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Homepathic Arnica
Today’s recommendation: Homeopathic Arnica for neutralizing the shock and trauma of surgery. Let’s be honest- even if you’ve been diligent with your mental and physical training (and especially if you haven’t), the experience of surgery is a wee bit traumatic. What can we do to help the body return to equilbrium? While homeopathy is sometimes…
Scar Minimization (advanced)
If you’ve been giving yourself the scar treatment daily (or twice daily) for a few weeks, you’re ready to take it up a notch. Here is a more extended scar treatment, with two new techniques added. Enjoy! No seriously, enjoy. Don’t do this like you’re clipping your nails. Slow down- let it take 2 full minutes. If you’ve…
Overview of Scar Care
I just spoke with a woman in her 40’s who had a hip replaced 18 months ago and is preparing for her second. I asked how her 18 month scar looked. She said “It’s not so great. I wish I’d done more for it.” Scar care is like caring for a fern or a goldfish. It needs just a little bit…
Be thoughtful about your media choices
Directly following surgery and at least for the next week or two, you’ll be pretty fragile and I would even say permeable, vulnerable. So be mindful of what you’re taking in by way of TV and movie and news. Of course, I had my surgery just before the 2016 election so the airwaves and news…
Dress for Success
It’s a fair question: what kind of clothes will you wish you had? Of course, with Amazon, you can get anything you need pretty quickly, but here are my recommendations to have on hand. Plan ahead so you can be free of cares. These suggestions are specifically for folks getting a joint replacement, but they…
You’ll need to quit smoking
If you’re a smoker, your surgeon will require you to quit smoking, for a whole set of reasons related to how it compromises your cardiovascular and respiratory systems. There’s a very good mind-training CD for this. By the way, this is equally true for smoking cannabis, if that’s something you do. Medical cannabis has been…