Nerf Herder
Wheel size expert
Heee heeee ... well come to my midlife crisis
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OMG I'm posting about Arthritis
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unitec
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Get a job
Anyone who has read "Unemployed Nerf tales" would know that you are having way too much fun for an old fella.
My suggestion is to stay off the bike for a few days & let your injuries heal.
Apart from having slower healing compared to our younger counterparts we also don't get bored as easily and are able to punish our bodies a lot more & do a lot more damage.
Apart from the usual cocktail of remedies desperately taken to try and keep us in the game (and that probably don't work) I grow comfrey in the back yard to speed up recovery.
Anyone who has read "Unemployed Nerf tales" would know that you are having way too much fun for an old fella.
My suggestion is to stay off the bike for a few days & let your injuries heal.
Apart from having slower healing compared to our younger counterparts we also don't get bored as easily and are able to punish our bodies a lot more & do a lot more damage.
Apart from the usual cocktail of remedies desperately taken to try and keep us in the game (and that probably don't work) I grow comfrey in the back yard to speed up recovery.
Nerf Herder
Wheel size expert
heee heeee ... there is a lot of precautions with that comfrey ... must be good.
Ta Dood
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Cumfre's great for broken bones, probably work for other things.
Where can you get a plant fro?
Opium is what you need, shouldbe able to find a smack dealer near your parts. Abuse is more important than with cumfey. Don't want the Nerf tales to become an anual.
Where can you get a plant fro?
Opium is what you need, shouldbe able to find a smack dealer near your parts. Abuse is more important than with cumfey. Don't want the Nerf tales to become an anual.
Norco Maniac
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comfrey is easy to get, just go to your local Bunnings and see if they stock plants from Renaissance Herbs. the plant needs about a square metre to itself, it gets big eventually.
best to mash a bit of root into a chux cloth and wrap it around the offending digit overnight - comfrey's other name is knitbone. oh and it's a brilliant compost accelerator and you can make a liquid fertiliser from it.
best to mash a bit of root into a chux cloth and wrap it around the offending digit overnight - comfrey's other name is knitbone. oh and it's a brilliant compost accelerator and you can make a liquid fertiliser from it.
Chuckie
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Al, I was recently diagnosed by a GP as having gout...cause of swelling pain in the ball of my feet. Problem is Gout goes away, where this just hangs about like an injury so I saw a podiatrist, who thinks it could be degenerative condition, osteo athritis. I have put my feet thru hell over my life with rugby and martial arts, and pretty sure DH doesnt help
so been taking fish oil, Glucosamine and Celery and have been pretty good for over 4 months now. Still not 100% but it meant I could go back to martial arts training and ride the bikes again
Get on it..
so been taking fish oil, Glucosamine and Celery and have been pretty good for over 4 months now. Still not 100% but it meant I could go back to martial arts training and ride the bikes again
Get on it..
Norco Maniac
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^^ Chuckie, might be worth looking into psoriatic arthritis as it's often mistaken for gout. a blood test can determine if you have it.
Nerf Herder
Wheel size expert
Thanks peeps... have been on the glucosamine and increased celery (increased as in,I actually eat it if its in front of me)... prolly for 3 weeks now ... the dull, yet constant pain is gone or reduced dramatically, recovery post ride is much faster ... (usually right next day) ... flexibility is good, but thats when I feel some tightness.
I'll get on the fish oils next time I restock on the supps ... but we semi regularly eat fish now so pretty happy with the improvement with just the glucosamine.
Ta for the tips ... and good luck with the feet Dood.
I'll get on the fish oils next time I restock on the supps ... but we semi regularly eat fish now so pretty happy with the improvement with just the glucosamine.
Ta for the tips ... and good luck with the feet Dood.
BM Epic
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Just face it big guy, your an old man!!!..you have hit too many trees over the years, i still got some good footage of you hitting the tree at knapsack, there is no hope for you old man!
