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Hi Ariel,

Glad to hear you're almost back to normal...

I need to look into the tendonitis thing a bit.

I don't stretch, except for yawning at my desk at
work. I feel slightly guilty about this, but that's
the only ill effect I've noticed. I don't want to give
you bad advice, you probably should stretch. But I
don't want to lie either: I don't.

More here:

http://shovelglove.com/group/439

And here and here and here and here and here:

http://shovelglove.com/group/440

http://shovelglove.com/group/442

http://shovelglove.com/group/445

http://shovelglove.com/group/468

http://shovelglove.com/group/470

And probably elsewhere if you poke around the group
archives.

Best,

Reinhard
--- Ariel King <biffitybiff@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Reinhard,
> 
> I really appreciate your concern, but at this point
> there's not much 
> to show a doctor. The swelling is 99% gone and
> there's just a little 
> stiffness left. However, next week my sister who is
> a physical 
> therapist will be in town and I'm going to ask her
> advice on how 
> soon & how much I should start doing SG again. 
> 
> The only other thing I can think of that might be a
> good addition to 
> your site is a mention of tendonitis as a possible
> result of 
> overdoing SG at the beginning. I was thinking I
> might have a mild 
> form of this, but I just looked it up (see article
> here: 
> http://my.webmd.com/content/article/78/95608.htm)
> and now I'm a bit 
> confused because it doesn't mention swelling as a
> symptom. But it 
> does mention shoveling as a possible cause :)
> Anyway, maybe some 
> sort of blanket statement indicating that too much
> SG can have the 
> same effects as too much shoveling, chopping wood,
> or any other 
> heavy repetitive workout that you're not used to.
> This is totally up 
> to you (it seems like obvious information, but
> people can be pretty 
> dense).
> 
> BTW, have you ever done any sort of stretching
> before doing SG? I'm 
> sure you don't need it now, but I wonder if that
> might be a good way 
> to cut the risk of injury in the first few weeks.
> 
> thanks!
> Ariel