Friday, May 08, 2009 at 13:28
Early in 2007 there was a small article in the paper saying that a study had shown the major reason for traumatic admission to hospital for men aged above 50 was falls from height; mainly from ladders
2 weeks after I turned 50, I was admitted to hospital with 3 cracked vertebrae and the compound dislocation of 2 bones in my hand following … a fall from a ladder
My daughter had just started her physiotherapy degree just before the fall and I became her guinea pig and case study…both for my back and hand.
The body will repair itself, but a physio will develop a programme of exercises to restore the muscle tone to support the spine as
well as developing means of planning your movements (or alternatives) so as not to put undue strain on the body.
I took pain killers for 1 day after release from hospital; and 2 months later I pulled up, moved and laid 1200 pavers…at the Doctor’s
check up I told him of this and that I had been doing this for an hour interspersed with lying flat on the floor for an hour. He thought this was the best medicine that he could prescribe.
Due to the way the bones repaired themselves, my back is no longer straight, and the concept of going to a chiropractor to straighten it seems wrong (but then I have been indoctrinated with a physiotherapist’s view of chiropractors).
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