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So I can do pull-ups again, after years where trying just gave me that funny feeling like if you try to clench your fist right after you wake up. Also as the strengthening wave hits the first phalanges of my fingers I feel them coming back stronger but I wasn’t rock climbing or crushing walnuts so I hadn’t noticed them weakening in the first place

You know it’s not like the phalanges have different muscles, it’s really the flexor digitorum tuning up that I first feel there. Being rooted in the forearm probably explains why it started reacting so soon, too

It still feels that way, though. Like, the wrist is still a little iffy but the proximal phalanx is already starting to feel firm and the action’s in the medial phalanges now.

Oh shit, now the progress is so fast I can feel the leading edge advance on the distal

The amount I have to exert my hand to maintain friction on the phone I’m holding is now down at least 30%

Okay, it’s in the distal now.

Well, in the thumbs, ring, and pinkie fingers, in the pointer and middles it’s just short of the final joint.

Okay, distal for all. I think the leading edge might have passed the tips of the pinkies and thumbs, though they’re still feeling effects

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Also I’ve been sitting down not putting weight on but I suddenly notice flexing my feet around the trailing edge has passed the metatarsals. The wrists are strengthening but not fully there yet.

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