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Hello ladies,
Here are some apps that I like. My favorite is Trail Guide to the Body. This is helpful especially with palpating, touching the body for range of motion testing, etc.I also like Essential Anatomy / Skeleton, BioDigital Human, Real Body, and Gray’s Anatomy.
Hope this helps,
JoyHi Rachel,
In Chinese medicine, fibromyalgia appears to be heat in the muscles. As such, for many individuals items that reduce that heat may be helpful. And unfortunately, those items that build more heat may aggravate the pain.In Chinese medicine, yin is cooling while yang is warming. Yin is also associated with night, water, relaxation, and inward drawing of the energy. Yet yang is associated with day, sun, activity, and outward movement of energy. Therefore, supporting these yin aspects may be helpful. Only sleeping three hours per night not only may be limiting the building yin, yet it may also be challenging for the body to heal itself which is part of what happens as we sleep. Hydrating well as your client appears to be doing may be helpful. Also relaxing, and yin yoga poses may be helpful as it appears your client is enjoying. Meditation also has a resonance with yin energetics. Things to consider with meditation: stay slow for 1-5 minutes, use with guided meditations, and when your client is ready just watching without judgment the body as it appears that this may have been limited due to the 20+ years of pain. Pranayama like alternate nostril breathing, and a technique used in Chinese medicine is inhaling in the nose yet out the mouth as we appear to release more heat through the mouth. It may be helpful to note that things that may build heat like stress, hot spicy foods, alcohol, sugar, raw foods, etc. may exacerbate the heat in the muscles; these are based on the Chinese medicine energetics of foods, etc. Therefore, being aware of these items may be helpful.
Hope this helps,
JoyHi Gabrielle,
Do you have a OPQRST for your client? Some items that would be interesting to know are the width of separate after pregnancy, and now.Most doctors do not recommend any type of sit up activities. Instead, the traditional recommended activities are those that engage transverse abdominis which is a deeper abdominal muscle than rectis abdominis which tends to be the muscles involved in abdominal separation with pregnancy.
Yet with separation still prevalent after 3 years, it may be helpful to consider some other healing modalities like physical therapy, acupuncture, etc. For some individuals, surgery is necessary. This would be something to discuss with her doctor.
With women I have seen with this condition, gentle engagement of mula bandha, uddiyana bandha, and breathing exercises while gently engaging transverse abdominis has been helpful.
Hope this helps,
JoyHi Lisa,
Would you mind sharing some more information regarding your client’s spondylosis.For some individuals, spondylosis may be isolated to an area of the spine whether the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar, or may be throughout the spine. Which is your client experiencing?
For some individuals, spondylosis may be exacerbated with movement, with inactivity, or both. Does your client fall into one of these categories?
Please also provide some more information related to his pain. Quality of pain, when, where, how experienced, etc. in other words OPQRST.
It would also be helpful to understand what happened up to this diagnosis and then being cleared for exercise in September 2015. Was there an injury, surgery, event, Mri, ct scan that precipitated the diagnosis and then having to be cleared for exercise. This would also support the OPQRST.
Hope this helps,
JoyYou’re welcome, Gabrielle.
Hi Gabrielle,
Other resources that I use include:* Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
* International Journal of Yoga
* Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
* PubMed
* National Institute of Health
* National Center for Complementary and Integrative HealthHope this helps,
JoyHi Alice,
For many individuals using multiple healing therapies at the same time augments the individual treatments. In other words, complementary therapies like acupuncture and chiropractic may augment the other treatments. With that in mind, something to consider though is to not overload the body with treatments. Therefore, allowing some days in between chiropractic and acupuncture treatments may be something to consider. In general, allowing three days between different treatments may be helpful as this may allow the body to process one therapy before having to process another therapy. Also listening to the body and its reactions to the acupuncture and chiropractic treatments may be helpful in determining the timing, duration, and effectiveness of the therapies.Hope this helps,
JoyHi Alice,
Chiropractic treatments may or may not help with the subluxations over time. I have seen clients that chiropractic treatments helps and other clients it did not help. So it depends on the person. Somethings to consider: is my body holding the treatments, am I seeing improvements with the treatments, are the treatments stronger with or without other modalities, how may days are between treatments of the same modality and other modalities (for some individuals treatments too close together may overwhelm the body, and treatments too far apart may allow the body to go back to its prior state; in general three days between treatments may be helpful for some individuals as it is considered the “law of cure” timeframe to process a healing.)For some individuals that chiropractic treatments may not have helped, other options may include: osteopathic, orthopedic, Physiatrist, PT, Rolfing, sports medicine, etc.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
JoyHi Alice,
I am so sorry to hear that you were being passed from one person to another and not being heard. One’s healing may differ when we are heard by a practitioner versus when we are not being listened to by a practitioner. Therefore, I would encourage you to be an advocate for your health and healing. If a practitioner is not asking questions, I would encourage you share the information that you have noticed even if they do not ask. You know yourself better than anyone. If the practitioner does not listen to what you share, then you may want to consider another practitioner that listens to you. Being heard and the rapport that results may impact one’s healing.
