#joint dislocation

[boatcats]

Gravitational Pull

Heard @ourfag declared it Whump Him Wednesday.

Stede helps Ed treat a dislocated shoulder during the Co-Captains Era.

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"Ed?" Stede asked, closing the door to the cabin behind him, "Why are you lying on the desk?"

The desk. Not just Stede's desk anymore. Stede relished the fact. He and Ed were co-captains and co-users of the desk. Ed had been teaching him to plot a course earlier in the week. But now the charts were arranged in much the same pattern as before, paperweights holding down their corners and navigational instuments on top, only... on the rug in the middle of the room. They'd been supplanted on the desk by Ed who lay in his shirt-sleeves on his stomach with one arm hanging down straight over the side in a patch of late afternoon sunlight.

Ed made a non-commital noise, began to shrug, then appeared to change his mind about the movement at the last second. "My shoulder got dislocated on the raid. It'll go back in eventually hanging down like this. A bit of weight might help, though, if you could grab my flask from my jacket pocket."

Oh God. Ed sounded much too casual about this. Stede felt himself start to panic, swore he felt the blood begin to drain from his face, but then he stopped himself. He wasn't the one with the dislocated shoulder. And he had a duty to Ed.

"Of course!" Stede knew he was speaking a bit too loudly and moving a bit too quickly as he made a beeline for Ed's jacket where it lay on the couch. He felt the adrenaline making him awkward and clumsy and winced at his own obvious lack of competence - surely Ed deserved a more practiced nurse.

But Ed said nothing about it and his eyes were soft and fond when Stede skidded to a halt with the flask in front of the desk. There was no amusement in his gaze, no teasing. Ed merely looked grateful and for a moment Stede thought he might drown in the warm feeling that flooded his chest and truly become no use to Ed at all.

Ed made a grabby motion with his good hand. "Give us a sip first, would you?"

Stede unscrewed the cap with clumsy fingers and handed it to Ed who half sat up to take it and haphazardly pour a trickle of rum into his own mouth. "Now take the lanyard and loop it over my other hand. The weight will pull my shoulder back in place faster."

The flask had a waxed loop of braided rope at one end that could be wrapped around ones wrist. "I've lost too many of these things overboard," Ed had told Stede once by way of explanation.

Stede walked around the desk and kneeled by Ed's hanging arm. He tried to be as gentle as possible looping the rope around Ed's wrist and letting go of the flask so that it hung towards the floor. Ed still groaned.

On instinct, Stede ran a gentle hand over Ed's good shoulder. He felt warm and slightly damp with sweat through his shirt. Stede could see sweat beading on the back of his neck under the fall of his hair.

"Thanks, mate," Ed said, voice slightly strained. "You're welcome to stay, obviously. Your cabin. But you don't have to. I'll be alright now."

Our cabin, Stede wanted to correct him, feeling unexpectedly stung. But he stopped himself. "Can I get you a cool cloth?" He asked instead. "You're a bit sweaty. Not that it's... not that it's a problem or... but it looked uncomfortable."

Stede could see the tension bleeding off Ed in the moment after he asked. But then Ed just said "Sure. Thanks, mate."

When Stede came back with the cloth and a bowl of cool water, Ed's eyes were closed, his expression both somehow blank and tight with pain. Stede cleared his throat and the dark eyes blinked open (Ed had remarkably long lashes, Stede realized, and freckles he hadn't noticed before).

"Do you want me to...?" Stede mimed a sponging motion with the cloth.

"Sure."

Stede brought the damp cloth to Ed's forehead and felt him shiver slightly as he traced his hairline, wiping away sweat and grime, then moved to the back of his neck where his hair was sticking to his skin. He moved Ed's hair away from his neck and shoulders so that it fanned out over the desk instead, a cloud of starlight, and felt Ed sigh, relaxing marginally.

When Stede was done, he set the bowl aside and settled on the carpet near Ed's face. Ed opened his eyes and gave him a lopsided smile.

"Thanks. The waiting's the worst bit. Your body wants to tense up but of course that's not going to help so you sort of have to just... lie there."

"Mmm," Stede said and nodded. He wouldn't know but he was certainly ready to take Ed's word for it. He cast about for anything he could do to help. "If it would help take your mind off it, I'm... quite well versed in reading aloud to pirates." Stede felt silly as soon as he suggested it but Ed's smile was immediate.

