Sometimes if I kneel down I can’t straighten/lock my left knee. Which means I can’t walk properly or stand up straight for hours/days and it throws my geometry out and back starts killing me
Also means I can’t pick up kids, toys, tie shoelaces etc.
NHS doc helpfully prescribed ‘not to kneel down’ when I went about 3 years ago
Rofl that’s brilliant. It’s annoying how variable your care from NHS staff can be. Hope it gets sorted anyway mate
Sounds like he missed his true calling as a mid-level civil servant in the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship.
If you want to have someone make a proper assessment about your muscle and skeletal issues from top to bottom and recommend routines who is it you need to see? GPs are not going to do that unless you have an actual injury - is it a sports therapist, chiropractor, physio? Basically I know all the muscles in the legs and hips are all too tight/misaligned and it’s giving me lower back issues all the time. But I want someone to do the full assessment and get to root of it not just treat this one thing.
+1 for seeing a good physio. Have had minor lower back and shoulder issues the last few years and all have been sorted/made manageable with a few visits to physio. (most recent one was last year with masks etc, very efficient). The guy I saw for the shoulder also does acupuncture, so used that on it to great effect. They’ve given me exercises with a resistance band too which has helped for general prevention too. Highly recommended.
I was seeing a physio before covid and she was amazing. She practices a thing called AIM which some bloke devised. It’s nothing special just a new way to look at what is going on, finding the root cause and using the body itself to right everything with easy exercises.
Straight away she saw what I was trying to explain to many doctors, with MRI’s etc. And she saw even more and made everything so easy to understand, confirming everything I thought was happening but I couldn’t convey because of lack of knowledge.
My knee was killing me the last week or so. I spiralled into a right fucking grump about it too, decided it would definitely only get worse all doom and gloom thinking I wouldn’t be able to run or do anything. I dismissed all my wife’s helpful suggestions about seeing physios etc. and generally was a bit of a dick about it. Anyway it feels fine today!
Does anyone have advice for a tight psoas muscle?
I’ve been having nagging back, hip and knee pain (pon de left hand side) for a while now.
I’ve got a dodgy right hip, so the fact my “good” leg is hurting is/was stressing me out, so I saw a chiropractor yesterday who said it was down to the psoas being super tight and a stuck pelvis.
I’ve got my first “treatment” this evening - I will report back!
@anon83623327 and @tomgnargore (and anyone else really) have you guys ever tried beginner yoga or pilates for your long term issues? i know some men see that stuff as really girly but i’ve always found it really helpful
you know what i mean, blokey blokes only value exercise that involves lifting heavy things
that all sounds gnarly as fuck. can you skate at all anymore?
jesus. if this place has proved anything you don’t need to skate to still be a skater, it’s like some kung fu mindset thing. could you throw on a brace and cruise?
Thanks Max!
yeah i think i’d quickly start wanting to do more. sorry mate
I haven’t been to a yoga class before, but it is something I am definitely going sort out once things open back up again.
I’ve done plenty of YouTube yoga (shout out Yoga with Adrienne) and found that helped with general bad back issues.
Yeah I’ve done some of her and sarahbethyoga’s videos. It’s always jokes when they start a video with “hello ladies”. The breathing and meditation side of it I should probably work on, I’m not good at sitting still and doing nothing (surprisingly)
I’ve done yoga before, never pilates but I’d give it a go for sure. It’s all strength and mobility training.
Also this dude that Spanky posted about a while back is sick:
I actually signed up to Kyle brown’s patreon “old friends”. Some useful stuff on there
Pilates is great for skating,
if you skate a lot over many years, things break and things wear out, and not all of them can be fixed even by surgery.
I had ligament reconstruction work on one of my ankles a couple of years back. Most of the time it’s fine but after a hard session involving multiple big bails I’m usually limping for a couple of days afterwards.
Pilates is all about strengthening the muscles around your weak spots, which makes the whole body part stronger so that persistent injuries become manageable rather than debilitating.
Or just watch out for rollerbladers in the first place.
