need a place to vent...

[BuddhaBuell]

Dragsville LeFox, I know you are rather competitive in Martial Arts and have a excellent skills set, a transition to BJJ may make it easier on your knees and allow you to compete.
If its a new art for you altogether I easily see you looking at it as a challenge to develope your skills so that you are able to compete again.

As a strength & conditioning trainer myself I know how it is to be able to demonstrate to clients/students what you expect and it is a great feeling to lead by example.

I hope you can continue to teach with the aid of some senior BB's. Your passion and love of the arts and competeing is evident and it would be a shame to lose a teacher such as yourself.


I have lived with chronic pain for the last 15 years.
I have a partially hyrniated disc in my lower sacrium that can and has caused me to be immobile for days at a time on the floor, (seriously not able to move due to back spasms).
Not being a fan of western medicine I don't take painkillers and usually deal with it by using the most important muscle when I train...the brain!

oh and I self medicate with pot!

 

[Stevenc150]

Sorry to hear it Lefox. Losing one of your passions would've been bad enough - but to hear of both - major bad news.

 

[matt4068xb]

i've known people that went both ways with knee replacements, 1 got them done as or after they should have been done, had good results, but i don't think he remembers what a good knee is supposed to feel like(had both replaced.) and i've known two people to get them done prior to causing bad pain and discomfort; one had good results, the other had bad results to the point he had a second operation. I think a lot of it deals with who is doing the replacement and their track history so to speak.

good luck bro, i'll be waiting for that day to come for me...

 

[hula Buell]

No no no!!!! This is 2010.There are answers

 

[FOURTYGRIT]

Rest, Ice, and elevate between rides and workouts. And I don't know your history, but you may be able to find a orthopod to do a hemiarthroplasty rather than a total. Unless you have really bad osteoarthritis or something. Rest, ice, and elevate after every workout/ride and tylenol and ibuprofen combined for pain/swelling reduction. Hang in there man...You still have options.

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