Rickard Gustafsson | Saturday, 19 April 2025
Sometime during the beginning of covid-19 I got into some back problems. After sitting down I became an old man. When I stod up I could not stand up straight. I had to walk around a bit with my back bent and slowly working up to standing fully straight. It didn’t happen for any apparent reason. I would guess that it had something to do with suddenly working from home and the change of daily activity it caused and that I went from sitting in a reasonable chair during the day to sitting on a cheap kitchen table chair. The chair felt comfortable thought but it is still a suspect in the problem. I also lost a couple of thousands of steps each day also. I did walk to and from work and that added a number of steps that I think I lost during that time.
I did go to the gym regularly at the time and continued to do while I had the pain in the back. Going to the gym helped a bit, but only temporary. The pain always came back after sitting down. And the pain wasn’t going away it was there for weeks, maybe even months, I don’t remember exactly but it was quite a long time. When I started to research what the problem could be and what I could do about it I found something that sounded quite strange, nerve flossing. Looking at videos of how to do it didn’t really make me less sceptical of the concept. It looked like it couldn’t really make any difference but I tried it. It did actually work, I could feel a difference after the first session. It didn’t take many sessions before the pain was completely gone.
Like all good and simple things this knowledge got lost somewhere in the brain archive until I rediscovered it in the recent days. This time for my fly casting elbow. It seems like the nerve I want to floss this time is the radial nerve. After testing a couple of radial flossing movements I have found it seems like this is a part of the puzzle to better by fly casting elbow. It seems to make a difference for me. I’ll keep looking into this and doing some exercises to see where it gets me. Things are improving but still not completely good.
Then there is the less fun part of pains, they might never be completely good. It can be something that you have to accept and learn to live with. Hopefully this is not the case.
The fishing recently has been decent in the number of sessions but not the length of them. I have been a bit restricted with time and weather. But only one session so far without any fish. No big ones though in the moment of writing this. It could also be time to change tactics a bit. I have seen reports that the garfish is here and that means that the sand eel and herring are showing up and that the water is getting warmer.
Cheers, Rickard
PoD: On my way out to the seatrout sharing the river with a very large boat. The ferry displaces so much water that it changes the direction of the top water of the river that flows with almost 600 cubic meters per second (on average).