I want to play tennis until I’m eighty. This is one of my biggest motivations to stay healthy and fit. However, in recent years, injuries have started to creep in, and I’ve learned that if I really want to play tennis until I’m eighty, I need to plan well and ensure I stay healthy and…
Tag: injury
When a Simple Walk Leads to a Week Stuck at Home: My Tendon Tear Story
These past couple of weeks have been a little tough fitness-wise. I developed a tendon tear, which essentially prevented me from leaving home for a week, even making it difficult for me to move around our place because of the stairs. How it started My tendon tear came out of nowhere. I just did my…
Recovering from a TFCC Tear
While playing tennis, I started feeling a slight pain on my right wrist. It did not bother me much as I thought it was just muscle pain, and that it would heal naturally after just a few weeks, just like any other muscle pain. This was in November 2016. A few months later, the pain…
Missing My Forehand Drive
It started in mid-November when I first noticed some pain in my right hand wrist whenever I hit a tennis forehand drive. I didn’t pay much attention to it, as I thought I just needed rest, and the pain would go away after a couple of weeks. A couple of months later, the pain is…
On The Road To Recovery
A week ago, I went snowboarding in Nozawa-onsen, Nagano then shit happened. I fell on my back and apparently, my right elbow wasn’t strong enough to support all seventy-five kilos of me. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it had to happen on a Saturday so I had to spend the whole Sunday wandering around…
Enrico in Tokyo 