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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 08:19:44 JST goatsarah

   Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.

   Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. It’s helping massively.

   Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.

   Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. I’m hoping for 1.

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     Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧 (nikkileah@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 08:25:35 JST Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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     @goatsarah eep!! 🫂🫂
     I hope it heals quickly!!

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 08:28:26 JST goatsarah

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     • Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧
     @Nikkileah Thanks. It’s not at all comfortable!
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     Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧 (nikkileah@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 09:03:36 JST Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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     @goatsarah RICE? I'm sure you know what you're doing 🫂

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 10:03:29 JST goatsarah

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     Aside: when I contemplate the terrible way that knees are held together, it makes me wonder why those christians who believe in intelligent design don’t think they’re going to hell for implying their god is incompetent.

     Because nobody competent would have designed the human knee.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 10:09:38 JST goatsarah

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     Seriously though, it’s like trying to build a lighthouse out of shoelaces.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 10:14:02 JST goatsarah

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     @BashStKid think that’s a long way from being necessary. This is a trivial sprain.
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     BashStKid (bashstkid@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 10:14:03 JST BashStKid

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     @goatsarah Knees are no joke. Are you anywhere near an mri?

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     Jon Massey (jonny_boy27@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 20:27:34 JST Jon Massey

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     @goatsarah mine have been so much better since I swapped out some of the major parts for ones made by humans (well, robots under the control of humans anyway)

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     Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 20:32:09 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     @goatsarah (You can easily anthropomorphize the process here and imagine a god, but somehow no one finds it particularly convincing or reassuring to imagine we're crude prototypes made by an imperfect god who is still figuring out how to do bipedalism right. And how to create intelligent tool-users who don't irradiate the planet because someone else has their favorite kind of rock or something.)

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     Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 20:32:10 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     @goatsarah Teeth are the example I normally think of, though knees are good too. What's even going on with teeth?

     The mess that is hunan knees is easy to explain evolutionary though. We spend like a couple hundred million years evolving knees optimized to walk on four legs, and just 'recently' start using them *wrong*? (Apparently using hands for tools is beneficial or something.) Maybe evolution would eventually fix that, but give it at least a few more million years.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 20:34:17 JST goatsarah

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     • Like a DIYer dad, only gayer
     @Buster I’d put some bloody cross bracing in.
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     Like a DIYer dad, only gayer (buster@woof.group)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 20:34:18 JST Like a DIYer dad, only gayer

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     @goatsarah dispute! How else would you design a class 3 lever with a need for 120 degrees range of movement but a spring length delta of only about 5mm?
     The knee is amazing.

     Bias: knee specialist physio

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 21:30:36 JST goatsarah

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     • Like a DIYer dad, only gayer

     @Buster I mean, this took almost none of my body weight laterally. I was almost in freewill at the time.

     And it fucked it.

     That's wank, that is. Stupid quadruped joint bodged into a bipedal leg and rotated 90 degrees.

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     Like a DIYer dad, only gayer (buster@woof.group)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 21:30:37 JST Like a DIYer dad, only gayer

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     @goatsarah ACL/PCL have that interiorly. Then the pes anserine dynamically supports the medial aspect which has more load due to the valgus forces from the varus forefoot (which provides excellent compression damping and rebound return while running)