After a weekend of flyball, the syndrome can be recognized in several ways:
- Trouble walking or a visible limp (the flyball shuffle)
- Unable to get up from a sitting position
- Unable to get out of bed
- The craving for hot water in the form of a bath
- The mass consumption of Ibuprofen or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Unable to put regular/dress shoes on
My wife and I are experiencing Flyball Recovery Syndrome in a big way today. We have gone through everything on the list last night and now today. I think if we get through the next three or four days we will make it.
Is flyball a young person sport? I sure see many older people playing flyball and I am over 50 but I heard comments from people half my age complaining of syndrome symptoms. For me, it takes at least 3 days to recover from a flyball tournament. Did I say that we had a fun, great time at the southeast U-FLI qualifier over the weekend?
If you are like me, your friends will know that you played flyball over the weekend. They will be able to see visible discomfort on your face or see the flyball shuffle when you are walking.
Larry
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You forgot shoulder strain on your tug arm
For me it’s my lower arm muscles this time. A couple of years ago my Border collie rearranged my left rotator cuff.
Forgot loss of voice.
AND, loss of voice! I have been playing flyball since I was 25, I just turned 40! My flyball symptons have only gotten worse. Of course, before being diagnosed with Rhuematoid Arthritis, I was in much better shape, and did not get “the flyball symptons” But, WHOA boy, do I feel the pain now!
So, no Larry, it is not just age!
Jackie
It’s my butt that suffers. Squatting at the line and catching a border collie as he tries to race by me to “go again!!!” gives me a sore and stiff butt and backs of thighs for a few days. Really attractive for working in the office.
I have no voice after my weekend of the sport. Anf sore back and feet. All day at work I dreamed of a hot bath.AAAh!
I know what you mean about no voice because I hear people loud and clear on the first day of a tournament. On the second day they are mostly quite.
Why is it that my dog and I regularly run over 2 miles together, but 45 feet to the line and 45 back 20 times over the course of an 9 hr period and I am so sore and so wiped. Just pitiful… Height dogs really wipe you out…. start in a squat, run to the line, run back from the line and squat to pick them up…. need the big bottle of pain reliever AND the ben gay after running the height dog!
So my Jr Handler daughter was handling a dog that is released from your lap. At the end of the tournament her thighs were totally scratched up. I was concerned that one sight of her legs and her PE teacher would have Child Protective services knocking at our door. Told my teammates they’d have to come and back me up if I got the call. (thankfully it didn’t happen)
I recall a really funny story that was shared on the list by a lady that had her “annual” exam a few days after a tournament. Her GYN could not contain his shock upon sight of her thighs. Much explaining about the sport was necessary to reassure the GYN that the only abuse happening was from her flyball dog.
I’m really lucky. At 71 years of age I don’t get or have never had any of those symptoms (probably body numb with age?????) but what I fail to understand is that the dogs do all the running, and I do all the sweating and panting!!!!!
And so, at the end of two-three days of punishment you hardly notice building up in your body, you no longer bend where you did before, you left your voice on the track on Sat morning, bumps, scratches, bruises popping up all over the place…sitting in your car for the haul to the house.
Monday staring you in the face.
The first two hours of the trip you are rehashing what happened, or did not happen. The adrenalin fades…stoke it with a hamburger and fries shared with you best friend, and start hashing out what you are gonna do better in two, three, four weekends from now. ‘Cause we’re gonna get it right!
If I can still move…
That is perfect Eli! I guess my syndrome is not aided by running Mals and a Dutch! Physical does not even begin to describe what it is like running these beasts!
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