had a serious thumb injury that my original instructor fixed with accupressure (very strange to hear the meridians "pop" as he applied pressure on them) and finally I had a seriously jammed big toe that happened on Jan 30, 1998 (and yes it hurt so bad I remember the tournament and day it happened) it has since healed.
jb:asian:
p.s. If anyone has had any should injuries like the one I spoke of I'd love to hear what your outcome was, if you had surgery, learned to deal, know some good healing linement(sp), etc...
Mine is my shoulder...Doc "saw it on me" two yrs ago. I think it is some kind of small tear in my rotator cuff that has some mild and not so mild, bursitis at times. Some times I wake up sore as hell, but once I warm up it goes away. For a while (about a year and half) it didn't hurt at all, but now I've started doing a lot more work with the escrima sticks and those wide swinging movements and covering movements put stress directly on the area so I manage, maintain and love the art regardless.
In the past I've had a serious thumb injury that my original instructor fixed with accupressure (very strange to hear the meridians "pop" as he applied pressure on them) and finally I had a seriously jammed big toe that happened on Jan 30, 1998 (and yes it hurt so bad I remember the tournament and day it happened) it has since healed.
jb:asian:
p.s. If anyone has had any should injuries like the one I spoke of I'd love to hear what your outcome was, if you had surgery, learned to deal, know some good healing linement(sp), etc...