Slowman
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Uncle Arthur in the knee or hip joints are the bad places. I've had it in my right hip for about 17 years. 16 years ago I took the decision to have a high femoral osteotomy to avoid a total hip replacement to buy some time and it did. Birmingham Hip Resurfacings came along (and now the latest is a hemicap).
So in 2005 I was ready for it but I wanted my leg straightened so I could get range of movment back. The bad news was that a BHR could not be tweaked to do this, so had to have a revision high femoral osteotomy and then wait for a good blood supply to re-establish and then proceed with the BHR. That has finally happened, the op was last Thursday.
Some interesting things happened along the way. I have been taking glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate for years now and found it worked well as an anti-inflammatory. I also found around Xmas period when I drank more beer that my hip would hurt more. Also after the revision in 2005 the joint space in my bad hip had been restored. It was still narrower than a perfectly healthy joint but it certainly made the need for the BHR to be later rather than sooner. Both the orthopod and I were perplexed at this development.
At first there was no pain at all and I could walk free of pain, cycling was nearly always pretty good anyway. I even started running but that wasn't so good. I did one triathlon and called it quits - I was enjoying life without pain too much. Slowly though over 6 years that familiar pain returned, even when riding for long periods of time.
One of the claims made about glucosamine and chondroitin that always had me a little sceptical (though not of its anti-inflammatory effects) was that it helped rebuild cartilage. Well it seems it did, the surgeon found cartilage had regenerated unfortunately it was the fibrous type (collagen type I) instead of the articular cartilage (collagen type II). Which explained the restoration of the joint space after the revision in 2005 and because fibrous cartilage is weaker it also explains why it was only temporary relief. My surgeon said it only lasts 6 or 7 years. Anyway I have a nice stainless steel ball and cup now replacing those chewed up surfaces.
I also used fish oil too in combination with the glucosamine in the last 5 or 6 years too, I don't know whether it enhanced things bit it also seemed to keep me more alert when and was therefore worth taking anyway. I also took celebrex sparingly too.
Anyway oesteoarthritis is diagnosed easily with an x-ray and for a finger there are a range of supplements and anti-inflammatory drugs that will help.
So in 2005 I was ready for it but I wanted my leg straightened so I could get range of movment back. The bad news was that a BHR could not be tweaked to do this, so had to have a revision high femoral osteotomy and then wait for a good blood supply to re-establish and then proceed with the BHR. That has finally happened, the op was last Thursday.
Some interesting things happened along the way. I have been taking glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate for years now and found it worked well as an anti-inflammatory. I also found around Xmas period when I drank more beer that my hip would hurt more. Also after the revision in 2005 the joint space in my bad hip had been restored. It was still narrower than a perfectly healthy joint but it certainly made the need for the BHR to be later rather than sooner. Both the orthopod and I were perplexed at this development.
At first there was no pain at all and I could walk free of pain, cycling was nearly always pretty good anyway. I even started running but that wasn't so good. I did one triathlon and called it quits - I was enjoying life without pain too much. Slowly though over 6 years that familiar pain returned, even when riding for long periods of time.
One of the claims made about glucosamine and chondroitin that always had me a little sceptical (though not of its anti-inflammatory effects) was that it helped rebuild cartilage. Well it seems it did, the surgeon found cartilage had regenerated unfortunately it was the fibrous type (collagen type I) instead of the articular cartilage (collagen type II). Which explained the restoration of the joint space after the revision in 2005 and because fibrous cartilage is weaker it also explains why it was only temporary relief. My surgeon said it only lasts 6 or 7 years. Anyway I have a nice stainless steel ball and cup now replacing those chewed up surfaces.
I also used fish oil too in combination with the glucosamine in the last 5 or 6 years too, I don't know whether it enhanced things bit it also seemed to keep me more alert when and was therefore worth taking anyway. I also took celebrex sparingly too.
Anyway oesteoarthritis is diagnosed easily with an x-ray and for a finger there are a range of supplements and anti-inflammatory drugs that will help.