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Näytetään blogitekstit, joiden ajankohta on syyskuu, 2018.

Life with movement disorder

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Those who know me personally, those who follow me on Instagram, and those who spent a couple minutes from their precious free time to read a post I wrote about plastic straws - should be aware, that I have a movement disorder called Essential Tremors. Those who do not know, well now they know. And those who do know, and also for those who do not know, here is a bit more information about my life with that disorder. --> btw, I somehow hate a word disorder. It sounds so serious, or like a contagious. Anyway, Essential Tremors (often shortened as ET) is the most common movement disorders in the whole world. But still, unfortunately, it is also often misdiagnosed or just ignored for years before getting a diagnose. Especially if first symptoms come in childhood. Also, ET is considered a neurodegenerative disease, but the process is usually slow and might take even decades before getting worse. There has also been a lot discussion about the connection between ET and Parkinson'

Whatever it takes

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Have you ever heard someone say, that they do whatever it takes to reach something? That they have the real passion for that thing, and they really are ready to do anything to reach their goal. I mean, anything and everything which are legal. ;) I have made the decision, or more like a promise to myself, that I will do anything and everything it takes to get back to my sports. To try everything to get my lower back in that condition, that I can throw the hammer and do everything in Taekwon-Do without being afraid that one movement can make everything worse, and get me back to level 0. Doing everything I can, so that I will not need to start all over ever again, that I do not need to do all the rehabilitation again, that I just could get injury free training seasons. Those are the things I want. And it does not come only with doing training in a safe way, starting slowly and step by step increasing weights in weightlifting etc. It also includes other areas in life as well,