"I'd love that, mate. It's real hard to hold a book like this."

"Excellent! How about The Little Mermaid?"

[skellysedsbattle]

Welcome to my Blog!

Hi! I'm so happy to have all of you here. On this blog, I will document my experiences, troubles, treatments, interventions, and life with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Secondary to my EDS I have gastroparesis, dysautonomia, ASD, hip dysplasia, OSA, Iron Deficiency Anemia, POTS/OH, and more. I display my life with these disorders in order to raise awareness for EDS in the public eye AND in the medical feild!

[blitzs-largest-horsiest-dildo]

Hey fibromyalgia and/or hypermobile crew: Do you ever suddenly, almost absentmindedly, discover a brand new way to realign your joints?

Cause I definitely just did.

Tldr; I punched my knee and now it feels better

Long Explanation: I was pressing on/doing myofascial release on my outer knee ligaments, and I did this little ritual I do where I take my fist and straight up pound it into the muscle above the knee (IT band, I think?)

This softens it up, which sometimes lets me put my knee back into place. Sometimes, though, it feels really really good, and it sort of...turns into a stim. So I was stimming, and this time I hit a little lower than usual, just below the knee instead of above and CLICK the whole ass bone went back where it was supposed to be. Halle-fuckin-luja, that felt amazing.

Of course, I now have to pop my ankle, hip, SI joint, spine, shoulder and elbow on that side since they were displaced by that dislocation. And inevitably the bones/joints will drift back to the dislocated state. But! I have another useful tool! And this one appears to realign my entire right side at once!

[i-call-me-clarence]

Trigger warning for ganglion cysts and joint dislocation below the cut. If ANYONE has any knowledge about ganglion cysts or other types of cysts in joints PLEASE read. I need help and to know what’s going on and google is being trash. My doc appointment is weeks out and I need to know if this is an urgent care situation.

Please reblog this so more people who may be able to help can see it.

So I had this ganglion cyst in the joint at the base of my big toe. It swelled while I was in a rainy state and my toe dislocated. It was out of place for a week with no hope of going back in until the cyst deflated again. A few days ago there was this intense snapping feeling and I felt the joint go back together. It was also incredibly painful which is strange since joints going back in is something I’m extremely familiar with and this felt very different. Today the side of my foot started hurting horribly. I removed my sock and started to apply tigers balm to dull the pain but when I touched the skin something HUGE moved. I could feel all around it and it moved when I touched around it or on it. It was roughly the size of my thumb and shaped like a banana. After I was done applying the tigers balm I felt a muscle spasm in the previously dislocated toe coming on. It scared me so I taped several toes together so the big toe couldn’t move. Then the mass moved to the center of my foot. I could see it through the skin. My muscles around it started spamming visibly through the skin and it seemed to disappear from site but I could feel it go up in my foot towards the middle. I can no longer see it. I am still having extreme muscle spasms in the spot where it was on the side of my foot and in the center of my foot. It looks like my foot is breathing. Now there is extreme pain in the base big toe joint. I’m terrified it’s going to find its way back in somehow. Is this possible? Also I can’t find anything on ganglion cysts disconnecting and becoming free floating. I think this happened when it popped out of the joint. It’s still solid (soft and moveable but still solid) and I don’t believe it ruptured. My skin around the base big toe joint as well as on the side of my foot is turning red in a marbled pattern. I cannot afford urgent care or a doctor but I am willing to borrow money (it will be extremely difficult) to get this looked at sooner if I must. Please, if anyone has had a similar experience or knows something about this please reply to this post, reblog it, or dm me. I’m terrified.

Also, I am not putting any weight on the foot at this point at all. I’m terrified it will move to a hard to excise/aspirate spot and making any aspiration or surgery more difficult and possible dangerous. My sister found crutches and a wheelchair so I’m using those.

[havegaysex]

when we blindly exercise to try and fix our joint problems but actually tends to injure us worse

please for the love of god stop telling disabled people they need to fucking exercise. I was on the ground nearly sobbing because my shoulder popped out so suddenly and painfully that it shot up my neck and down my arm and I couldn't move it at all to pop it back for a few minutes because of how painful it was and I got told I "need to exercise and gain some muscle mass." like what the hell is going through your mind that that is the solution to this problem??

