A Wise client

Last week I heard: “Growing old in a healthy way, is your mind communicating with your muscles.” Dr. Trager knew this. The Trager Approach helps us listen and respond to our bodies signals as we age.

My client is a long-time massage therapist who has worn her body out, and comes to me to learn how to heal after a knee surgery. She knows, intellectually, how the body operates. To become less over extended, is new to her. Her knees have been taking the hit all these years, and they finally caved, and she could not postpone the surgery any longer.

In this case, the resulting knee surgery went awry. Could surgery have been avoided by self-care over the years of helping others? Pain is a message. Listen and find a way to resolve it, or it will speak louder and eventually get the best of you. Find support if you cannot relieve it yourself.

She went back for “manipulation under anesthesia” to force a now frozen knee to bend. Yikes! Fortunately, her healing continues, and not without more procedures, and with some real effort!

Read my post 2 weeks back on over extension. Prevention is good medicine…