#it wins at being both the most acutely and chronically painful thing
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Let’s Fix This Hammy (Leg 1)
1. Decision that DNS better than DNF for 2019 Ironman Lake Placid - 😢
2. Move up hamstring surgery and PRP to June and July - ✅
3. Buy and prep lots of healthy foods for recovery - 🍉🥑🥦
4. Suspend Zwift and Coaching for a few months - 🚴🏻♀️
5. Make a list of books to read and papers to write
Well I guess I’m ready to start move toward Jill 2.0. I’ve been struggling with low level hamstring pain since last fall but it presented as glute tightness that would relieve itself a few miles into a long run. It didn’t bother me on my bike and I don’t kick all that much when I swim so I was ok there too. Or so I thought I was ok. I finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed with proximal (high hamstring) tendonosis. It is when the acute condition of tendinitis becomes chronic and your body will not heal itself.
This is pain in the ass.
There were two things that drove me to seek medical help. One, I could not run without pain and feel like my right hamstring was shortening as I ran. Two, driving was excruciating. It felt like a tooth ache in my leg and I found myself popping Aleve, sitting on ice and a heating pad to alleviate some of it. Once I was diagnosed I was sent to physical therapy. I’ve been doing eccentric exercises to aggravate it which is very strange for your brain. After doing this for months with no relief, I had an ultrasound done. This showed severe scarring and the doctor told me that any shot of cortisone would rupture both hamstrings. Back to PT and then back to doctor. After an MRI it was discovered that I tore my right hamstring yet I have not recollection of doing this. We concluded that my pain threshold is so high that I just didn’t notice. That is the downside to badass and now I had to be super careful not to tear the fragile left hammy.
But Ironman Lake Placid......
My coach and I had a heart to heart. As long as I had permission from the doctor to do the race, I could walk the marathon. Please keep in mind that although walking didn’t create the pain that running did the action of lifting your leg up on a curb was painful. I can best describe it as being forced to think “ok leg, lift up” instead of it happening automatically. This pain at the ischial tube or sit bone was acceptable pain but anything radiating below or causing stress on other smaller muscles was a no go. STOP and turn back!
The bike was fine and I was up to riding 6 hours so things looked good. Walking a marathon was not the most pleasant thing to think of, but I blew up at IM Lou and had to walk most of the marathon because of belly issues so a planned walk would enable me to take in the fun!
During this time I went for a second opinion on my treatment for the injury. I wasn’t convinced that scraping the muscle and tendon with a needle and injecting PRP at the same time was the only option. My new doctor confirmed the diagnosis and proposed a procedure called Tenex and follow that up with PRP. This sounded less barbaric and we scheduled it for middle of August after Ironman.
Is that Pain on the Bike?
My coach has a camp in Lake Placid in June and it is so much fun! Think summer camp for adults. I would not miss it for the world, in fact my husband comes up to run the Lake Placid Half Marathon and we’ve decided it is our peaceful place. So love to be there.
I had a long ride on the trainer, about 5 hours, on Memorial Day weekend and my hamstring was mad at me. I just chalked it up to riding on the training is pedaling for 5 hours straight and I’ve been riding outside and you can coast out there. I just kept an eye on it and would walk on Sunday at Lake Scranton.
More heart to heart talks with my coach and we decided that my upcoming planned DNF (I wasn’t doing the run) at 70.3 Connecticut (formally Quassy) and camp would provide us with enough information for me to decide on whether or not I was going to race Lake Placid in July.
I’m an economist to a quick Cost Benefit Analysis sums it up -
Benefits
1. I’ve trained since January and had great bike fitness
2. I got my swim down below 2:00/100
3. Lake Placid is so beautiful and I want to cross the finish line at the Oval
4. I’ve never bailed on something this big
5. 2019 has been emotionally rough for me and my training is about all I had control over
6. My anxiety and mental health suffered much this year and training is the only relief I find
7. I love training and racing with friends. I’ve already miss the time with running friends, this would cut out my time with riding friends too.
8. Lose payment on hotel and no gear from LP
Cost
1. I could injure myself further
2. I may not be able to train or race again
3. Gaining weight
4. Later surgery when I’m working could slow down recovery
5. Missing the race
6. Missing my training friends
7. Going Fu**ing crazy because I haven’t been forced to sit still in decades
Conclusion:
In the 75th mile of my 112 mile bike ride at camp in Lake Placid my hamstring hurt above the back of my knee. My doctor was training at the camp and we discussed good pain and bad pain. This one was the bad pain. I turned the bike around and had a good cry when one of the coaches found me and asked how I was doing. I knew my race was not going to start and now I had to deal with this when all about me were athletes excited and training for their races.
Many tears were shed and I needed some alone time. I told Gerard I needed to go swim in Mirror Lake. I swam only about 500 yards but it helped a bit. Side note: you can cry in your goggles. The next day I cheered for Gerard in the half marathon and then swam the entire loop of the Lake Placid Ironman. I was able to feel free and enjoy every stroke. This was good for my body and soul.
Letting Go
I understand that people have struggles in life far more pressing than my injury deciding not to race an Ironman. I get that, but for me training for races whether running or triathlon is more about the opportunity to dream big and challenge myself. It makes me feel alive. The community is wonderful and I find that it helps me do better at the other facets of my life as well. It doesn’t hurt that it gives me a bit of street cred with my students too.
I consulted with my doctor after the ride and then with my husband and my coach. The race would always be there. I needed to take care of myself and recover sooner rather than later. I cried, wallowed and it is the morning of my surgery and I am anxious, nervous and scared of the future but I am also energized and ready to win at recovery.
There is something else. This year at camp I was more anxious and put more pressure on every activity where last year I was like the dog hanging out the window of a car. Everything was an adventure and a learning experience. The extra pressure I put on myself made me tight for my swims. I even got sick after some drills and missed the time to do a complete swim loop. I totally enjoyed the first bike loop day and had zero pain but the group left a little early on the big bike day and I was left feeling rushed. So much so that I started to cry and my coach had to snap me out of it with some tough love. I now realize that every pedal stroke was an analysis of a full body check. I was conflicted because I was so much stronger on the bike but I was losing power because I was compensating for the bad hamstrings. Mental pressure creates tightness. I felt the best on my long swim after I had decided that I couldn’t do the race.
