about overdoing it

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Yo, Hippies...

The posts on " overdoing it " got me to a realization that, for now,

may only apply to me...but eventually, who knows.

One of the responding posts touched on it: Look how long it took to

get into this condition...getting out won't be as quick as we'd

like. The injury that brings me to this point occurred more than

eight years ago. Since then, all the muscles and flexors have

been " fudging " and adjusting and compensating...to allow me to keep

playing handball (when I probably shouldn't have been...and to allow

me to walk...even if a bit oddly gaited. As I've thought about

the " overdoing it " exchanges, it occurred to me that there would be

at least two post-recovery processes going on...sometimes together,

but sometimes certainly indepedently. The joint itself and the bone

structures around have to heal; flexors and muscles that have

developed compensating muscle memories in the years since the

injury, will have to unlearn, relearn, reform and reshape.

Interesting, too, the comment about a " year " to full recovery. In

my experience of adding new aspects of muscle memory to my handball

game, I have found it takes about a year from the time I first start

working on a shot until it is a fully-integrated, unthought (if not

instinctive) part of my arsenal. Maybe I'm slower than most; Maybe

there's something there.

As a doc friend (and fellow handball player) once told me: The

biggest problem I have with patients is impatience.

Hobble on, hippies.

Alan