u/177660

27M, 5'9, 175lbs, no medications (not even OTC), otherwise in good health

Howdy everyone, I sustained some kind of tendon/ligament injury durring an MMA demonstration (I am an instructor), and for the past 2 weeks it has been healing at a soul crushingly slow pace. MOI was someone jerking on my arm as hard as they could by grabbing my wrist when I thought they were just going to be going through the motions, instant sharp pain shot up my front deltoid and bicep. It was one of those injuries where I just knew it was gonna be the bane of my existence for a few weeks at least. Bicep part feels fine now, front deltoid is still having issues. Sitting around doing nothing it doesn't hurt but if I tweak it by moving just the wrong way it hurts for the rest of the day (sharp spike to 7/10, dull at 4/10 after) and then feels fine again in the morning. I'm going to need to take the army AFT again in about 2 or 3 months, I'd really appreciate some advice for rehabbing this thing as fast as possible so I can do pushups without hurting myself, and avoid having this be a life long issue.

I'm not in the army at this very moment and my health insurance is terrible and really only good for keeping the tax collectors off my back every April so I'm medically kinda on my own for the moment. I'll include a pain diagram for reference.

Thanks in advance for the help

Howdy everyone, just thought I'd share a success story rather than asking for help for once. This is my first ever tank, started on April 18th this year, and I was going for as close to a self sufficient ecosysyem as possible. I did a ton of research beforehand and played the rest by ear. Well, I must be doing something right, because I found out today that the Indostomus Paradoxus in my tank spawned! Here's some of the babies, looks like they're decent size too so the meiofauna in there must be small and numerous enough for them to grow!

Honestly the tank has really exceeded expectations, I drop spinach and algae wafers in there once every 1-2 weeks and test the water at the same interval and that is it for regular maintenance. I'd do water changes if nitrates were building up but all nitrogen compounds stay flat at zero no matter what I do. The biggest issue I had was a massive vorticella outbreak but I think I finally beat that with H2O2 and salt dips for effected shrimp. If the indostomus population gets so big the copepods and ostracods can't keep up I might have to see if my LFS will take some or something but I'm pretty jazzed that the tank is stable enough that the indostomus felt comfortable spawning since from what I've read that's kind of tough to pull off. I wasn't trying to breed them but I wasn't not trying to breed them either haha.

Side note/ question: I was weighing the idea of adding 1-2 sparkling gourami in there, but now Im a little concerned they'd eat the indostomus fry. Is that a concern or do sparkling gourami mostly stick to eating inverts? There are plenty of scuds in there for them to snack on at the moment.