Iuvenalis
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« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2011, 11:50:PM » |
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I think it's all about stance. If you have to lean on the pew in front of you, etc, you're doing it wrong.
Widen the stance, make sure the femur is not exactly perpendicular to the ground.
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devotedknuckles
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« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2011, 11:49:AM » |
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Kneeling isn't a big deal for me even when my left knee was a bum while I could kneel shortly afer surgery it quickly passed. I csn remain for hours and hours on my knees on hard surfaces. Th is a result of years of zazen and knee walking in the dojo
so really kneeling on padded kneeler. Is rather easy.
I pray mostly on my knee. So it's no biggy
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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2011, 01:54:PM » |
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I didn't vote, but no. Why is this in the men's section?
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Landelinus
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2011, 01:59:PM » |
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Lower back is the first and worst to hurt. Knees not usually a problem.
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« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2011, 02:01:PM » |
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After a while, it does hurt, especially if it's on the ground.
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jovan66102
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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2011, 04:25:PM » |
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I voted 'Kneeling after a little time hurts because of a specific reason (injury, disorder, disease, etc', because I took a dashboard out with my knee about 15 years ago. However, in reality, that only made it worse, since it's always hurt me to kneel for extended periods of time. But, I remember when I was still an Anglo-'Catholic' and I complained about kneeling on the marble altar steps while serving. A dear friend, an Anglican 'priest', said, 'He hung on the Cross for you for three hours. You can kneel for an hour for Him!'  |
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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2011, 05:01:PM » |
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Not sure how to vote, because when I kneel for a protracted length of time my left thigh starts to go numb. This never happened prior to my deconversion, but since coming back home, it's crept up as a bit of an annoyance. Shifting my weight seems to help, normally. And people wonder why at 34 I feel old  |
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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2011, 05:48:PM » |
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Var, you are old! :D
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« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2011, 07:17:PM » |
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I voted for the 5th. choice (“no problems with the knees while kneeling”). Perhaps I was preconditioned for this in my youth ;D. When I was 5 we moved from Seattle to a new farm in the Columbia Basin Project (1955), and had Mass every Sunday in a public school cafeteria with a hard linoleum floor, until a church was built in 1964, and the area became a parish instead of a mission. I went to the parochial school of the parish that served the farm mission. Until that parish built a new church in 1963 the church was about 10 blocks from the school, so the weekly school Mass was in the cafeteria, with a hard linoleum floor. The Rosary, and other devotions, were said in the class rooms, kneeling, on a hard linoleum floor.
To this day (a life span that will reach the sixth decade in just about 2 months) it has never really bothered my knees to kneel, even on a very hard surface. I’m not saying it’s comfortable, or feels good, it just doesn’t hurt (I offer up the discomfort for the conversion of people who don’t agree with me ;D ).
As with some others here though, in my later years it can bother my lower back. I find that when I’ve been working out (which I’ve slacked on this semester, after slipping a disc unloading hay earlier in the year), when I’m diligent with stretching exercises, and after I’ve dropped a few pounds (which I need to do again, about 20), the back also is just fine with kneeling.
I do well with standing (I like to pray the rosary while walking, for example).
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« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2011, 08:37:PM » |
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I didn't vote, but no. Why is this in the men's section?
Because I am interesting in male statistics on this matter. Men and women have a different structure when it comes to hips and legs, and that was an added variable I didn't want. Kneeling is very uncomfortable for me, and I think it is because it is a very awkward way of supporting my weight. I kneel straight without leaning or support, but it is quite uncomfortable. I do not think it is visible that it is uncomfortable. |
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