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Happy birthday foxy! Have a fab day at the racino! x
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Hi!
These are the 4 exercises I give for ankle sprains / weak ankles:
Roxy is right, walking on tip-toes is good for strengthening ankles, just make sure you kep your weight over your big toes, and don’t let your ankles roll outwards.
Do you have a strap on weight? If so, put it on your foot, lay on your bed on your side, with the lump on your ankle (your lat malleolus) facing up to the ceiling. Now, without moving your leg, try to turn your foot so the sole of your foot is pointing to the ceiling, and hold this for 10 seconds. I usually repeat this at least 10 times, three a day.
Walking barefoot on soft sand is an amazing exercise to strengthen ankles and foot arches.
Standing up, try to lift the outside borders of your feet off the ground.
Hope these help. If you do them every day you should show an improvement within 6 weeks.
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They’re called fasiculations. They’re fast twitching in a muscle, usually caused by dehydration or fatigue. 99.9% are totally harmless, but they can sometimes indicate (let me thing about this and not get myself muddled…..!) lower motor neurone conditions (I think thats the right way round, clonus is UMN) but that is VERY unlikely!! plus you wouldn’t be able to pole if it was a LMN issue! I get them in my eyelid when i’m dehydrated https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif
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Hey Foxy!
Big sympathies because the same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. I have been on the pill for a few years, and ended up having to have a course of antibiotics so didn’t take the pill cos it wouldn’t have worked anyway. I missed my period (despite having all the signs it was coming, moody, cramps etc), and was really freaking out thinking I could be preggers (although not as freaked out as my BF was!). Took a pregnancy test which was negative, and I ended up getting my period a month late, but was sooooo glad to see the damned thing! I’d also had some tummy problems and the doc thought it might have been to do with that, stress and my poor diet (I stopped eating because of the tummy prob).
Try not to panic, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re preggo and stress will only make it come later, its like one of lifes cruelties! Hope you get it soon!
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oooh love this topic! Got some ideas, thanks!
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Oh also for muscle tears I usually use a guideline of 4-6 weeks (healing time) depending on how fit you are as to when you can start to load the muscle again, but always tell people to beware because scar tissue is a LOT weaker than normal muscle tissue, and has no elasticity so its vulnerable to damage x
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Yes, that would definitely be a mechanism of injury. People using axilla crutches (armpit crutches) often complain of nervy pain as they put their weight on them through their armpits and get compression. The other thing to consider is that when you get a muscle tear etc, part of the healing process is swelling (even if its not visible to the naked eye) which can also put pressure on a nerve. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif
I can only offer advice, but I would certainly ice and rest it. I’d avoid work in the position where the nerve is on its greatest stretch (arm up above your head with your palm turned up to the ceiling). I’d also do gentle stretches with the painful area to avoid excess scarring during the healing phase (as again this can put pressure on a nerve).
As far as weakness from your ulnar nerve injury goes, when it happened were you told what grade the injury was? I have an old ulnar nerve injury from an op on my arm, and I certainly have an underlying weakness. The way you can test this is by getting a set weight, and exercising the muscle it innervates to fatigue (counting the number of reps to achieve this) and then doing the same on your good side and comparing the number of reps. If the differ, the lower number is the weaker side.
The other thing I would say is that some people are just predisposed to having more exposed nerves in certain areas, which you will never be able to get rid of. As you’re slim, it may be that your nerves are fairly close to your skin and more at risk. I know I can’t do elbow grips because I get my ulnar nerve problems when I do this because it seems to be the one move that mine is most vulnerable to! Just my personal opinion, but I would avoid armpit grips altogether.
Hope any of this ramble helps (and that it makes sense!)
P.s. over here you can go privately to a physiotherapist, will they not let you do that in the states??
