Inb4 I don’t

I’m not asking if you do it, I’m asking people how you do it

Edit: sorry I forgot I posted this and came back to a bunch of answers. I have a torn something in my shoulder that no MRI has been able to find for 20 years so I can’t just reach it. I myself use a long cloth, but I don’t really like it so I was curious what other people did.

Also, I don’t wash my back every shower, but I do get pretty sweaty sometimes and feel like I just have to

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    I have a small hammer I use, to lightly chip away at the wall tiles to provide both exfoliation, a back scratcher, and acupuncture all in one.

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    I got long arms and an exfoliating luffa. I just wash every part. There’s no part of my back that I can’t reach.

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    I put liquid soap in the palm of my left hand. Turn one the water and put my right hand under, then let water roll off into my left hand. Turn off the water. Wash hands without wasting water. Turn it on to rinse.

    There’s a guy at my office who would let the water run for the entire five minutes that he brushed his teeth after lunch. I got so sick of it that I printed a sign and taped it to the wall. It said not to waste water and to turn it off while brushing. I haven’t seen him doing it since, but I also haven’t seen him at all since. I hope he saw it before someone took it down.

    Edit: misread the title.

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        I dunno. I used to be flexible as hell, but was also too damn broad across the shoulders to get everywhere. That was even before I started lifting seriously; lifting just made the area I couldn’t reach bigger.

        Somewhere around 16 I hit a spurt and suddenly couldn’t reach a zone between my shoulder blades. It was maybe hand sized. In my twenties, it was about an inch or two bigger, but I could still do all the stretches fully before lifting, and that included shoulder stretches where I could end up almost flat with my arms behind me.

        Nowadays, I’m just old and stiff, and can’t scrub anything right on my back.

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          I strained my left arm and its cannot reach quite as far as my right now and even then im pretty sure I was more flexible in my youth. At one point I was able to grip my hands just barely diagnoly on my back but I knew some folks that could like grip their wrists behind their back. I have long arms to so its definately a lack of flexibility.

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    I got one of these things

    Works pretty good and you can put some force down and really get that back nice and clean.

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    I don’t. The mind-controlling alien parasite attached to my spine doesn’t let me when I try reaching for it…

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      You gotta take your time getting them used to it, a little splash here and there and then build up untill you can be in the shower for a good amount of time, mine loves it now.

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      Yeah. First I ball it up and scrub the perimeter before unfurling it and scrubbing back and forth at different angles.