Omg, can I just say everyone in my salle is all, "I don't take painkillers!" (quickly folowed by "it's a good sort of pain" and a carefully neutral expression from me). And I'm sorta like that, but sometimes you've just got to.
I think the people at your salle are kinda nutty. I've got ...*counts in her head* three MDs (one of which has also has a PhD in biochemistry) and two EMTs at my practice and none of them say, "I don't take painkillers." Ibuprophen is a pain killer because it also helps reduce inflammation. Getting rid of inflammation is good.
I'm not quite sure that I agree with roy_batty about ibuprofen inhibiting the muscle repair process -- but -- I do agree that Tiger Balm is truly fantastic stuff. I care some with me in my purse at all times. :)
Yeah, there's this whole balancing act. Pushing yourself to your limit, not babying yourself, but still being careful with your body, being atentinve to not damage it. Pain is one thing, injury is quite another. I'm currently in my own "comeback" phase - it's hard to go full bore, while conciously trying to kee myslef in check so I don't try to push myself in a way I'm not currently capable of performing, which would be at best disheartening.
Anyway, there are studies that show many pain killers actually inhibit the muscle repair process, inhibiting the gains from "working out". My rule of thumb is that I'll either live with the pain, or not do it, if it can't be treated with this:
I think I've only take painkillers once from all this and it was so I could get through a dance class the next day or something.
Seriously though, I have no idea what I did -- the lower right side of my rib cage under my arm keeps twinging. I didn't even know there was anything there to twinge.
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Date: 2006-12-12 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 12:59 am (UTC)I'm not quite sure that I agree with roy_batty about ibuprofen inhibiting the muscle repair process -- but -- I do agree that Tiger Balm is truly fantastic stuff. I care some with me in my purse at all times. :)
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Date: 2006-12-12 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 04:09 pm (UTC)Yeah, there's this whole balancing act. Pushing yourself to your limit, not babying yourself, but still being careful with your body, being atentinve to not damage it. Pain is one thing, injury is quite another. I'm currently in my own "comeback" phase - it's hard to go full bore, while conciously trying to kee myslef in check so I don't try to push myself in a way I'm not currently capable of performing, which would be at best disheartening.
Anyway, there are studies that show many pain killers actually inhibit the muscle repair process, inhibiting the gains from "working out". My rule of thumb is that I'll either live with the pain, or not do it, if it can't be treated with this:
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Date: 2006-12-12 04:12 pm (UTC)Seriously though, I have no idea what I did -- the lower right side of my rib cage under my arm keeps twinging. I didn't even know there was anything there to twinge.