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Aaaaah... Bed... Nice to put the feet up at last
Yeah, I've hurt my knee. Pes anserine bursitis at a very educated guess. Got a bag of Epsom salt glad wrapped to it... And elevated.
I didn't know you could use Epsom salts like that, it honestly never occurred to me. Does it work well? I've always just dissolved it in a bath.
It creates some osmotic pressure to pull edema. It's a bit of an old timey solution. Whenever I recommend it to clients I was sure to inform them that the science was weak. It's cheap, low risk and easy to self manage. I was always bad at the business part of being a therapist.
Apparently using them like that can also help to remove a splinter. It didn't work for me, but that's probably because the "splinter" turned out to be a small stick requiring surgical intervention. But the whole osmotic pressure thing is supposed to work on normal splinters.
It's magnesium sulfate, mangnoplam splinter gel is pretty much Epsom and a carrier like solugel or Sorbonne.
I must have walked at least 5k yesterday, probably my longest walk in a year. I'm a bit tired but also glad my back isn't sore from it. 🙂