I've been dealing with a few injuries over the last bit.
Firstly my hand/wrist. As some might recall I accidentally turned my spear into a hoe one day, hyper extending a part of my hand in the process. I've been to the doctor and had an X-ray. No cracks or breaks or anything. So that's good news. But it is extremely painful to grasp anything with weight or to squeeze. And I'm told something like this will take a while to heal, especially with everything I do with my hands. I've been previously diagnosed with carpel tunnel as well, so I'm not sure if that's contributing to things as well.
Anyhow, moving on. With doing some drumming recently, both in practice and demos, the hand pain seemed to move into my elbow. So now that is bothering me. I think with not being able to really hold my sticks normally, due to the hand, I compensated in some way and put some stress on the elbow. This is more just irksome at this point, rather than anything concerning.
And then, I'm guessing in part, due to the pushup building challenge we do in the kids classes, I've re-injured my shoulder. This exact same thing happens any time I get to about 20 consecutive pushups. It never fails that I end up damaging my right shoulder. And unfortunately, I never seem to learn. But when I want to push my students with something, I have an expectation of myself that I do it with them. This just may not be possible in all things. And it kinda sucks. But it's also a reality.
And finally, while working on Da Mu Hsing, I tweeked my neck real good. Again, I think this was a result of the other injuries, and not because of what I was doing. Almost like a ticking time bomb. I've had this type of injury before, but this time around it seems to be taking some time to heal. I've got much better movement this week, but it's still sort of "sitting there" and so I'm trying not to overdo it.
So from a hand injury, to an elbow injury, to a shoulder injury, to a neck injury....I'm pretty lame on my right side.
So what am I doing about it??
Well, I've been to the chiropractor now a few times since the neck tweek really put me over the edge edge with it all. And I'm doing my exercises and stretches. So everything is slowly working itself out. Sometimes I feel like things have really improved, and then she seems to find these spots where everything is still really tight and painful. There's a spot she was working on yesterday on my chest. I wouldn't have really thought about a spot there being connected to the back/neck pain, nor my shoulder. She also pointed out that she can tell that I tend to breathe quite high, rather than in my belly. So now, as part of my rehab, I need to work on my breathing.
I guess what I'm getting at with this long winded blog, is that, although I already know and understand how many things are connected, I just keep learning more. And it's just so interesting.
Oh...and also to take care of injuries quickly...even those little ones....lest they turn into something more. I'm excited to have a better understanding of the KT tape now (thanks Todai Bauer) as this will be a real easy way for me to address anything minor quickly and without excuse.
