Hey Mwodistas,
Today’s mobility mission: Grab a painball, and set the clock for 15min. You know those little ball statues of the weeping Buddha of Sorrow? That Buddha statue is supposed to take your pain away. Think of your lacrosse ball as the same thing. It’s like activated charcoal, but it absorbs your business. All your crappy, tacked down, non-sliding, triggerpointed tissue BUSINESS.
Today you’ve just got to find out where it hurts and for 15 min, taunt that happy fun ball. The only directive is to make sure you deal with the tissue for an adequate length of time before hitting the next spot.
Kstar
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Hey Sifu,
I messed up and rolled the painball on a nerve(?)in my foream. Now I can't straighten my ring and pinky finger. Obviously overdid it, but I didn't feel any tingling before just pain.
How do I treat this?
Is that just a tennis ball you are using? Or what is recommended?
Everybody knows you don't taunt happy fun ball: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/happy-fun-ball/229058/
Colin– Its a lacrosse ball $1 at most sport stores.
I have the text Fascial Manipulation by Luigi and Carla Stecco. I can not wait for the FM course to be taught here in Eugene,OR. Meanwhile I have been exploring my own densified myofascial Centres of Coordination and Fusion [CC/CF] with a la crosse ball.Hurts so good! Stecco says it takes a least 2 minutes of vigorous work to dedensify area of myofascial densifacations [CCs/CFs]
We dont have lacrosse in Ireland! So would be suitable ball be rock solid, like a hockey ball?
@Colin Bell,
Yes.
Lacrosse balls are dense solid rubber balls about 63mm in diameter.They have a little give to them so they're not as hard as solid plastic.
Any solid ball of approximately that diameter is what you're after. I've used practise hockey balls (very hard and very hurty), tennis balls (too soft, but cheap and easier to get hold of where lacrosse is not commonly played) and kids sold rubber "super bounce" balls (a little too small, but accessible). Others have used baseballs.
A hockey ball is probably your best bet.
Colin– How about a field hockey or a floor hockey ball? Other alternatives are a softball, a baseball, or a tee ball.
Hurt my shoulder during a jiu-jitsu training session the other day. It was weird…bringing my arm overhead, there was a little pain. Bringing my arm parallel to the ground and trying to bring it across my body, it was stuck, couldn't bring it past a certain point. Much less range of motion than my other arm.
Thanks to this MWOD blog, I was exposed to referenced pain, trigger points, etc. Invested in some pain balls, and immediately started addressing some very hot spot on the distal border of the scapula. After rolling around on the hot spots, the range has increased, pain his definitely subsided, but I still have some.
Thank you so much! I was worried I tore something, but didn't feel a pop and was able to spar a few more rounds. Another thing MWOD has given me was the awareness and requirement of rest. Luckily I'm not preparing for a tournament, I might be a little stubborn and try to get some mat time today! But I will do Annie today, since there isn't much overhead action going on.
Thanks K-Star. Your wisdom really helped me out in this situation and many many more!
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Bear claws in the kitchen!