[at-l] Glucosomene

[jbryankramer@xxxxxxx (J Bryan Kramer)]

Your problems sound a lot like mine. I went thru the whole phys therapy/
massage routine and like you a good massage therapist was the best thing I
found. But the insurance company isn't willing to pay for unlimited massages
and the effect was transitory, a couple of days at best. The PT's would say
I had a rib popping out but the othopods would scowl and say there isn't any
such thing. They did all the other stuff too: electrostim, sonics, infraheat
and so on. Hopefully this will work, I'm in the wait and see mode. I am
waking up without a painful back so that's an unusually good sign. The
actual botox treatment was nothing much, a tiny needle and a stick.

Bryan

"Si vis pacem para bellum"

> -----Original Message-----
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> thanks J...I don't know if I'm ready for botox...seems like a rather
> extreme solution given it's short period of effectiveness. OTOH,
> my problem
> is all tension related and nothing other than massage brings any kind of
> relief...it's as if a nexus of nerve endings coiling around one of the
> vertebrae acts as a badly functioning 'ground' for all the stress the neck
> receives in the course of doing its job...resistor-like, a neurochemical
> short-circuit of
> sorts. Along that line of thinking, the best relief I've ever had was by a
> physical therapist who contended I needed to have the 'toxins'
> stripped out
> of neck and proceeded to roll, press, and strip by back like it was a big
> ketchup packet. Unfortunately, I haven't had the same success with other
> massage therapists. Good Luck and let me know how you fare with the botox.
> Cal Ewing
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