By: mo

mo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:47:50 +0000

Very interesting,
although my “injury story” maybe isn’t totally related, thought you might be interested…
So, I was recently at the surgeon, and the first thing i said to him was…”I dont want surgery…dont be thinking of me as a patient”. Surgeons have a bad stigma, so twice now I have been suprised by how receptive, and what good “bed side manners” my two surgeons have had. Most recently, after telling my surgeon that I didnt want surgery, we talked about synaptic nerves, and creating new nuerological pathways to overide others that were already damaged. We do this all the time in our brains when we are attempting to change or adapt behaviour or faulty thought processes. According to my surgeon, this is actually much easier to do physically as there are much less possible pathyways down your spine than in your brain. Anyways, I will be spending the next little bit working on creating new nuerological pathways to override the damaged ones in my spine…I havn’t quite figured out how to do this, but have another appointment with him this week to learn more. the other interesting thing with this method is that you really shouldnt be on any medication to do this, as medication prevents, or changes the messages being sent, so prevents you from doing it yourself. Which is good, because besides from not wanting surgery, I really dont want to be on heavy drugs either. (Im stubborn). So, i have been taken off doing all the exercising that I love, am now going to be wearing a brace in attempt to create some more stability in my back, and do all these leg and arm exercises while focusing on pushing the right kind of messages down my spine. I figure i will do it for a set period of time, and see how it goes. Regardless…i was impressed by the first doctor that didn’t push drugs on me when i didnt want them.
I will let you know how it goes.

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By: mo