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One of my biggest pet peeves is when people tell me I don't know back pain.
I've been living with near-chronic back pain for years. I've been to physiotherapy, and massage therapy. I've tried muscle relaxant pills. I've tried sleeping on the floor. I've tried stretching. It's all temporary relief, it ALWAYS comes back.
I can feel fine for days, or weeks even. And then something like putting away laundry will trigger it, and I will be in so much pain that I can't even stand, like tonight.
I have ridiculous knots all down both sides of my spine. Christ, you can even SEE them in this photo. Yes, those awkward lumps next to my spine are MUSCLE KNOTS.
Sometimes it gets so bad it hurts to breathe because my lungs push against them when I inhale.
Sometimes it hurts to BREATHE.
I broke my foot in 3 places, cracked open my skull 3 times, have had 5 concussions, destroyed a hamstring, broken a toe, fallen into things and gotten HUGE bruises, and I wrecked my knees a few years ago. Nothing has ever hurt as bad as this does.
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Ten years after the 2008 economic recession, the government is ill-prepared to defend itself against the next economic downturn. Interest rates remain low, partisanship remains intractable, and the federal debt is rising at an unprecedented rate. These factors will hamstring traditional monetary and fiscal stimulus.
In his new book, “Law and Macroeconomics,” Yale Law Professor Yair Listokin argues that we can respond more quickly to the next economic crisis by deploying a policy approach whose proven success is too rarely acknowledged: regulation. He proposes that we take seriously the idea that law can function as a macroeconomic tool, capable of stimulating demand when needed and relieving demand when it threatens to overheat economies. And though history has demonstrated that law is an unwieldy instrument of macroeconomic policy, Listokin argues that under certain conditions it offers a vital alternative to the monetary and fiscal policy tools.
On Tuesday, September 10, at an Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center event, Listokin presented the key findings of his research, and panelists deepened the discussion by addressing the following questions:
What role does the law play in stimulating aggregate demand?
How can laws and regulations complement traditional fiscal and monetary policy approaches to stabilizing the business cycle?
Can regulations act as an effective alternative to fiscal and monetary policy during economic downturn?
Which regulations should lawmakers implement to combat economic shocks?
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U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program SSG John Nunn competes in the men's 20-kilometer race walk at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials on June 30 at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Nunn, who had already qualified for Team USA in the 50K race walk for the London Olympic Games, used the event as a training walk and stopped around the 10k mark with a nagging hamstring. New York Athletic Club's Trever Barron, a 19-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo., won the 20-kilometer walk with an American record time of 1 hour, 23 minutes and .10 seconds. He and Nunn will be the only two men race walking for Team USA in London. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affairs
The North Carolina Tar Heels, a power five program out of the Atlantic Coast Conference, dealt Old Dominion its first home defeat since November 2015. But in the loss, ODU gained a new starting quarterback.
True freshman Steven Williams, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson H.S. in Washington, D.C., replaced starting quarterback Jordan Hoy and backup QB Blake LaRussa in the 53-23 loss.
"When you don't have a first down in the first quarter and you have no energy on the sideline because the players feel it, you have to make the move," ODU head football coach Bobby Wilder explained. "I didn't go into this game thinking [Williams] would play."
Seeing his first action, the 17 year old Williams completed 9-of-20 passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw an interception and lost a fumble. Williams added 34 rushing yards on seven attempts.
"We haven't developed an identity on offense," Wilder noted. "Stevie Williams today gave us an identity. Steven Williams is the quarterback of the Old Dominion football team moving forward."
"They just said 'let's go," Williams explained of how he learned he was about to receive his first college playing time. "My teammates were all behind me. I just had to go do my job and we'll be fine."
Old Dominion outscored North Carolina (1-2), 16-14, in the second half, after trailing the Tar Heels, 39-7, at the half.
Prior to the game, ODU learned All-Conference USA running back Ray Lawry, the program's all-time leading rusher, has a torn hamstring. Head coach Bobby Wilder reveals the injury could keep Lawry sidelined for the remainder of the season.
Plate 5 (shoulder and muscles at back of scapula) from George Viner ELLIS's Illustrations of dissections in a series of original coloured plates the size of life, representing the dissection of the human body by George Viner Ellis and G. H. Ford London: James Walton, 1867).
This volume of lifesize plates states 'The drawings are from nature and on stone by Mr Ford from dissections by Professor Ellis'. The plates are signed G.H. Ford (George Henry Ford, 1808-1876) and this one of 'Internal carotid and ascending pharyngeal arteries, and cranial nerves in the neck' is dated 1 November 1864. The graphically lifelike drawings, reproduced by chromolithography, are reckoned to be some of the best anatomical artworks and show exactly how the dissected body has been manipulated for the drawings.
