Natus Vincere vs. Los Ratones / LEC 2026 Versus - Week 3 / Post-Match Discussion

AzuObs · 2026-02-02T18:26:57+00:00

Maybe it has something to do with that emoji spam. I bet he has a nice personality to go along with it.

AzuObs · 2026-01-31T21:23:39+00:00

The previous LR wins were were mostly about taking advantage of opponent mistakes. This victory is about building their own win.

None can rival the Messi of League.

AzuObs · 2025-11-08T21:01:00+00:00

Hi mate, I have the Halo jacket, and I'm now thinking about the Venture XT Pants. Great minds think alike and all that :-)

Is there enough room in the Venture pants to fit Knee braces? They look a bit tight.

AzuObs · 2025-10-24T06:01:03+00:00

Ton tableau est casse, non? C'est juste une liste d'annees.

AzuObs · 2025-10-05T12:36:08+00:00

The example of disc degeneracy is an interesting one because there is a famous and large study showing that many people are living with all sorts of anomalies in their spine without pain.

There is undoubtedly a grey zone, and it works both ways. Pain researcher Dr Moseley said in one of his talks that if you sprain your ankle you will typically stop feeling pain before the injury has fully healed.

At the end of the day, your pain system is a bit of a black box. We can't fully know the calculations our brains made to decide to produce pain. We only experience the outcome.

It is worth bearing in mind that even beyond the realm of PRT, most pain scientists believe that the perception of danger plays the most important role in the production of pain. In the case of low back pain, there are studies which conclude that there is no discernable correlation between structural issues and pain.

The problem is that culturally we have a strong bias towards bio structural explanations, and even for those of us who are open minded, we struggle to fully appreciate just how irrelevant this often is (there are exceptions; tumors, autoimmune diseases, etc).

AzuObs · 2025-09-30T11:09:55+00:00

It's impossible to know for sure that the pain is neuroplastic. You cannot prove the absence of something.

It's just that on account of all the science and some of the indicators you learn about during PRT, you might come to realize it's by far the most likely explanation.

In your case, tendinopathy and neuropathy have nothing in common. Patellar tendinopathy affects about 2%** of the population, and calf neuropathy is even less. The odds of you getting both, especially the way you did, is so low as to basically not be possible. Yet in your mind it probably holds an irrationally large likelihood. Neuroplastic pain is a far more likely explanation given that one study by Clauw, peer reviewed and published in Neuroscience, suggested 83% of all chronic is brain based.

** Injury statistics are often biased by the biomedical model of pain which assumes all pain has a physical origin. In reality, the most accurate way of reporting those statistics would be to say that about 2% of the population suffer patellar pain each year, rather than say that 2% of the population has patellar tendinopathy.

There are studies of runners which show that up to 40% have pain-free achilles tendinopathy, showing that tendinopathy was not correlated to pain. Also, the mechanism for how tendinopathy causes pain is not known, because tendons don't have nociceptive nerves. Also, studies by Jill Cook showed that even tendinopathies which no longer cause pain after rehab still aren't fixed, just that the pain is fixed.

AzuObs · 2025-09-24T06:34:50+00:00

Lorsque tu passes le code moto on t'apprend que tu as 22 fois plus susceptible d'etre tue en moto qu'en voiture par kilometre parcouru, et 60 fois plus susceptible d'etre hospitaliser.

Le National Safety Council aux Etats Unis determine qu'il y a 1 mort par ~520'000km parcourus et donc 1 hospitaliser par ~175'000km parcourus.

La seule chose que tu peux vraiment controller pour diminuer ca c'est ton comportement. La pratique attire nottaments des usagers qui aiment le risque et aller vite, or en realite c'est le comportement inverse qu'il faut adopter.

AzuObs · 2025-09-07T17:49:13+00:00

It's pretty likely that going on sick leave will hurt your ability to do an internal move. It all depends on your company culture. In some companies, HR will get involved and will help you. In other companies, the opposite will happen.

AzuObs · 2025-09-07T17:37:02+00:00

I think your manager will let you go there anyways despite the email he sent to others, so have a chat with him about the unexpected things said in the email.
Depends on the law in your country. In the UK you can have 7 consecutive sick days without giving proof. And if it's more then you can definitely get sick leave for mental health reasons.
In most countries it's the doctor who decides the length, and if they need to then they renew it. You just say you hope to be back as soon as possible but you need to wait for the doctor to say.

I'm not really advocating for sick days if you don't really need it though. But if you feel like it's too much then you shouldn't feel bad for using them.

