Re: Why did we have bad hips and back?

[Guest guest]

Interesting thoughts.

On the wear and tear side - as we pave over more and more of the

planet, the surfaces we walk, run, jump and play on are, more and

more, becoming hard, unforgiving surfaces. I wonder if this has

something to do with more and more wear and tear on the joints that

absorb all the impacts?

Just a thought from another angle.

[Guest guest]

I started having pain in my early twenties and at the time I attributed it

all to unresolved conflicts, etc. I didn't get diagnosed with OA until a

decade and a half later and had my first resurfacing fifteen years after

that. I kind of laugh now at the male massage therapists and new age

practitioners that kept telling me that my locked pelvis was due to " blocked

sexual energy " and not one suggested I see an OS. Now I really think that

my OA was caused by the running I did as a teen (sometimes up to 12 miles

per day) on hard cement with cheap tennis shoes...but you never know.

June

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:51:26 -0800 (PST)

>

> Subject: Why did we have bad hips and back?

>

> wondering what thoughts people have about the origin

> of our problems.

> this wear and tear opinion im told about OA seems a

> bit shallow.

> Ive come accross the suggestion that our body is a

> metaphor for our conflicts. on a psychic/energetic

> and psychological

> level our body is acting out our emotions or

> unresolved conflicts or self destructive drives.

> such as: our hip helps us move forward into the world.

> our back support ourselves, our pelvis is our center

> and source of our

> stability or solidness. If there is conflict in

> these issues they may present themselves in our bodies

> as malfunction or malformation.

> while having a massage this weekend the masseur

> pressed her hands into my hip joints and

> early unpleasant childhood memories arose. Perhaps

> these negative thoughts or conflicts expressed

> themselves as hip/back

> malfunction.

> wonder if others have thoghts on this issue

> thank you

>

[Guest guest]

Wow! The idea (reality) of the body as a metaphor for our psyches is something

I totally accept. And while accepting that, I also know that I cannot " blame "

myself for what shows up in my body. And that there are more than a few things

that go on " in " me, in my psyche, that I don't understand, and don't even see.

Still, I try to look with compassion upon this left hip and ask to understand

what fears I've carried that it is trying to point out. Fear, I have found in

my 55 years, is the emotion that usually -- what? -- manifests itself in the

open where I am compelled to look at it. I have had what I assume is the

" usual " sleep problems post-op. I mean, there is NO lying down, reading awhile,

and going to sleep for me. No matter how sleepy I feel when I DO lie down,

within 30 minutes -- I am awake again. Prowling the house. Waiting for

authentic sleep to come. I wonder if, while under such deep sedation, my psyche

was fully aware of the trauma of the surgery and will NOT rest now because of

that memory. Who knows? But anyway, thanks for the introduction of this topic.

Joyce in Kentucky

left hip resurf on 2/2/04