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every nightmare is a caged bird...

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avacyn - 30 - they/them - white

this is a friendly little post to say: if you find that doing stretches for wrist/shoulders/back/whatever either 1) don't help or 2) seem to make your pain worse, then please stop doing the stretches. the answer here is not to keep doing them becuase if you push through the pain eventually it'll get better, right?

listen to me. listen. stretches never did anything for me and at age 25 i learned i had hEDS, which meant 1) most stretches would never help me 2) depending on the stretch, could hurt me, so please. if they aren't helping. please do not keep doing them hoping that they will "eventually" help.

look into whether or not you have a hypermobility disorder or EDS or smth, great resource here: www.ehlers-danlos.com

Also, fun thing I learned in PT very recently: Just because it sort of feels good while you’re doing it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s helping. Muscles have stretch receptors and will temporarily stop hurting when stretched.

If the stretch was beneficial, it will actually produce lasting improvement. (Lasting like an hour or a few hours, at which point you need more movement.) If the reduction in pain disappears like a minute after you stop, the stretch didn’t actually improve things.

oh, useful addition! thank you

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"i cant wait to get home from work so i can do all that stuff i wanted to do"

when i get home from work:

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happy Zelda day y'all. Here's the dragons I drew from BotW some years ago because I basically always loved Zelda's dragon designs.

Monika:

  • She's iconic. She fakes a game crash. She loves the player, not the character. She calls you by your username. She makes fun of dating sim tropes and is wrong about them.She makes a translation joke. She tells you where on your computer her file is. She literally talks about breaking the fourth wall.

Dora:

  • I feel like I'm legally required to submit her

just so you know (not taking sides, just staring awe-eyed at a bunch of statistics) Monika is one of the top two most submitted characters of this bracket and Dora was submitted only twice. That's a 1/8 ratio and I feel like I'm seeing a badly rated horse just zoom past the champions