Dynamic Balance
May 7, 2007
Get It Started
Water, Water everywhere and not a drop to drink. I am not sure who said that quote but it seems very apropos this month. With the addition of the LDT to my skill set I have been looking to see what it is good for. They taught us how to perform the technique but not how to, who to, or where to market it. So I looked at the basic 4 benefits: Detoxification, recovery, fluidic balance and immune boost and then applied them to pathologies to see how it would benefit. That was a little out of my range. So I turned to a more in depth study of the benefits to see how it could help and what it could help. The one that truly caught my attention and actually frightened me was the detox benefit. I have never been one to identify with Don Quixote tilting at windmills. But the more I looked into the contaminants in our water, food and air quite frankly I wondered how we survive from day to day. I truly began to realize the truly arduous task that the lymphatic system performs and how we really don't give it a break. I doubt it highly that it is a matter of the contaminants not really hurting us, but more a matter of a bloody miracle we survive as long as we do in life. It might really be time for us to start looking into what we put in us and our environment, and if that is to big, at least give your lymphatic system a break. Drink your water, take a deeeeeeeeep breath and seriously look into doing some detoxing in your near future!
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“In men about 72% of the body mass is water. This value is about 68% in women due to a higher proportion of body fat. This is the total body water..”
Did You know?
Each Year farmers internationally spend $25 billion on pesticides; less than 0.1% of these pesticides reach the target bugs.
"Pesticides are not 'safe;' they are produced specifically because they are toxic to something" US EPA citizens guide to pesticides
In 1821, the average refined sugar intake in America was only10 pounds per person a year; today this has gone up to 170lbs
Just a thought: I often wonder how many extra arms we would have to grow before scientists would agree that the toxin that caused it was to much.
Body Balancing of Central Florida
Lymphatic Drainage is a important part of your detoxification process that each of us should do at least once a year. The overwhelming evidence of the contaminants that we put in our body via our food, air and water would make you sick. The liver works hard to reduce this load daily. But we load it up pretty quickly. I will admit to being a hamburger junkie in a heart beat. Even with all I have learned lately about food and water, am I going to give up my burgers and move to a whole earth commune and raise my own crops, NO. Neither are you. Oh you might make some small changes if you already haven't due to a congenital problem. But we live in the most amazing country in the world today. Contaminants or not we are going to enjoy the fruits of our labors in what ever fashion we like.
That being said, it might be time to ask for more of our EPA to regulate the crap these companies are spraying our food with, the junk they are feeding our food and the fare that we are being served up. Not to mention protecting our water supply. That doesn't mean they need to raise our taxes nor the prices either. Changes come slow upon request, but they come if we ask for them.
In the mean time making a time each year to give the "innerds" a good wash, might just show us how good our health can be and shake us out of the stupor that leaves us ignorantly content to just not be sick.
When was the last time you did something nice for your body?
Preemptive actions
When typing, writing, reading, etc., the patient should keep the upper arm vertical, with the elbow behind the plane of the chest and not projected forward. Whenever possible, an armrest of suitable height should support the elbow.
Using Hot packs on the shoulder to soften musculature then bringing the should through as complete of a circle as possible is helpful to ease this muscle.
Muscle of the month
The supraspinatus (soo-prah-spih-NAHtus) is buried in a pocket in the top of the shoulder blade above the scapular spine (Figure 5.15). The word supraspinatus means "above the spine." (This spine is the spine of the scapu
la
and not he vertebrae) At its outer end, the muscle passes under the acromion
(bone on the top of the shoulder) to attach to the very top of the head of
the humerus (arm bone). This attachment gives the supraspinatus great
leverage for helping raise the arm. It also allows the muscle to help the
other rotators hold the joint together.
The supraspinatus is not the easiest muscle to massage and it's not the easiest to find. Many massage therapists, even quite good ones, don't even try (not me, I am committed ( or should be)). Nevertheless, this muscle is too important a part of common shoulder problems to ignore. The supraspinatus can be treated if you understand it well enough and are determined to take it on.
Supraspinatus trigger points can be at the heart of an otherwise unexplainable problem.
Associated Trigger Points may be found in the infraspinatus (the muscle under the spine of the scapula) and upper trapezius (neck to shoulder muscle), the anterior and middle deltoid (front and mid shoulder pad muscle), and in the antagonistic latissimus dorsi (back of shoulder all the way to the lower back!).
The superficial Back Arm Line:
This line demonstrates the importance of resting your elbow when doing computer work. Utilizing the extensor muscles to lift the fingers to type pulls on this myofascial line enough with out having to add the strain of trying to hold it up. The upper arm and back muscles are not meant to do delicate work like keystrokes. Without resting the elbow during typing that is exactly what you are asking it to do. Can you say "mouse shoulder?"
Case Study
Erik, age fifty-five, had a bad fall while skiing. Eighteen months later, he still felt the effects in the outside of his left shoulder and in his left elbow. He couldn't raise his arm without the most excruciating pain. Sometimes it hurt just to walk across the room with his arm hanging at his side. Playing the piano, something he had always done on weekends for extra income, had become an unpleasant ordeal. After many tests, Erik's doctor still wasn't sure what was wrong. Pressure applied to an extremely tender spot in the supraspinatus muscle of Erik's left shoulder blade reproduced the pain in his elbow and shoulder. He was shown how to massage the muscle himself. Within three weeks, by his own efforts-after a year and a half of misery his pain was finally gone.