Diane
08-06-2004, 04:31 PM
This happened yesterday. She had been having the symptoms for months, of feeling like her hands were swollen and too tight, pain even into her feet. Right side was worse, pain was more widespread in right arm.
She had been slated for surgery, but her surgery date got bumped because of cutbacks to our medical system funding. (Something good comes out of that sometimes..)
The first time she came I did my usual approach, manual treatment, positional release, lymph things at the neck, and so on. Yesterday she came in and said, "I felt better for a day then the pain came back.. I feel the same way again." So we spent the whole hour on the floor. She was a natural, and soaked up the entire cat stretch, every exercise on every side. A quick study.
After, she got up and marvelled that her shoulders felt "straight".. her mom had been noticing how rounded they were, and had been asking her to pull them back. Well, now she could. I asked her how her hands were feeling. She replied "Ooh...I don't feel... they feel good. They feel the right size, and I can move them without them hurting." I asked her how her feet felt. She said, "..they feel good.. I feel like I'm standing more in the middle of them and not just on the toes."
The first thing that happened when she walked back out to the waiting room was that her mother saw her coming and said, "Your shoulders look straight!" I think she'll be a regular daily cat stretcher now. Followup in a week.
Diane
She had been slated for surgery, but her surgery date got bumped because of cutbacks to our medical system funding. (Something good comes out of that sometimes..)
The first time she came I did my usual approach, manual treatment, positional release, lymph things at the neck, and so on. Yesterday she came in and said, "I felt better for a day then the pain came back.. I feel the same way again." So we spent the whole hour on the floor. She was a natural, and soaked up the entire cat stretch, every exercise on every side. A quick study.
After, she got up and marvelled that her shoulders felt "straight".. her mom had been noticing how rounded they were, and had been asking her to pull them back. Well, now she could. I asked her how her hands were feeling. She replied "Ooh...I don't feel... they feel good. They feel the right size, and I can move them without them hurting." I asked her how her feet felt. She said, "..they feel good.. I feel like I'm standing more in the middle of them and not just on the toes."
The first thing that happened when she walked back out to the waiting room was that her mother saw her coming and said, "Your shoulders look straight!" I think she'll be a regular daily cat stretcher now. Followup in a week.
Diane