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Vendryth Oct 8, 2025

After an entire life of not knowing that my arms were all fucked up because I'm hypermobile in both hands and wrists, it's nice to finally get to see an occupational therapist.

I can feel tiny differences already, and god, can I feel the difference between before I go in for appointments and afterwards, as far as how the stuff he's using feels against the tendons in my arms.

He described pretty much all the muscles he was working with in my arms as "extremely crunchy" on day one. It felt -weird-.

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Vendryth Oct 8, 2025

As a bit of explanation for someone that might see this and not understand why hypermobility = fucked up arms.

The layman's tl;dr is that because my wrists can move 10-15 degrees further than normal mobility, forward and backwards. My thumb is a *lot* more wiggly than normal mobility thumbs, too.

Because of that, muscles in my arms have to compensate a lot more for balance and stability when I'm being a hypermobile weirdo and I never knew, so I never tried to improve those muscles, and they got weak and whiny.

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I've been talking to doctors for 20-something years, on and off, and they always just kind of shrugged it off as "you have tendonitis, take these anti-inflammatories." "Okay, it hurts less now." "Congratulations, you're healed."

Then, when it inevitably came back, they just treat the immediate problem over and over again instead of identifying why it keeps coming back.

I just kind of got lucky this time in that my current primary care doctor gave me the anti-inflammatories again, and then suggested occupational therapy if it didn't stay fixed.