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Accidental Therapy
Last night I kind of got tangled in myself and fell in my living room. I managed to avoid smashing my face open on the metal frame of the coffee table by pushing away from the floor with my right arm -- not quite straightarming it -- and I felt something rip along my lower ribs.
This is actually a good thing. The sore spot corresponds to a patch of muscle that has been locked immobile since the radiation treatment 3 years ago, and the force of the fall seems to have broken it loose. It was kind of weird: I could feel the surrounding muscles stretching and contracting to absorb the shock of the fall, while that patch just sort of exploded.
I just did a little yoga this morning and had equal range of motion for spinal twists on both sides for the first time in ages. Not a lot of range of motion because of the overweight, but there was no more pain or stiffness on one side than the other. This is wonderful.
There is another stiff place up near the collar bone, but I can attack that with yoga and free weights now that the second anchor point is gone. I can already feel that the strain patterns are different.
The second spot is in a place where a massage therapist can make better progress, too. I wish Marty had not left town. I should find another massage therapist.
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