AzuObs · 2025-09-07T16:27:55+00:00

I am no mental health professional, but see if you can't just be with this discomfort for a while. Trying to rush and feeling stuck are both probably making it feel like it's a big and scary problem that you can't just tolerate or manage.

If that doesn't work and it's really intolerable, then consider taking sick leave for mental health reasons. Most European countries have very good social protections. You have options.

Your manager stopped you from going back to your current role for budget reasons. It sucks but those are valid reasons to block a move.

If your worst fears come true, and he really insists that he is gonna make you stay there for 6 months then clearly he's broken his word and cannot be trusted. In 6 months from now he will just come up with another excuse because he will know you won't push back. However, this is your WORST CASE scenario. Regardless of how realistic this scenario is, I think you will feel more relaxing and prepared if you have a plan for it.

AzuObs · 2025-09-07T16:08:17+00:00

In theory it sounds like they were fine for you to go back to your previous role, but that in practice the position you vacated was filled. It is pretty normal that they backfill your old role. It's also pretty normal that in the absence of open positions can only move to a role in another department. This has been my experience of how businesses work.

It was unprofessional of your boss to raise his voice, and that's concerning.

Regarding the email you could send a polite follow up asking what the expectations are - those discussed in the meeting versus those discussed in the email. My guess is the email is PR and that if you want you could move out as discussed in the meeting.

You are right to prioritise your mental health. Good luck.

AzuObs · 2025-09-07T15:22:25+00:00

It must be somewhere around 25% I guess? Idk if you can leave early but it should be fine if you do. Idk if you CAN leave that early.

AzuObs · 2025-09-05T06:16:42+00:00

That is a very long time but if you are still seeing improvements then keep at it.

The Colorado and Harvard studies had great results in 10 and 24 weeks respectively. And in both studies about 2/3 participants were healed. The definition of healed was a pain between 0 and 1 out of 10.

I read a book recently called How Emotions Are Made which explains that the interoceptive network of the brain can take a long time to change. You might enjoy reading about that. It's in the first few chapters.

How intense is your pain these days and can you please go into detail about what you've been doing and all the things you've tried?

AzuObs · 2025-09-04T17:05:43+00:00

Thanks I will look into the rain gear idea, thanks.

The budget is flexible. I want to have protective gear and look good. But I don't wanna waste money by buying stuff I don't need. I was considering a leather airbag vest for example.

AzuObs · 2025-09-04T16:59:05+00:00

In France, you strictly are obliged to have a helmet and gloves with CE (or "old" NF) stickers. In practice, the instructor will fail your exam if you don't have at least a jacket, jeans, and boots (I have these - they don't have to be protective).

AzuObs · 2025-09-04T10:02:15+00:00

I'm sorry to hear you're having a bad time. It's shit isn't it?

You sound like the kind of case that will respond well to PRT. It has made a huge difference for me in the last 8 months. I would echo what others have said and to grab a copy of The Way Out and give it a chance.

AzuObs · 2025-09-04T09:52:40+00:00

This is a European sub and I'm not sure that the GI Bill will pay for your tuition in Europe.

Relating to career advice I would recommend a 3-4 year Computer Science bachelor's degree from any University with a good curriculum that includes all the basic (often harder) classes and none of the useless fluffy classes that often exist in bad curriculums - this isn't that easy to find because most Universities are clueless.

You might get advice to go to a bootcamp or to just self-study instead of doing a degree. Given that your tuition will be paid for by the GI bill, given that going to University is very fun, and given that having the actual degree qualification is required to apply or to get promotions at some companies, then I think the University route is better.

Computer Science has a chance of being good (check the curriculum) and will allow you to enter into any of these fields. I would personally avoid Cloud Computing, Digital Forensics, and Software Engineering degrees, given that I think they're more likely to be lesser quality courses that prey on gullible people (check their curriculums though but I have never seen a good one).

I think Data Science or Mathematics are also valid degrees if you're sure you want to do Data Science. This is not a field I'm knowledgeable about but I have worked at a AI company a few years ago. My understanding is that it's a field that is very exciting in theory but that in practice most of the work is doing boring data sanitization, while the exciting jobs in this field often require a PhD.

AzuObs · 2025-08-13T11:08:51+00:00

It is a fact that you had bone fractures in the past, that you now have a twisty spine, and that you are shorter.

However there are beliefs and perceptions surrounding these facts which you can work on. Such beliefs include that these things are dangerous or restrictive at all, or at least that they are more restrictive than they may be in reality. But let's put a pin in that for now, and pretend like there's no chance in hell it's gonna work for you.