Ellis (1812-1900) was Professor of Anatomy at University College London from 1850, following Richard Quain (the cousin of Jones Quain) and this work was successful enough for a second edition in 1876 (1882 in New York). The plates were published with a separate smaller text volume of descriptions.
Part of the Anatomical Atlases in Special Collections & Archives, SPEC Anatomy 3. One copy of these plates has the signature of Walter T. Clegg, Liverpool, perhaps a former owner, and notes its price - £6 6/ (six pounds and six shillings) in 1867.Medical Education
Images from Special Collections & Archives, the University of Liverpool.
Terry Stephen Puhl (b. July 8, 1956 in Melville, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian retired professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of 15 seasons in MLB, mostly with the Houston Astros. He is the head coach of University of Houston–Victoria's baseball team and manager of the Canada national baseball team.
Puhl was called up to the majors in July 1977, and never returned to the minor leagues. He was quickly installed as the club's regular left fielder, replacing Jim Fuller. He finished the 1977 season with a .301 batting average in 60 games.
The following year he was the sole Astro selected as a National League All-Star. In the 1980 championship series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Puhl set a then NL-championship series record with a .526 batting average in a losing cause, the best performance ever by a hitter in a play-off series (It has since been superseded). As of 2010, Puhl has the ninth-best for lifetime fielding percentage by an outfielder (.993). In 1981, he was named Canadian Baseball player of the year.
A pulled hamstring in 1985 and an ankle injury in 1986 reduced his playing time, but he returned in 1987 as an effective pinch hitter. In 1988 he hit a career high .303.
After Puhl's retirement in 1991, he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. In November 2006, Puhl was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame.
MLB statistics:
Batting average - .280
Home runs - 62
Runs batted in - 435
Link to all of his issued baseball cards - www.openchecklist.net/cards/search?q=terry+puhl
Just bought the latest edition of a local health & fitness magazine which featured yours truly in the exercise how-to section.
As you can see I am so not a flexible person. Had accepted the job as I thought they wanted me to demonstrate exercises with weights.
It was only when i got to the studio that I was informed they needed me to demonstrate stretches.
Dammit.
Imagine how hard it was for me to do pose number 4 when my hamstrings were bloody tight from my leg workout the day before :p
Pic shot for 365 Days group
edit: I just realised there's no #6 to the steps. Hahahaha! :p
U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program SSG John Nunn competes in the men's 20-kilometer race walk at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials on June 30 at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Nunn, who had already qualified for Team USA in the 50K race walk for the London Olympic Games, used the event as a training walk and stopped around the 10k mark with a nagging hamstring. New York Athletic Club's Trever Barron, a 19-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo., won the 20-kilometer walk with an American record time of 1 hour, 23 minutes and .10 seconds. He and Nunn will be the only two men race walking for Team USA in London. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affairs
Tori has a new sim? Tori has her sims game back finally? Hurray! XD
Sure, my first upload is a very very simple pic but....hey, whatever. XD This is my new RP character for Port Mercer which, if you arent part of, you should be joining. Because it's kick ass. Basically.
She's a ghost btw.
OKAY...I've been tagged so....
I was tagged by: Darli
The game is: Post any photo and describe 16 things about yourself, then you get to tag more people
1. I am seventeen years old.
2. I love to write but have never been satisfied with anything I've written.
3. I have a beauty mark on my face.
4. My hair never looks the same color. Sometimes it's more blonde than brown and sometimes it's the reverse. And in the fall it tends to look red.
5. I am going to college in the fall.
6. My favorite color is green.
7. I have a bad shoulder courtesy of a rowing injury my sophmore year.
8. Both of my knees are bad and I have trouble running/climbing stairs with them.
9. My knees are bad because I have underdeveloped hamstrings which...I don't know. They're crushing my knees or something cause I'm supposed to be taller than I am.
10. I am 5'3"
11. Cubs fan. Though they're breaking my heart.
12. Matchbox Twenty's the best band, at least in my opinion.
13. I've been roleplaying for over a year. Started at Sylvan Hollow and am now at Port Mercer.
14. I have more fun writing supernatural characters.
15. I am sarcastic, cynical, and, according to my friend, scary.
16. I don't have the patience to edit sims pics adequately.
I tag.....Emily and Kim...
