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Feb. 24th, 2024 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavRSI update as i'm playing with different things:
* brace didn't work, alas. got it last week and i wore it for 5 minutes, and then a 30 minute chunk after that as a test just doing normal stuff and it did not feel good after. ("crunchy" wrist, some of the old phantom pain coming back.) i'll still keep it for a different kind of injury (i can see it being useful for a splint) but it ain't this.
* generally doing a bunch of stretches throughout the day; nothing excessive but keeping the area from getting stiff.
* also doing the hemp lotion. it feels slightly better in the moment but no noticeable 'speed up the healing' vibes.
* i tried drawing for a timed 5 minutes yesterday (since it was roughly 2 weeks since i cold turkey stopped drawing). the good news is the specific lancing wrist pain didn't come back. the bad news is the wrist felt crunchy/sore for the rest of the evening. -_- i couldn't even make it five minutes ugh. (without sounding meldramatic its. uughh. not great! for the brain worms to realize that this is more of a 'wow hip replacement level months-length of recovery' than your standard 'tendon or whatever feels bad for a week'.)
* that said i just discovered the cold/hot ice immersion treatment off of this animator's article (figuring that animators are the people most likely to run into this specific RSI from drawing vs typing). and holy SHIT. this might be what works? only did it one time for both wrists now and it felt. so good. my wrists were kinda crunchy this morning and it zapped that instantly. o.o i might try that 3-5 times a day or basically whenever it starts feeling like that. promising, and the dude said it really helped speed the recovery, rather than just feeling good in the moment. i might give it three more days of no drawing and then try the 5 minutes again after doing the cold/hot treatment so there's a concrete benchmark to compare/contrast.
i know so many people have it worse (i can still type after all), and this is first world problems but i gotta. i gotta draw man. it ain't a negotiable, or i'm going to start tearing out feathers metaphorically.
* brace didn't work, alas. got it last week and i wore it for 5 minutes, and then a 30 minute chunk after that as a test just doing normal stuff and it did not feel good after. ("crunchy" wrist, some of the old phantom pain coming back.) i'll still keep it for a different kind of injury (i can see it being useful for a splint) but it ain't this.
* generally doing a bunch of stretches throughout the day; nothing excessive but keeping the area from getting stiff.
* also doing the hemp lotion. it feels slightly better in the moment but no noticeable 'speed up the healing' vibes.
* i tried drawing for a timed 5 minutes yesterday (since it was roughly 2 weeks since i cold turkey stopped drawing). the good news is the specific lancing wrist pain didn't come back. the bad news is the wrist felt crunchy/sore for the rest of the evening. -_- i couldn't even make it five minutes ugh. (without sounding meldramatic its. uughh. not great! for the brain worms to realize that this is more of a 'wow hip replacement level months-length of recovery' than your standard 'tendon or whatever feels bad for a week'.)
* that said i just discovered the cold/hot ice immersion treatment off of this animator's article (figuring that animators are the people most likely to run into this specific RSI from drawing vs typing). and holy SHIT. this might be what works? only did it one time for both wrists now and it felt. so good. my wrists were kinda crunchy this morning and it zapped that instantly. o.o i might try that 3-5 times a day or basically whenever it starts feeling like that. promising, and the dude said it really helped speed the recovery, rather than just feeling good in the moment. i might give it three more days of no drawing and then try the 5 minutes again after doing the cold/hot treatment so there's a concrete benchmark to compare/contrast.
i know so many people have it worse (i can still type after all), and this is first world problems but i gotta. i gotta draw man. it ain't a negotiable, or i'm going to start tearing out feathers metaphorically.
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Date: 2024-02-25 08:41 pm (UTC)Wonderful resource link Kradley, saved immediately to my self care book marks! >8D
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Date: 2024-02-25 09:51 pm (UTC)[handshake solidarity for rsi and drawing] will def pass over any other notes if they seem to work. :) wishing yours a speedy recovery.