I was on the verge of getting discharged in a few weeks (might still be, but it's sort of ehhh now) and then my SI joint got jacked up again, and after my PT did some table work she had me get up and walk back and forth

And she was like hmm your trunk is not moving with the rest of your body enough as you walk, do some sets of threading the needle, maybe that stiffness is what's delaying progress on the lower bits

and I'm like. What. I thought I was just walking normal. How can you even TELL from just a few seconds of watching me walk (20 years of experience is how)

Like damn I came here because I had problem areas in the hip and glutes and I gotta spread the work all over.

She'll have me doing pinkie finger exercises next.

PTs are absolute wizards like that

I once was in a mental hospital... and not one but TWO of my fellow patients who were PTs told me how bad my posture was xD ... and probably still is tbh >>

They look at us and it's like those sci-fi movies where a robot is scanning someone and all this information appears from their POV

you should have a PT because you run and unironically that can be horrible on the body ffkshfks

moonfell: ur right, both my PT's current student assistant and a PT in my running club have talked about how we're harder to treat cuz we're dumb lol

MY PERSONAL TRAINER HAS BAD JOINTS AND SHIT and when i asked why he was like

"varsity soccer"

my joints are pretty great since a side benefit of slower longer runs is less stop-start and jolting impacts

buuuuuut the downside is if there's an imbalance due to muscle weakness, the more miles you do, the more your body has to compensate and that's how I got fucked up

the human body is wild

it's capable of so much and yet so incredibly fucked up

Bipedal walking upright was a mistake

everything about the way we walk and support ourselves is absolutely fucked up yes

^^^^

at least we aren't horses tho

thank god

I can think of an ant without dying of a terrified heart attack

plastic bags can exist in the same city as you without being terrifying

let's not get TOO carried away

oooooh jaina look ooooout

it's a plastic baaaaaaag

/shakes it