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23 Aug 10 - 08:22 PM (#2971430) Subject: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Donuel After being put on an assembly line by Orthopedists to saw off the bones and glue titanium parts on, I gave up on the liars for profit and finally went to a Chiropractor. This morning I could lift my leg about 12 inches, about enough to put on underwear or barely put on a sock. Tonight I can lift it over 4 feet on its own power. |
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23 Aug 10 - 08:30 PM (#2971437) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: gnu Gosh! Hope it continues to get better. |
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23 Aug 10 - 08:36 PM (#2971441) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Alice Yay! Here's wishing you continued progress! |
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23 Aug 10 - 08:38 PM (#2971442) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: olddude AWESOME !!! KEEP IT UP MY FRIEND |
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23 Aug 10 - 08:41 PM (#2971445) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Donuel Keep it up indeed forgive the pun but the chiroprator happens to be gorgeous. |
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23 Aug 10 - 08:49 PM (#2971450) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: katlaughing LOL! Beauty and a Healer...what more could you ask for?:-) Wonderful news...SO glad to hear this. I know what it is like...keep working on it. Qi gong has done wonders to help me keep in alignment after treatments by an osteopath, also beautiful.:-) Be well, my friend, kat |
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23 Aug 10 - 09:16 PM (#2971460) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Sandra in Sydney yah! I can get pain in my knees (I was born with an assortment of sore bits which can get sorer as I get older) so know what it's like not being able to lift leg/foot enough to wash feet, or put on underwear & socks easily. Having to think about how to do such things we've done automatically since we were tiny kids is not good, and the pain bit is not good either! keep up the good work sandra (whose knees are not as painful as they were immediately after bending to put 488 leaflets into mailboxes before the recent election!) |
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23 Aug 10 - 09:39 PM (#2971466) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Bill D great...but no ski jumping or Greco-Roman wrestling for at least another week... ;>) |
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23 Aug 10 - 10:15 PM (#2971485) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Bobert Great news, D... Bein' messed up is messed up... My left foot have been messed up now for several months... Hurts all the time... Both thumbs are shot... Just play thru it... Glad you have turned the corner... I'm sure it is like a "Get-Outta-Jail-Free" card... B~ |
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23 Aug 10 - 11:00 PM (#2971500) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: ragdall Great! I hope that you'll continue to improve. Were the range of motion difficulties caused by surgery or did you skip the surgery and go directly to the gorgeous chiropractor? rags |
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24 Aug 10 - 12:54 AM (#2971535) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: open mike glad to hear you can walk you don;'t appreciate some stuff until you miss it... walking is a good thing! hope you continue to do that...and more! |
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24 Aug 10 - 05:11 AM (#2971606) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: fat B****rd Great news. Best regards from Charlie. |
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24 Aug 10 - 09:01 AM (#2971715) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Lovely, Donuel! :0) x I had acupuncture the other day, with 90% improvement. I was kinda skeptical, to be honest, so I wasn't expecting it to work, but blow me down with a feather, it did! Didn't hurt a jot either... |
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24 Aug 10 - 12:05 PM (#2971822) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Little Hawk Lizzie - I'm pretty sure that it works through redirecting and clearing blocked-up areas of subtle electronics in the body...subtle electronics are what activate and direct the entire nervous system. If you get that energy blocked at some junction point, you get inflammation and general bodily distress in one area, and other areas get depleted or "starved" for input. The acupuncture needles allow excess energy to flow out of the body and blocked energy to flow as it should and everything rebalances itself and things start working properly. That's my theory. Anyway, I've witnessed its effectiveness. This is why the Chinese spent so much time studing the acupuncture points. If you don't know where they are, then you'd have no idea where to place the needles....sort of like trying to fix a faulty computer without any schematic references for the hardware. The needle must be placed at the proper junction point to move the appropriate energy. |