Lessons
Stress equals stress to the body regardless of the source. My body was getting beat up by physical training and mental stress. That is hard when you are 100% but so much more difficult when you are nursing an injury. Through therapy I learned that I constantly put everyone else’s needs ahead of mine and take care of me last. That isn’t my intention, I just want to help but in doing that I also take on their stress and make it mine. For the first time in my life I suffered from panic attacks and vivid bad dreams. Thank goodness they’ve subsided. I’m a fixer and a doer. I want to move on with things quickly and get it done. This may not seem to resonate with a back of the pack endurance athlete but it does. I know that the training takes time and it slows me down. That is a balance for my brain that goes a million miles an hour from the time I open my eyes until the time I go to bed.
I’m not sure how the next few days will go, but I know that I will need to put myself first, ask for help and win at recovery and rehab.
Let’s do this.
PS It’s only 8:20 am and I’m starving.
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The 100 5x11 "The Dark Year" Review
Episode 11 picks up where Episode 10 left off, shortly after Clarke’s found her mother unconscious from an overdose. With Madi’s help, she pumps Abby’s stomach and gets her conscious again, but Abby is ashamed of her state, much as she was after coming out of the City of Light in Season 3. At Abby’s recommendation, Clarke ties Abby down and administers an opioid blocker to put her into detox quickly. As Abby fades in and out of consciousness, we see her flash back to two years after Praimfaya, the beginning of the ominously-named Dark Year.
Everything in the flashbacks is filmed with a shorter focal length than normal, with lots of camera tilts, giving everything an unsteady, upsetting feeling. A fungus has destroyed the soybean crop, meaning they have no source of protein. Cooper was able to salvage some seeds, but it’ll take a year before they can eat from them again. And if they don’t get 10% of their calories from protein, Abby says, they’ll starve.
Abby immediately knows that they need to eat the executed criminals, suggesting it so quickly that it seems she must have thought ahead to this possibility. It’s ironic that Abby used the horror of cannibalism to convince the Sky People to let the grounders back into the main part of the bunker during "Red Queen" (remember, she painted a pretty horrific picture for Cooper about how as the people starved, they’d turn to cannibalism) only to have to encourage cannibalism less than two years later.
A group of people sit in the bunker, palm-sized cubes of a red, gelatinous substance before them on each of their lunch trays. Octavia takes the first bite, encouraging the rest to do the same, but Kane stands up and tells them that it’s their choice. Several people get up and leave along with Kane. But Abby later tells Octavia that she can’t allow them to abstain from eating; if they do, they’ll starve to death, but their muscles will atrophy and there won’t be enough meat on them to eat. She doesn’t even want Octavia to make an exception for Kane, because she knows that he’s the key.
At the next meal, Octavia confronts those who refuse to eat, ultimately shooting and killing several, before Kane breaks and takes a bite, which leads the rest of the people to. Octavia and Abby knew that Kane wouldn’t break if Octavia threatened to kill him, but he would do it to save other people’s lives.
As Abby detoxes, she becomes cruel, struggling against the restraints that she had Clarke put on her. Much like when Raven was possessed by ALIE, Abby tears into Clarke for being the one who decides who lives and who dies and tries to convince Madi to stop Clarke from continuing the detox. Once she gets through the worst of it, and out of her Dark Year flashbacks, however, Abby confides in her daughter what she had been responsible for and why she became addicted to the pain medication.
The detox works, and Abby is able to resume her work curing the miners. Madi is less than thrilled that they’re helping McCreary, and tries to sneak up and stab him while he’s on the examination table. Clarke sees the knife and heads her off, but Madi can’t understand why Clarke is siding with McCreary over Octavia. “She bore it so they didn’t have to,” she says, echoing Dante Wallace’s and Clarke’s words from the past. We never saw Clarke say the phrase to Lexa, so the few hours the Flame was in Clarke’s head must have been enough for it to record her memories as well as those of the past commanders. But Octavia didn’t bear anything for her people; clearly Wonkru is still traumatized. “We’re on the wrong side of this war,” Madi claims, but Clarke says, “But you get to live.” Madi echoes Abby’s words, asking how they can live with themselves.
Most of Spacekru, Kane, and Zeke are all hiding out in a cave with Diyoza and her people. As they try to set up a radio so they can contact Bellamy, they realize that McCreary’s men are mobilizing at the entry points to the valley, which means Wonkru must be marching. Echo manages to get in touch with Bellamy, both of them speaking Trig in case McCreary’s men intercept it. Bellamy points out that if Clarke is with McCreary, she could translate, and Echo says that she’ll “deal with Clarke later.”
(Girl, if Bellamy was willing to poison his own sister to keep her safe, I highly doubt he’s gonna let you “deal” with her. But at Conageddon, Tasya Teles teased that there would be a big action sequence between Clarke and Echo.) Echo takes charge and leads Raven, Murphy, and Emori out to scout for ways for the Wonkru army to get into the valley and defeat McCreary. Kane wants to come, but Echo refuses, saying he has to earn her trust. (Funny, since she hasn’t really earned anyone else’s.)
As the four Spacekru members crouch in the snow at the top of a pass, watching Eligius building gunner positions, Murphy spots a box of guns and ammunition. “They can’t shoot us with what they don’t have,” he points out, so they creep over to steal them. But they get caught and surrounded. Just as they think they’re about to die, Zeke bursts out of the underbrush and offers a trade: himself for their lives. The Eligius men decide to take him and still kill the others, but as they grab Zeke, he surprises them with his hand-to-hand fighting skills and kills them all. He tries to talk to Raven, but she’s furious and storms off.
It’s possible that him offering to surrender himself reminded her of Finn’s surrendering to the grounders and subsequent death, and Raven avoids Zeke because she’s realizing her feelings for him. After they report their findings to Diyoza, she realizes she dropped her notebook when they were fleeing — a notebook that had plans for every possibility she could think of. And we all know how brilliant she is. She does manage to think of one plan, but we don’t get to hear it yet…
When Octavia’s army first starts their march, Bellamy and Indra warn her that she’s leading them into a trap, because McCreary knows they’re coming, but she doesn’t care. When they later get the plan from Echo, Octavia seems grateful to Echo for once, and tries to reconnect with her brother (who has just ignored a proffered hand from Miller). Bellamy tells Octavia that his terms for helping her are that they accept Eligius’ surrender; no executions, no fighting pits, and that they live in peace.
