hiking

Did My Self Therapy Work?!?! Yes It Did!!

Well I wrote earlier about my self therapy plan for a fast recovery of two physically impeding injuries I incurred during a hiking trip to the Adirondacks. I can now say with ABSOLUTE certainty that my self therapy has been EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE! A Quick Backstory… I had tripped and fallen off a short cliff about [...]

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I Crack my Head Open from a 15ft cliff coming down the Mountain

I was tired.  I was dehydrated. I tripped.  I fell. I split my head open. It was a freak accident, could have happened to anybody…yet of course out of the 7 people hiking down the mountain, I was the lucky guy to fall 15ft headfirst into a boulder. We were coming down from an unmarked [...]

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UPDATE: Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) injury

So I’ve been working on rehabbing my left LCL knee injury.  I do some cardio first (not the treadmill, too much of a pounding on the knee) then I do some light weighted knee exercises on machines to strengthen the muscles surrounding the knee.  Every few days I also use the foam roller to break [...]

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