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24 Aug 10 - 01:21 PM (#2971866) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: olddude Thing about it Donuel is the Orthopedic Surgeons don't fix anything pain related after they saw off bones and replace them with aircraft steel .. I know all about it .. from my neck to my ass ... You are doing the right thing. The surgery is the very last resort and once it is done it cannot be taken back .. they never tell you once you have one surgery you will need a second and a third and a forth and so it goes because all the aircraft steel they put in destroys the disks above and below the area they worked on ... I did the surgeries only after it was ... do the operation or give up the idea of walking .. for that, I am grateful as I spent a few months in a chair and after pushing myself to walk, got my legs back .. so for that, the surgeries were a blessing .. left me in chronic pain but at least I walk (and pretty darn good also) as all of my wilderness treks prove. And everything else works great as it should .. but all the steel is not fun .. I guess the big thing now is there are people who have the steel break off .. when that happens they usually die before they can get help .. They are pulling the rods out of people now for that reason. I guess some of them were defective. Don't know what kind I have in my back and neck .. |
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24 Aug 10 - 01:47 PM (#2971886) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: VirginiaTam great news Donuel... long may it continue and keep improving. |
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24 Aug 10 - 04:54 PM (#2972045) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Thanks, Little Hawk...when the last of my 6 free NHS sessions runs out, I'll be over to you in a flash! :0) I've got plantar fasciitis in my right foot, and on a scale of 1 to 10, without acupuncture, I'm on about 53 (with many Fuck This!'s thrown in)...but with it, I'm down to about a 2 most of the time.... Kinda 'got my life back' with the acu, as it's so darn debilitating without it.. Too much standing on hard floors, so Jess The Physio told me..and thinking about it, both jobs I've had over the last few years have involved a great deal of standing on these damn 'trendy' wooden floors..where once there were carpets. Katie, our new 18 year old part-timer was saying how much her legs were hurting her the other..which made me feel a little less ancient... :0) |
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24 Aug 10 - 07:23 PM (#2972147) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Donuel wow What nice responses. Old dude (but not really old) While I do hold one Orthopedic group negligently respondsible for fast tracking hip replacement surgury, I also know thats what they do. How many people who do not need surgury end up obeying what a radiologist or orthopedist says, and getting into dangerous waters they need not tread. The table of health has one leg for the mind body relaxation healing, another for modern medications, another for physical manipulations and the last one for surgurical procedures. As a hypnotist I am all over the mind body connection but that was not enough. The drugs were not enough, The manipulation restored near full function and strength by tearing the scar tissues that were trying to compensate for one leg being 1 inch shorter for 35 years. WHile the manipulation is like being burned with a cloths iron for 6 seconds at a time the gift of function is worth it. I had a friend who had Scoliosis of the spine which curved like a snake 3 inches back and forth. Within 4 years he was cured by manipulation. I highly recommend Chiropratic as one pillar of the healing arts that should be respected and maintained from time to time like the dentist. |
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24 Aug 10 - 08:32 PM (#2972182) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Donuel I rejected surgury immediately. Surgury has a place but is highly specialized and should normally be a last resort. Lizzie, I once had a plantar wart on the heal that was half the size of a golf ball. After giving up entirely in consciously attacking it I threw away all my shoes but one pair, took a nap and woke up 90 minutes later with no mass on the heel whatsoever. Even though my day job was a hypnotherapist, I was astonished. All I did differently that day was to give up. Go figure. To correct any exaggerations: Subjectively the difference feels like night and day. However restoring function does not mean that all associated pain is gone. Its been 5 months since I have been off crutches and 3 months off a cane.Some pain remains but is less sharp. I am able to walk more 'reliably' without any feelins of disclocation since treatment on Monday. There is also less pain simply from lying down or turning over. There is a clear possiblility that I can go jogging soon. |
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24 Aug 10 - 08:46 PM (#2972186) Subject: RE: BS: WoooHooo I can walk From: Art Thieme When I was finally diagnosed, I couldn't lift my foot off the bed or even flex my toes. This was at Mayo Clinic in '97, and they got to watch the whole progression as it was happening right in front of them---2 solid months. They gave me 3 days of the steroid Solu-Medrol (intravenously) -- and that got me on my feet with a walker. Now in the wheelchair---I had a 13 year respite pretty much. Don, All the best to you!----------------Art |