Some kind of injury
Monday, July 12th, 2010 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaOkay, not sure what happened, but a muscle on my back, along my left shoulderblade, is hurting a lot. (It was my right yesterday, and then shifted to my left after I started babying my right).
It was probably something innocuous like I slept at a wrong angle, or something. It doesn't feel critical? permanent? But it's been hurting hard enough/for long enough that I am putting lots of thought into not aggravating it further.
Moving my arm at certain angles causes pain, but less so if I'm really slow and really careful. Lying down is a constant pain. Trying to go from lying down to standing up *hurts*. Sitting to standing is easy, though, and standing straight feels much better than slouching. Breathing too deeply causes it to twinge, probably because of the stretch (if I concentrate and breathe with my diaphragm, which I am trying to do, it's perfectly okay). Massaging the sore part makes it hurt less temporarily, but the hurt comes back on its own.
Is there any way to tell whether the massage is a good idea, or whether it could be hurting me longer term somehow? And is there any way to tell whether I'd be better off trying to move those muscles slowly and carefully over the course of the day, to keep them loose (it causes short term pain, but feels less painful long term, but I don't know if it might cause damage somehow), or else to keep that part as still as possible to avoid any further injury?
It was probably something innocuous like I slept at a wrong angle, or something. It doesn't feel critical? permanent? But it's been hurting hard enough/for long enough that I am putting lots of thought into not aggravating it further.
Moving my arm at certain angles causes pain, but less so if I'm really slow and really careful. Lying down is a constant pain. Trying to go from lying down to standing up *hurts*. Sitting to standing is easy, though, and standing straight feels much better than slouching. Breathing too deeply causes it to twinge, probably because of the stretch (if I concentrate and breathe with my diaphragm, which I am trying to do, it's perfectly okay). Massaging the sore part makes it hurt less temporarily, but the hurt comes back on its own.
Is there any way to tell whether the massage is a good idea, or whether it could be hurting me longer term somehow? And is there any way to tell whether I'd be better off trying to move those muscles slowly and carefully over the course of the day, to keep them loose (it causes short term pain, but feels less painful long term, but I don't know if it might cause damage somehow), or else to keep that part as still as possible to avoid any further injury?
