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From: krypsis@optusnet.com.au
On 26/03/2010 1:32 PM, Gregg wrote:
> On Mar 25, 6:04 am, LarbGai wrote:
>> Steve Kramer- "Photoenvisions" Freelance Photography in Chiang Mai
>> Thailand - writes in his own words:
>>
>> How do you put a miracle down on paper and not have it sound like a
>> loony UFO sighting? But I guess it's really not a miracle. It was just
>> plain common sense.
>>
>> I had already resigned myself to a life of surgery followed by chronic
>> pain, limited physical activity, and lots of medication.
>>
>> It was not a bright future. I had been told by several very, VERY
>> qualified orthopedic surgeons in three different countries that the
>> only remedy for my injured lumbar disks was surgery and pain
>> medication for life.
>>
>> "Nothing to be done about it so get used to the idea. Perhaps a 'Pain
>> Clinic' can teach you how to manage the pain better." I was already
>> eating more pain medications all day every day than I cared to be, and
>> I wasn't happy about it.
>>
>> From working with Dr. Bookspan I learned about obvious pressure I was
>> putting on my back by bending standing and sitting in all the ways we
>> already know you shouldn't do. Sitting, bending, lifting with a
>> rounded back was degenerating my discs and pushing them outward. When
>> standing and lifting overhead, I was arching my back, transferring the
>> weight to the low back instead of using my muscles to keep from
>> arching. To help remind me how to move with proper mechanics, she told
>> me to watch how so many other people injure themselves through their
>> own body weight.
>>
>> I watched other people moving. I think THAT'S what really got me
>> excited; seeing others who were complaining about the same back pain I
>> was experiencing moving themselves all wrong! They were bending
>> incorrectly, sitting incorrectly, and standing incorrectly. In general
>> living their physical lives incorrectly. I could SEE it! Plain as the
>> nose on my face. And it made sense. If you move your body correctly,
>> you aren't putting the pressure on the spinal disks (or any other
>> joints,) and you allow them to heal, and the pain stops. Simple as
>> that.
>>
>> The exercises that some of the orthopedic physicians had me doing were
>> correct in theory but incorrect in practice. Yes, I needed to stretch
>> my back muscles, but not by standing up, bending over and touching my
>> toes. That was creating MORE pressure on the disks. Yes, I needed to
>> strengthen my abdominal muscles, but NOT by doing stomach crunches
>> that exacerbated the problem in my back and created more problems in
>> my neck! So I began doing the exercises the correct way taught in her
>> articles and books. No pressure on my spinal disks. I began paying
>> attention to my posture when standing. Paying attention to the way I
>> stood up from a chair, the way I reach for something on a higher
>> shelf, the way I even get out of bed in the morning. With repetition
>> it becomes ingrained and I won't have to think about it again. I don't
>> need to go to the health club or gym for any of this. It's something
>> that I do all day every day now, not just two hours a day, twice a
>> week. That was less than four months ago. Today I don't take ANY pain
>> medication, and I lift, carry, walk, and do more than before. A pain-
>> free life. I like that."
>>
>> *GRIN*
>
> He is sooooo full of crap. :-D
I'd like to see you write something, of more than one line, that made
any sense. What is written above, with respect to back pain and methods
of dealing with it, makes a hell of a lot of sense to anyone with even a
rudimentary knowledge of human physiology, in particular osteology and
skeletal movement analysis. You can't seem to get past the fact that
most people are more intelligent than you!
Best you keep your hands off your keyboard and be thought a fool rather
than typing something inane and confirming it!
Krypsis
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