x marks the spot
Aug. 20th, 2004 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonBeing bored at work once again, I thought I would do some research on what causes calf muscle pain. I found this page on calf muscle strain--that little circle on the muscle diagram is exactly where my leg hurts. Other sites discussing this condition mentioned some bruising being seen with calf muscle injuries, which I also had when this injury was newer. My theory of having overstretched my muscle and torn it looks like a pretty good theory. I've been using one of those 3/4 circle wedge footrest things that are sold at running stores for stretching calf muscles and hamstrings, but the more I read, the more it seems like I couldn't have done anything worse for my calf muscles. Strange how the stretches could feel so good at the time.
The good thing is that this type of injury does heal, and I know what to do for it because it's not that different from what I'm already doing for my foot. The bad thing is that the rest part of RICE is just not going to happen. I know that there's never going to be a good time to slow things down, but really, right now is a bad time. At the end of this month there's a workshop with the brilliant dancer Amir Thaleb from Argentina, a troupe performance on Sept. 11, I start two classes per week Sept. 13, another workshop in early October with Sa'Diyya, a possible trip to a competition in NJ in November, probable performance in ZaBeth's xmas hafli, a manray thing in January, a cabaret at some point--and more will come up, I know it will.
I should pay attention to the fact that my calf muscle twitched somewhat violently as I wrote that last paragraph. But I think this kind of thing--constant pain and injury, that is--might be inevitable, judging from stuff I've heard and read from other dancers and people in more athletic pursuits. Suffer for your art, I guess. But I do wish bodies would just work the way they were supposed to, or that perhaps you could inject some extra-strengthening stuff into your muscle fibers. Or nanobots!! Yeah, that's what I need, little nanobots traveling around in my bloodstream and fixing the stuff that needs fixin'. Where's my silver nanobot, baby?
The good thing is that this type of injury does heal, and I know what to do for it because it's not that different from what I'm already doing for my foot. The bad thing is that the rest part of RICE is just not going to happen. I know that there's never going to be a good time to slow things down, but really, right now is a bad time. At the end of this month there's a workshop with the brilliant dancer Amir Thaleb from Argentina, a troupe performance on Sept. 11, I start two classes per week Sept. 13, another workshop in early October with Sa'Diyya, a possible trip to a competition in NJ in November, probable performance in ZaBeth's xmas hafli, a manray thing in January, a cabaret at some point--and more will come up, I know it will.
I should pay attention to the fact that my calf muscle twitched somewhat violently as I wrote that last paragraph. But I think this kind of thing--constant pain and injury, that is--might be inevitable, judging from stuff I've heard and read from other dancers and people in more athletic pursuits. Suffer for your art, I guess. But I do wish bodies would just work the way they were supposed to, or that perhaps you could inject some extra-strengthening stuff into your muscle fibers. Or nanobots!! Yeah, that's what I need, little nanobots traveling around in my bloodstream and fixing the stuff that needs fixin'. Where's my silver nanobot, baby?
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Date: 2004-08-20 02:17 pm (UTC)http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/rec/stretching/stretching_toc.html
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