Last summer was a bit of a slog for me - getting sick, teaching, ending up with recurrent migraines... I was getting a bit desperate. I was aware that my shoulder problems and neck problems (and hence migraines) were related, and that I was having more problems with my shoulders. (Thank you perimenopause! And also, probably, less training than is ideal, but then my training was going pretty well until I got sick.) So one day MedCline was having a bit more of a sale than usual, and I sprang for their pillow thing. (Which came with a whole body pillow thing, which hasn't been taken out of its wrappings - I've tried them before, and they annoy me.)

The good: it did take strain off my shoulder.

The bad: OMG, where do I start?  ( Read more... )