Elbow (Jun. 4)

You may never realize how much you use certain body parts until you injure them. There are some particularly challenging ones to injure as well. The elbow might not be all that challenging of a body part to injure and the recovery may not be all that difficult but it still really hurts. Think about the times that you have hit your funny bone, which well all know resides in that one spot in your elbow. If you are fortunate enough to hurt the tendon that is in your elboe you will know it when you try and push on anything, even as simple as a book or lifting yourself out of a seat. The elbow is just one of thsoe joints that seems to get used in a lot of ways, and ways that we do not often think of. Perhaps it is the fact that we like to focus on the muscles and building them to be stronger. We lift weights to accomplish this and we eat dairy products to make our bones stronger but we often do not think of the joints and what we could be doing for them until they bother us. Perhaps your elbow feels a little sore just thinking about the potential of injuring it. Well then the best thing you can do is make someone feel awkward by greeting them by simply grabbign their elbow. Or perhaps you become hungry at the mention of food earlier and you should run out and eat some elbow maccaroni. Whatever you do, respect the elbow.