Complementary medicene and back pain

Hello again after a short break.

There are a few more complementary options to talk about in my mini series, but first why am I so passionate about the "natural" ways compared to modern western medicine?

It is really quite simple and personal and emotional. The last two, personal and emotional make my viewpoint that much more passionate. It has little to do with back pain, although there is probably an element of lower back pain in there.

My daughter, Elizabeth, was, and is a healthy outgoing person. She excelled at sports and even practiced Aikido with me. When adolescence hit she put on a growing spurt and started to experience pains in her left foot and they became severe. She also had some lower back pain. My wife took her to see a very good Amatsu practitioner who worked on Elizabeth for over a year. He was most upset that he could not rectify the problem and eventually came to the conclusion there was a serious underlying problem. At his insistence we asked for an X ray of the foot. We asked and asked and eventually had the Xray and were allowed to show the practitioner the film.

He immediately saw the problem, a spur of bone just below the ankle. The interesting point is now, at this stage he did not try and cover up, or say he could help, his immediate res pose was "Elizabeth needs surgery". Flip this to an MD's point of view, few of them refer to an alternative practitioner, despite results.

We contacted our doctor, he agreed with Steve, our practitioner, and surgery was scheduled. In total Elizabeth suffered 3 operations to remove the spur, it just regrew.

Finally she was offered the option of the "specialist" fuzzing her ankle. This would ease the pain, for a number of years, then they fuse the knee, and some years later the hip. This young woman would be limping around with a stick, or worse.

Elizabeth chose the pain and mobility. Most of the time she is fine, she suffers with pains in her foot and lower back but usually copes. When it gets to bad, and if she is in the country, she comes and sees me. It makes a strange sight, Elizabeth in a chair, me on the floor holding her foot. I "ask" the foot where it wants to go and follow it, twisting the whole foot, then just holding. Finally there is movement as muscles that have held the foot in an unnatural shape start to relax and move. Sometimes we get a result, often the pain gets to much for Libby, as she likes to be known, and we stop, with a partial easing.

The whole point is, we are able to Elizabeth mobile and healthy, despite the growth, and she lives a full and happy life, contrast this with the conventional option, and understand my passion. Also remember, as an "complementary" practitioner, I accept that mainstream medic en has an important and valid place in health care.

Any comments?

For more on back pain care take a look at www.back pain loss.com

Stay well

Paul