Re: [pct-l] Geritol

["Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>]

Gee, Jeffrey

You didn't tell us you were the one featured in the BUNS OF STEEL
advertisement on TV !!!

Such modesty!

Who is that Sports Medicine Doc anyway? Must be worth the price if he can
fix you well with some exercises that work.

Peace
Gofforth

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> From: Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@u.washington.edu>
> To: pct-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Geritol
> Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 7:31 PM
> 
> Dear All:
> 
> As I wind down from a tough day at work, ready to brave the 20 minute
drive
> cross town to Ballard I can't help think of how quick we are to
categorize.
> Maybe it's my weariness from a 12 hour day, or it's a sense of confusion
> about it all.  Geritol or hiker, young or old.  So quick to take issue we
> are, and sometimes, offense...
> 
> I went to the sports medicine doctor today to ask about what I thought
was
> plantar fascitis, heel spurs, or just plain foot pain.  I'd been to this
> fellow before for knee problems, and he said my problem was "tight buns",
> meaning my gluteus minimus muscles were so tight to be dysfunctional.  He
> gave me two stretching exercises and in two weeks my knees were fine,
after
> being swollen and pain wracked for a couple months.  I stopped doing the
> exercises and when my knees started acting up again six months later, I
did
> them for two weeks more.  You get the idea.  
> 
> He said the problem with my feet was the same with my knees.  tight buns.
 
> The reason the incipient foot pain hadn't gone away is that it takes
longer
> for the feet to receive the benefit of the stretching than it does the
> knees.  I quit doing the exercises to early to help my feet.  He showed
me
> how i was over-pronating, and how one knee moved inwards when I did a
knee
> bend.  
> 
> When I was younger it was cigarettes and booze, the urge to hurry up and
> experience life.  Now it's stretch and relax, and then another 20 mile
day.
> If I'm blathering, I apoligize.  I haven't posted in a while and need to
> wind down out of SPSS land...
> 
> Jeffrey Olson
> Seattle WA, where it's nice and rainy...
> 
> 
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