What seemed like a small or inconsequential decision at the time, but actually ended up having a big impact later on?
What seemed like a small or inconsequential decision at the time, but actually ended up having a big impact later on?
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A friend of mine offered me a yoga lessons.
At the time, my body was in a real bad way from decades of skateboard and snowboard injuries. I had just accepted that this was how things were going to be.
I figured what the hell, it can't make things worse.
Over the course of about six months, I was able to walk, move, and sleep almost like normal. While it couldn't fix much of the actual damage, my range of motion greatly increased, I have a lot less headaches and neck pain, and the pain in my joints has greatly diminished.
Now at almost 50, I am back on the boards, though since my landing gear is fucked it's a much more mellow style of riding.
Interesting. My body is also kinda fucked because of my bad decision to carry half my weight to school every day - now at 24 I already have a slightly hunched back and deal with back pain. I wonder if I should try some yoga...
You should try some yoga.
Can't speak to all yoga, and I specifically avoided the woo woo side of things, but it really did help as far as posture, flexibility, and various chronic joint pain.
The way it was explained to me was that various muscle groups were locked up trying to protect for example, my knee injury, so now my hips, back, shoulder, neck, etc where all out of whack.
The process involved working backward through the various muscles and joints, loosening them up so that we could work on the next group, until I could finally move and strengthen around the original injury.
I haven't gone for about eight years, but keep up with basic stretching and breathing excercises enough to maintain mobility.
In the end I'm going to require knee surgery to actually fix the root problem.
To be fair, you can absolutely make things worse.
Oh, I agree, but this was one on one with someone I trusted, and I know my body pretty well.
We went through the books and talked about each excercise before trying anything. There was a pretty good percentage crossed off because they may have caused more harm than good.
I am certianly not recommending yoga in place of medical treatment, I can only speak to the results I had.
That is totally fair and I respect that.