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Veena that history you’ve just given makes it sound like brachial plexus compression! numbness, pins and needles, burning and tingling are usually associated with nerves… I’m surprised your doc sent you away, i’d def get a second opinion! Poor you, thats rubbish! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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Ok so this is probably bit off topic as I don’t work out as such… never liked the gym! But I do do lots of activities that are good for building upper body strength. Probably the most beneficial upper body ones I do are surfing, which is a massive upper body builder (you can substitute this for vigorous swimming if you can’t get to the sea)! And rock climbing if you have a climbing wall near you its fab for building your upper body (you’re lifting your whole bodyweight!) x
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Your SIJ are the joints between your sacrum and pelvic bones (its the one that gets loose during preganancy ready for childbirth).SIJ dysfunction is where the ligaments that support the joint and keep it congruent are stretched or lax so the joint moves more than it should. Oddly it seems to be quite common in young lads. I’ve also found that mine was popping badly when I first started pole-ing. I’ve started doing core stability strengthening exercises using a therapy ball (at work!) to stabilise mine (as your core muscles help protect these joints) and i’ve found its improved as i’ve got stronger. There are loads of these exercises on the net if you look up ‘core stability exercises’. x
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Wow, you are SO lucky you didn’t come worse off in that crash! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_surprised.gif I work in a hospital and have seen people come out of far smaller crashes having horrendous injuries! I’m sure you’ll be amazing at pole-dancing, you’re obviously very strong and determined to come away from a crash like that and try something so challenging! x
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Whoops! Thanks for that! much appreciated! Ha ha its our little pole den, its just the barn in my house! x
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Hiya!
It sounds like you rhomboids (obviously can’t say that for sure without looking at your shoulders!). They work to pull your shoulderblades back, and so are crucial in inverting… However you need to make sure the pain isn’t coming from your back. No numbness, shooting pain, pin’s n needles?
If you’re getting pain in your rhomboids, it may mean that you’ve overdone it and torn the muscle a bit, or you are putting more stress on them than they can cope with. It sounds like you need to strengthen these up a bit. I just had a look and found some good pics of strengthening exercises for rhomboids. If you did choose to do them you’d need to tailor the weights for yourself.
http://www.physioadvisor.com.au/8292950/rhomboids-strengthening-exercises-physioadvisor.htm
(this is only advice!) Hope they feel better soon x
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Make sure you warm up really well, and stretch your stomach before you invert. You can do this by laying on your front on the floor, and pushing your chest up with your hands until you feel a stretch on your tummy. Also in standing you can put your hands on your hips and rotate your trunk to look 90 degrees to help stretch your obliques. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_sunny.gif
If you wear heels most of the time it might be that you tendo-achilles is shortening slightly. I would make sure you wear flat shoes as much as possible when not at work, and again stretch it out before you start. You can stretch your plantarflexors (muscles that point your foot downwards) by standing facing a wall, approx a foot away with your hands on the wall at shoulder level. Then lower your body towards the wall as if doing a wall press-up, if you ensure you keep your legs straight you should feel a stretch in your calves… if not you need to put your feet further away from the wall.
As far as prevention of cramps goes, you can use stretches, and heat (a hot water bottle for specific areas, or a bath for generalised stretching) on the area before stretching. Massage to a cramped area also can help (I use this a lot on my rugby players as they often get cramps in their calves if they haven’t warmed up well enough).
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Handstands are fab! Try doing a handstand against a wall, then shift your hips around to change your centre of balance, you will have to tense various shoulder muscles to maintain your balance. Scapula setting exercises (you can find these on the net) will help stabilise your shoulders. If you have a big exercise ball, a fab shoulder stabilising one is to lay on top of it on your front, put your hands on the ground, then walk forwards so the ball is under your knees and you have your weight over your hands (don’t let your lower back drop!). Then build it up by taking one hand off the ground and balance. Rotator cuff exercises. Press-ups. Tricep dips. Exercises to work your uppers traps are also essential as they support your shoulderblade.
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Rouge is right, you should go get that checked out.
Stay off your pole until you know what it is! Normal muscle ache from overuse doesn’t usually manifest as shooting pain. Acute sharp pain may be from a muscle tear if its in a specific spot. I would go for an x-ray, to rule out a stress or compression fracture. Right in the centre of your radius and ulna, you have a band of connective tissue that connects the two called your interosseous membrane, it may be that if you’ve been doing a lot of arm weightbearing exercises that you’ve strained it.
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Hi caramel!