There. That's 16. And yes, some are lame. Oh well. DEAL with it!
The North Carolina Tar Heels, a power five program out of the Atlantic Coast Conference, dealt Old Dominion its first home defeat since November 2015. But in the loss, ODU gained a new starting quarterback.
True freshman Steven Williams, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson H.S. in Washington, D.C., replaced starting quarterback Jordan Hoy and backup QB Blake LaRussa in the 53-23 loss.
"When you don't have a first down in the first quarter and you have no energy on the sideline because the players feel it, you have to make the move," ODU head football coach Bobby Wilder explained. "I didn't go into this game thinking [Williams] would play."
Seeing his first action, the 17 year old Williams completed 9-of-20 passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw an interception and lost a fumble. Williams added 34 rushing yards on seven attempts.
"We haven't developed an identity on offense," Wilder noted. "Stevie Williams today gave us an identity. Steven Williams is the quarterback of the Old Dominion football team moving forward."
"They just said 'let's go," Williams explained of how he learned he was about to receive his first college playing time. "My teammates were all behind me. I just had to go do my job and we'll be fine."
Old Dominion outscored North Carolina (1-2), 16-14, in the second half, after trailing the Tar Heels, 39-7, at the half.
Prior to the game, ODU learned All-Conference USA running back Ray Lawry, the program's all-time leading rusher, has a torn hamstring. Head coach Bobby Wilder reveals the injury could keep Lawry sidelined for the remainder of the season.
One of yoga's most widely recognized poses, Downward-Facing Dog Pose, called Adho Mukha Svanasana in Sanskrit, works to strengthen the core and improve circulation. This rejuvenating pose works to provide a delicious, full-body stretch.
Benefits of Downward-Facing Dog
Tones the arms and legs; opens and strengthens the shoulders in flexion; lengthens the hamstrings and stretches the calves; prepares the body for heating inversion
More Details: aatmyogashala.com/
Went to see the physio at work, after a friend recommended him. Been having some pain/deadness in my right leg. He is clearly a wizard, and said lots of clever things, apparently I have tight quads, long weak hamstrings and my hips drop - whatever that means! He correctly guessed that I have cramps/tightness in my calves after running too. I have some exercises to do, hopefully they'll help!
A photo of Fekadu Teshome from Ethiopia. Learn more at cure.org/curekids/ethiopia/2013/08/fekadu_teshome/
Seated Angle.
Keep the quadriceps tight and engaged when you challenge the hamstrings. This will turn the asana into a quadriceps exercise and keep you from over-stretching the hamstrings.
DAY 324. 20/11/11
No football today for me, in fact no football for while until the hamstring heals. Still I couldn't resist going down to watch a game today, and with camera in tow.
Here's the Canadian Speedster (shirt off) in full stride. More tomorrow.
Kickstand failed on the Busa.
Left leg fought gravity for as long as it could.
Hamstring was the weakest link!
Yeah that's all loss of RBC's from torn muscle tissue.
The North Carolina Tar Heels, a power five program out of the Atlantic Coast Conference, dealt Old Dominion its first home defeat since November 2015. But in the loss, ODU gained a new starting quarterback.
True freshman Steven Williams, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson H.S. in Washington, D.C., replaced starting quarterback Jordan Hoy and backup QB Blake LaRussa in the 53-23 loss.
"When you don't have a first down in the first quarter and you have no energy on the sideline because the players feel it, you have to make the move," ODU head football coach Bobby Wilder explained. "I didn't go into this game thinking [Williams] would play."
Seeing his first action, the 17 year old Williams completed 9-of-20 passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw an interception and lost a fumble. Williams added 34 rushing yards on seven attempts.
"We haven't developed an identity on offense," Wilder noted. "Stevie Williams today gave us an identity. Steven Williams is the quarterback of the Old Dominion football team moving forward."
"They just said 'let's go," Williams explained of how he learned he was about to receive his first college playing time. "My teammates were all behind me. I just had to go do my job and we'll be fine."
Old Dominion outscored North Carolina (1-2), 16-14, in the second half, after trailing the Tar Heels, 39-7, at the half.
Prior to the game, ODU learned All-Conference USA running back Ray Lawry, the program's all-time leading rusher, has a torn hamstring. Head coach Bobby Wilder reveals the injury could keep Lawry sidelined for the remainder of the season.
