Trouble with a GP is the G... General. Like being Wikipedia smart. Plus you spend all day diagnosing paranoid parents and their kids sniffles after 20 years of that stuff they lose interest.
Mel has some spine issues and she sees a woman who does a mix of chiropractics and massage. She gets vertigo sometimes when her neck locks up.
Trouble with chiropractors is that on it's own it's quackery. Like a bundle of toothpicks with a rubber band around them. Realigning the toothpicks without doing anything about the rubber band.
I know a guy who has the wellspring clinic in Duncan.
He's been into something called somatics (I think?) Which is pretty fascinating stuff. Sortof another level of massage therapy. Deals with the sensory and alignment musculature that people don't have voluntary control over.
A simple example, 20 years ago he did a demonstration on me. Says your right shoulder is an inch lower than your left. Really common for right handed people, everything between shoulder and hip on right side sees more use and gets tighter. Pulls hip up and shoulder down.
Gets me to lie on floor, pulls my feet and yep, right leg is an inch shorter than the left. Imagine how great that is for the spine...
So he showed me this weird stretch move like a sideways sit-up and then tells me to walk around. Weirdest feeling ever. Legs were now the same length, and I'd been effectively limping for years.
Simple example, he has thousands of things like that but his thing is that people continue to compensate for injury years after things are healed, and most of those hunched posture issues you see in old people are just that. Says there's no real reason for it in most cases. Sensory muscle amnesia I think was his term for it.
My neck goes out sometimes and looking up will make my arms go numb.
I'd see him if I could but he's the sister's ex and I haven't seen him in a decade because I don't like him, it'd be awkward and weird, but goddammit he's good at what he does so I'm almost prepared to deal with it.
I'd be looking into that sort of thing myself, maybe you already have. Sports medicine types. They see lots of strange nerve issues.
Mel has some spine issues and she sees a woman who does a mix of chiropractics and massage. She gets vertigo sometimes when her neck locks up.
Trouble with chiropractors is that on it's own it's quackery. Like a bundle of toothpicks with a rubber band around them. Realigning the toothpicks without doing anything about the rubber band.
I know a guy who has the wellspring clinic in Duncan.
He's been into something called somatics (I think?) Which is pretty fascinating stuff. Sortof another level of massage therapy. Deals with the sensory and alignment musculature that people don't have voluntary control over.
A simple example, 20 years ago he did a demonstration on me. Says your right shoulder is an inch lower than your left. Really common for right handed people, everything between shoulder and hip on right side sees more use and gets tighter. Pulls hip up and shoulder down.
Gets me to lie on floor, pulls my feet and yep, right leg is an inch shorter than the left. Imagine how great that is for the spine...
So he showed me this weird stretch move like a sideways sit-up and then tells me to walk around. Weirdest feeling ever. Legs were now the same length, and I'd been effectively limping for years.
Simple example, he has thousands of things like that but his thing is that people continue to compensate for injury years after things are healed, and most of those hunched posture issues you see in old people are just that. Says there's no real reason for it in most cases. Sensory muscle amnesia I think was his term for it.
My neck goes out sometimes and looking up will make my arms go numb.
I'd see him if I could but he's the sister's ex and I haven't seen him in a decade because I don't like him, it'd be awkward and weird, but goddammit he's good at what he does so I'm almost prepared to deal with it.
I'd be looking into that sort of thing myself, maybe you already have. Sports medicine types. They see lots of strange nerve issues.