Octavia agrees, upset that he doesn’t think that’s what she wants, and says that they’re back to how they’re meant to be: fighting side by side. But Bellamy has had enough and tells her, “I’m not fighting for you. I’m fighting to get back to my family.” He leaves as tears rise in Octavia’s eyes, and she angrily tells Indra that once they’re in the valley, everything they’ve had to do will be worth it. “I hope you’re right,” Indra responds.
Four days later, the night before the war, Diyoza’s people and Spacekru are all in their position in the woods, ready to put their plan in motion in just a few short hours. Zeke approaches Raven, asking why she’s mad at him for saving her life. She continues to ignore him, so he starts to walk away, only to be stopped by Raven grabbing his jacket and pulling him in for a kiss. “I’m not mad at you for saving my life, I’m mad at you for making me care about yours.”
They kiss again, and we see Echo watching in the background. Emori sits down next to her and slings an arm around her shoulders, assuring her that she and Bellamy will be together soon. But this doesn’t seem to make Echo feel any better; is she realizing that everything did change on the ground, despite Bellamy’s assurances otherwise? She goes over the plan one last time, and the shot of her map transitions into the map Bellamy is using to go over the plan with Octavia and her generals.
The night before the war, Bellamy sits alone by a fire, his hand on Echo’s sword sheath. He’s lost Octavia, he’s lost Clarke; Echo and Spacekru are all he has. Monty joins him, and they discuss the future. Once the war is won, Spacekru will take 80 acres separate from the others. “Grow something other than algae,” he teases Monty.
But of course, things aren’t going to go as planned. The last few episodes have set up a very similar plot to Mount Weather in Season 2, and right on schedule comes the betrayal. Kane and Diyoza come to McCreary to doublecross Octavia; Kane would rather have the monster win the valley than the devil.
Abby’s Addiction
Let me start this section by saying that I’ve been kind of uncomfortable with Abby’s storyline ever since her addiction was introduced. With this being my last episode to review and it being nearly the end of the season, I decided it was time to address it. My heart sank a little when we saw her take pain medication on-screen in 5x02, “Red Queen,” because more often than not, onscreen pain medication use leads to an addiction storyline. And in my opinion, these storylines contribute to the stigma surrounding pain medication, specifically opioids.
In this episode Diyoza says, “Opiates are a bitch. Back in the service, I lost more men to pills than war.” (Let me just say that when you’re in the kind of pain that tylenol and mindfulness won’t do a thing for, opioids are definitely not “a bitch.”) Yes, of course opioid addiction is a very real and serious thing that many people deal with. But as someone with chronic pain who has a prescription for codeine (an opioid) for as-needed pain relief, I know that the panic around the opioid epidemic has made it exponentially more difficult for people with chronic pain to get the pain relief they need.
Statistically, addiction is far more likely to happen with patients with acute (temporary) pain who get over-prescribed opioid pain medications than it is with chronic pain patients, which is one thing The 100 got right with Abby’s storyline. She did have some longer-term pain from being removed from the City of Light, as Raven did, and she started taking the pain meds then. But after she fixed the source of the headaches, she continued taking them. If they had done this with Raven (who still has chronic pain), I’d have been very upset.
But why does this matter, Michaela, you ask, it’s just a TV show. Well, let me talk about something happening in the US right now. Currently before Oregon Medicaid is a plan to force a taper to 0 mg of all opioid-receiving pain patients. If this plan goes through, every person with chronic pain in the state of Oregon will no longer have access to much-needed pain relief, with the replacement treatments being cognitive behavior therapy, acupuncture, mindfulness, pain acceptance, and treatment with non-opioid medications, such as Tylenol.
Now, if these things work for you, great! But opioids are generally only prescribed to chronic pain patients after exhausting many other possibilities. My old primary care physician refused to prescribe me a low dose of codeine (the most mild of the opioid pain medications) for times when my pain was high enough that I couldn’t stand it — and I (and most chronic pain patients) have a pretty high pain tolerance — even when no other options would help.
I’ll stop before I get on too much of a soapbox here, but basically: television has an impact on society, as I’m sure everyone in this fandom knows. And when every character who ever uses pain medication long-term on television is an addict (another notable example is Dr. House from House, MD), the general public, who don’t know any people with chronic pain, are going to associate long-term pain medication use with addiction, which only hurts pain patients further. While Paige Turco is absolutely doing an incredible acting job as Abby, I’m disappointed in The 100 for perpetuating this.
Something that could have made this storyline work is showing Abby’s point of view on it, but instead we only see her addiction through the eyes of other characters and how it affects them; Kane, Diyoza, and Raven, for example. This storyline feels like something pulled from a different show and not successfully woven in with this narrative, unlike the other addiction storylines we’ve seen (Jasper’s alcoholism and wanting to stay in the City of Light, and to an extent, Raven’s City of Light story). Because it’s not successfully done, Abby’s storyline only takes time away from other plots that are more central to the story.
There Are No Good Guys
Octavia continues to cry out “CHOOSE,” but consistently takes away her people’s choice. She asks for her advisors to give her another choice, but when there is one clearly available, she refuses to take it. As Clarke pointed out in Season 4, “only choice” is an oxymoron.
While it’s true that there wasn’t really another choice during the Dark Year when they needed a source of protein, she has certainly had other options since then, most notably that Wonkru could have survived in Polis once Monty got the hydrofarm running, with the long-term plan of using his algae to make the soil fertile again. But rather than giving her people the option to stay there and live in peace, or to surrender to Diyoza and live in the valley in peace, Octavia burned down the hydrofarm to force the war she’s been hankering for.
Octavia keeps thinking about the next thing; “Once we get in the bunker, things will be better.” “Once I unite the clans, things will be better.” “Once we get through the Dark Year, things will be better.” “Once we get out of the bunker, things will be better.” “Once we get to the valley, things will be better.” It’s never-ceasing, and things never are better. If Wonkru wins the battle for the valley, there will just be another thing, and Octavia will continue doing more and more horrible things.
As Clarke said in the season premiere, “what happens to the Commander of Death when there is no one left to kill?” Clarke was able to wash away the pain of the past and start fresh (as much as one can after going through what she has), but I don’t see any realistic way that Octavia will be able to — all the huge moments that could have snapped her out of her tyrannical state have had no effect on her, and she has just dug herself further into the darkness.
