A pain in the neck
Ahh. Sweet relief. That's what I'm feeling this week after around six weeks of shoulder and neck pain. I've never really had this type of problem before, and I don't know what kicked it off. Maybe it was that day that I bench pressed 400 kg at the local gym and slightly strained myself.Ok that may be an exaggeration. Or a complete lie. But this is my blog, and I'll lie if I want to.
Whatever the case, it started out with an ache in the left side of my jaw, which immediately made me think 'root canal time'. A trip to the dentist came up with nothing, which left me looking like a hypochondriac, and also left my wallet $50 lighter. The pain persisted for another week until I eventually tried rubbing my shoulder, which I found relieved the pain. Evidentally my body follows about as much logic as my brain - rub one part, and another feels better.
All was good for a couple of weeks as I could relieve the pain when I wanted to. Things went bad when my 'rubbing the shoulder' technique stopped relieving the pain in my jaw. That was when I found my neck to be sore. As you would guess, rubbing my neck helped with the pain, but an annoying side effect was that it made my left thumb go numb.
By this stage I'd had enough. I mean, the use of my thumb is vital to me in many ways. Such as when I use it to give the 'thumbs up' at work to worried employees after all our servers have gone down. The trusty left thumb tells them everything is ok, when I know damn well we're screwed.
After that came deep tissue massage, liberal application of very smelly Tiger Balm (contains 95% real tiger) and then four or five trips to chiro. A combination of all of the above seems to have done the trick and I've been feeling good for the last week or so.
The logical person would ask why I didn't go to chiro sooner. Please remember that I am not logical and that I bench 400 kg, so I don't have to answer those kinds of questions. I will say that I've been to chiro only once before and the guy was an absolute jerk, which is why I decided I'd try everything else first. The good news is, my new chiro is excellent. Fingers crossed I won't be needing her again soon anyway. Unless I move up to bench pressing 500 kg.
I had a similar thing happen with my knee once.
Posted by
Citizen_Stu |
7:54 PM
In the uk we generally hit things like hedghogs and the odd cat. If I hit a kangaroo then I'd be in therapy for years!
Posted by
matt of comooxdom |
2:30 AM
Yeh we get a LOT of kangaroos getting run over here, especially in the outback. We also eat kangaroo meat, although I haven't tried it myself. Not that I'm saying the two activities are connected... :p
Posted by
Bonestorm |
9:15 AM
Were you more worried about impressing the chicks in the gym than over doing the bench press ?
I'm looking forward to you being in the World Strongest Man comp.
Posted by
Huggies |
4:34 PM
Such as when I use it to give the 'thumbs up' at work to worried employees after all our servers have gone down...
haha yeah keep a positive attitude - servers can smell your fear ;)
Posted by
MadameBoffin |
7:16 PM
who wouldn't want to take 400 kg in bench press, only problem is that would be like lifting a small elephant-. haha
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:09 PM
Huggies: 'Bonestorm' and 'impressing girls at gym' just don't fit in the same sentence. :p
Boff: for emotionless machines, servers can be surpringly intuitive can't they?
Flicka: I juggle small elephants for a larf now and again. It's the big ones that give me problems.
Posted by
Bonestorm |
11:02 PM
You might need to make another trip to the chiro. I've been getting a regular adjustment forthelast 5 years (for me, every 6 to 8 weeks).
A couple of years ago I damaged a backmuscle lifting a tumble dryer onto a wall. That was close to crippling. I could barely drive, could hardly walk, the pain was terrible. I had to go to the chiro about twice a week for a couple of months. Each treatment gave immediate pain relief, but it came back over the next few days. Gradually it improved. Sometimes the damage takes quite a while to repair.
Oh - and never eaten roo? Try it! Cooked medium, its excellent!
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:28 PM
Ok thanks for the advice Ashleigh. I will definitely be keeping an eye on it.
And I'll give the roo a shot. If I choke on it and die, at least it'll make an interesting blog entry.
Posted by
Bonestorm |
10:07 AM