Are you aware of mobilityWOD and the associated book "Becoming a Supple Leopard" by Kelly Starrett?It basically covers whole body movement, flexibility, mobility etc. and shows you ways how to address them on your own.I know there is a bit of controversy regarding a lot of the material out of the Crossfit corner, but if you don't take everything for face value but use your own head too, there is some really good stuff in there which might be able to help you.
Are you aware of mobilityWOD and the associated book "Becoming a Supple Leopard" by Kelly Starrett?
I also doubt that there is a "one stop solution" that will fix everything right now and forever. It is probably much more of an ongoing process and just as in climbing you'll have to keep working on to maintain a healthy body.
Osteo or a GOOD physio (or good Osteo for that matter) could help? Mine helped sort out my herniated discs - but spent alot of time working on my thorasic spine - which in his words has probably not moved since I was a a teenager... Back problems probably linked to poor posture giving over S shaped spine - as top of back was inflexible etc...Theres a fair ammount of snake oil going on I suspect , but it seemed to make sense...TT
Sloper, if the entire population of the planet was divided into 10 equally-sized deciles and ranked in order of 'most likely' to 'least likely' to give useful advice on musculoskeletal issues and manipulation, you'd fall somewhere within the second-to-bottom decile alongside 'the bloke I recently stood next to in the pub' and 'my dad', but just above 'Gordon Brown' and 'Norman Lamont'.
Quote from: petejh on March 04, 2015, 05:26:48 pmSloper, if the entire population of the planet was divided into 10 equally-sized deciles and ranked in order of 'most likely' to 'least likely' to give useful advice on musculoskeletal issues and manipulation, you'd fall somewhere within the second-to-bottom decile alongside 'the bloke I recently stood next to in the pub' and 'my dad', but just above 'Gordon Brown' and 'Norman Lamont'.And you're an orthopaedic surgeon?
Quote from: tommy_k on March 04, 2015, 04:02:17 pmAre you aware of mobilityWOD and the associated book "Becoming a Supple Leopard" by Kelly Starrett?It basically covers whole body movement, flexibility, mobility etc. and shows you ways how to address them on your own.I know there is a bit of controversy regarding a lot of the material out of the Crossfit corner, but if you don't take everything for face value but use your own head too, there is some really good stuff in there which might be able to help you.Do you mind summarising, as mobilityWOD seems to be a bit of buzzword atm?
Do you mind summarising, as mobilityWOD seems to be a bit of buzzword atm?
Quote from: Sloper on March 04, 2015, 08:20:21 pmQuote from: petejh on March 04, 2015, 05:26:48 pmSloper, if the entire population of the planet was divided into 10 equally-sized deciles and ranked in order of 'most likely' to 'least likely' to give useful advice on musculoskeletal issues and manipulation, you'd fall somewhere within the second-to-bottom decile alongside 'the bloke I recently stood next to in the pub' and 'my dad', but just above 'Gordon Brown' and 'Norman Lamont'.And you're an orthopaedic surgeon?Your (self)love of the serious professions is laudable but an orthopedic surgeon is someone you go to see when all else has failed. Effectively you've reached the point of admitting the body's self-healing mechanisms are a lost cause and it requires someone applying deliberate trauma to heal you.
One reason we don't do all-over health checks is that it would results in endless unnecessary treatment.If you have endless time and money, your plan sounds like a good one. Assuming the unnecessary treatment isn't harmful.None of the above negativity seemed sufficiently strong.
To put it simply osteopathy is based myth and magic rather than science and medicine.
That the Osteo cracked my back and neck every trip (and I felt better for a couple of hours after that) I saw as an added bonus...