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I still have 26 years to go, and the only possible work related injury I might end up with before retirement might be carpal tunnel. I have no symptoms yet but tough to say down the road. Hopefully I make it to retirement without any physical injuries.
How about you retired people? Who has a long-term physical injury related to those decades of work you put in? What type of work did you do? What age did you start to show signs of this injury?
While not exactly a long term physical injury, spending too much time sitting did give me a chronic problem with low back pain and leg pain in my last few years at work. And I started to get heavier than I like to be, which added to the problem.
When I retired 9 months ago I decided my first retirement project was to get back in shape. Got bitten by the exercise bug, got into the daily workout habit, and the problems resolved. One thing led to another and now I'm into kayaking, bike riding, and training for 10Ks (and maybe even something more ambitious in November--we'll see. Right now I'm taking it one race at a time).
It's hard to believe that this time last year I was sitting at a desk all day, in a fair amount of pain, and needing chiropractic treatments and pain meds. Now the only medication I need is a little Ben-Gay if I push too hard. Don't expect this to last forever, since the reality of old age is that injuries, disease, and/or disability eventually find you. But for now I'm enjoying the honeymoon. Feels good to get back in to shape.
I worked in a computer center from 1975 until 1992. Carpal tunnel began to be a problem, but ergonomic furniture and switch my mouse hand allowed for a recovery. Otherwise, I have a longterm injury from an accident which occurred at work, but was not a result of the type of work that I did.
Exercised racehorses for twenty years and broke my collarbone (twice!), broke my arm, broken toes from being stepped on, broken ankle and the worst was a chipped bone in my knee from being kicked. THAT one is the one giving me trouble these days, though I do have problems with one shoulder being lower than the other, so my shirts don't ever fit me right. Should have broken the other collarbone to make it even :-) Arthritis in the hands is what stopped me working at 62.
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