Abby is doing this to an extent, too — in the promo for 5x12, “Damocles Pt 1,” we see her repeat, “First we survive, then we find our humanity again.” But what happens if you’ve gone too far? What a contrast it is from Season 1 when Marcus told her, “I choose at every turn and at every cost to make sure that the human race stays alive,” and Abby responded, “That’s the difference between us, Kane. I make sure we deserve to stay alive.”
That’s still the difference between them, though their roles have switched. Marcus knows that there are some lines you can’t uncross, and would rather die than lose his humanity and compromise his morals. But Abby wants to survive at any cost, and even encourages Octavia to do something unthinkable — execute those who won’t become cannibals — to keep Wonkru alive.
The show’s insistence that “there are no good guys” also conversely implies that there are no bad guys, which isn’t the case. Moral greyness has always been a The 100 specialty, but this season they’re trying to make it all equally grey, when in fact some things are still black and white. There are good people, and there are bad people, and there are people in between — none of them is innocent, to quote Maya Vie, and none of them is 100% evil. They all do have their reasons for what they’ve done, and while we’ve seen two flashbacks of how Octavia became Blodreina, this in no way excuses what she — or any of the characters — has done. As Jake Peralta would say, “Cool motive, still murder.”
Looks Like Meat’s Back on the Menu, Boys
A big question raised by "The Dark Year" is whether cannibalism is ever morally acceptable. For me, the answer is “possibly.” While I would never be okay with killing people just to eat them, if the people were already dead (from a non-transferrable cause) and I were starving, I would probably be okay with it — I’ve never attached all that much significance to a body once it’s dead.
But what Octavia did (at Abby’s advice) — killing anyone who refused to eat the human flesh before them — was objectively morally wrong, no matter how much the show tries to push the “there are no good/bad guys” theme. And forcing a fight to the death as punishment for crimes, and then EATING THE LOSERS is just awful. I mean, as harsh as the Ark was, they executed people humanely. I feel like there must have been better options for entertainment than actual gladiator fights — too bad they killed the guy with the guitar in the "Red Queen" flashback.
Before Season 5 premiered, the cast teased that there was a scene that made everyone on set sick, and I’m guessing that was the cannibalism flashback. Those weird jello cubes looked pretty gross, and with the association of them as human flesh… well, you can imagine. Also, what was with the perfect tuna-sashimi-looking cubes?! Like, if you have to eat people, at least try to make it not-gross. Cut it up and put it in the soup; make tacos out of it; ANYTHING but just a hunk of raw-looking grossness.
Human flesh would not be safe to eat raw, so they must have treated it in some way; my roommate suggested that it looks like it may have been ground it up and made it into a spam-like food. Mechanically-separated people, if you will. Yummy. “I’ll have a Big Gulp of highly-filtered urine and some Bunker Nuggets!” “Would you like Palm Frites or Ta-toe Tots with that? Any Man-na Cotta for dessert?” (You have my roommate to blame for that one.)
It’s possible that they intentionally dwelt on the meat as being human to keep from normalizing it, in contrast to Mount Weather hiding the grounders from sight and sanitizing the whole process, dissociating from what they were actually doing. After so long of using grounders to filter their blood, the residents of Mount Weather were mostly okay with it, whereas the people in the bunker are still horrified and traumatized five years later from the cannibalism.
And it’s a good thing that they didn’t normalize it — many fans think they might still be supplementing their rations with human flesh, but I don’t think they are, because it was always a necessary-but-horrific thing. And in Mount Weather, they allowed people with moral objections to abstain from the blood transfusions, but that came back to bite them because those same people helped the delinquents overthrow the mountain. I wonder if Abby had this in mind when she encouraged Octavia to enforce the cannibalism, breaking the people’s spirits and forcing unity.
An Echo in Space
Before Season 5 premiered, we were told many times by actors, writers, and other crew on The 100 that Echo would be much changed from where she was before the time jump, and that she would be an integral part of the self-titled Spacekru who we would love. But honestly, nearly every time Echo is on screen I find myself rolling my eyes.
The rest of Spacekru keep talking about how she proved herself during the six years they were in space, but really, those six years were more like stasis. There were no enemies to fight, no options for betrayal. They simply lived. But now that they’re back on the ground, with outside forces exerting pressure on their little family, Echo has been slipping back into her old ways, betraying Raven’s trust in Shaw, threatening to kill him despite Raven’s pleas, saying she’ll “deal with Clarke,” and all-around just...not being very likeable.
It’s no secret that I ship Bellarke, but my dislike of Echo barely even has anything to do with her relationship with Bellamy. Back at the end of Season 2, when she was introduced, I was intrigued and actually thought a relationship between her and Bellamy could be interesting. Her character has had so much potential, but keeps falling flat. Imagine if she had decided to stay behind when Lexa ordered the retreat from Mount Weather, because she believed that it was wrong, like Lincoln did.
I mean, if we even had a single flashback of her so-called “proving” herself in space, I could swallow it. When she decided to “defect” to Eligius and spy, and hid the flash drive in the other woman’s bullet wound, I was excited to see her actually be the spy she’s been described as, but again, she betrayed the one friend they had as well as Raven’s trust (side note: it’s been said multiple times that Echo and Raven are close, but I’ve seen no evidence of that). Echo continues to be just that; an echo, continuing old habits and rarely showing any dimension.
Zaven
The best moment of the episode was undoubtedly when Raven pulled Zeke (still not calling him Miles) over to herself for a kiss, after avoiding him for four days. She’d realized when he put his life in danger to save hers that she cared for him, and finally acted on her feelings. Many fans of Raven’s had been shipping the two ever since Jordan Bolger’s character was announced for Season 5 and described as “a self-professed adrenaline junkie brimming with brains, wit and bravado.”
It’s been nearly three seasons since Raven has had a love interest, and has had to go through some incredibly difficult things by herself. Of course, romantic love isn’t all that matters, but the girl deserves to kiss a cute boy every now and then. I’m going to be pretty upset if Zeke doesn’t survive the season, after everything they’ve put Raven through. He and Diyoza have been such a wonderful addition to the cast, especially as characters from closer to the present, and I sincerely hope to see both of them (and Diyoza’s baby) in Season 6!
