By: Douglas B

Douglas B — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:25:59 +0000

You can ask for anything you want or at least tell them what you want. I have a few thoughts about this for you for what they are worth. I tell people to look at their back and tell me what they see. Bones and muscles with nerves thrown in too. Nerves are out for your problem, you would be in the ER if that was the problem. The bones have no pain receptors and no way of sending the pain messages to the brain. That leaves the muscles. If they are pinched or tight they end up in pain. If one side of your back has a tight muscle in it, a very tight muscle, what do you think is going to happen to the other side? bulge, slipped disc? What is the one thing that would make one side of your spine different from the other? Tight muscles on one side. If your muscle aren’t released you are going to have the worst pain imaginable and I don’t know what they do to fix tight muscles in surgery, but too often the person who has pain like yours comes out with the same pain. The muscle have not been taken care of. Here is how you can try to release them yourself and save a lot of other grief:
Back:
Place your left hand on your left knee. Place your right hand over your left shoulder and with your fingertips find the muscle next to your spine. Press on it and hold. Relax, take a deep breath and exhale and don’t tense up any part of your body. After about 30 seconds there should be a release happening and when it does slowly lower yourself forward onto your right leg. If you can lean over the outside edge of your leg it will be better for your release. Continue holding for a total of one minute. Then release but rest your body there for one minute longer. Then reverse and do the right side.
Then there is another for the lumbar region which can be done in several spots and all the way to the end of the tailbone. Here’s how:
For lower back, on the buttocks:
Put both hands behind your back and place them on the muscles alongside your spine and press on them and hold. Now relax, take a deep breath and exhale and don’t tense up any part of your body. When the release starts to happen, slowly lower yourself forward as far as you can go. Then release the pressure but hold your body there for one minute longer.
I suffered immensely all my life going from p.t. to chiropractor and even acupuncture all with minimal results. I had fallen out of a car when I was 3 and hit by another when I was 7. My body was in bad shape and nobody was doing anything to make it better. I was a twice a month or more patient at the chiro just finding what relief she could offer me. Since Dec, when I first got into these, I haven’t been back once and I have felt better than I have in my whole life, and that is over 50 years to talk about. I can’t believe that something so simple gave me so much to finally look forward to.
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By: cowboydoc

cowboydoc — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:57:59 +0000

You will be on very close supervision with a pain clinic for the drugs you get. Screw up once and that’s it. They may want to do an upper dermal, if it works fine if not, they’ll work something out for a relief drug.
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