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    Re: Cervical Spondylosis 'Delayed' Symptoms. How C/S Symptoms manifest themselves.

    This sounds like a 'note to self' and a good one of course

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    Re: Cervical Spondylosis 'Delayed' Symptoms. How C/S Symptoms manifest themselves.

    Hi PhysioBob

    Yes. 'Note to self' is fine. And from there to forum. And from there, who knows. I'm only working off one case study...myself, and hoping that the overview I've developed is applicable more generally. I like to imagine that when I was first diagnosed with C/S 30 years ago that I would have been lucky enough to have been exposed to the kind of advice, which I now know would have improved the quality of my life. After much trial and error/success I'd consider it wasteful not to share.
    I guess I'd also like to think that someone, with proper qualifications, might see something in my approach, and perhaps help to take it further...particularly regarding sleeping posture therapies, and then, one day, a therapist might be able to say to a C/S patient..." Yes, it's chronic. But we can help you to manage it with reasonable comfort ". And mean it !

    So far, I'm grateful to have been able to post my views on this site...so, thanks.


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    Re: Cervical Spondylosis 'Delayed' Symptoms. How C/S Symptoms manifest themselves.

    Hi Physiobob

    I feel a need to respond twice to your last comment, mainly because that little exclamation mark at the end of your comment is bugging me ! " Does he mean....?" Whatever.

    Just a thought to lighten the mood. The guidelines laid down to ensure safe practices are simply that....guidelines. They're not carved in stone, as the less enlightened might like us to believe. I'm a bit of a lapsed atheist on that one. They were laid down to set parameters for safe practice at various times when understanding of the problem was at a particularly developed stage. Wouldn't it be ironic if those same parameters restricted research into even safer practices, which our evolved understanding of the problem requires today. It may well be the case that a certain denial, of less than positive results, cloaked in euphemisms, has become the order of the day when it comes to justifying recommended therapies which have a question mark hanging over them. The ambition of the profession should always be to re-assess and improve, and if, as I sometimes suspect, the whole thing simply boils down to a 'radical change v career prospects' argument, then there is only one loser...the patient.

    I'm reminded of the recent event of an Australian researcher who had an educated hunch about certain ulcers being caused by Pylori bacteria. The establishment ostracized him, but he explored his radical approach regardless, even to the point of infecting himself, getting very ill, and then taking the antibiotic remedy. He's now a Nobel Laureate, and much more importantly, 500 million people around the globe now have a remedy for their ulcers. A hero for our times, no doubt.

    Now, I'm not suggesting that a researcher should somehow develop C/S and then test the therapies. But, as I've already got C/S, I reckon I'm already half way there, if this guy's example is anything to go by.

    Gerry



 
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