To begin I have to make something
perfectly clear. Doctor Harper MD FACS, has made it perfectly clear to me I am
not qualified to give medical advice. I trust you pursue a great medical
opinion for your concerns. But PAIN is a personal experience you have to deal
with, and at different stages in training.
Be it PAIN from stretching, kumite and
whole groups of muscles, or even one strand of the qudraceps muscle learning an
activity like tai chi. Whether chosen activity or misadventure.
This is something we all have to
find a way to deal with during our martial lives.
Recently age and disability caught up with me
and I fell, breaking 3 ribs. PAIN being unable to rise, and then two months of
PAIN kept me reminded of its existence. The Shin being struck as a beginner,
the groin being struck, the bloody nose from kumite, even the PAIN experienced
while stretching. A few examples, not to
make you quit, but to instead consider what you learn each time.
The response to PAIN is individual,
it is not better or worse. It does hurt all, some ignore it, some learn to deal
with it. PAIN is important.
1 PAIN is your body telling you are
alive.
2 PAIN is telling you not to do
that.
3 PAIN is your teacher
4 PAIN you will listen to, when you are unable to listen to your teacher
as it is yours, you earned it.
5 PAIN is either an owie or damaging pain, Only you can say which, ONLY
YOU. You must listen to it and act appropriately. Don’t ignore damaging pain
and train further, you must seek help. Others on the spot not medically trained
can not tell you which pain you have.
6. For some PAIN response brings
tears, this is your bodies natural response, not something for others to make
fun of.
7. PAIN your body cannot normally remember your pain. YOU can remember
you were in pain, but not the pain. This forget mechanism is how we stay sane.
Consider if you break a bone, you cannot re-experience that pain.
To train, to excel, to compete, all
require at times us to understand what pain we are experiencing.
However, please remember Dr, Harper’s
advice and do not seek my opinion. Get professional help.
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