In general, when one blacks out or faints in response to an accident / trauma, the body may be protecting itself similar to the back muscles feeling as if they are hugging to hold your spine. These may be protective mechanisms of the body. When the body recognizes that it no longer needs to be in protective mode, the unwinding and healing may begin. This is similar to the recognition of how the body feels with hot baths. This is also similar to your awareness of being too tender to the touch to receive treatments until October. As such, I would encourage you to continue to listen to yourself not only with the proving aspect, listen to the results of the treatments, and also share these results with your practitioners. From the results you feel, these practitioners may also be able to adjust their treatments, frequently, intensity, etc.
In Chinese medicine, blacking out, loosing consciousness, or fainting with a traumatic event may affect one’s Shen. Shen represents spirit, mind, emotions. Pain and or stress whether from a break up, new business / financial situation in general may also affect one’s Shen. This is where the spiritual aspect / lessons may be something to consider, and also working with a practitioner that we have a rapport with and that listens to us. When we have an opportunity to talk about things that we are challenged with, we may be able to release and relieve stress, emotions, and stuck qi.
Something to consider and discussion with your acupuncturist are Chinese herbs or homeopathic remedies to help with the injuries. Since these items are usually taken every day, it is like a treatment every day. These remedies may be customized for the injury, prior injuries that may be affecting the current situation, pain, emotions, and any impact to the Shen.
Another item to consider is that the body is a physical manifestation and as such has a lower frequency level. Emotions / qi and shen have higher frequencies with Shen having the highest frequency. As such for many working on the higher frequencies with any situation / injury may help the healing to cascade to the lowest frequency of the body while also working on the physical body. Meditation, spiritual practices, certain healing touch, etc. also work on these higher frequencies. These may be helpful with the spiritual aspect / lesson. Please also know that it is okay to not always know what is the lesson. And just acknowledging that one may not know exactly what the lesson is may also be part of identifying the lessons. In other words, the “elephant” in the room may start to diminish by saying out loud that there is an “elephant” in the room.
Additionally something to consider is that the body may heal yet sometimes on its timeline and that timeline of the divine and not on our timeline. Sometimes there may be a lesson in this timeline. It also takes time to heal from a traumatic injury, break-out, change of business / work focus, etc. Sometimes we may need to give ourself permission to rest, heal, feel anxious, feel depressed, and be exactly the way we are. This in other words is being kind to oneself as we heal. So as a gentle reminder, take care of yourself and be kind to yourself.
There is a beautiful aspect of Buddhism that may provide some comfort. It is believed that in Buddhism the challenges one faces are given to us because we have the strength to overcome them. Additionally it is believed that we are given these challenges for others that do not have the strength to get through them. Therefore there is also an aspect of cosmic karma.
Let me know if any additional questions arise.
Hope this helps,
JoyHi Alice,
I am so sorry to hear about your back and chest. Here are a few questions and things to consider.How long were you unconscious/ blacked out? Did you stop breathing while unconscious? Did you need to be resuscitated or did you come to on your own? Were you taken to hospital?
Was an X-ray / Mri completed? This would have been to rule out any head, nerve, subluxation, soft tissue damage in addition to determining as you mentioned no structural damage.
When did you start massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic treatments? How frequently were you receiving treatments? What does “momentary” detail after a treatment? For example, during treatment, several hours, one day, several days, etc.? This injury sounds traumatic and six months later still having some challenges would result in these injuries being considered chronic. As such, chronic injuries may take longer to heal and more frequent healing treatments and modalities.
Does warmth / heat, coolness / ice, or alternating temperatures help, worse, or make no difference with the discomfort?
With the pain with breathing deeply, where is this pain specifically? Does the pain occur with a deep inhale or deep exhale?
Any bruises, contusions, etc. with the initial incident?
While OPQRST was included above, it may also be helpful to understand what your sleep (in addition to having to sleep upright), energy, mental focus / concentration / memory, appetite / digestion, headaches, and emotional state may have been over the past six months.
Something to consider from an emotional / spiritual aspect, are there any lessons that were meant to be learned that still may need to be processed / learned? Some traumatic incidents may “hit us over the head” to help us notice and pay attention to a lesson we may not have been listening to. As a result, the energetic / spiritual levels may need to shift before the physical may shift.
Let me know if any questions arise.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
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