From: takin&kanoknuan@stuck-in-a-wheelchair.org   
      
   "Krypsis"  wrote in message   
   > 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. Best you keep your hands off your keyboard and be thought a fool   
   rather than typing something inane and confirming it!   
      
   *grin*   
      
      
      
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