I recently had a really duh! moment with certain muscles and thought two things:
A) I'm probably not the only one
B) If someone else reads it, then maybe they don't have to actually have their own duh! moment. They can apply the knowledge right away.
So, I had an overstretched/ hyperextended ligament in knee in January – saw the doc on that one. Take it easy, stretch it, it'll get better. And it did.
It flared up again in March. This time to the point where the knee was always tight and puffy and I couldn't fully get it to go away. So, Duh! #1 – I need to figure out what is causing it to flare up and what doesn't.
Discovered that my Tai Chi class is causing it to flare up, but bellydance classes aren't. Something about weight distribution, length of time holding poses, etc. (Which I'm trying to address.)
So, last Monday night, had Tai Chi class. Noticed my knee was flaring up. Went home and Duh! #2 – iced it right away for about 1/2 hour. When it warmed up on its own, no residual issue. No discomfort on Tuesday, no issue with bellydancing on Tuesday (which I had in prior weeks when I hadn't "treated" the knee right after Tai Chi).
Was out shopping on Tuesday last week and Duh! #3 – bought a knee thingy to wear during classes/practices to protect the knee. So far, it's working marvelously. (If anyone wants specs on the exact thingy I bought, let me know and I'll post them.)
So, please everyone. Don't leave me hanging. Share your own Duh! moments, so we can all benefit. ;)
A) I'm probably not the only one
B) If someone else reads it, then maybe they don't have to actually have their own duh! moment. They can apply the knowledge right away.
So, I had an overstretched/ hyperextended ligament in knee in January – saw the doc on that one. Take it easy, stretch it, it'll get better. And it did.
It flared up again in March. This time to the point where the knee was always tight and puffy and I couldn't fully get it to go away. So, Duh! #1 – I need to figure out what is causing it to flare up and what doesn't.
Discovered that my Tai Chi class is causing it to flare up, but bellydance classes aren't. Something about weight distribution, length of time holding poses, etc. (Which I'm trying to address.)
So, last Monday night, had Tai Chi class. Noticed my knee was flaring up. Went home and Duh! #2 – iced it right away for about 1/2 hour. When it warmed up on its own, no residual issue. No discomfort on Tuesday, no issue with bellydancing on Tuesday (which I had in prior weeks when I hadn't "treated" the knee right after Tai Chi).
Was out shopping on Tuesday last week and Duh! #3 – bought a knee thingy to wear during classes/practices to protect the knee. So far, it's working marvelously. (If anyone wants specs on the exact thingy I bought, let me know and I'll post them.)
So, please everyone. Don't leave me hanging. Share your own Duh! moments, so we can all benefit. ;)
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:45 PMOh yeah, forgot to add, am giving the left leg above, below and on the knee nightly massages. REALLY helps a ton, too. I guess that's Duh!#4.
Over the weekend, I thought, maybe my right leg will want one, too. My right leg is really happy where it's at. The massage didn't have that "oh yeah" feeling I'm having on my left.
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 5:36 PMI had knee problems when I took Tai Chi too. Seemed to be the slow turns that torqued the knee because my foot didn't slide around, we were told to wear athletic shoes.
I quit taking Tai Chi class. :)
Duh.
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 6:16 PMNot dance-related, but still applicable...
After starting a new sedentary job, I started to notice that my right arm and shoulder were having chronic pain. At first, I didn't connect the dots to realize it was related to the job. But then one day at work, while participating in a phone call, I caught myself DUH! resting my right arm on the arm of the chair AND bearing a significant amount of weight ON THAT ARM rather than on my butt. Pain explained! Once I became aware of this and started paying attention to my sitting position (READ: quit putting weight on my arm while sitting) the problem went away.
In a previous sedentary job, I noticed myself having frequent knee pain. And then one day I realized it was caused DUH! by sitting with my legs crossed at the knees, twining the ankle of the top leg around behind the ankle of the other leg. I discovered that I was doing this a LOT while talking on long phone conversations or sitting in meetings in conference rooms. The problem went away once I identified the cause and trained myself to quit sitting that way. -
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 10:29 PMHehe, Shira I have a very similar story. For a while I kept bruising my right side (front oblique area) but in a very concentrated spot. It wasn't until I was teaching one of my pilates classes and went to help stretch a student that I noticed I was placing my right elbow into my side to help brace myself. DUH! Mystery solved. I laughed about that for quite a while afterwards.
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 11:35 AMI have that issue at work as well. My left elbow keeps hurting because I DUH! keep leaning it on the desk and putting a lot of weight on it while I'm proofreading documents. -
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 12:58 PMTotally - Realized I'd been hyper-extending (or at least really overstretching) my IT Band, only after having chronic pains in my left hip and knee.
The DUH moment was when I realized it was all being caused my my tendancy to stand with my weight on my left side, hip thrust out to the side whenever I'm standing still for too long; chatting mostly, but also in the grocery store check out line! I'll give myself a big 'ol Homer D'OH for that one.
