Take your anti-inflammatory medicine of choice at least one hour before shift, NOT when the pain intensifies after you are already working. For body pain, I do prefer Aleve (naproxen sodium).
Use the therma-care type 'bandages' that are self-sticking heat pads on your larger muscle groups. OR, if you get relief from them, rub down with Aspercreme or Icy Hot or whatever muscle rub that you prefer. Never put a heat pack over an area you recently used the muscle rub on; it can cause chemical burns.
Take time for recovery after work. Hot bath/shower, alternating ice and heat on worst areas, or self-massage at the areas you can reach.
I worked third-shift merchandising and inventory control for several years. These are things I did to manage (S.I. joint dysfunction plus permanent disalignment of pelvic girdle and sacrum with lowest vertebrae affected, plus micro tears in both rotator cuffs). It never stopped hurting. But these things made it a little more bearable. And mostly I tended to bullshit myself that it wasn't killing me, so I could pretend to my staff that I was fine.
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Date: 2016-01-29 07:20 pm (UTC)Use the therma-care type 'bandages' that are self-sticking heat pads on your larger muscle groups. OR, if you get relief from them, rub down with Aspercreme or Icy Hot or whatever muscle rub that you prefer. Never put a heat pack over an area you recently used the muscle rub on; it can cause chemical burns.
Take time for recovery after work. Hot bath/shower, alternating ice and heat on worst areas, or self-massage at the areas you can reach.
I worked third-shift merchandising and inventory control for several years. These are things I did to manage (S.I. joint dysfunction plus permanent disalignment of pelvic girdle and sacrum with lowest vertebrae affected, plus micro tears in both rotator cuffs). It never stopped hurting. But these things made it a little more bearable. And mostly I tended to bullshit myself that it wasn't killing me, so I could pretend to my staff that I was fine.