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What basic or everyday thing did you recently find out you were doing wrong? (programming.dev)
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[–] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Walking in general. Physical therapy both sucks super hard and is vastly improving my life. I've had a decades long back injury caused by a dog attack, but I've apparently been walking in a way that guards a wound not entirely there.

Thank you PT.

FUCK you PT.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Thank you PT.

    FUCK you PT.

    Oh god yes, this. I hate it so much. I'm so glad I've gone. Gotta go back as soon as I can afford to get some help with upper back tightness. Fuck the list of 8 new exercises I'm going to get, hate, and find magically fix my prooblem.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    In the meantime between getting back to physio, try a cheap TENS unit. I found a lot of relief by slowly over the course of a few days applying 30 mins of electroshock to my lower back when it acts up. When I was going to physio, besides the exercises they gave I would get 20 mins of TENS therapy. I figured I could save time and money by just doing the shocking myself as well as my morning stretches.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    I have a couple of them. I wish I was better at placing the electrodes. So many positions do basically nothing, or just sting the skin, but when I get them set up right, holy shit is it magic.

    Need to order in some replacement gel for the pads, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    It helps a lot to have another person place them for you.

    I find that if I feel the muscle that is causing pain and put a pad on either end of that muscle group then another pad across it in an X shape then I usually get the muscles isolated.

    It rarely fixes it in one day. I find if I'm at about 70% of how I normally feel then on day two I wake up feeling 75% normal then 85% on day three and back to normal on day four. People thinking it is instant usually are discouraged in continuing but sticking to it for days in a row is more successful.

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