Jul 14, 2025
I have been to a bunch of doctors in the last few months for various levels of debilitating musculoskeletal dramas and gotten a hundred pages of print outs and here is the summary of options I have:
Do yoga sun salutations + basic intro ballet warm up every day (include ballet foot warm up exercises)
Medicine that will give you an ulcer
Surgery.
And the exercises help, so it's fine, but it's kind of amazing to me that we're here, living in the future, and I'm in pain and the main thing we've got for it is still yoga and ballet. Shout out to 4th century BCE in India and 15th Century Italy, y'all, they were killing it.
#This explains why my body worked when I did ballet#and then stopped working when I quit ballet#and then worked again when I picked up yoga#and then stopped working when I took a break from yoga#and it should be obvious but it wasn't actually to me#till I got a print out of exercises from my physical therapist and was like#oh this is yoga#and then a print out from my podiatrist and was like oh this is ballet#and then a print out from my back doctor and was like oh this is yoga and ballet together#okay so you can either have major surgery and rehab or get back to doing yoga#cool cool cool#modern medicine#except clamshells#who came up with clamshells#fuck you clamshells#also clamshells are so good for hip and knee pain#damn them#no i hate planks the most#so boring