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Am going to have to limit my participation on Surly, as it appears the macular degeneration is advancing to a level where I find it very difficult to read anything even with my 3x readers and a magnif

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Pics of mom?

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Here's the worst though.  I'm sixty six, still working, still running ten (or twelve) minute miles as long as I want.  Good health, good shape. Happily married for forty-three years to the nicest, cut

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13 hours ago, SurlyORama said:

A client of my brother (who owns a gym) had a knee replacement called a "Jiffy Knee". Avoids cutting through a lot of the muscles and tendons of a "traditional" replacement (the pic attached is him, you can see the incision is more to the side than the ones I'm used to seeing). He was walking with a cane and almost no apparent pain the day after the surgery. Played golf two weeks later. 

He was a former CEO for an insurance company you've heard of, so I tend to think this wasn't some fly-by-night experimental surgery.

If I ever need a knee replaced, I know I'll at least look into it.

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Wow, is that a full replacement or partial? 

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On 3/9/2024 at 8:56 AM, troph said:

Yeah I don’t totally follow your instructions but I’ve been using these…

 

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foam roller on my calf to work out knots. The band to stretch my calf. 
 

I get a sports massage 2x a month and stretch the fuck out of my legs from my hips all the way down to my big toe. She hits all the pressure points. It’s not a resort style massage at all. 
 

I’m getting there. 
 

* to be fair, my heel is now like 95% okay for ordinary life, it’s playing singles tennis like I’m 30 that’s hard. 

This is a tough one to remember right after waking up, but before you get up out of bed, do the "The Thinker" stretch.  You know, this guy:

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Scoot out on the edge of the bed, get your feet up under you as far as you can wth your heels flat on the ground, and hold an easy, steady stratch (not painful, no bouncing) for about 30 seconds before you stand up.  Helps gently undo some of the overhealing that happens overnight.  Also, tennis balls or aerosol can (or even better, a frozen water bottle) under your desk, where you can slip off the shoe and give yourself a massage, and towel curls - spread a towel out on the floor directly in front if you, and bunch it up under your arch over and over until it's all under your foot, then spread it back out and do it again.

Sometimes the old school remedies just work.  

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1 minute ago, SurlyGator said:

This is a tough one to remember right after waking up, but before you get up out of bed, do the "The Thinker" stretch.  You know, this guy:

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Scoot out on the edge of the bed, get your feet up under you as far as you can wth your heels flat on the ground, and hold an easy, steady stratch (not painful, no bouncing) for about 30 seconds before you stand up.  Helps gently undo some of the overhealing that happens overnight.  Also, tennis balls or aerosol can (or even better, a frozen water bottle) under your desk, where you can slip off the shoe and give yourself a massage, and towel curls - spread a towel out on the floor directly in front if you, and bunch it up under your arch over and over until it's all under your foot, then spread it back out and do it again.

Sometimes the old school remedies just work.  

I often roll a frozen water bottle under my foot. Thinker pose I’ll have to add that. 

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5 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Just got treated for Dupetryn’s, again. My hand will be out of commission for a bit, and yeah, it’s the one I “use” if you catch my drift

Dupuytren's may also be associated with drinking alcohol

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Working out and picked up a new injury. Gettin old sucks 

ended up at the dr office.  And they gave me a shot in my ass and some pills for the road. 

plantar fasciitis… the fuck is this and why does it hurt more when I dont move and try to rest it. 
 

 

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I hate this thread so much.  I got into a fight with my 14yo son Friday night.  Nothing malicous, just a sparring fight.  I pulled my punches but he didn't.  I think I have a broken rib.  

 

I was getting tired, so I worked him into the fence.  He didn't like being cornered.    He was so happy to get out of that corner, he didn't realize I was working him toward the pool.  PUSH!  SPLASH!

My ribs hurt.

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5 hours ago, RPM said:

Rotator cuff repair, detached bicep and various other muscles/tendons. It was basically hanging on by the skin.

