Joanne Lee SmithChronic pain and symptoms recovery Nurse / Coach

My Years of Pain and Self-Massage

6 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, Joanne Smith recounts a 16‑year history of chronic pain that led her through numerous physiotherapy appointments before she took charge of her own recovery. She describes how she taught herself a variety of self‑massage techniques using tools such as spiky balls, smooth balls, and rolling pins, eventually becoming proficient enough to rely on them daily. Joanne notes that many athletes and runners use similar self‑massage routines for faster recovery before and after races, and she expresses an intention to involve a person named Debbie in her practice.

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I think for me, I've had so many years of pain, 15+ years, 16 now actually, I'm lying, it's 16 years, where I've had, in the very beginning I had so many appointments with different physiotherapy and all kinds of people that I got to the point where I just got, I had to do it myself. I had to do all my own massage and I was just forever having to use different Different spiky balls, smooth balls, all kinds of massage tools, rolling pins, you name it, that I just got so good at doing my own that I never really, really got really invested in doing that. But I know that a lot of people swear by it before races, after races, quick, quicker recovery. I'm just going to see whether I can get Debbie in.