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Ok, anyone else been staring out the window last week and also this coming week cuz of final exams? I studied from 7am till 10:30pm non-stop today. I have 9 finals in: Embryology Gross Anatomy II Biomech II Gross Lab II Histology II Histo lab II Radiographical Anatomy II Biochemistry I Motion Palpation II (which is actually kinda hard) how the fuck am i supposed to study for 10 fucking classes (31 credit hours this quarter). There must be 10,000 terms i need to memorize not to mention the ideas and implications behind them. Embryo is especially driving me crazy. The names are ridiculous-ex: "synchiotropoblast". and once you learn something it friggin develops into something else and changes names. stupid babies. and the photos in the text make me want to vomit. Biochem sux histology isn't so bad but it still sux Gross anatomy is so amazingly complicated i don't know what's the friggen deal. How many damn structures can there possibly be in the head and neck. lemme tell you: a shit load. at least a thousand. and the innervation pathways and blood supply pathways to all the damn things. WTF? Thanks god for making the human body so complicated. don't get me started on the lab. so far this quarter i've pulled the skin off my cadaver's face. pulled his eyeballs out. took a bone saw and cut his skull cap off and pulled out his brain. took a hacksaw and cut through his midline head and face to see a sagital view which was totally fucking disturbing to say the least. i mean this dude is FUBAR. Radiographic anatomy? are they on acid? who can see this shit? there's nothing there! Whew! ok your turn to bitch about studying for your finals and not enjoying a single moment of the nice weather we've had this week or will have next week. thank god for spring break. boy am i gonna drink some beer and send the gnar. oh well it's all for the good of mankind.

Darin, don't take any drugs for this. it only treats the symptoms. it's a postural thing that studends and climbers suffer from (sux if your both). Go to a chiro 1st, massage 2nd, and then see if they think you need to be referred to a PT, they (chiro) have more education in these areas. it's less of a rehab thing and i worry about PT over doing the exercise.

I typed up a pretty long response and i hit the power button by accident damnit! But since I've had this problem too, I'll try and retype it. It sounds like upper cross syndrom which is a result of poor posture and muscle imbalance. You need to get the trigger points worked out on your rhomboids (which are probably what hurts) by an aggressive massage therapist or someone that knows what they are doing (chiro,PT). If you weren't in WA your chiro could also use elect stim and ultrasound, but your PT's gotta do this unles your chiro doesn't charge you for it. You can try and strech it but it's hard. Try these stretches: 1.sit on the floor with legs extended. put head to chin. flex body to knees. if too painful, sit cross legged. 2.make like you're gonna turn right in your car with the turn right hand signal (consult your drivers manual). press into a doorway to stretch between your arm and clavicle. tweak your body position for maximum stretch (btw this is stretching your pec min) 3.brugger's relief pose- pull head posterior and hold. at same time lower shoulders and pull them back too. in fact, make sure your shoulders aren't shrugged in daily life. do this pose many many times /day. see a chiropractor 1st and foremost. make sure they don't do any stupid crap like using a heat scan and take x-rays unless there's a good reason. Stregnthening-now that your posture is better, head is back, shoulders are back. Lat pull-wide grip. at end of pull emphasise w/your lower traps. Rows-seated row-end of pull extra squeeze between shoulder blades. pull towards your navel upright row-same squeeze. standing row-pull towards your sternum, extra sqeeze at end between shoulder blades. Basically your trying to get your chest and neck opened up while getting the knots outta your back. If you have this synd, there's also a good chance that your hamstrings are too tight, hip flexors too weak and your hips are post tilted so work on that too. sorry for the sloppy response but typing this again kinda sucked. another good idea- a theracane at a massage supply store (greentouch in b'ham). this will be your new best friend. it's a self massage device (no kinky shit). lemme know how it goes. i'm getting better as i work on my posture and stregnthening my weak muscles while getting massaged and adjusted (but i get it for free). also, this is what I do. i'm in no way advising you to do the same.

maybe i was reffering to dberdinka's lame ass question? you get off my case. as for your idea. it's also retarded.

oh and the quantum physics b.s. Matter is not substance but a probability of concepts. Therefor, if you only choose to observe the probability of one outcome (like you can levitate) then you can. but you need to believe 100% and almost no one can do that b/c we are so wired into seeing the probability or reality that makes sense to us. BTW, that was a "quantum" leap in conclusions and I don't necc believe it myself (which is why i don't levitate). But seriously, you can effect matter with conscious though - the uncertainty priciple comes to mind. Also look a climbing, mind over matter.

The ANS is stimulated in part by horomones. By connecting a phrase with a feeling, your emotions trigger a release of horomones. So you basically trick your ANS into thinking something is happening to your body that isn't really occuring. EZ Example: Think about saliva. Are you salivating? I bet you are. EZ Example: Think about hot prana chix. Are you hard? I bet you are.

in regard to mylotherapy, trigger point technique is very common and helpful and no one ever calls it mylotherapy. in regards to mesotherapy. someone please define mesoderm. I know that mesoderm aka mesenchyme is a embryonic germ layer of partially undifferentiated cells that develop into other tissues. The other two layers being endoderm and ectoderm. Adults do not have mesoderm, but the differentiated cells that developed from the mesodermal layer in the embryo. I would also like to know what a fibroblast proliferating substance would contain. Also what vaccines, horomones, and horomone blockers specifically. I'll probably have to find this out myself, but i was hoping someone would do it for me. I also don't read french.

that's retarded. Darin, i had the same problem so when I finally figured out my size I wrote it all over the shoe w/a sharpie. looks pretty gaperific but i'll know what to buy next time.

oregon is the redhedded bastard stepchild of washington. I'd say bellilngham, but there's no good climbing for after work although squishy is only 1.5 away. I'd move to Vancouver B.C. if I had to choose.

they have an MSDS for water in the big book o' msds's

i stole mine from some girl's off rockclimbing.com who in turn stole it from Don Hertzfelt's "Rejected" movie. If anyone can fing a gif of that little fluffy guy bleeding out his asshole, please pm me with the address.

58% sure i'm not gay, and "I set the pace that others dare not follow - you're on your own mate" for the climbing quiz good i like soloing. some hot ice climber chicks in some of dem photos!!!

That was freaking funny Thad!

WHERE'S RED RIPPLE?????? can't leave that taste beverage out of the running?

Yeah! That's what biofeedback is. thanks. I tried doing something similiar that i've learned from books on yoga philosophy. Called autogenic training (AT) where you associate a feeling such as warmth, calm, excited, etc...with repetively thinking of a phrase like, "my hands are warm, or I am calm, etc..." After enough practice you can controll parts of your Autonomic Nervous System to small degrees by thinking these phrases to yourself. I suppose one could take it further with the evidence learned from quantum mechanics that one could alter the world around them just by thinking in a certain way, but that's hard core Yogi Master Siddartha shit.

Spotting = flying wingman Watch Me!!! - needs to be defined

is there a way i can make everyone's avatar look like scott_harpells?

Prettier than a new set of snowtires

kumbiya my lord kumbiya

uhhh.... ..hmmmm oh! ok! I got it: I like things and stuff.

bitchin about people bitchin'.

i am an extra special friendly joiner. does this mean i'm a retard?

This doesn't really relate to cold adaptation

I said i liked em, he just has gone too far. Get off your soapbox dicklicker

thank god i wont be at rr then