Sunday, July 31, 2005

CranioSacral Therapy to the Rescue! Here is a follow up on my absurd sneezing injury and resultant week and a half of enforced vacation. Oh, didn't I explain that part? This all happened as a result of a big sneeze. I could hear and feel the bones jumping out of place, and knew I was about to embark on some kind of adventure. Supposedly, the muscles and bones had been creeping out of alignment for awhile, and the sneeze just set it off. Like that famous bodybuilder, I can't remember who it was, who fractured his spine while reaching for his comb. Something little can be the final trigger. My back muscles were in spasm too strongly for me to get out to any of the therapies that people have been so kind to suggest. Just the chiropractor twice. Yesterday, though, I made it to my office partner, and she did her magical CranioSacral Therapy. It felt wonderful, but even better: it worked! I remained sore yesterday evening, but awoke this morning with no spasms. YAY! I didn't expect a cure that extreme. What a good surprise! I still ache all over, but have two appointments tomorrow that should fix me right up. That and some herbal liniments. (St. John's Wort, arnica, lobelia, corn mint, calendula, white willow bark and more. Available online at www.HerNativeRoots.com. It's a great website for excellent herbal preparations made by an Iroquois medicine woman, last in a long line of medicine women. She's a friend of mine too.) Then I won't have to write about this again. I suppose there is a lesson we all can learn from my little personal tragedy: If you feel like you need a professional massage, you really should go and get one. It's a lot cheaper and more fun in the long run. I think I'd better listen to my own advice. * * * * * * 5:41:41 PM    comment []

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