I burn the inside of my mouth often. I can't help it if delicious food is also really, really hot.
Recurring and/or major injuries
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Wrist- I have very flexible joints so joint locks have no affect on me. Because of this my fellow Hapkido practitioners feel the need to use me as a crash test dummy for wrist locks. They don't hurt, but after five years of bending in unnatural directions, my wrist is starting to feel the strain.
Elbow- Slight pain if overextended, courtesy of a fellow martial artist who wanted to test my flexibility. A loud pop is generally a bad sign.
Shoulder- Completely self inflicted, I hit a punching bag at the wrong angle and strained a tendon. That was three years ago and it still pops and clicks. There is some pain there was well when I do shoulder presses.
Lower back- I pulled it when I was lifting a couch when I was 12. It has never fully recovered.
Hip- To be honest, I don't know how that happened. I think is was from a throw, but I don't remember injuring it. I woke up one morning and could barely walk. It only bothers me if I sit too long in a car or plane.
Elbow- Slight pain if overextended, courtesy of a fellow martial artist who wanted to test my flexibility. A loud pop is generally a bad sign.
Shoulder- Completely self inflicted, I hit a punching bag at the wrong angle and strained a tendon. That was three years ago and it still pops and clicks. There is some pain there was well when I do shoulder presses.
Lower back- I pulled it when I was lifting a couch when I was 12. It has never fully recovered.
Hip- To be honest, I don't know how that happened. I think is was from a throw, but I don't remember injuring it. I woke up one morning and could barely walk. It only bothers me if I sit too long in a car or plane.
i have 2 miss alined vertabre, one near my tail bone and one in my neck, it hurst like hell if i sleep wrong.
Years of track and cross country left my legs a little wobbly, so occasionally they'll just decide to stop working and I'll have to stumble around until I find a nice place to sit. (Years of track, cross country, and being STUPID. If I'd taken better care of myself I'd be fine.)
The worst thing for me is this sharp pain in my side that happens at unpredictable times. Usually it's not a huge deal, but if I happen to be running or lifting something heavy I end up having to spend the next several hours sitting perfectly still.
Also, this thread makes us sound like a bunch of wheezy old people. I can't help reading all the comments in nostalgic grandpa/grandma voices.
Now all you whipper-snappers get off my lawn.
The worst thing for me is this sharp pain in my side that happens at unpredictable times. Usually it's not a huge deal, but if I happen to be running or lifting something heavy I end up having to spend the next several hours sitting perfectly still.
Also, this thread makes us sound like a bunch of wheezy old people. I can't help reading all the comments in nostalgic grandpa/grandma voices.
Now all you whipper-snappers get off my lawn.
My shins are twisted slightly and my feet and knees don't align, which puts a lot of pressure on my knees when they bend, and my hip sockets don't work properly. It's usually not that bad -- I can run and bike and everything (although ski season can get a little exciting sometimes), but occasionally I'll sleep funny or something, and stepping wrong on my left leg makes it collapse out from under me.
Apparently they can fix my shins with surgery, but I'd be stuck in a wheelchair and would have to go to physical therapy for a couple of years to get my muscles back in place, and it doesn't bother me enough to want to deal with that.
Apparently they can fix my shins with surgery, but I'd be stuck in a wheelchair and would have to go to physical therapy for a couple of years to get my muscles back in place, and it doesn't bother me enough to want to deal with that.
At least once a month I wake up with a huge scrape on one of my arms, and no idea how it got there.
Let's see... The only major injury I ever suffered is when not one week after I got my drivers license, this guy in an SUV talking on his cell phone with music pumped up sped through a red light and crushed in the front, left side, and rear of my car. The SUV, being an oversize piece of shit, flipped a couple of times before landing in a ditch. It was like a scene from a horror movie when I finally stumbled out of my car: Flowery dress covered with blood, yellow hair turned red, blood dripping down my face and arms. I threw up, collapsed in front of an onlooking crowd, and the next thing I know my whole body is strapped inside of an ambulance with people yelling around me.
And what was awesome was that the dude who hit me was apparently a volunteer fire fighter, so the police believed his story without even asking for mine, the then sixteen year old girl who OBVIOUSLY was not a safe driver because of her age, and I got blamed for the whole thing when I did nothing wrong. The perks of living in a small backwards southern town with no cameras.
I was only on my way to enjoy a delicious, innocent chocolate milkshake to celebrate my new independence, too.
And what was awesome was that the dude who hit me was apparently a volunteer fire fighter, so the police believed his story without even asking for mine, the then sixteen year old girl who OBVIOUSLY was not a safe driver because of her age, and I got blamed for the whole thing when I did nothing wrong. The perks of living in a small backwards southern town with no cameras.
I was only on my way to enjoy a delicious, innocent chocolate milkshake to celebrate my new independence, too.
I've never had anything really serious, but I do have a couple of annoying niggles that bother me from time to time. My right are sometimes tightens up after a prolonged period of movement, which I blame on poor drumming technique and sitting too low at my desk for years. I've also dislocated most of my fingers while wicketkeeping, but frankly at this stage I'm used to it and it hasn't had any lasting effect on me whatsoever. I'm sure I'll be doing a whole lot more popping of fingers come April.