Around and Around We Go

Well, there is no shortage of changes, no shortage of frustrations and sometimes no shortage of hope. The most recent news is difficult to get through. The physicians are getting risky with their suggested treatments and I’m really having to decide just how much I am willing to gamble. I feel, after the hyperthermia trial in Holland, that I am done with the experiments.

Now I am at steroid injections and am stopping that unless they are done radiographically. I was a neurologist’s office last week and she gave me 6 injections trying to hit the piriformis muscle. I feel terrible now and over the last week it’s been hell. I was supposed to go today for a shot into my neck and begged off. She’s made an appointment to do a repeat one radiographically but this being Canada I have to wait a couple of months…She wants to do botox injections into the muscles. I am totally uncomfortable with that and want a second opinion.

What’s Safe and What’s Not- Osteoporosis and Pilates Matwork

http://www.inneridea.com/library/pilates-osteoporosis-pilates-exercises-osteoporosis-exercises

Modifying Pilates for Clients With Osteoporosis

by Sherri R. Betz, PT

I’ve snipped this out of the article. The above link is well worth clicking. This is the BEST article on Pilates and Osteoporosis that I have seen.

 

<<snip>> What’s Safe and What’s Not 

Safe Pilates Mat Exercises

Muscle Database – sorted by muscle location

This is an incredible database of muscles and the nerves that innervate them. As a patient, it gives you a little more of idea of where the pain originates. For example, if the inside of your hip is sore and the pain radiates to the outside area of your knee, that follows the line of the Sartorius muscle. This muscle is innervated by the Femoral nerve at the root of L2, L3. This muscle functions to adduct the thigh (bring it in towards the midline), flexes the leg (brings it forward), and helps to rotate the leg medially (turn the leg inwards).

This database gives you all that information. YOU know what movements cause you pain. YOU know where you feel it. This doesn’t make any of physicians but when you are trying to tell your neurosurgeon where it hurts, it can help to isolate the area.

As a biologist, I am impressed with the amount of work that went into this table. It covers the whole body. In my earlier years, this would have been an invaluable study aid in human anatomy and the dissection lab.

Muscle Database – sorted by muscle location