Re: Pain in the ....

...bending my neck gives me a pain in the neck.
...bending my neck gives me a pain in the side of my
ribs. ...bending my neck gives me a pain in my mid-low
back. ....

Sounds like you *really* need to make some adjustments to your
equipment/techniques. Higher cutting table and ironing board, adjustable
chair so you don't have to "bend your neck".
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/sewing/

I'm sitting here with ice packs on my neck and back.
D*** FMS & MPS!


The MPS is what gives the pain from trigger points (TrP) in the muscles that
were injured. If I had been able to get proper treatment in a timely
manner I wouldn't have them. Unfortunately that was not the case. So I
have in a lot of places around my body these tiny hard ball of muscle fibers
that tighten all the other fibers that are attached to them. This leads to
what is called refered pain pattern. So the TrP in my neck area erector
spinae (muscles that run along side the spine) give pain not only where they
are located but also in an area further away around halfway down my back.
Other TrPs in the neck area are in the trapezious muscle which can also
refer down along side the spine but also out to my side underneath my arm.
My current sewing area does not lend itself to ergonomic reform. My
cutting/planning table/work space is the laminate tile floor. My sewing
machine and serger, switching back and forth as I need one or the other, are
perched on the bottom of an upside down upper kitchen cabinet. My chair is
an over-the-range upper kitchen cabinet.
Right now it's a make do or do without kind of thing. Since I'm running
out of servicable underwear it's kind of a necessity to sew. I just wish
those fabrics and elastics I ordered would arrive.

And with me a lower table would be better. I'm just ever so slightly short.
A smidgeon over 5'. Bend at the joints, ie. hips not the waist.

matching plaids gives me a pain in the neck.

And yet, I *love* the challenge of matching plaids and even printed fabric
patterns. It's one of the things I love most about sewing. ;-)

Yes, I love plaid fabrics also as my stash will attest to.



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