Thread: Osteopathy

aha! another victim for the Craporium!!!!!!!

Tsc, tsc.

We dont have victims at the shop we have satisfied customers.

Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Tsc, tsc.

We dont have victims at the shop we have satisfied customers.

Al

Same thing

On the very day that Al started this thread, I did some mild damage to my back while cleaning the car. No big deal - just a recurrence of an old problem. Took some anti-inflammatory tablets and rubbed on a bit of liniment. Limped around the joint for a couple of days - milking it big time for sympathy - and well on the road to recovery.

Five days later most of the symptoms had receded. Then I made the mistake of lifting up a pack of old ceramic tiles to get at a can of paint in the shed. Fierce twinge in the back. :eek: I didn't want to drop the tiles and break them so I held on while I found somewhere safe to put them down. Big mistake!

I've been in bloody torment ever since. I've been unable to either sit or lie down for any length of time. I've spent most of my waking moments leaning against the breakfast bar. I've only been able to sleep for about three hours at a time. Today is the second day I've been able to sit here and use the computer for more than a few minutes at a stretch (hence my absence from the BB).

I've been getting treatment from a physio every second day and the problem has just started to slowly diminish.

What a bugger of a problem! No woodwork and no Bulletin Board for more than two weeks!

You take good health for granted don't you? Then something like this happens and it brings into focus just how fortunate you are to be reasonably healthy. I mean this is really just a minor affliction causing some discomfort and inconvenience for a few days. I don't know how the hell people with real chronic illness can handle it.

Hopefully back to making sawdust in a few days time!

Col

Originally Posted by Driver

I did some mild damage to my back while cleaning the car.

Col,

I'm terribly sorry to hear about the injury, hope you recover fully and quickly, and of course I hope that the missus gets better soon too. (Why else would YOU be washing the car?)

cheers,

P

Originally Posted by Driver

I did some mild damage to my back while cleaning the car.

I knew there was a reason why I don't wash my car, apart from the water shortage of course.

Glad to hear you are getting better Col.


Peter.

Thanks for the good wishes fellas and by the way, Midge, it was my wife's car!

Took me 4 weeks off work to make any sort of recovery, I'd say Im 90% at the moment, but the freakin bills dont stop when I do. :eek:

I still get the odd twinge and will book into the Ostio for the end of the week for a refresher course.

Hoop yeeu ure fooling weel soin.

Al

On the very day that Al started this thread

Typical. Another thing that is Al's fault.

Al,

In 97, I was advised by a chiro that I should consider a career change given the condition and injury to my back. At the time I was a landscaper by trade.

I had 3 jarred vertabre on the spine and suffered chronic neck and hip pain in the follwoing years.

During this time I had been diagnosed with everything imaginable by the "traditional therapy" types. Even Cat Scans for unrepairable Nerve Damge! according to some.

For several years I placed my health in the hands of traditionalists, blowing $ bills on my livelyhood.
What A waste OF TIME AND MONEY!

I mean being charged $70 for the placement of suction cups on my back is an absoloute joke considering your local GP would do this during of a general visit covered by medicare.

How much can a man Stetch! ?


In 2000 a new aquantance put me onto an Osteopath in Randwick (Sydney), mate I can tell you that the last 5 years have been bliss.

In one visit he identified that my right leg was slightly shorter than the left and my body had been compensating ever since.

Off to the podiatrist I went...

I now wear authotics (spelling) and have experienced nothing of the pain I endured in the the late 90's .

I frequently visited my Osteo over the last 5 years as the body put on weight quickly after the subjects wedding Afterall the auhtotics were not to solve an additional 15kg and now 30kg weight gain

My story comes to a sad end Im afraid. Im March of this year my Osteo moved to Noosa, I haven't had the trust to see anyone else, but when that times comes I assure you it will be an Osteopath once more !

Originally Posted by Deems36

In one visit he identified that my right leg was slightly shorter than the left and my body had been compensating ever since.

Cant resist!!!!

Maybe the other leg was longer??

Hmmmmmmhhh :confused:

Al

Originally Posted by Deems36

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In one visit he identified that my right leg was slightly shorter than the left and my body had been compensating ever since.

I think he was pulling your leg.

Good Lord

Better your leg than other parts of your anatomy