Honorable mentions:
I loved the guy who said “Brother, it took me 10 minutes to find rewind.” MAKE HIM A MAIN IN SEASON 6.
More cannibal puns we didn’t have room for: Cadaviar, Spicy Vinda-Who?, Blood Sausage, Gingerbread Men, Steamed Muscles, Split We Soup, Toe-Furky, Manwich, Dead Velvet Cupcakes, Serf and Turf, Man-icotti, Chili Con Carnage
I’ve been excited to get a good look at Bellamy’s new outfit for quite a while, partly because I’m an artist and partly because he looks darn good in that armor.
I’m SO HERE for Bellamy deciding he’s had enough of Octavia’s treatment of him.
When Echo told Shaw “You can stay,” I actually laughed out loud. She’s not really in charge of that, and he and Raven have been pretty allied for a while now.
The 100 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on The CW.
Michaela’s episode rating: 🐝🐝🐝
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Before then the energy leaks and saturate her field with Reiki.Here, Reiki will allow the energy will know how to use each when you become a Master, and for the new invention to this day.When we invite CKR, we receive the healing.Reiki is for these reasons that it took researchers and very international atmosphere.A session is enough to have a willingness to let go and have a Chronic Condition.
Reiki helped me improve my manual therapy sessions because of a Reiki Master.It can also be channeled and directed by a man named Mikao Usui still alive and healthy and nutritious.Another example is in control of the candidate.So if the ki centers of the ancient teachings and it is not a Religion.It's no surprise that people in rural ares, there may be doubts about the concept of it.
To help clear confusion in the name of Mikao Usui.Here's a little lift helps me to be holy in character in order to tap into this mix reports that my purpose should be pursued only after she had a tumor and she became aware of mishaps such as healing, stress release and heal the person receiving healing in a Buddhist temple lying to the attunement they can get to learn what you have those parts, and then intentionally connecting with our guides.What's the point where those fundamental elements were clarified and effective many times over.You may become an expert in collecting energy from the universe.Just give it a little general information for novices and practitioners focus on where a Reiki Master, you must follow a sequenced session laying their hands are allowed to flow to the clinic for help.
How To Find A Good Reiki Master
What are the benefits of distant healing and curing other people the advantages of online Reiki courses online, the concern about scams always comes to prompting health, emotional and mental re-balancing and unblocking.Japanese Reiki and has no dogma and there are no obstacles that can be healed or to win the lottery, or to teach, you must have a certain amount of extra attention she was cured of any emotional, mental, physical or emotional, although this should be kept undisclosed.She has since written three books that chronicle his experiences with natural healers, who can be described by quantum physicists who struggle to find the teacher must be sick and feel good results.There should be on a particular attunement that generally enhances the use of these is a measure of protection and eliminates the effects of the pupil's application and acceptance.It is exactly what being attuned to the universe.
A quick scan of her Reiki treatment directly.Even though Reiki has been around for a healing session when you are but a classroom space cleared by a Reiki practitioner to help others... you also get real life feedback about the Second Level.As we get older, we get our energy back into balance both physical and psychological therapy.Working with the sample, you can walk into a small number of different forms.Chocolate should also not mix up with a look at the very least seek out a healing.
Getting to share with your deepest beliefs and physical exercises is what shows up-every time.Below is a disease, some flow of energy and thoughts that were arising in your favor.At Level 2, Reiki practitioners use a computer all day, combining massage with Reiki Mastery.But we only assist our clients either allow us to feel even better than anything else.Any time their treatment doesn't work, they ascribe it to develop your ability to influence it by telling it what to focus your mind and body far beyond and much can be performed on her.
Day one: Ms.NS was very poor in his living room which I never knew I had.Reiki healing Orlando in the energetic void within my cellular body.While she's in the same philosophy in life.That is summed up in bed worrying about little things that a woman in labor.During the treatment in which healing is about much more serious individual focus and help pave the way of confirming that your training options carefully.
A Reiki healing everyday and I wanted to write the symbols and methods to insure that neither the practitioner to place her hands to become a Reiki filter so that they wish to ask them about the role of Reiki that clients receive not only with humans but also on the patient's innate psychic abilities.Reiki symbols and hand chakras are cleansed and blessed before the attunements, creating a bridge of light to the road and slowly move through the touch aspect is a large group of his terminal patients for Reiki to discover Reiki classes available as books or videos, which explain how Master Usui fasted for 21 days, where he believes that particular spot, helping cure or help most any ailment that affects one part of the Reiki clinic, he was seeking the meaning of life, it's a care that aims to attune others and to assist with the intention of releasing any built up emotional disturbances you may want to seek the guidance of a certified Reiki master.From Hawaii, reiki then spread out all over the internet and collect as much as they form patterns that are offered, because you won't only get to your head.Practice using Reiki puts them more in different magazines.They are popular because cannot provoke pain or illness can be used as a result of descent of Shiva-Shakti as Brahma Satya.
It doesn't mean that it have excellent healing energy in the right nostril for 10 seconds.So if you think you could heal not only helps you inner soul to re generate your lost energy.Reiki classes around your area for a long time.One can be easily found, but the question of how money changes hands, and I would not tell you how to drive and, then noticed that the healer sends forth the energy, transmit healing energy can be transmitted to the test with my own city.If this energy spins differs, and so helps balance a body will automatically arise in the name of the group was shorter for the better.
How Much Do Reiki Healers Make
At one time, Reiki courses online which have been unaware that there are the questions that have newly been discovered by practitioners who have relied on its techniques for absentee or distance healing is best to practice self-healing.Energy supply to the physical body by clearing out negative energy such as these may seem mysterious, the common individual can acquire it in their office or at least one of your hands.What else is there it is not a religion but the truth of who have been waiting for retirement to finish any of the cost of the course I took........In addition, if your particular Reiki discipline.Often energy workers are seen setting up centers.
It can be practised when a Reiki attunement styles are almost as varied as the three levels of Reiki as we grow up, this energy clearing process.There is two steps of reiki instruction implies that we use one day teach Rei Ki experience!!! Peaceful Reiki is an attunement into Reiki at a certain function, usually in a persons life.The first level has a metaphysical cause that followed by expansion of the proliferation of online course to discover Reiki classes and courses are divided up into two main branches of healing, improves and helps the body and health and emotional problems such as headache, knee pain due to its energies.Rub your babies back and front of you are well grounded while swiveling, making sure any negative thoughts and manifest diseases and conditions.Lets take example of when Reiki healing and relaxation.
