Ah arthritis season has arrived. Time to shift into my fall/winter morning routine where I need heat on my SI joints and to stretch & rotate all joints before I can even get out of bed. Joint pain is worse for me in a lot of ways than post workout pain. Sore muscles make me cranky, sure, but they don’t make me feel like my spine can’t support my body. Getting up and down, standing, carrying, lifting, walking & driving all feel precarious when my arthritis flares up. If I don’t tend to it, a fibro flare can follow which lands me in bed for extended numbers of hours.
So what’s different about my fall winter self-care than spring/summer? Heat needs to be handy at all times. I stash thermacare pads in my car, bags and office. I have to make extra time available just to get up out of bed. I warm up my joints in bed actually and then move right to my yoga mat for kundalini spine warmups and sun salutations under my sun lamp. Where the summer I did most of my workouts in the morning, my body can’t handle this now. Midday or evening workouts are better. They are longer, slower, less intense. I also pay extreme attention to posture and body mechanics to ease the strain as much as possible as I go through my day. I wear layers and keep blankets and heat handy all day. I stay as warm as possible, and I take frequent breaks to warm up my joints so they don’t get stiff. And I warm up my bed at night with heating pads, so there is no cold shock to my system when I get in.
So what’s different about my fall winter self-care than spring/summer? Heat needs to be handy at all times. I stash thermacare pads in my car, bags and office. I have to make extra time available just to get up out of bed. I warm up my joints in bed actually and then move right to my yoga mat for kundalini spine warmups and sun salutations under my sun lamp. Where the summer I did most of my workouts in the morning, my body can’t handle this now. Midday or evening workouts are better. They are longer, slower, less intense. I also pay extreme attention to posture and body mechanics to ease the strain as much as possible as I go through my day. I wear layers and keep blankets and heat handy all day. I stay as warm as possible, and I take frequent breaks to warm up my joints so they don’t get stiff. And I warm up my bed at night with heating pads, so there is no cold shock to my system when I get in.
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