Feel better soon!

I ignored the warnings, tempted fates, was proud of my ability to help out (did too much) — now am paying a literally painful price. Still hurts too much to drive.

Sorry you’ve been in pain for so many years. Exercise the core lightly might slowly help, when you’re having a good day. My “new” plan. Starting maybe next week, if the pain is gone.

That reminds me of a regular client that comes see me regularly. He injured his right achilles up to his back of the knee, causing huge inflammation and balloning of the flesh. Which healed up more or less over months, but the nerve damage and lack of feeling in his toes stayed. His doctors knew it was nerve damage and started talking about 1000 dollars just to get it tested, plus surgeries that would cost a lot more than that.

I took a look, told him what kind of nerve damage it was and where, and after a 6-12 months, the pain of the nerve damage was reduced to nothing now and the sensation is beginning to come fully back. What he should not have been doing was doing the stretches that his physical therapist was telling him to do, because that was just impinging on the nerves more and trying to stretch nerves only damages them further.

That’s because nerve pain is very funny. It’s not like tendon or soft tissue pain, where the location of the damage is pain. Rather the location of nerve damage is both below and above the locus of the pain/dullness.

This is obvious to me, but apparently the standards of licensed physical therapists are… low at the moment. There are many reasons why I believe in my own Holy Spirit and Divine Family’s counsel over the “knowledge of men” in expert white lab coats.

I look at their problems and a lot of the times, they really shouldn’t be doing those stretching and exercise options. That’s because it causes muscles to contract and pull on other soft tissues. Their better bet is to start floating in a pool of warm to hot water, and slowly move the soft tissues around. Most people seem to think stretching is where they try to use the muscles more, and it just causes the inflammation if any to get worse. ANd if you over train certain muscles, like say the leg muscles, it can get so powerful that it pulls your entire soft tissue system out of balance, like a single thread pulling out an entire patch of a clothing.

That’s not a back spasm. Your logical sequence of events point more towards a gluteus muscle contraction/charlie horse due to hyper powerful hamstrings and thigh muscles pulling on the glutes, which then pulled on the muscles of the lower back, which may or may not have affected the Iliac crest.

I work on clients with similar issues. It usually doesn’t take me more than an hour to fix.

But she was in luck that a new treatment, in which a gel is injected into the disc, had become available. She was one of the first to get the treatment in New Mexico.

And it worked. Thank God. Back pain is no joke.

http://www.whythingshurt.com/ims-dry-needling-expanded-explanation/

Over the years I tried so many treatments both conventional and unconventional that I honestly can’t tell you because I have forgotten many of them. But I had tons of acupuncture, which never helped my back but helped a knee injury I had for a while.