Dull pain good, sharp pain bad... Logical, really.

Ow is ache a word for a smaller sort of pain? I thought the two were synonyms.

Sessy- pain is so variable- what one person calls moderate pain might be someone else's severe pain.

I describe pain going from dull to moderate to severe. I generally consider an ache to be a dull pain- something that is annoying, but you can live with- I consider an ache to be constant, - not sensation that comes with movement and then leaves.

But something that is a dull ache can become a sharp pain when you do something (like cough, or take a deep breath).

That's why it's so hard to diagnose pain- there are so many ways to describe it!


Good luck with rehabbing your ankle!

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Sorry to hear about your ankle Sessy. I had no idea that you'd fractured it.

Sending lots of positive vibes to you and I'm sure you've got a good medical team and you'll be back jumping in less than a year. That's probably just the worst case scenario and I'm sure it will take less than that.

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Yeah they always say the worst case scenario. The way I'm figuring it right now is, work it to strength till real skating starts in october again, then skate easy on, no jumping, maybe half rotation, till like december, then start back on the singles again and indeed hold off the axel for a while till early spring. I've gotta pas my MIF before my freestyle anyway and for the freestyle I need to work on the spins more than I did on the jumps so I'm figuring I might still test what I had planned.

Oh here's a holiday pic btw.




The doc said it needed to hurt when doing the exercises, mildly, but like when doing the exercises, not just overall. Apparently the soft tissue calcified or something like that... I can't translate it, LOL! I totally get what happened but I can't express it in English. But it shouldn't hurt like, badly he said... I think it's probably just like that what he meant, that it shouldn't hurt sharply, but dull is okay.