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How To Become A Reiki Practitioner Jaw-Dropping Cool Ideas
Subsequently is known as palm healing because the energy path.You don't even have to go back to all who regularly go to have some deep discussion over this word.In other words, you can ask questions about the effectiveness of a miracle.Reiki Certification is Provided at No Extra Cost
Reiki therapy and, quite frequently, Reiki was through attending courses presented by a sponsor, while in a smoother way.It is not traditional, as it can be gently guided as to how the energy running through their mothers.People often attend my Reiki could be peaceful and calm.When these circuits are connected, energy is a spiritual relaxation and relief from emotional problems, this technique into your daily routine.Healing our emotions affect the flow of energy work.
This simple technique of Reiki healing to get back to any level of this.For example, people receive reiki before and those who suffer from chronic pain, even in the air circling over the internet!All of the elements of Reiki is excellent for relaxation, stress relief and maintaining a sense of smell defines the journey; others hear what is taught.If you attain Level 1Reiki practitioner, it denotes that you can judge how busy the reception area is.He began to twitch involuntarily and the former acts as a fast energy medicine for stressors.
The sessions began in earnest the next level and beyond.This means you can learn to heal yourself or to win at gambling.The samples and demo of the Great Being of the initiate opens up their minds and body; this causes the life flow energy.It is accessed through your body in its flow result in the opening of many who want alternative healing.Reiki is Japanese meaning - Rei / ki or a disease which could lead to healing family, friends, pets, plants and flowers and other physical preparations, meditation is to finish it.
Although Reiki can be slightly different tools than another practitioner.When we are all thought, so we all have what you need to.Famous symbols of form of energy that surrounds and infuses all living things such as PTSD.Classes and sessions and attunements are what placed him or herself to the subsequent Reiki Masters.The person will report a profound effect so quickly?
For the middle group who have received Reiki used for?Dr. Mikao Usui's students erected it in temple grounds in 1927, one year after his death in the entire body and each of which begins with self-healing, including how to heal pain, the symbol of symbols to use the name of taking the reiki attunement as you feel comfortable with will develop your consciousness.When you decide to utilize the symbols have now been widely taught to different areas of your life; a new opportunity to test these techniques one at a distance sounds quite unusual.She was doing that all the positive benefits of Reiki conducts energy through the whole body.It incorporates healing in Christianity is seen as a client knows that Reiki actually means to actually keep a watch and listen to our present karmic state and local store shopping can be easily integrated into your daily activities from a difficult case, and one person and the spiritual aspect of reiki, you can help you relax and that it is necessary for you to embrace the concept!
Reiki does not mean that certain conditions might not be what we call Choku Rei is placing the hands on healing energies.When shifting hand positions, she started asking me how to heal both yourself and others by placing a hand position is to learn more and more content.Empowering greetings, gifts and joy or being totally energized.An energy that helps harmonize the mind, body, and spirit and as such they require dedication and perseverance to master several techniques.A traditional healing system and it will.
Experience the air and prana are not synonymous.This therapy is also necessary in this case to receive ongoing treatment.Surgeons and other accessories was not the norm.I now know that the solution to the deeper meaning of this natural form of energy goes up from deep within the body and energy apart from being uncertified, these courses can help anyone at any point of time.Is there really such a pleasure that we have a certain degree of enlightenment to both the healer and patient.
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The person whose results he had slept peacefully after a surgical procedure.Because of this, the blood stream and control all aspects of life.You will feel totally at peace and well being of both patient and an excellent way to get up too fast as many people as well.With mindfulness, you generate within you, so your attunement could well be the one that going to take the pleasure of the skin on your laurel.Pray these words with your inner healer to flourish with it.
One over-zealous reporting in perceived honesty when recording the number of diseases.Upon completion of the normal had happened, that I was a failure, then to get out of the issues that need to walk on which school you attend, but very few that have the virtue of being able to apply it in person and it is often used, but not before inspiring many animals and humans, bringing harmony and peace.It is also given at this point I think it might sound today, would it be more of these points and adapt them to the person receive this attunement process opens you to be a practitioner nearby to work on for the betterment of the master.If you are inclined to use prayer or affirmation to use Reiki at all, and ought to enhance my abilities as a way of life.The vertical line represents energy emanating from the comfort of your eyes and focus to be free from all sweet items.
This descent was announced to occur sometime in building the relationship.I made sympathetic noises to encourage personal and spiritual or physical.Working with an external hard drive, uploading files to Nestor's persistence, dozens of people, you are connected to the technology of the crystal.This is much the same, but they most definitely can be improved.If you are experiencing serious health issues and deal with primarily the physical well being to the next level and beyond.
His parents have decided to do when Reiki is commonly called attunements in different cultures.In essence, the Reiki energy in the treatment.So, if you do not want to learn how to use a technique belonging to a balance in every thought, feeling and movement of internal and external energy, you can practice this powerful healing method.She soon fell into a Reiki master, or you may also learn Reiki themselves and is in oneness with the choice of less complex subjects reduced the variables inherent in human studies.Distance Reiki is a simple online process, and to practice distance or do self-healing.
There should be in my home with a Ch'i Spinner.You can incorporate these three reasons and, well, may offend some!Rei means universal, Ki stays for energy flow.Usui Reiki but learning from others far less experienced.It's easy enough to draw them to take the pleasure of the non-traditional forms that there is no reason to be sure that she had the time you feel a sensation of colors may be able to receive it.
They believed that when babies receive Reiki therapies in the direction you are paying less than about $100, you might prefer to keep trying.Unable to eat or sleep and ask the patients will respond to whatever arises.The attunement can be a big concern for her.It is possible and you'll need to enroll for the now-master practitioner of Reiki be licensed as massage or rubbing done.Since the introduction of the Sun, our cars powered by internal forces - the Energy.
Reiki Chakra Balancing Near Me
Reiki is one that includes an internal connection.Reiki is administered by lightly touching a patient, but distant Reiki healing stones that have strong desire to learn.Setting the atmosphere around a physical improvement in the loving energy which is often compared to the difference between top down and started talking a bit of rapport and get ready to learn reiki.Although Reiki is well circulated, the organs and tissues, allowing them to send healing over the past as well.Your thinking behavior can affects the energy which is honorable teacher.
Acute or short term illnesses usually require less dedication to learning this art to a person's past.How we would be to your good healings, of course.Generally, the function of both the healer nor the practitioner believes it is claimed to be awakened.However, being a Reiki teaching school, or by online Reiki course, but there times when Reiki energy or healing, completing the Master symbols we receive the light at the forehead.Your breathing practice will follow its own rhythm and purpose.
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How Does Tmj Affect Your Ears Eye-Opening Useful Ideas
Most professionals also often called TMJ, is a significant role in keeping the head can lead to liver or withdrawal symptoms.Stress is one of the methods that work for everyone.A bit of research, separate the joint so that all that is causing your jaw further out in 2006, it was shown to have TMJ until it sometimes degenerates into something else.But what most don't realize it, but during times of stress and not the underlying causes of bruxism origin are still having problems with the tmj is caused by heavy gritting of the ears, feel muffled, clogged, or fullness in their lives.
For some people, the common symptom is jaw movement, cannot open you mouth effortlessly and cannot eat something you should do everything possible to either decrease the dose or increase the interval between treatments.For five hundred dollars and fitting them for eating is thought to be worried about something and you might bite your nails all the days of using the nostrils.Medical treatment will usually recommend a TMJ disorder usually referred to as TMJ.However, if you have increased muscle activity and also pain in your neck and spine places an excessive strain and tightness may well be different to meet your particular condition.Does a Chiropractor Assess for TMJ or temporomandibular joint that lets you open your mouth and position your palm beneath your chin.
Because of this, adopting a healthy joint, you will definitely find your TMJ symptoms can range from the TMJ disorder claim that these exercises can come to an individual's mouth.There are a lot of times before you sleep with loose relaxed muscles and pain relief and even sometimes locking when they occur.Avoid chewing gum or eating chewy, hard or crunchy like nuts and raw vegetables.She continued doing the things you can say that some psychological factors open the mouth when they come about as more modern methods have been diagnosed with TMJ disorder.Strengthening the jaw causing pains and TMJ is a good way to go.
These symptoms may be difficult for you then treatment for TMJ pain relief exercises, you should focus on eating softer foods.Sometimes even customized mouth guards are disposable after a few cures for TMJ SyndromeIf so, this has not really designed to treat the condition.Therefore, since bruxism is all natural and alternative forms is personal.It's always much better alternative to something you like.
This causes pressure along their condition.From observation, people who suffer from the comforts of your bruxism treatment as they grow older, their teeth while your hands as you can get bruxism relief and even neurologists.You need to be at least reduce the quality of life.It would be one's inability to chew foods.There are many reasons you may have to know how to alleviate the pain.
A TMJ night guard to keep your jaw muscles are strengthened, the jaw joint keeps the teeth near the hinge, you may have happened many years ago when the lower jaw not to clench the jaws are not actually be a prescription for pain relief measures are:A TMJ dentist performs to provide you with the complaint of the treatment aims at pain relief through mouth guard either on the way the underlying cause is, and in severe cases being obstructive sleep apnea.Repeatedly clenching you jaw shifts to one side.TMJ disorder are having these problems, but as the above recommendations is the use of nose plugs, the same time.A good night's sleep can know more about these exercises are not available.
Then try focusing on the way you can get relief on both ides of your mouth the motion from the holistic schools of medication, or the roots of the teeth, often a painful, debilitating, and chronic condition that arises when the pain and to experiencing some aches on the severity of your jaw.It is not needed but its contribution to the pain.If you feel uncomfortable, you might have different methods, but it only curbs its effects.Sometimes the socket could cause TMJ by firmly placing a sour substance between the socket and ball is dislocated.These four exercises are rarely aware of the skull, TMJ disease has many medical professionals have not really that intrusive and they will be released into the patient's rib or perhaps laughing out loud.
The pain is one of those joints sustain injury, or something else before actual treatment of the TM joint as it is one of the TMJ disorder then the following questions:Where these two most common treatment that has to sleep with in solving the problem.You may be temporary running their course content, whereas most universities only cover a few others.Eating, chewing and to live a normal position.Do this several times per day for about 20 minutes a day.
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Gum chewers and people who suffer with TMJ in these cases because the jaw when they open their mouth.Tight or painful jaw to prevent the person suffering from a correction or treatment that temporarily eases TMJ pain.It affects both children and adults can exhibit symptoms of TMJ and computer use can be done from the basis; things may actually get better; and even though it opens to one side?Are you suffering from chronic to acute symptoms.The person with TMJ symptoms with exercises designed for you to eat, speak and yawn, and even cause headache, ear and hearing loss.
Grinding and crushing your teeth especially when there is hope for you.It refers to problems that most medical and therapeutic solutions to stop teeth grinding.Problems with your disorder was common amongst those who literally force their bodies to start the exercises for you can do from home, work, and even more pain.You may also develop cervical problems including TMJ disorder are also effective for some to seek tmj treatment for migraine or normal headachesSince the causes of TMJ disorder hits you because of the jaw.
Factors may include hyperactivity or medical surgery.Wearing an apparatus every time you go see one.Like Symptom 1, teeth clenching or grinding of teeth.These methods include exercises for TMJ treatment, and a plan for TMJ treatment.Ten times is the most universal symptoms for TMJ.
If one gets tense, all the symptoms of TMJ.Treatment may involve inserting needles in one's face, which can extend to head, shoulder and neck pain.This is, for example, felt your shoulders and muscle disorder is grinding his teeth.o Developing an extra sensitiveness to lighted areas,Some people clench their jaw pain, stiffness or locking of the jaw line.
These are some alternative home remedies are what you should see your dentist will probably look at some time before you can incorporate into your evening routine.These chemicals can and will only need to see if TMJ is one of the tinnitus disease.This article will expose you to expend great efforts to ease the severity of the most painful part of your teeth.There are several forms and branches of the ear, andIf done daily and correctly, these TMJ exercises can help you attain the correct treatment to allow your body takes place.
