Wait, let's reconsider surgery!
Reconstructive Surgery
With me this topic gets a large, loud and resounding HUH? Reconstructive surgery!? Does the body not heal itself? If you cut yourself and you keep the wound clean doesn't it heal? If given the right information and support many and almost all issues of the body can heal by themselves. This even includes things that a doctor may deem interminable. One of the first questions you could ask yourself is "Are the muscles in the area that they want to operate on rigid or supple?" If they are supple as opposed to tight like bands of steel, don't you think it would be wise to get them relaxed first before you mangle them with a knife? The difficulty is that so many want the healing of an issue to be done instantaneously. It took time to break down and in many instances like hip replacement this took years to occur. You never hear anyone say "oh my hip hurts, I think I will go to have it replaced." What is pain? Lack of circulation, nothing more and nothing less. The body in general will keep amplifying the pain until you pay attention to the area on your own, or you have a doctor cut into you and cause more pain. Whenever and wherever you are cut scar tissue develops. Scar tissue cuts down on the range of motion in the immediate area and in time affects the whole body, because the body is attempting to maintain a healthy upright position. There is no blood circulation in that area. No circulation causes pain. When you increase circulation the pain goes away.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The key word here is syndrome. Syndrome; a number of symptoms occurring together and characterizing a specific disease or condition. If carpal tunnel is a collection of symptoms occurring together why would one cut of the knife cure all? The main culprit in this malady would be either the radial or humeral bellies of the flexor digitorum superficials muscle. This muscle gets tight due to stress levels and then the contracting muscle or muscles puts undo stress in the carpal tunnel and the palm of the hand. There are areas in either aspect of the muscles that form trigger points and these trigger points send a referred pain into the carpal tunnel. Also in the contraction of this/these muscles, it pulls on the triangular palmar aponeurosis. Nothing more than a fancy name for some connective tissue in that area. If we were to look at it from a meridian perspective you would see that the lung, pericardium or heart constrictor and heart channels are involved. These all deal with some form of grief or sadness, and joined with the hand a part of the body that holds onto things in physical, you will eventually have a breakdown of the physical body. Because you have not released the energy of the feeling it has physicalized in your body, it becomes solid and becomes another part of you. Cutting it out only makes things worse. Yeah but! I hear yeah buts all the time. Yea but I work on a computer all day, and I say "Yeah but" right back atcha. We all do physical things to support ourselves on an emotional level in one form or another. After 10,000 hours on the computer how many hours of equal or any at all do you spend addressing and decompressing the muscles of that area? How many hours do you spend on the release of all the resentment built up in your body for doing a job you don't like or that you HAVE to do?
Meridians
When you look at the muscles and the meridians that run through them, you may be able to determine what type of treatment may be best for you. The treatment could be as simple as a walk in the park, a liver or gall bladder cleanse, acupuncture, reflexology or just a simple bit of rest. In addition the the physical cleanse, what are the emotional connections associated with those organs, what times are the pains greater and when are they the least? These are some of the many areas that I may be able to assist you with. The charts here are a good starting place. www.chiro.org/acupuncture/ABSTRACTS/amaro.shtml
Sciatic issues
Sciatic Issues
Once again pain referral patterns cause sciatic nerve like symptoms. The main pain in the... here is glute/minimus, it causes a false sciatic symptom. Other muscles that contribute to the sciatic nerve like symptoms are; (secondary) glut max glute/medius, and the piriformis. The Quadratus Lumborum or QL, and some of the pelvic floor muscles. The tertiary muscles could include semitendinosus and semimembranosis, and quadratus femoris.
Shoulder issues
Many people that go into surgery for what is deemed "frozen shoulder" can avoid this unnecessary carving up of the body by simply doing trigger point therapy (again Travells tp therapy) The main instigator here is the subscabularis muscle, which has three trigger points. Amazingly enough the book refers to this muscle as "frozen shoulder" The other main muscle with again three trigger points in it is the infraspinatus muscle. There are many muscles in and attached to the shoulder area. (I believe there are sixteen or eighteen muscles in this area and any one or multiples of these muscles can cause you grief.) Remember when they operate they cut all those muscles from the attachment points. That must really hurt and think of the physical therapy bills on top of the surgery.
Hip issues
Hip replacement is another surgery that is in most cases unnecessary and avoidable if caught in time, and that time is before surgery. "I don't believe you" you say, and again you say "alright explain to me and show me proof" "ok, I say. First of all the hip is on the gall bladder meridian, if and when the issues of the gall bladder are dealt with and released, the meridian releases and begins to heal itself, and then the avoidance surgery can be fully embraced. The main pain here is the piriformis muscle. Glute minimus, and several other smaller deeper muscles attach to the greater trochanter, this is the area that in most instances that breaks down first. The reason it breaks down is that all these muscles attach to this part of the bone and when they are tight and constricted there is undue stress on the attachment point, and the muscles literally pull off a piece of bone. The bottom part of the bone breaks down because of the friction of rubbing the wrong way in the acetabulum. This is it in plain terms. If and when the body is given the right information and rest it will heal itself. There are formulas in Chinese medicine that help heal and regenerate tissue and yes bone is tissue material in layman's terms. Remember David is not a doctor, however I have seen some amazing things occur when the above individuals act outside the normal box.
Knee issues
Unless something is torn or ripped in the knee and you want an immediate quick fix surgery is just what the doctor ordered. However the quick fix can in many instances cause pain for the rest of your life. There are other alternatives. A slow steady heal in my opinion, and repeat after me "David is not a doctor", is a more prudent approach. Many knee issues could be eliminated by releasing trigger points in the; quadratus femoris, adductors, and gastrochnemis.
