Diary 2023-10-07

• I was going to do Matsuo Lab LLM Summer School Competition, but I was really tired…

The first full body course at Dr. Stretch, on the same day, I needed to make a reservation by phone. After about 4 calls, they announced “it’s busy, please hang up and wait while I call you back”, heh, that’s one of those cases. I got a call rather quickly and got an appointment at the nearest store in 15 minutes.

First, sit down and “try to get into what you think is the right posture.”

• Pelvis is not erect.
  • Pelvic tilt backward
    • stand on one’s back (e.g. one’s feet)

I was stretched in all sorts of ways, twisting my legs in directions that were impossible for me. I didn’t dare talk about subjective symptoms, but they were pretty much spot on.

• Stiff muscles on the front side of the right thigh.
  • That’s the cause of right knee pain.
• Both calves are stiff.
  • Especially the right side is quite stiff.
  • Difference from left.
• The rest wasn’t said verbally, but they did reorient my right knee a number of times just while they were working on my left leg.
  • When relaxed, only the right knee is externally rotated.
    • Left leg is distorted.
    • Oh, that’s the left leg we’re talking about.

As for the shoulders, they were not rotated back due to stiffness of the pectoral muscles, etc.

• We often say “rotate your shoulders” as a shoulder stretch, but the range of motion of the shoulder is so narrow to begin with that you can’t rotate it even if you tried.

Recommended Stretching

• stretch (unbend) one’s legs out

  • The common one where one leg is placed on the other knee and the upper body is collapsed
    • Not done correctly.
      • Upper body bent with pelvis tilted backward.

• Calf Stretch

  • I’m not sure how well the common ones work.
  • Put your feet on the platform and apply force from above.
  • Need a platform at just the right height?

• Diary 2023-10-06 ← Diary 2023-10-07 → Diary 2023-10-08 100 days ago Diary 2023-06-29. 1 year ago Diary 2022-10-07.

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