custard
Bluelighter
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- Apr 20, 2010
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hi.
i've had chronic muscle pain for years in my shoulders, arms and legs. think it is mostly due to stress/insomnia, so is a slow battle to heal... but curious if there are exercises i could be doing which would help. the symptoms of the pain are inflammation and stiffness.
here is something i recently learned which i am curious about: i noticed i got mild wrist tendonitis recently and have had it for a few weeks. was resting/icing it for a while which was helping to not exacerbate it, but it didn't help it heal either. a couple of nights ago, i went kayaking. this was a planned event and i was worried it would make my wrist worse. it did hurt my wrist/arms little bit while kayaking, but i guess it was a good kind of hurt. to my surprise, after a couple of hours of kayaking, the next day my wrist (and arms) felt much better. ever since then my wrist has healed significantly. so i wonder if it's something to do with the movements and increased circulation that helped.
the muscle pain lingers on though, as this is a deeper-rooted problem. lately my leg pain is worse, to the point where if i am sitting down for longer than 10 minutes my legs start hurting a fair bit. it also hurts to bend down (crouch) and get up again. even if i stand up after sitting for a half hour i feel stiff and the first few steps are painful. the specific area is the front and back of my upper thighs, right below hip joint. i bike almost every day, and while i tend to feel better right after the ride this doesn't seem to be reducing the pain in my legs at all. i'm just trying to think in the same vein of how the kayaking seemed to heal me with the increased circulation and blood flow.
anyone know anything i could be doing that might have a similar effect to how the kayaking helped my upper body? and why bicycling doesn't seem to help at all? thanks.
i've had chronic muscle pain for years in my shoulders, arms and legs. think it is mostly due to stress/insomnia, so is a slow battle to heal... but curious if there are exercises i could be doing which would help. the symptoms of the pain are inflammation and stiffness.
here is something i recently learned which i am curious about: i noticed i got mild wrist tendonitis recently and have had it for a few weeks. was resting/icing it for a while which was helping to not exacerbate it, but it didn't help it heal either. a couple of nights ago, i went kayaking. this was a planned event and i was worried it would make my wrist worse. it did hurt my wrist/arms little bit while kayaking, but i guess it was a good kind of hurt. to my surprise, after a couple of hours of kayaking, the next day my wrist (and arms) felt much better. ever since then my wrist has healed significantly. so i wonder if it's something to do with the movements and increased circulation that helped.
the muscle pain lingers on though, as this is a deeper-rooted problem. lately my leg pain is worse, to the point where if i am sitting down for longer than 10 minutes my legs start hurting a fair bit. it also hurts to bend down (crouch) and get up again. even if i stand up after sitting for a half hour i feel stiff and the first few steps are painful. the specific area is the front and back of my upper thighs, right below hip joint. i bike almost every day, and while i tend to feel better right after the ride this doesn't seem to be reducing the pain in my legs at all. i'm just trying to think in the same vein of how the kayaking seemed to heal me with the increased circulation and blood flow.
anyone know anything i could be doing that might have a similar effect to how the kayaking helped my upper body? and why bicycling doesn't seem to help at all? thanks.
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