Re: physical therapy/shoulder -

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>

> Two comments.

>

> First, I agree with everything you said.

>

> Secondly, regarding your comment " The info Mike will eventually

post

> will be the least likely to do damage and least likely to cause

side

> effects and should work at least as well if not better than other

> things " - I read it to my wife and she said " talk about no

> pressure " ... and then laughed.

Hey - I have high expectations !!!

>

> The down-side of a lot of the techniquest that I suggest or

> recommend is that most doctors/chiros/osteos/PTs/LMTs etc DON'T

know

> how to do them. They are not taught as part of the basic course

> structures. And depending on how much the individual practitioner

is

> into alternative therapies, many of them either will not even know

> about them or will have the skeptical mind-set that they don't or

> can't work if they have heard of them.

>

> The up-side is that many of the most effective ones are also things

> that someone can easily learn to do themself to either self-treat

or

> work on family members.

Another upside is that more and more practitioners are learning all

this 'crazy' alternative stuff - and maybe, just maybe, if we keep

talking about it, using it, pushing it, someday - it will not be

so 'crazy' (dare we think mainstream?) Here we have more and more

alternative practitioners all the time - and even a monthly

publication listing all the local choices and artlicles explaining

what the various techniques are. My insurance company has even come

along way and will pay for chiros and I can go to the PT without a

referal. It's a start. (I do like the ability to do self care,

too!!)