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Ooo, that sounds painful...and irritating. If you are going to be injured, there should at least be a good story to go along with it. Right? Mountain climbing, rugby, wrestling bears...

For all the mildly risky things I do to my poor body from surfing in stormy waves to running long distances on uneven ground,I seem to bang myself up when walking more than anything else.

There I am strolling along, not a hazard in sight and then WHAM! I'm down.

And, there's always, always a witness.

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I laughed!..

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You can get Deep Heat spray on prescription now, that means it's free for the over 60s. Ms d00d gets me to spray it on her back. She got two free tins recently for a frozen shoulder which has since been miraculously fixed with a steroid injection.

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I was acting the fool with my little grandson on a trampoline a while ago and pulled a muscle in my back ...ended up with physiotherapy ....it took ages to get better. I stay clear of trampolines now

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I have had a lot of problems with my knees, after kneeling to clean out a cupboard I had 3 months of pain due to a torn meniscus.

To slow down the progression of a health condition I began doing daily exercises and that seems to have strengthened my knees/hips/back so I get less twinges .

I am still prone to falling over things though and have had a couple of tumbles in the field recently but thankfully the damage was minimal because I was well padded with clothes.

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I love the way they used Lego to tell the story, Bruce. Brilliant!

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Thanks for all your replies. I see now that it isn't just me that gets silly injuries which means I won't get so annoyed about it when it happens.

Another thing I did about a year ago was to jog round to the shop, ten minutes before it was due to close but I went in my slippers. My left foot sort of slipped a little bit on the wet floor but nothing major. My toe on that foot has hurt ever since but it comes and goes (the ache not the toe).

I have always found that Volterol cream works quite well on pulled muscles but didn't really worked on my hip.

Anyway, it does seem a little better today so hopefully it's healing up.

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I might keep the pretence up a while longer in that case.

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If I stretch my legs too much I can displace a ligament in my ankle, which is agony until I manage to get it back in place. Or I get cramp in the backs of my lower legs.