Cosa e Come ho fatto
Inutile dire che non c’è la bacchetta magica; non c’è una unica azione o comportamento che, da sola, risolve un problema così complesso, diffuso e studiato. Per definire gli esercizi e le azioni più appropriate per risolvere i miei problemi ho messo insieme le conoscenza della meccanica derivate dalla my degree in Engineering with what little knowledge of medicine that can be acquired by consulting medical encyclopedias and articles on the Internet. Because concepts of mechanics and medicine? Because the human body is a wonderful machine consists of several components connected and interdependent, subject to the laws of mechanics. From this analysis, I derived a set of actions, exercises, and conduct which, taken together, have helped to return to my body quell'equibrio bio-mechanical, gradually and progressively led to the reduction and elimination of the disorder. The set of actions, behaviors and exercises taken from me can be grouped into five categories, described in Subsequent Post:
- Child : exercises and actions to gradually retrieve bio-dynamic equilibrium that can be found in the child.
- Stretching: stretching exercises, joint, mostly concentrated in the area also-basin, designed to reduce the stress of the lumbar-dorsal grazien the greater flexibility of the hips in bending.
- Movement: movement exercises designed to promote greater mobility of the structural components of the body that the normal habits of life tend to stiffen.
- Neuromuscular : exercises designed to activate the mechanisms that neuro-muscular control the spine upright.
- Posture: posture and behavior in daily activities and work, aimed at promoting the reduction of stiffness caused by incorrect posture, caused by the need and the convenience of modern life.
My back pain: history
The story of my back pain nobody cares. A story that is probably very similar to that of many other people who have had similar problems.
I have not felt appropriate to bring it back here, to show how serious my problem. A problem that plagued me for years, since back in 1968, stato operato di ernia al disco (quarta e quinta lombare). Allora l’intervento chirurgico pareva essere l’unico intervento terapeutico efficace; nessun farmaco infatti riusciva a diminuire il forte dolore che mi teneva bloccato a letto. Dopo l’operazione ho continuato ad avere disturbi, e necessità di ricorrere a farmaci, fino a quando ho trovato un neurochirurgo illuminato che mi ha consigliato di fare del moto “naturale” per favorire il tono muscolare dei muscoli dorsali. Mi ha anche detto che un operato di ernia al disco deve sempre tenere ricordare, in ogni momento della sua vita, che l’operazione ha ridotto la capacità di movimento delle vertebre interessate dall’intervento, e quindi la flessibilità of the spine. However, since then I started to do with regularity and continuity Running activity, reducing up to completely eliminate the back pain. In this way I have been monitoring the disease for nearly three decades, with some minor relapse which resolved within days, with some pharmacological help. Until three years ago when I had a strong first relapse. At that time I attended a trip to Egypt organized by the group runners which I belong, and the program of the trip was a stop at the laboratory of the Egyptian state-run natural essences, among the many species presented, we were shown the power "miraculous" oil of sandalwood for the treatment of various joint and muscle disorders, inviting interested parties to present a sample application with its massage. I, who was in particularly critical conditions, I accepted, hoping to improve my condition. An experienced massage therapist gave me a massage with sandalwood oil in the party in the back and at that moment I had a benefit, or at least I thought and hoped. Instead, the next morning, when getting up from the table after breakfast, I fell heavily to the ground, the right knee had suddenly fallen. That massage was definitely worse, possibly causing a strong inflammation, or perhaps an injury to the nerve root that controls the muscles of gamba, avendo determinato come conseguenza una riduzione della capacità muscolare della gamba. In sostanza, riuscivo a stare in piedi e a camminare, ma come piegavo il ginocchio interessato cadevo a terra. La gamba interessata non mi sosteneva se piegavo il ginocchio per scendere o salire le scale. A quel punto è iniziato un periodo di vero calvario; il mal di schiena che mi impediva di piegarmi, con mia moglie che mi aiutava quotidianamente a mettermi mutande, calzoni e calzini; e in più il ginocchio che cedeva. Dolori di notte e di giorno, nonostante l’utilizzo di farmaci antidolorifici specifici. Radiografie e risonanze magnetiche riescono solo a dire che ci sono schiacciamenti degli spazi intervertebrali con principi di ernia; ne tanto meno sono help of various specialists were consulted: orthopedic and neurosurgeons. A principle of improvement after a few months, then a new relapse, worse than the first. One day, two colleagues with whom I talked about my problems, they gave me the ideas that I started the path that allowed me to solve problems. One of them, he also suffers from problems of back pain due to two herniated disc, lent me his book "Stretching Structural " which described a series of exercises that had enabled him to overcome the crisis of acute pain back. Another colleague told me about a friend of his still young, he had solved the same problems using the exercises of the method Feldenkrais. I immediately started to try out some exercises from the book Stretching Structural, and I immediately brought some books of the Feldenkrais Method. And above all I studied carefully the exercises by both structural Stretching from the Feldenkrais Method, focusing not so much on the correct execution of the exercises, but on the ground and the likelihood that each year could have on the human body, trying to interpret these effects also in terms of bio-mechanics. I am an engineer, and I discovered that even the founder of the Feldenkrais was an engineer. So I started to run my program on a daily basis and one of my sequence of exercises, also of interpreting my Taking into account the ability to run functional limitations that stemmed from back pain and limited joint flexibility.
I must say that the ending of the story has a happy ending. Because after a few weeks I started feeling much improved, and within three or four months back pain has gone completely and also, slowly, I have fully recovered his strength and functionality of the leg and right knee. I also started running again, and last year I was able to run again the New York Marathon, managing to finish in less than six hours.
put into service in my web history, and the resulting experiences and information, as an additional contribution, beyond the many already in the network, in the belief that others, following a similar path, they can get the same results.
