A new global category called “Injury, Prevention and Care” has been added. The goal is to learn from each other about how injuries happen, how to prevent them, and how to care for them once they occur. This doesn’t seem to be a well-documented area of Aikido training so let’s start something new together.

To go with this new theme, a new private category has been added called “Personal Health Record”. If you have an injury, you may privately document your progress healing, what you are doing to heal yourself, and what advice was given to you. For example, is acupuncture working, or is acupressure more effective for you? Does swimming help your shoulder injury? How is your blood pressure or weight this month? Things like this. The goal is to keep a personal health record so you can reflect back on it.

If you have advice for everyone else, instead please make the category Injury, Prevention and Care.