The story of Weland the Smith is told most fully in the 13thC. Icelandic poem Volundarkvida. Wayland and his two brothers marry swan-sisters who had mysteriously flown in from the south. THese then fly away again and his brothers set out to find them their wives, but Weland stayed behind to make rings - he was fames as a metalworker and smith. He was subsequently captured by a king who cut his hamstrings and forced him to work in his employ. He took his revenge by decapitating the king's two princes, turning their skulls into bowls, their eyes into gems and their teeth into brooches. He then raped the king's daughter. The tale ends with his escaping by air - another saga tels us he acquired some wih the help of his brother Egil. It is this escape that is shown on the Leeds Cross here.
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Sciatica is a fairly common condition that affects about 40% of people at some point in their life. The condition can cause painful sensations through the lower back, hips, buttocks, and legs making it quite difficult for many to find comfortable positions and keep moving. What exactly can be done to cope with this? Read below for helpful suggestions on how to combat sciatica pain to keep your body moving.
What Exactly is Sciatica?
Sciatica pain is a type of nerve pain that stems from the sciatic nerve. This nerve is positioned at your lower back and runs down through both of your legs. This nerve can get disrupted from various injuries located in the spine or back, spinal stenosis, and piriformis syndrome (piriformis muscle spasms).
While this condition can create a very painful and uncomfortable way of living, there are ways to help combat the symptoms and relax the area to help you continue moving. The most helpful suggestion? Stretching! Stretching can help release any tension within the area, and relax the nearby muscles which could be the cause of or adding to the sciatica pain.
Some Helpful Stretches for Sciatica Pain Include:
Pigeon Pose – a common yoga pose performed in a reclined state on the floor that opens the hips. There are other variations of this stretch, including forward pigeon pose, that can also be performed to aid in symptom relief.
2. Sitting Spinal Twist – a stretch to help create space within the spinal column to alleviate any compression that may be causing the sciatic nerve pinch.
3. Hamstring Stretch – This can be performed standing using a chair, as well as standing in an open forward fold position. Stretching out the hamstrings (muscles located on the back of the thighs) can help loosen the muscles that may be putting pressure on the sciatica nerve.
In addition to stretching, regular movement/exercise can also help improve your function and lessen your pain. When coping with Sciatica, it is important to begin with low-impact exercises to ensure you do not aggravate anything further. These exercises should be combined with stretching for a better relief outcome.
Some examples of low-impact exercises include:
Walking
Elliptical
Stationary Bike
Yoga
Pilates
Swimming
Given that each person’s sciatica cause and symptoms may vary, it is important to discuss your symptoms and treatment regimens with your physician prior to trying any new exercises on your own. For sciatica pain that is not finding relief with these at home tips, there are other treatments available such as trigger point injections, nerve blocking injections, physical therapy and various medications.
To discuss your symptoms and go over your options, make an appointment by calling (215) 395-8888 or by visiting the request page here.
*Statistic provided by spine-health.com
Elephants very quickly learn where they're safe and where they're not, this bull is one of a small group that hang around the Zakouma HQ area during the dry season. After everything that these elephant's have been through it's remarkable that any of them are willing to trust humans at all. However they are such intelligent animals that not only do they know where there safe but they also know who their friends are and these bulls that come to the Park Director Rian Labuschagne's house have learned to take water from a garden hosepipe.
For roughly 6 months of the year between June and November Zakouma National Park is almost entirely inundated with floodwaters at this time elephants would often disperse into the surrounding area of what is now the Salamat Faunal Reserve. During this time Arab horsemen from the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan would come to hunt the elephants as they had done for perhaps several hundred years. Traditionally a group of up to 20 horsemen armed with lances would charge a herd aiming to separate out one of the elephants. A single horseman would then ride in front of this elephant to draw its attention and get it to pursue him allowing the other men to ride in and spear it from behind with their lances. They would aim for the elephant’s hamstrings in its hind legs which if severed would bring the animal down and ensure it could not get up again. Huge numbers of elephants were killed this way and in response the surviving herds in the region have learned that at the first sign of horsemen their best defence is bunch up into tight groups to ensure that no individual can be separated out.
Today this is no defence the horsemen are Janjaweed militiamen and members of the Sudanese armed forces and they come not with the lances used by their ancestors but with AK47s, belt-fed machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. This habit of bunching up into a single large herd has meant that the poachers can easily kill 50-60 elephants in a single attack by simply machine gunning the terrified animals as they try to escape. In 2005 an aerial count found 3,885 elephants in Zakouma and the surrounding area in under a decade the population was reduced to just 430 and had stopped breeding due to the constant stress. Since African Parks took over Zakouma the poaching has been almost entirely stopped and the elephants are breeding again the population now stands at around 470.