I'm four weeks into my triathlon aspirations and daily workouts, and I've had my first setback. I injured my pelvic ligaments and threw my spine out of alignment. Don't get me started—I could write a sitcom scene around this one. Such a disability sounds like it should have come from having really awesome, energetic, pillow-biting sex, but sadly, it resulted simply from walking uphill fast and doing those exercises where you lie on your side and lift your legs and torso at the same time. Massive pain in my back. The chiropractor said I have been overtraining, and it's true; I barely take any days off. It hurt so bad, I couldn't even put on my socks!
Here's what I did to fix it. I am telling you this because it's day three now and I am feeling pretty awesome. Who knows, maybe this advice will come in handy for you sometime.
As soon as I limped back from the gym, I took homeopathic Arnica Montana in 30C (yes, I have it laying around just in case. Doesn't everyone?). I had my green smoothie with extra protein, and took huge gulps (at least five) out of the cod liver oil bottle. Then I took a nice hot shower, and put arnica cream on right after. Once my stomach was empty, I took five proteolytic enzymes.
As soon as I could, I went to see my homeopath and chiropractor. After the chiropractor visit, I was feeling much better. So, the regimen was:
3 proteolytic enzymes - 4x a day
4 tablespoons of cod liver oil - 3x a day
2 probiotics - 3x a day
tons of green smoothies and wheat grass juice
homeopathic remedy 2x a day
and the chiropractor 3x a week.
So here I am on day three of my injury. I did 800 meters in the pool and am not feeling any pain. One or two of these things must have worked.
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