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 6:32 PMi was getting a rash on the tops of my hips and couldn't figure it out, other than that something was rubbing on the skin there. i wear hipster jeans (young'in ::blush::) and so it wasn't them. the problem started last year, around spring time, and it's happening again now.
duh moment, im not wearing my coat anymore, but im still carrying my big, over the shoulder tote. it rubs on the side of my shirt until it shifts up around my waist (t-shirts, college student) (a lot of my shirts want to do that anyway, since they are cut square, make shirts for hips fashion people!) anyway, the duh is that after the shirt moves up, my bag, and all the folders and books, has been rubbing on my hip. i figured it out last year, but i still haven't found a way to fix it. (no money for a new bag) -
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Tue, April 29, 2008 - 3:08 PMMaybe you could sew a little square of soft velvet on the part of the bag that hits your side?
I have two Duh! stories:
--- I had knee pain for years. Thought I just had "bad knees". It wasn't until I started taking Pilates classes that I realized that I have, all of my life, stood with my knees locked. I stopped locking my knees, and the knee pain went away -- Duh!
--- When I was ten years old I read in a magazine that bruises which never heal are a sign of leukemia. I realized that there was a bruise on my shin All The Time. It was there for months and months . . . I was semi-afraid that I had cancer . . . until one day when I went to get a t-shirt out of the bottom dresser-drawer and I stood up with the shirt in my hands and pushed the drawer shut with my shin!! Duh. After that I realized that I consistently used my knees and shin like extra hands, opening and shutting doors, moving furniture, closing dresser-drawers. No wonder that bruise never went away! -
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 4:41 AMSimilar story: I used to train horses for a living, and part of the hazard of the profession was a constant array of bumps and bruises. However, I ALWAYS had matching bruises on my shins, just under my knees, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how they got there. Until one night while going through my routine of closing up the barn, I suddenly (duh) realized that when I checked each horse's water bucket, I was leaning across the tack trunks parked in front of the stalls and giving myself pressure bruises on my shins! Duh!
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 3:17 PMI had knee surgery a couple of years ago. Since then, I have tried to be careful not to twist too much and I always wear a knee wrap while I dance. Sometimes it takes a while to identify what I have to be careful with, but once I do, I can usually modify it so it still looks consistant.
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Tue, April 29, 2008 - 4:08 PMThis isn't exactly a bellydance duh... I used to play in a professional percussion ensemble, which included African marimbas. I would frequently get bad headaches after practice, and they seemed to be localized in my right temple. I was confused by them, because it wasn't like a "too much noise" headache.
One song included a look cue between the lead player (a guy named Dan) and myself on the bass marimba. It was one day during this look that Dan pinpointed the source of my headaches: while playing the bass, I would frequently conk myself in the head with my right mallet! They are made of rubber, but it isn't soft, and somehow I was so into playing that I never noticed I was hitting myself! Way to go, Bo. A little conscious effort on my part fixed this problem. DUH!
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 10:53 AMI love how grace we are when dancing, but outside of that how silly we can be about our body. =) "Only a dancer trips going upstairs." -
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 12:35 PMThat's "graceFUL". Off to get some coffee.... -
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 1:13 PMSo true.....my best friend and I discovered that each of our mothers put us in ballet at an early age because we were so clutzy.....unfortunately the grace did *not* extend outside dance. I can still trip over my own feet. D'OH!
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 3:36 PMhehehe, the tech majors (well, mostly mr steve, the head of the tech dept) is always saying only the dancers trip over their (our? im both!) shadows.
people tell me they could never belly dance because they are too clumsy. i ask them if they have ever met me because i am SUCH a giant clutz. as much as possible of my stuff has to be hard-core, not breaky. ^_^ -
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 4:17 PMSame here, Lisa. I like to walk close to things (instead of way out in the middle open area), and I often run into door frames. It's so classy of me. -
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Thu, May 1, 2008 - 6:34 AMI'm constantly being attacked by doorknobs. It doesn't help that I'm short, and doorknobs can hit me anywhere between the hips and ribs, usually in the elbow or tricep region.
It's not that I don't know the door is there, I just forget how much the knob sticks out. -
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Thu, May 1, 2008 - 6:38 AMOh god, me too! And furniture & the corners of counters. It doesn't help that I bruise really easily either! -
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Thu, May 1, 2008 - 7:12 AManyone remember when they first got hips? peuberty, or after kids and they get bigger? i used to forget they were there and bang them on the corners of tables. hurts like a bitch eh? -
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Thu, May 1, 2008 - 2:40 PMOh yes, I actually chipped one of my hip-bones this way. We used to eat breakfast at the kitchen island, and for a period of about a year, I would clip my right hip on the corner of the island as I walked around it. That hip bone is not as pointy as the other one is. Fortunately, it's so minor, only I notice the difference.
I also played French Horn in high school band, and when I started to get hips, I had to re-learn how to move the horn from a playing-position to a resting-position without banging myself on the hip.
I'm almost glad that I am small-breasted, because running into things with my boobs in addition to all the hip-bruising would have just been too much for me and I would have started really hating my body!
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Thu, May 1, 2008 - 2:46 PMYou know those lever style door handles? I always manage to hook my clothes on them when I walk through the door. I'll be walking along, not paying attention, and suddenly I get jerked backwards by the door handle in my pocket or belt-loop or whatever.
Sometimes I open doors *into* myself. It's like I'm so distracted by the thoughts in my head, that I get mixed up on the proper order of events. It should be: Open Door, then walk forward, but what happens is: Walk forward, then open door. Edge of door to the face! -
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 2:18 AM"I love how grace we are when dancing, but outside of that how silly we can be about our body. =) "
Maybe that's why we became dancers. Got something to work on, as a challenge. ; )
watch this:
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