I tumbled our entire life and was a university gymnast, then with gymnastics it takes a toll on the body, then my entire body got seriously abused during our times of heavy competing, however now that I am older and only tumble for fun, our injuries have caught up with me.
My left knee aches to the point where long car rides are a problem… I also can’t put any weight on it, so squatting and sitting are out.
I also have a hip issue where it gets out of locale and hurts. My shoulders are also tense and sore most of the time. My chronic pain got to be so disappointing that I started asking around for help, then going to the doctor’s was a bust. I tried working out a tumbling and non tumbling way and it only aggravated our pain. I attempted stretching first thing in the afternoon however I just hurt too bad. A neighbor of mine requested trying cannabis for our pain levels. Apparently it can lessen the inflammation in the muscles and loosen everything up. I had never smoked cannabis outside of a celebration before. I didn’t genuinely know our neighbor that it would help. I did go to the dispensary and ask a budtender for help… The worker there was super knowledgeable and got me a wonderful strain of weed to smoke, and he told me to smoke once weekly and I should be good. I did not know him at first, however now I do. Wow, our pain levels have never been so little! I can get up and stretch instantly. I also can work out without any troubles.