Yep, my complete reverse shoulder replacement was rescheduled for this coming Friday,  March 29th. All of that

detached muscle bulkshit. et al. Was finally diagnosed with degenerative joint disease,  so I get to look forward to hip and knee replacements in the future also. Ain't getting older just a fucking blast?

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My wife turned 65 last year and got on Medicare. She's been having back problems (inherited from her dad) and pain in her hips. She made an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon who took Medicare patients. He took x-rays of her hips and told her she was bone on bone in her hips and that she needed double hip replacement. When she ask him about options, he told her there were none and to come schedule an appointment when the pain became unbearable. He refused to talk to her about her back and said she needed to make another appointment. I told her that was BS and she needed to get a second opinion. She saw my surgeon who took an MRI. The surgeon said her hips were fine with no problems. She once worked in a surgeons office and could see there was nothing wrong with them. She had 2 bulging disc and arthritis in her back. No surgery needed, just pain management and exercise. 

How can two professionals be so far off in their diagnosis? I'm convinced the first one really didn't care and went in with a preconceived notion based on her age and insurance. I'd like to raise hell but she just wants to forget about it. It just pisses me off that he wouldn't listen to her, blew her off and said when it starts hurting to much, come back and we'll cut. 

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Thinking about you,@SHOOTER12.  Please give us an update when you can.

Holy crap got home ans wife refused to do ANYTHING to help me out and and the pain is nearly unbearable.  Would not help with sling wouldn't set up I e water system NOTHING.  So I'm trying to do things without hurting myself 

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Man, what did you do to piss her off that bad? I had to post-op solo and it was rough af, but it can be done. Percocet and the water cooler are your friends. I used frozen water bottles. 

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33 minutes ago, RPM said:

Man, what did you do to piss her off that bad? I had to post-op solo and it was rough af, but it can be done. Percocet and the water cooler are your friends. I used frozen water bottles. 

I don't know, I think she has been getting mentally ill for months if not a year and she has finally slit off the dark end. And I am in a bad place right now period are pastor other people in the church have noticed it before I did and told me there was a know, but of course, I was too much in love to see it.  Can't miss it now

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Just got treated for Dupetryn’s, again. My hand will be out of commission for a bit, and yeah, it’s the one I “use” if you catch my drift

What did your treatment entail? I’ve got pretty bad knots on the little and ring finger tendons of both hands. Haven’t consulted a specialist for it yet, just consider them ribbed, for my pleasure.
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2 hours ago, davidg said:


What did your treatment entail? I’ve got pretty bad knots on the little and ring finger tendons of both hands. Haven’t consulted a specialist for it yet, just consider them ribbed, for my pleasure.

This is my 2nd round.  First time was in 2019.  

I have a terrific hand doc.   He did the Xiaflex injection.  So, he did the fairly painful injection in several locations in the hand.  The hand turned black, formed big nasty blisters, etc.  It was a mess.  A few days later, you go in, he numbs the hand, and then manually "snaps" the fingers back in place.   After that, it's several rounds of occupational therapy. 

When he did it, he told me "see you in a few years".   

It came back, but not nearly as severe.  This time, it was just the pinky, but it was bent pretty severely.   He offered to do surgery, but said it was strictly my choice, so I opted for the injection again.  This time, when he did the snap, he also did a "needle cut" on one particularly nasty band of fascia.  

I haven't started therapy yet, but my hand is drastically improved.  This round was much better than the first.  One of the big problems with the first was that my skin had tightened in the claw shape, so when the fingers were straightened, it tore the flesh and I had nasty open wounds. 

Also, this time he waited 5 days between injection and manipulation.   He said that FDA guidelines still say 2-3 days, but he went to a conference in Toronto, and other docs were reporting better outcomes with a longer wait, so he's doing 5 now. 

The doc told me that this condition is usually found in men (by a large percentage) in their late 40's and older, and almost always of Northern European extraction.   

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