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PAIN. That is all. Moving along.
Mar. 23rd, 2013 07:29 pmStill not feeling better.
Still in barbed wire agony, full of fatigue and fog and faintness (but no longer sound and fury signifying nothing); feeling all those connective tissues and nerves writhing and howling and echoing across caverns of bone and muscle and organ and blood and skin.
More gentle exercise. More gentle meditation. More drug and supplement medication if it comes to it. It's what I do.
For now, more cartoons!
Mm, still in pain and exhaustion. Drank a full bottle of Real Beanz’s Nutrient Enhanced Cappuccino Energize, my favorite, which husband thoughtfully procured from the gas station for which I love him. Still need to de-stress and such. Barbed wire and all that. I don't even know. Thinking is for other people today.
Dear friends with Fibromyalgia and Cerebral Palsy: Ever wanted to yell at all those pesky connective issues? Now we can!
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Connective-Tissue.topicArticleId-277792,articleId-277528.html
Also, perfectly informative without judgment.
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/aha/umfibromyalgia.htm
No really, fuck you, cerebral palsy. My connective tissue issues have been screwed up forever.
http://thescienceofphysicalrehabilitation.blogspot.com/2012/05/stretching-and-cerebral-palsy-what-you.html
"Muscle is defined as a tissue composed of bundles of elongated cells capable of contraction and relaxation to produce movement. Connective Tissue can be descried as a tissue developed from the embryonic mesoderm that consists of collagen or elastic fibres, fibroblasts, fatty cells, etc., within a jelly-like extracellular matrix. It supports organs, fills the spaces between them, and forms tendons and ligaments. Knowing these basic facts and definitions, their respective functional appearances within the normal muscle and the spastic muscle (CP) need to be defined. They should be the same, right? This couldnt be further from the truth. This is what the current (and most popular)approach assumes...that muscle is muscle and fascia is fascia. I have attached a very interesting and informative study that was performed to identify the similarities / differences between spastic and normal muscle tissue, spastic and normal extracellular matrix, as well as the differences between individual cells and collective bundles of cells for both. I recommend that you take the time to read it, but I will summarize its contents here in an effort to expediate my point (it´s effectively the abstract of the article): 1) The difference between bundles and single cells was much greater in normal muscle tissue (16 times stronger) than in spastic muscle (2 times stronger). 2) Actual muscle fiber strength is greater in spastic muscle than in normal muscle. However..... 3) Extracellular matrix strength / Connective Tissue strength is 43.5 times weaker!! Therefore, the ¨inconvenient truth¨ is exposed and a fundamental question is raised: if the spastic muscle itself is stronger than normal muscle, and the connective tissue attachments are 43 times WEAKER...what is really happening when you attempt to stretch that particular muscle(s)? In my professional opinion, it seems only logical that the likely result is further weakening and de-stabilization of an already weak connective tissue system...however, I am more than willing to set that staunch opinion aside if ever there was a way to guarantee this wouldn´t happen. The current reality is that, at best, there is no definite way to determine if the attempts to relax spastic muscles via stretching will not potentially be of some detriment. Indeed, there are some cases where some relief has been attributed to active stretching...however, these responses are transient and were most likely done in a very mild form."
So, yes. Yargh. And such.
Thinking will occur tomorrow, when my mind is more... mind-like.
Still in barbed wire agony, full of fatigue and fog and faintness (but no longer sound and fury signifying nothing); feeling all those connective tissues and nerves writhing and howling and echoing across caverns of bone and muscle and organ and blood and skin.
More gentle exercise. More gentle meditation. More drug and supplement medication if it comes to it. It's what I do.
For now, more cartoons!
Mm, still in pain and exhaustion. Drank a full bottle of Real Beanz’s Nutrient Enhanced Cappuccino Energize, my favorite, which husband thoughtfully procured from the gas station for which I love him. Still need to de-stress and such. Barbed wire and all that. I don't even know. Thinking is for other people today.
Dear friends with Fibromyalgia and Cerebral Palsy: Ever wanted to yell at all those pesky connective issues? Now we can!
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Connective-Tissue.topicArticleId-277792,articleId-277528.html
Also, perfectly informative without judgment.
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/aha/umfibromyalgia.htm
No really, fuck you, cerebral palsy. My connective tissue issues have been screwed up forever.
http://thescienceofphysicalrehabilitation.blogspot.com/2012/05/stretching-and-cerebral-palsy-what-you.html
"Muscle is defined as a tissue composed of bundles of elongated cells capable of contraction and relaxation to produce movement. Connective Tissue can be descried as a tissue developed from the embryonic mesoderm that consists of collagen or elastic fibres, fibroblasts, fatty cells, etc., within a jelly-like extracellular matrix. It supports organs, fills the spaces between them, and forms tendons and ligaments. Knowing these basic facts and definitions, their respective functional appearances within the normal muscle and the spastic muscle (CP) need to be defined. They should be the same, right? This couldnt be further from the truth. This is what the current (and most popular)approach assumes...that muscle is muscle and fascia is fascia. I have attached a very interesting and informative study that was performed to identify the similarities / differences between spastic and normal muscle tissue, spastic and normal extracellular matrix, as well as the differences between individual cells and collective bundles of cells for both. I recommend that you take the time to read it, but I will summarize its contents here in an effort to expediate my point (it´s effectively the abstract of the article): 1) The difference between bundles and single cells was much greater in normal muscle tissue (16 times stronger) than in spastic muscle (2 times stronger). 2) Actual muscle fiber strength is greater in spastic muscle than in normal muscle. However..... 3) Extracellular matrix strength / Connective Tissue strength is 43.5 times weaker!! Therefore, the ¨inconvenient truth¨ is exposed and a fundamental question is raised: if the spastic muscle itself is stronger than normal muscle, and the connective tissue attachments are 43 times WEAKER...what is really happening when you attempt to stretch that particular muscle(s)? In my professional opinion, it seems only logical that the likely result is further weakening and de-stabilization of an already weak connective tissue system...however, I am more than willing to set that staunch opinion aside if ever there was a way to guarantee this wouldn´t happen. The current reality is that, at best, there is no definite way to determine if the attempts to relax spastic muscles via stretching will not potentially be of some detriment. Indeed, there are some cases where some relief has been attributed to active stretching...however, these responses are transient and were most likely done in a very mild form."
So, yes. Yargh. And such.
Thinking will occur tomorrow, when my mind is more... mind-like.
