A few months into my implant and I felt like I was human again… my senses were back and it was incredible!! That thick pain fog was lifted and I could taste, smell, see, concentrate, focus, remember, listen, think, plan, dream, enjoy, laugh, read, oh what bliss!!!! And I also realised that the anaesthetic gives great long-lasting relief to my nervous system.
So, clearly it was time for research. Here I was for almost four years thinking my issue must have been motor/mechanical but still considering Regional Pain Syndrome, Pain loops etc along the way. I picked up a book my massage therapist, Pam Frost recommended: Norman Doidge, MD | The Brain That Changes Itself. The book referenced Dr Lorimer Moseley and mentioned something along the lines of him extending the ‘mirror box’ experiment and stated he was Australian!
So I googled… I found an ABC interview with Margaret Throsby that I had actually heard before but not remembered, and many many email addresses for a point of contact. So I wrote… I thought either I can help myself, I can help Lorimer (yes, we’re on first name basis now!) or both! Lorimer’s reply was simple: ‘…tell me roughly where you are and i can link you up with someone good’. And boy did he!!
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I contacted him too. He didn’t reply.
Definitely no traction for me. But awareness for the space between the discs. Have you tried Alexander Technique? Great awareness for chronic pain. For all really.
Soula I found traction helped my pain a lot, my pain is mostly in my neck so traction was excellent pulling the disc away from each other. Seems traction for the lower part of your body might help, just a thought.