Pacing helps to stop the boom and bust. For me my goal was trying to get dinner on the table for the kids without being exhausted and grumpy by the time I sat down to eat with them. Pacing improves the chances of us having a conversation at the table. I used two techniques toContinue reading “How to pace and protect your joints in the kitchen”
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Laughter is the best medicine – crashes, falls and close calls on the sit ski
When we have a chronic illness or disability it can sometimes be difficult to just laugh and seek out things to enjoy. Getting by is hard enough, let alone trying to remember to laugh! I pulled together this footage me falling on the sit ski, in the hope that smashes and crashes might be interestingContinue reading “Laughter is the best medicine – crashes, falls and close calls on the sit ski”
Hiking poles: more stability and less pain so you can walk faster and longer
I view adaptive equipment like an athlete. Adaptive equipment will enable me to live life the way I want to. I don’t have to “bad enough” to use it. I use it because it enables me to do the things I want to do. Hiking poles make me feel like superman.
Heli Ski tips to help you get the most out of your first heli ski
It was the middle of our New Zealand lockdown and it was 8 April, our 20th wedding anniversary. We had planned an overseas trip in January, but couldn’t take it because my husband injured himself. The weekend he was finally cleared to drive, was the weekend New Zealand went into lockdown. We’d gone from oneContinue reading “Heli Ski tips to help you get the most out of your first heli ski”
Making Exercise Stick
For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve got a type of spondyloarthropathy, which is in my spine, hands and feet, arms and legs. It mostly affects my tendons, where they attach to the bones (enthesitis). I’ve had this disease for about 9 years. In the past, I often chose to rest on theContinue reading “Making Exercise Stick”
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