Friday, June 22, 2012

Knees and hot weather

So, I've been doing some stretches and simple exercises to try to improve the flexibility and strength of my knees and surrounding muscles.  This morning, I got up and could hardly walk, they hurt so bad.  My prescription NSAID barely took the edge off.  I took some ibuprofen after lunch, and still nothing.  I decided to do the stretching exercises (I had been doing them in the evening), because I was just in so much pain.  Guess what?  Just simple stretching made my stupid knees feel better and now I can walk a lot easier.  WTF?  Who would have thought that  a couple stretches would help so much more than either presciption or over the counter NSAIDs?

So, from now on, I'm doing the stretches first thing in the morning!

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