• Been there. Done that. •
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I’m not a real roller.
Everyone uses rollers and massagers for a variety of reasons. I hear Shawmont runners talk about the practice regularly. I don’t roll for one reason: I prioritize differently. >cough< lazy >cough<
A few years ago, I decided to prioritize toe touches. Easy, right? Not for me. I started using a simple stretch and finally achieved my goal. It got me wondering about another degree of flexibility. I wondered if I could get to touching my forehead to my knees.
Keeping at the stretching led me to discover a nerve pain that I didn’t know was a thing: a left upper-thigh pain that only occurred when I was doing that particular stretch, to that particular degree. A quick search returned meralgia paresthetica as the precise diagnosis. But the treatment made little sense (My family would not even let me wear tight clothing.).
Enter rolling. Wife had bought me a leg roller years ago that I never used: Gaiam Restore Dual-Sided Leg Massager. Rolling out the area of my thigh where the pain occurred was the solution. After using it for a few weeks, the pain dissipated and I’ve been able to continue with my latest head-to-knee priority.
And I stopped rolling. I got other things I devote my time to.
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Meralgia Paresthetica
Leg Massager
–CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue (iCandybyWangC.com)
FINE PRINT ¶Image copyright indeterminate. Used with analysis of Fair Use Doctrine of US Copyright Law. ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CreativeCommons.org). ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 8/15/26 [Facebook]), Shawmont Running Club website (ShawmontRunningClub.com), Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption, duration, and enumeration.
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