Some people know that Linda and I have an interest in alternative medical therapies. In our case, many strange and wonderful things have worked for us to reverse serious health problems. (I would refer you to my book but since it is now out of print and only available in used copies, and since we are trying to buy up as many of those copies as we can, I’m not going to mention it, ‘cuz we don’t need any competition. At some point, if I continue this blog, I’ll put the book up as an Acrobat file for anyone who is interested to read).
Recently Linda had great success with neural therapy. (A related modality is prolotherapy). For several years, perhaps three, she has had severe, intermittent back pain. At these times she could hardly walk and would lie down on the floor with her feet up on an ottoman. The pain would strike suddenly and was quite debilitating. Then it would subside, leaving a dull, chronic ache. Lifting grand babies became an effort. I kept telling her she should get “the shots”. Our friend Aran Galway, a Nurse Practitioner in Anacortes, does neural therapy. He knows how to give “the shots.” On our way up to Lummi Island we stopped in Anacortes where I was getting some alternative dental treatment (more on that later) and Linda submitted to “the shots.” She had four or five over two days. The pain went away immediately. From what I can read about neural therapy this is not unusual. When it works, it works right away. Like a miracle. You can Google “neural therapy” if you’re interested and read all about it. No one is completely sure how or why it works but it’s thought that the injections (of a harmless substance) somehow clear up interference of the body’s electrical fields. Some might cringe at having needles stuck in their back, but after having needles stuck in my mouth two days in a row, having them in the back doesn’t seem so bad. How did Linda’s back pain develop? We wonder too. Our best theory is that it happened in the dental chair when she was literally having every tooth in her mouth crowned, capped or inlayed. All that tensing, clenching anxiety.
So many people have chronic back pain that, before submitting to invasive surgery it might be worth taking a shot at the shots.
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