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It really is true that our response to pain is in part a learned response. If your parents overreacted to your minor injuries, you'll learn that's how you're supposed to respond to minor injuries.
Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
it's always the abuse.
my wife was neglected as a child and always told to "walk it off".
our first child, she didn't have any pain mitigation. the nurses were horrified but morbidly curious.
when she says it hurts I believe it would incapacitate a normal person.
personally, I have worked on mind-over-matter pain mitigation (I fell asleep during a root canal) but hers takes it to a whole new level.
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It's not necessarily abuse to not react strongly to your child having a minor injury, but that could be a reason why. It could also be you learned to mask your pain to avoid further abuse.
I also have a stupid high pain tolerance (like making it through my vasectomy without anesthesia while only saying ouch under my breath, because my surgeon didn't believe I could still feel everything), but my mom knew about this from her masters degree and applied it to me.
I have seen toddlers fall over and be fine until their mum started freaking out, THEN they start crying.
I walked up a hill and hurt my hip a bit. Then I got excited and jumped around dancing later that night, and BAM. Hip has hurt for 4 days now (as in, hobble-walking), and considering my track record, will now hurt just slightly until I die and doctors will have no fucking idea why.
I think that's normal for someone aged 60+
Or American and 36+ π
Doctors rarely have a clue about the why of anything. They respond to trigger words, fill out paperwork, and send you on your merry way.
I wonβt even go for this, even if it continues to hurt, because Iβve learned this lesson.
Just do the dance in reverse
Unfortunately, it was a jump, so I think a reverse jump is just a jump, right?
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In my experience, persistent joint pain can be mitigated by working the muscles that pad that joint.
Consider doing some yoga or basic tai-chi that will stretch the region that is in pain. As you move through forms and poses you will figure out which muscle or muscle group needs to be strengthened and you will find movements that work it.
I've got some gnarly arthritis so my joints are always inflamed. Yoga helps me to keep the muscles strong enough to power through the inflammation without pain, though with arthritis it always hurts a little π₯²
Thanks for the advice. I actually do yoga and am permanently doing Physical Therapy for my other hip (since doctors said thereβs nothing physically wrong with it), so I guess Iβll just keep at it. I also have to remember to actually rest the area when itβs so injured that Iβm limpingβ¦ π
That's just adrenaline. Old man can sleep easy knowing the kid is gonna die after it wears off.
the kid is gonna die after it wears off
Ah yes, the SUV is basically the bride from Kill Bill, doing the five point palm exploding heart technique.
Pai Mei and his brand new ten points meaty-or crush technique.
Last panel: Turns around too quickly to look after the kid, now has a painfully stiff neck for a week.
Being a father of a 6 year old who has already had a minor concussion and a bruised nose, l kinda feel this one. Little kids do seem to roll with the punches better than adults, especially if you respond less dramatically. I assume a lot of that is due to being shorter and lighter weight though, leading to less forces overall, basically the square/cube law in reverse,
However, i do find a lot of folks who complain about how fragile they are do 0 cardio or weight training in order to strengthen themselves. My single most common recommendation is to do some kinda training for both, even if it's just once a week. I'd say it's probably the best investment you can make up to a certain upper limit time wise.
I'm sure there are some folks with old nagging sports injuries that bother them, for me that's my knees from 400+ pound squats, but in general I'd say I'm extremely resistant to day to day problems that affect most people besides minor to moderate muscle soreness/fatigue which mostly comes from the training itself. The only exception for me being my neck, especially from "sleeping wrong", which makes me think I should actually do some of the exercises that actually train your neck...
Again, I'm not knocking individual folks for their specific issues, but I feel like a lot of "normal" folks' problem is that they're just weak from years of being sedentary and a good general fix for that is just a bit of strength and cardio training.
To me that's a good thing because that means for most folks there is a fairly simple albeit not necessarily "easy" solution. I find problems I have the ability to directly fix are best.
I agree, a lot of these "injuries" are just neglect of your body and bad posture that build up a debt in your body over time.
I used to be really fit until I get a desk job. I recenly bought some kettle bells to get back into shape.
I actually keep a velcro wrap in the backpack I take everywhere because between decades of being a dancer, soccer player, and a roller derby skater and the injuries I had doing those things, coupled with my age, it's eminently possible for me to just 'step wrong' and have to wrap up an ankle.
I feel this. I can make my ankle audibly crunch on command by rotating it the right way
My ankles, wrists, and shoulders have done that as long as i remember
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I hope yβall are 80 cause Iβm 40βs and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days itβs so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of "I'm 30 and basically invalid" repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.
It only takes a few years of inactivity and overeating for your body to become a total wreck. There's nothing stopping 30-year-olds from doing it.
I'm still active in my 40's and I have a bunch of nagging sports injuries, some of which trace back 20+ years. Overuse injuries are common, too. Ask pretty much any serious runner or lifter or full time athlete, and they'll all have things that they just live with.
48yo alpinist who climbs 5.12+ here. I'm constantly injured. If you're not doing regular training for injury prevention it will come back to bite you in your 50's or 60's and you will not have the framework to navigate the injury without further fitness loss and a downward spiral of capabilities.
The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I'm working on regaining some movement, though.
You got this bro.
...fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn't quite what it was twenty years ago...
...fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge...
As someone in my 30s I've been told that by folks in their 40s and 50s about hitting the 30s and so far besides a reduction in the ability to not get a hangover I'm not really seeing it.. I can't speak from experience so far but part of me wonders if that's not just folks projecting their own specific issues onto those younger than them.
I'm not casting shade on you specifically, I don't know your specific circumstances, it just makes me wonder how much of this is age vs how long folks have gone without exercise and have begun to atrophy. Kids play and run a lot so one could assume they're probably more fi than we are even if they're weaker and slower than us due to their size.
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I have a toddler, and when he cuts himself or skins his knee, I'm pretty sure I can see the healing happening when you look close.
Man I opened a window in September 24 that unexpectedly was a bit harder to open. When turning my hand, a pain went though my wrist. Since then my wrist is fucked up, it hurts a lot. I have been to the doctor, doing physiotherapy, wearing an orthosis etc.
I opened a window and destroyed my wrist, it sucks to be old.
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