[pct-l] Tai Chi & the PCT - hiking works too

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

My cured by hiking story; I herniated a disk in my upper spine kayaking the 
killer kern in too low water in august of a low melt year, and suffered pain 
and numbness and tingling in my arm & fingers for about a year.....I then 
hiked from Tuolomne Mdws to Pauite Pass, when I turned off trail at the 
wonderful san joaquin to climb the pass, I felt a major SNAP in the problem 
area and have never felt the pain again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <calliger@infolane.com>
To: <Bighummel@aol.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Cc: <rjcalliger@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Tai Chi & the PCT


> This is great Greg!! My congrats; may I take a page out of your
> book please?  I have the same disk problem but it makes my
> feet numb!! Go figure...any ideas on that?
>
> Richard
>
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:45:09 EST, Bighummel wrote
>> I have recently hurt a disc in my lower back and immediately went
>> into deep depression upon the realization that this might mean the
>> beginning of the end.  But no.  I began exercising the lower back
>> muscles religiously and sleeping with a pillow below my butt to arch
>> my spine back while resting and taking glutimine to help build the
>> muscles back and, of course, power walking - from the center (what a
>> great description of this!) up the highest hill in my town and now .
>> . .
>>
>> Not only is my back feeling great and strong, but a ligament pain in
>> the front of my knee is gone and I am getting stronger and now
>> powering up the hills rather than just hauling myself up and, now
>> when I come back down the steeper portions I find that my knees feel
>> better too due to the muscles around them developing and supporting
>> the joint better.
>>
>> YMMV, IMHO, GYOW, HYOH, KOIYDLT,
>>
>> Greg "Strider" Hummel
>>
>> (KOIYDLT = Kiss Off If You Don't Like This ;-)
>>
>> "Solvitur Ambulando"
>> (walking solves all things)
>> St. Augustine
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