I have nerve damage in my left arm also, the result of an op to pin & plate it after a bad break. I often get a lot of pain in it, it knocks my arm out for about 5 days at a time and is agony, so I really feel for you! My main tactic is to avoid things I know aggravate it (elbow grips are a no no for me!), so if it was rubbing it that aggravated it, avoid doing that!
There isn’t a lot you can do to speed up the ‘healing’, and you can’t get rid of nerve damage. I deal with mine by treating the pain symptoms. I use ice as mine often swells, use gentle massage on the sore area and take painkillers.
Once its ‘healed’ I would do some gentle massage (featherlight touch) on it each day to try to desensitise it. You can use traction for nerve compression, but yours doesn’t sound joint related. Sometimes TENs machines can be used to help the pain and you can now get them in some chemists, however they are expensive and tend to be used for chronic (long term) nerve pain.
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ha ha awesome! Why’d you give up?? I’m petrified of getting man shoulders with the pole-ing too lol https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif apologies…. I’ve gone off on a tangent!
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This thread id fab!
I’m 22, been poleing for 1 yr. I’m 5’6 and about 52kgs. I was told aged 6 by my dance teacher that I wasn’t graceful enough to be a ballerina https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif so went and did gymnastics / trampolining / diving so I could throw myself round instead of being graceful! All of these sports ceased due to my accident-proneness (dislocated knee, torn ACL, broken nose, broken arm etc etc), now I surf lots, pole lots and play rugby (thats a recent one…. I’m waiting for my next injury! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif )
Not sure why I decided to learn to pole…. I think it was a bit of a rebellion thing, my dad thought I was mental lol. Now my whole family (including dad and brothers) play on my poles and they are so competitive its hillarious! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif -
Hiya! Forearm pain could be any number of things. If you totally relax your forearm, and then bend your wrist forwards and backwards using your OTHER hand, does it still hurt? does it hurt if you turn your forearm from palm up to palm down and vice versa? Is it sharp and on certain movements? Or constant and achy? Does the pain run the whole length of your arm or is it just concentrated in a specific area? If you squeeze a tennis ball with your wrist straight does it hurt then? If you give some more specific details about it, it might give us more of an idea of what might help https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_question.gif
That vid veena posted is excellent for strengthening the wrist flexors and extensors, another important group to strengthen especially when beginning poleing is the pronators and supinators (which turn your hand from palm up to palm down) and are used a lot when doing spins. You can find these exercises on the net. x -
Aww bless you, poor thing, that sounds rubbish! I hope it clears up soon! It does sound like it could be TMJ, but see your doc to rule out other things like dislocation. I would see your doc to get some painkillers, if you have pain or injury around a joint the muscles around it often go into spasm to protect it, if you can get rid of the pain it might facilitate the relaxation.
A heat pack over the joint may also help relax it, plus gentle massage. Calcium plays a big part in muscle fibre contraction, it causes the muscle fibres to contract not relax. Its sometimes used in ICU to increase the contractility of cardiac muscle… I would ask your doc before taking any calcium rich things as it could theoretically have the opposite effect to relaxing the muscle?
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When strengthening your shoulders you want to strengthen your rotator cuff muscles (supraspinatus etc) as well as the larger muscles you use for lifting (i.e. deltoid, biceps etc). When doing spins on a pole the torsion works your rotator cuff muscles to stabilise your whole shoulder girdle so these are important to strengthen too. You can find various R-C exercises if you type it into google, however to relate them to poleing, practicing various spins is also good for strengthening them. Its very easy to get fixed on strengthening the larger muscle groups as these are easier to achieve, however it is the smaller groups that will give you more control over a movement.
Also don’t forget to strengthen your upper traps, as these help support the top of your back, shoulder and neck.
Make sure when you do any strengthening (i.e.lifing yourself) exercise on your pole, that you control it on the way up and the way down, most injuries in sport occur on this ‘down’ phase where people lose control.
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This girl is amazingly strong, she totally rocks. I saw this vid a while ago, thought it looked like a fun thing to try until I nearly faceplanted! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_lol.gif I love the twisted grip to brass onkey she does too, its such a pretty move!
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yay well done han! Your plank and crucifix look fab! can’t wait to see the vid https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif x
