I mean, this but unironically. There’s a lot of muscular-skeletal issues that you get from… sitting in an office chair for 20 years. Or not getting tons of physical activity for most of your adult life. Or various deterioration of this or that bodily function from over/under-utilization or simple wear-and-tear.
Ask a Sports Medicine doctor what to do about compounded injuries and most of what you’ll get is “We can replace the part that’s broken” or “Stop doing the thing that’s causing you injury”. After that, there’s no miracle cure that’s going to make decades of strains and bruises and stress injuries just vanish.
Met a guy last week who found himself next to two different IEDs while in Afghanistan and then Iraq. He had far more scars to show for it than I ever did as a desk jockey.
Don’t forget “you’re over 30, your body just does that now”
There is a lot of truth in that though haha.
But yeah, it sucks seeing stories of people getting told that it is just growing old, while they have a chronic illness.
I mean, this but unironically. There’s a lot of muscular-skeletal issues that you get from… sitting in an office chair for 20 years. Or not getting tons of physical activity for most of your adult life. Or various deterioration of this or that bodily function from over/under-utilization or simple wear-and-tear.
Ask a Sports Medicine doctor what to do about compounded injuries and most of what you’ll get is “We can replace the part that’s broken” or “Stop doing the thing that’s causing you injury”. After that, there’s no miracle cure that’s going to make decades of strains and bruises and stress injuries just vanish.
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Then you were very lucky.
Met a guy last week who found himself next to two different IEDs while in Afghanistan and then Iraq. He had far more scars to show for it than I ever did as a desk jockey.
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I got “don’t worry, it should go away by the time you’re 30”
I was 19 at the time, and it did not