So you need a total joint replacement. Perhaps it feels as if a calamity has befallen you. It’s terrifying to imagine. A hard road lies ahead. Those are all possible mindsets you could be in. But you can adopt a different mindset, so you can readily find in yourself the willingness to do all the constructive…
It’s an important question. I am neither a doctor nor a physical therapist. I have studied with masters of various healing arts (including osteopath/acupuncturist Dan Bensky, osteopath Dr. John “can talk to tumors” Upledger, and Kathmandu’s cherished ayurvedic physician Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracharya, as well as chiropractor/breema practitioner Jon Schreiber), and I have studied, practiced, shared widely and…
It’s easy to injure ourselves while training Because that’s how it works. Underdoing it has downsides, just as overdoing does. The goal is the walk the line between the two. And it’s not such a fine line- I found that after the initial period of inflammation, each week I could add a thousand or several…
Let’s think about building a results-oriented and savory day: Whether we are weeks or months before surgery, or weeks or months afterwards, we can positively influence the course of your recovery by composing your day with intention (rather than habit and custom). Each of our days (if we are serious about accelerating your healing) will have something for the psyche…
Just kidding. This is actually a post about measuring your progress. I strongly recommend you purchase some kind of step tracker. It doesn’t have to be a fancy $200-$300 device with heart rate, etc. No tracker is perfect; all have benefits and downsides. I chose the simplest one I could find, the Fitbit Blaze, because I…
TRANSCRIPT A little self-familiarity will go a long way. We all know that what we experience is colored by the norms and conventions of our peers and the society we’re immersed in. We see the world filtered through the lens of our personality and accumulated experiences, which include a mishmash of everything we’ve heard, read or seen. In other…
No, I’m not suggesting you do home surgery. Nor am I suggesting you ignore anything your MD, surgeon, nurse, PT or other medical professional guides you to do. Do what they tell you! But it will not serve you to follow blindly (ask questions if you don’t understand, or if you are thinking that you…
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…
Overdoing it by overruling my intution and following a PT’s suggestion On my fourth day post-surgery, my Kaiser home visit PT (someone I had never met before) visited and, impressed with how easily I was moving around the house, asked me if I had been outside. “Outside?” I replied. “I wasn’t planning on leaving the…
Your relationship with your body and yourself may have gotten you this far, but it’s unknown lands ahead and you need to tap into some deeper resources than you have been accessing thus far. I’m suggesting that you need to get a little out of your comfort zone… but we’re there already, aren’t we? Some days we…