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A visit to the doctor...
Aug. 16th, 2002 01:26 pmToday was my first experience with a chiropractor.
It turns out that the problem I was experiencing with my shoulder - sharp pain when I tried to move my arm in a perfectly normal manner to, for example, put on a tee shirt - was due to one of the tendons attached to my biceps having moved out of its "groove" in the upper arm.
Getting it back into place was a little painful, but the doc said it was back there, and proceeded to follow up with some acupuncture, another first for me.
The needles weren't painful at all, although I was aware of one particular placement... it felt as if someone was pressing down on a pressure point slightly. He then mounted what looked like pieces of cigarette on each needle and lit them. The smoke reminded me of college, where pot use was pretty prevalent in the suite in which I lived during freshman and sophomore years.
I've got an open mind about this kind of approach. I've heard a lot about acupuncture, and very little of it has been negative. The conventional wisdom has it that it's a long-standing therapy in China, and one might assume that something that has been around for so long and which has so many practitioners may have some basis. Of course, one might argue that astrologers have also been around for thousands of years, too, so one never can really tell. The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating.
Anyway, I returned later to the store to send off my eBay packages, and in showing Galina just where all the action took place, shifted my shoulder forward to show her where the doctor had done his manipulation... at which point a sharp pain told me I may have dislodged the tendon. So, I went back to the doctor, who happened not to have taken his customary lunch hour, and he worked on it some more, putting the tendon back into place and this time following the treatment with some ultrasound. No charge for the revisit, I was told (and the price of the morning's visit was quite reasonable, from my experience).
The doctor's advice for the weekend was to walk around with my right thumb taped to my belt, to make sure I don't inadvertently do something with my arm and/or shoulder to cause the tendon to jump again. I've got another appointment with him on Monday.
Cheers...
It turns out that the problem I was experiencing with my shoulder - sharp pain when I tried to move my arm in a perfectly normal manner to, for example, put on a tee shirt - was due to one of the tendons attached to my biceps having moved out of its "groove" in the upper arm.
Getting it back into place was a little painful, but the doc said it was back there, and proceeded to follow up with some acupuncture, another first for me.
The needles weren't painful at all, although I was aware of one particular placement... it felt as if someone was pressing down on a pressure point slightly. He then mounted what looked like pieces of cigarette on each needle and lit them. The smoke reminded me of college, where pot use was pretty prevalent in the suite in which I lived during freshman and sophomore years.
I've got an open mind about this kind of approach. I've heard a lot about acupuncture, and very little of it has been negative. The conventional wisdom has it that it's a long-standing therapy in China, and one might assume that something that has been around for so long and which has so many practitioners may have some basis. Of course, one might argue that astrologers have also been around for thousands of years, too, so one never can really tell. The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating.
Anyway, I returned later to the store to send off my eBay packages, and in showing Galina just where all the action took place, shifted my shoulder forward to show her where the doctor had done his manipulation... at which point a sharp pain told me I may have dislodged the tendon. So, I went back to the doctor, who happened not to have taken his customary lunch hour, and he worked on it some more, putting the tendon back into place and this time following the treatment with some ultrasound. No charge for the revisit, I was told (and the price of the morning's visit was quite reasonable, from my experience).
The doctor's advice for the weekend was to walk around with my right thumb taped to my belt, to make sure I don't inadvertently do something with my arm and/or shoulder to cause the tendon to jump again. I've got another appointment with him on Monday.
Cheers...