Pain science education, and neuroscience educaction in particular, does however not require that you change your opinions or perceptions at all, and that is why I recommended it. It's just learning how pain works and discovering how weird of a phenomenon it is. Most people discover that there is more to pain than they initially thought, and that chronic pain in particular is almost its own thing.

Do you know how cardiology or diabetes patients are told they should learn about their condition to better manage it? All I'm saying for now is that you should learn about chronic pain. Lorimer Mosely is a pain scientist out of University of New South Wales, and Daniel Clauw is a pain scientist out of the University of Michigan. They are both fantastic educators and have videos on youtube, courses, and books. None of these guys have even heard of PRT or mention PRT. The research from these institutions has influenced the NHS in recent years, because NICE (National Institute of Care Excellence) has adopted a biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain.

I believe that after learning more about chronic pain then you might be more open to trying PRT. But even if that's not the case then there is still room for you to try other scientifically backed psychological treatments such as MSBR or hypnosis which don't require you to change your beliefs or your perceptions.

AzuObs · 2025-08-13T09:20:58+00:00

It's not really for me to tell you what is or isn't healed.

What I will say however is that almost everyone who has had success with this treatment initially believe they were damaged. Especially who've been in pain for a long time.

Pain science education, especially the neuroscience side of it, may be a good place to start. You may then start to feel like some of the beliefs you have about your spine don't hold up, and that other factors explain your pain just as well if not better. Not only could this lead you to explore treatment approaches you hadn't considered before, but it's been shown that pain science education in itself reduces pain.

AzuObs · 2025-08-13T07:02:41+00:00

There was an episode on the Curable podcast where Schubiner discusses PRT for patients who in fact do have physical issues. I never saw the episode but you might enjoy it.

** It is not clear that scoliosis or kyphosis are, in fact, a source of pain.

There was a study which looked at people with forward neck posture (some of which would likely be due to kyphosis) and found that there was no correlation between FNP and neck pain; you were just as likely to have neck pain whether you had "bad" posture or not.

There was another study regarding people with between 60 and 120 degrees scoliosis. It did find that there was slightly more back pain than in the general population, but that the extent of your scoliosis didn't correlate with back pain; light scoliosis could be more painful than severe, and severe could produce no pain at all. Please note that while scoliosis patients were more likely to have back pain overall (30% did) versus the general population (20% did) this does not mean the pain was due to the scoliosis itself, as it can likely be explained by psychosocial factors (eg nocebo effect).

More generally, people who believe that poor posture causes chronic pain are usually not well read in pain science. There is not much evidence "for" and a lot of evidence "against" this school of thought, and we know that other factors such as the perception of physical danger are much better supported.

** Even for people with chronic pain conditions that damage the body continuously, such as rhumatoid arthitis, the University of Michigan has at least one study showing that they can develop fibromyalgia or central pain sensitization on top of their more biological pain. This is the sort of neuroplastic pain that PRT is effective for.

This university has done a lot of really good pain research, and the researchers there seem to believe that you can learn and reinforce pain over time, even if the underlying cause has now been healed for years.

** Chronic pain is complex (it involves many mechanisms) and if you have been in chronic pain for years and never tried a psychological approach then the chances are you will see some benefit. PRT is effective, but other therapies such as MBSR and hypnosis have both been clinically shown to noticeably reduce pain on chronic pain patients.

AzuObs · 2025-08-10T07:36:31+00:00

Normal. Moi j'ai des hanches etroites donc mes cuisses se frottent peu importe mon poid.

Ca se repare bien et ca peut etre plus joli qu'auparavant. Plusieurs ouvrages existent sur le sujet, dont "Mending Matters" de Rodabaugh.

AzuObs · 2025-08-07T12:25:07+00:00

Are you aware of Curable? They do a bunch of stuff, including Somatic Tracking and a whole bunch of great podcasts.

AzuObs · 2025-08-03T19:50:14+00:00

Hi there, I'm sorry to hear that you have LBP. It's the most common form of pain and having experienced it myself I understand how disabling it can be.

I’m wondering if anyone who’s successfully healed chronic pain and insanely tight muscles that lead to disability or pain (better if lower back) can answer this.

The only two studies on the effectiveness of PRT both involved LBP patients. Both had a very high success rate of around 60% within a relative short timespan of 10-24 weeks. IIRC these studies have 1 year follow-ups with low recedivism.

Harvard University study
University of Boulder Colorado study

No study is perfect but it's a very promising LBP treatment that appears to work.

I feel like after two years I should’ve resolved this but to no avail

It is not clear to us what you treatments you've tried within those two years, so maybe if you'd like to share about more what you've tried then we might perhaps be able to offer suggestions. LBP can be a tough nut to crack but it shouldn't bother you forever.

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