Injuries are a part of life. If you've never gotten any, you're playing it way too safe and probably not having any fun.
This doesn't mean you should have been in traction for six weeks or be wearing a peg leg to be really enjoying life. That would be asking too much.
Injuries can be caused by almost anything -- from falling out of a tree as a kid to dropping a case of water bottles on your foot while stocking shelves. They mean you're human.
They also can be cumulative. This is the kind of thing you discover as you get older. You are probably suffering no ill effects from getting bucked off a horse at ten, but if that happens to you at even 25, your body may start to remember and give you random pain every time you start to forget.
This doesn't mean you have to start being extra careful. A little caution is good, but the excessive kind just leaves you trapped in your house afraid to watch nature shows for fear of the stress.
What does change is the way you need to deal with injuries. Shrugging your shoulders and walking it off may be the macho thing to do - or macha, women suffer from pride as much as men - but it isn't always wise. There is a fine balance between being a great big whiner and not taking care of yourself.
One reason this is hard to determine is that everyone experiences pain and stress differently. Some people may have to sit down for a little while over something that another doesn't even really notice. This does not make one person weak or another strong - although there is some "show-off" potential here - it simply means there are different levels of conditioning and tolerance.
Only you know your own pain. This means that only you can be sure if something is hurting more or for a greater length of time than you think it should. Although, if you feel bones grinding together, that may be a sign you need treatment.
Another problem with injuries is that even when you're sure there's something wrong, sometimes it is hard to pinpoint or otherwise describe the pain in a fashion that standardized medicine recognizes. If it does not fit within certain parameters, they may tell you it's all in your head or simply give you a narcotic or both.
While too much focus on pain will make it worse, ignoring it doesn't always make it go away. The same goes with prescription or over-the-counter medications. While an anti-inflammatory can actually help to address the problem, many will simply mask the symptoms without doing anything for the underlying issue.
There are other steps you can take to try to ameliorate your pain and heal your injury. In many cases a chiropractor can help you, either by adjusting the affected area in such a way as to relieve pressure or to realign your body posture to do the same. There are other steps such as exercises and proper body mechanics that can help or heal an injury before it gets worse.
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