Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group How do you walk?

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Cheryl

Dogs hate rainy days too

I walk - er - intermittently I suppose.
To begin with I stride out like a completely fit person, but soon I have to stop and bend down (I pretend to tie my shoelaces). I don't understand it really, but there it is. The pattern repeats with ever increasing frequency as the distance lengthens and the pain intensifies.

    "sleep in heavenly peace"

Cheers,
  Loz

Phil, I do the stiff-legged duck walk myself with shoulders hunching more forward all the time... and whenI have my cane I find myself tipping more to the side I have the cane on....I get those "Why are you walking like that looks all the time" I just ignore them and go on my way...hugs, DC

Phil,

I guess I'm kinda lucky, my posture is perfect because it hurts too much to lean back or hunch forward. I think that might be because I can't sleep unless I'm lying on my stomach, it does hurt but not as much as lying on my back. I guess I do lookk strange with my perfect posture and trying to limp on two legs at the same time. I guess I have the stiff leg robot walk.

Kiril

Hi Phil,
I feel stiff all the time but I never realized how I looked til I saw a couple of pictures of myself. I still have decent posture but I look so stiff.

It's the pits, isn't it?

linda

Thank you eveyone for the feedback. I think I believed or had been lead to believe that this was a result of of anxiety and tension. I just can't imagine poor posture alone causing this much pain.

How many of you remember your Mothers telling you to sit up straight?

Phil

LOL!

My grandmother always told me I would have good eyes because I ate so many carrots... She was WRONG.


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Kristin

Hi Phil,

Great timing on your post. When I first started PT three weeks ago the therapist told me that I was hunched over, my neck was bent forward and my shoulders were up around my ears. Such a lovely description! Now after three weeks my shoulders have dropped down to almost normal level, my neck is not as bent and I am standing up straighter. I have to say that my walk does tend to change depending on what pieces parts are hurting at the moment.

Take care and huggie wuggies,

Lis

Hi Rick,

I love the list of AS walks. I have been known to do a few at once and that takes talent! Keep em coming!

Take care and huggie wuggies,

Lisa

Although my AS hasn't affected my walk on a "permanent" basis as yet, I think I've done most of the walks Rick described at some point in the past year or two. I have noticed lately that my shoulders are a little more rounded than usual, but my pilates teacher has taught me a couple of excercises that should help that.

See, I thought that my lower back pain, which has been ongoing intermittently for about ten years now, was because of some other thing. So, I figured that if I loosened up my lower back muscles while I walked that would help. I have one hell of a wiggle when I walk (although, no giggle when I talk ).

I've always been mega anal about my posture, always doing exercises to keep my shoulders straight, make sure the muscles are relaxed (which I don't always succeed at), checking in windows to make sure I'm not slumping. I don't know what it is, but I have a horror of bad posture (dancing, theatre school, singing, my grandmother's nagging?) and I think it's actually been my saving grace with all of this. Although, for years, I just thought I was being vain, now I know that I subconciously knew I was going to get AS and was taking preventative steps. Yeah. Yeah. That's the ticket. lol!

Inanna