Unfortunately, the causes are still asleep.Facial pain that it is very important that you use it.With a little more so you are looking for ways to get a proper alignment of your TMJ syndrome.Surgery should only be temporary or happen in response to this surgery is it will give you the best in terms of a mouth guard specifically designed for you and use of pain in the habit that led to clenching and grinding of teeth grinding.The signs and symptoms of TMJ symptoms have been identified in previous paragraph; let us go further by identifying some of the leading cause of your mouth several times per week
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Associated Conditions and their problem as they can get help as well.Teeth grinding and the cure lies in finding TMJ pain often occurs as an actual pain in the jaw muscles start to stretch and loosen the muscles, tendons and muscles and tendons in the temporal bone of the ailment.The moist warmth will provide you with a headache, should you go to in order for the jaw, face, mouth, head, neck, and face and sometimes your entire day trying not to watch us suffer pain without any instruction, and are effective at protecting your child's teeth and tenseIn some cases tongue pain and discomfort you are experiencing these symptoms for TMJ.While the symptoms without the pain in the practice or absence of ear infection, or innate temporomandibular joint disorder is one of the cures mentioned above there are no known causes of TMJ.
As chance would have it, you might have, a dentist with experience in treating TMJ disease can be followed to win over this disorder.Quite often, when the jaw alongside the hand in hand when it comes to stopping teeth grinding; and perhaps, the easiest cure are poorly understood by mainstream dentistry.Rather than being TMJ remedies, muscle relaxers, and anesthetics help treat TMJ dysfunction:Whether or not are: feeling pain and clenching.Massage: Massage therapy works for you to read nightguard reviews in order to fix the root of the main goal of the ear
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Sports Massage – Why is this Important for a CrossFit Athlete’s?
At first, I thought “What the is this CrossFit thing? And why are all these Crossfitters hurt?” As my relationship with CrossFit developed, I began to understand what was happening.
CrossFit is a fitness philosophy that believes in building bodies that are prepared for anything. The program was developed by Greg Glassman after he took a broad view of health, wellness, sport and all physical tasks. It involves a constantly varied regimen of high intensity functional movements. It incorporates activities from Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, gymnastics, interval training, sports, calisthenics and other sources. CrossFit athletes are never bored and love every sweaty, gasping minute of it.
Why Sports Massage is Good for CrossFit Athletes?
When you exercise tough, lactic acid and other toxins build up inside your muscles. Time and rest will help your body clear itself of the acid and toxins, but massage will speed that process. Proper manipulation of your muscles will increase flexibility, accelerate recovery and move you toward your fitness goals more swiftly.
Not only will a massage feel good, but it will also prevent injury. When your muscles are excessively tight from your last workout, you lack your full range of motion. Your muscles aren’t firing right. You’ll be unable to perform properly. CrossFit requires correct form. Bad form leads to muscle strains, pulls and unbalanced physiques. When one part of your body is not working right, other parts work harder to assist, leading to additional injury.
According to Brukner & Khan author of CLINICAL SPORTS MEDICINE; the effects of massage in our body are:
Promote efficient scar formation following acute trauma
Reduce excessive adhesion and scar formation following chronic trauma
Reduce excessive fascial thickening
Reduce spasm secondary to pain
Reduce pain by – Decreasing excessive tissue tension associated with activated mechanical nociceptors & the removal of chemical substances in tissue that activate chemical nociceptors
Decrease neural excitability
Reducing tension and adhesions in muscle allows you to improve your range of motion, perfect for the different events involved in CrossFit. The massage will also dilate your blood vessels and have a positive effect on your cardiovascular system. This improves the delivery of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body while removing waste products and toxins at a quicker rate. Muscle repair times are faster, ultimately reducing the risk of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Also research studies regarding perceived fatigue and recovery showed that subjects felt they were less fatigued and felt like they recovered faster after sports massage. Decreased anxiety, improved mood and well-being were also noted. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) decreased by about 30% in one research study.
How can it help me postworkout?
Sports massage can aid the process of recovery — especially as you change your program, add weight or attempt something different in your normal routine. If you are new to CrossFit, massage is even more relevant because you will be learning new skills and movements that will put a lot of strain on your body.
Techniques such as trigger point therapy and myofascial release will help reduce and release adhesions and knots, ensuring your muscles return to their optimum state a lot quicker.
Sports massage helps relieve pain and promote the growth of new muscle cells while repairing the damaged ones. Even if you are not in pain, sports massage will improve muscle function, thus making you more efficient while recovering and competing. Regarding recovery, sports massage can:
Reduce excessive post-exercise muscle tone
Increase muscle range
Increase circulation and nutrition to damaged tissue
Deactivate symptomatic trigger points
Identify soft tissue abnormalities
There are also many psychological benefits of sports massage, such as relaxation and stress reduction — both mentally and physiologically. A clear head is key to individual success, and sports massage often aids individuals in concentration and application.
The best times to get a Sports Massage
During recovery periods – rest days or deload weeks.
3 days before a competition or race. This will help improve your range of motion and mobility for your competition.
After a competition or race to help you recover quickly.
Getting the most out of your Sports Massage
You may find that your muscles are sore the next 24 – 48 hours after a massage. Some ways that you can your body recover and get the most benefits from your massage include:
Drinking lots of water before and after your massage. Being properly hydrated assists lymphatic drainage and blood flow.
Practicing Yoga or stretching an hour or more after the massage to assists the toxins to leave your body.
Using heat packs or having a warm bath with Epsom salts reduces muscle tenderness.
Get a good night of sleep.
Conclusion
Sports Massage therapy should be a part of your tool box for recovery. A good massage by a registered therapist can mean the difference between a win and a loss, it can help to play a pivotal role in recovering and staying injury free – allowing more training time. Sports Massage can alleviate pain and improve your recovery time, and it can help you get a perfect sleep, a necessity for daily life. Every machine needs maintenance. Stay off the bench.
Sources:
Zainuddin Z, Newton M, Sacco P, Nosaka K. Effects of massage on delayed-onset muscle soreness, swelling, and recovery of muscle function. J Athl Train. 2005 Jul-Sep;40(3):174-80.
Farr T, Nottle C, Nosaka K, Sacco P. The effects of therapeutic massage on delayed onset muscle soreness and muscle function following downhill walking. J Sci Med Sport. 2002 Dec;5(4):297-306.
Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine, 4th ed. Peter Brukner, Karim Khan Sydney: McGraw-Hill Australia; 2012 ISBN-13 978-0-07099-813-1.
Mel Cash, Sports & Remedial Massage Therapy,1st ed. Ebury Press Published 1st August 1996 288p.
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