[transmasccofee]

really hes an icon

[the-spideytorch-fanboy]

Peter and Johnny both deal with chronic pain in different ways.

Peter has been dealing with pain for almost his whole life; it started with undiagnosed hEDS and eventually led to chronic pain due to fights as Spider-Man. He taught himself to get through it with the help of joint tape, hot water bottles, and insane amounts of painkillers, and is pretty much always moving through pain as though it isn't there.

Johnny is typically able to avoid pain due to the fact that he can fly away from things that can hurt him or use his powers to blast it away. His method of dealing with pain is ice and bedrest.

They both actually help the other out with their pain. Johnny taught Peter that he should relax a little more often when he's in pain, and Peter taught Johnny about the joys of joint tape.

[boatcats]

While I'm whumping Ed also need to remember to write my fic where he has to fix his own dislocated shoulder. Which is apparently a thing you can do. And, I feel like, a thing Ed would do.

[justaminnow]

I think I misunderstood the song because my leg bone is NOT connected to my hip bone.

[sebs-out-of-spoons]

i’m going wheelchair/cane shopping tomorrow at a local thrift store, so excited, WISH ME LUCK EVERYONE :3

[silvershadow1711]

I can imagine Ray coming back from like, a VERY tiring day(let's say that he was a good boy and DIDN'T kill anyone) and coming home to hug MC to regain energy...just for MC to think something like "Holy boobaroni"

See, you think something cute for that scenario. Me? I'm picturing that he just drapes over them, still in full costume, and as he's relaxing, he hears:

'Ugh, he's so sweaty... it's like being smothered by a carpet soaked in hot oil... the suit's padding absorbs the sweat like a tres leche cake... I think I'm gonna puke. God, someone put a bullet between my eyes...!'

You can have a cuddle after you have a shower, sir.

[bedpsyching]

How my au starts basically, cue Kusuo missing a week of school to figure out what’s going on and realize things he thought had to do with his powers had nothing to do with them actually

[unassumingcavegoblin]

“are you okay” no im SICK timebomb happened dont hmu

[tumble-tv]

I have learned that laying on my left side makes both hips dislocage, but laying on my right keeps them in place. The problem is that I prefer to lay on my left since it helps with digestion and stomach problems (I don't know why) and I can't now because of safety. Fun.

[revvethasmythh]

WEEPING about this codex entry, which was delivered unto me immediately following a Lucanis and Taash party banter about how Taash thought the Crows were WICKED cool as a kid despite Shathann's best efforts and Lucanis replies, "this explains SO much about you."

[lullambre]

/ls!

oh lifesteal and princezam....

the whole stream I'd just go, wait so mapicc does x thing but derap does y thing, that's so interesting!

why does derap tend to exhibit (vitalasy, 4c, subz) characteristic here, but then flame manages to mirror (minute, mapicc) here .....

oh so deraps chr is like this way, but mapicc is like this and that's why zam reacts this way to them

AND THEN SHE SHOWED HIM THE BASE AND I CLICKED OFF FOR A SECOND

I was so sad 😿😿😿😿😿😿😿 sad kitty cat......

but low-key now it's all so interesting because derap doesn't... mean harm???? he's just. dumb. like what the fuck is going on why is he so odd odd.

but she's so... she's trying and it's so like .. leaves me awestruck. because zam is notorious for lacking communication skills. to the point that even when vi returns for her Christmas event, zam is still a little rough around the edges... very rough tbh... and points it out to vi herself.

so seeing zam talk to derap and then send him away and then call him back???? I'm like. woah. she really wants to make this work out which is so crazy to me because there were so many moments my heart would race and I'd be like oh... this is how I feel when I rewatch S4 vods (not when it was live that was.... a surreal feeling derap cannot draw out from me lol)

anyways ignoring that... SOLARFLSTE$?$??$())"))$ SOLAR FLARE? I APOLOGIZE I DID NOT KNOW YOUR GAME WOAH

I lied I did know, the stream that got me back into lifesteal was the flame blowing everything up for the first time stream so.

oh solarflare, please make each other worse.