katz in boots
06-04-2010, 03:58 AM
Almost 2 years ago I acquired an Occupational Overuse Syndrome (RSI) injury through office work. In the first 18 months of struggling to become pain free, I would often say to my Doctor & others that one of the few things that helped was skating because of the posture & large arm movements. This was met with howls of; "ooh, that's so dangerous", "that can't be good for you", "what if you fall", etc. :frus: At that time I was totally obsessed with skating and didn't care what they said anyway.
Roll on to the last 6 months, during which I almost totally lost interest in skating. I no longer take lessons, I was really forcing myself to go once a fortnight for exercise because I hadn't taken up anything else.
Now suddenly doctor & specialists are telling me; "You need to take time off work to get better. Go skating, it's good for you, those large arm movements & good posture will really help" !!! :roll:
So, being school holidays at the moment, the rink is open every morning and I have been going 3-4 times per week. Yeah, I'm sort of enjoying it, though can't imagine ever being as obsessed as I was. Maybe one day I'll take lessons again, but right now I'll just have fun, and focus on our newly formed Adult Synchro team.
I just think it's so ironic that when I was passionate about skating I was told it was bad for me, once I lost that passion I was told I must do it. :lol:
Roll on to the last 6 months, during which I almost totally lost interest in skating. I no longer take lessons, I was really forcing myself to go once a fortnight for exercise because I hadn't taken up anything else.
Now suddenly doctor & specialists are telling me; "You need to take time off work to get better. Go skating, it's good for you, those large arm movements & good posture will really help" !!! :roll:
So, being school holidays at the moment, the rink is open every morning and I have been going 3-4 times per week. Yeah, I'm sort of enjoying it, though can't imagine ever being as obsessed as I was. Maybe one day I'll take lessons again, but right now I'll just have fun, and focus on our newly formed Adult Synchro team.
I just think it's so ironic that when I was passionate about skating I was told it was bad for me, once I lost that passion I was told I must do it. :lol: