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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[…] Alone at home while Theo started a new full time job and staring at our shut down graphic design business I was still unable to do very much at all but I listened to the radio and that was where I first heard Lorimer speaking. He was on Margaret Throsby’s show on ABC Classic FM. […]
I contacted him too. He didn’t reply.
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.
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.