Misconceptions.


Just to move on before the last posting is spotted !

The best therapist available to us is our own body. Indisputable. The body is a highly refined organism, genetically designed to conduct its own repairs where necessary. Like everything else, there are limitations, but mostly it does an excellent job. There are no fees, no appointments, no waiting, its available 24/7, and it seldom makes mistakes. It hasn’t had to study for many years how to deal with a crisis, it inherently knows its own best reactions. It could teach us a lot. All these services are available to us unconsciously, and our conscious appreciation of its methods is still someway behind the advanced systems it applies.

The first law of any applied therapy should be ‘ Try and understand what the body is already trying to do’. Of course there are situations where the body’s defences are overwhelmed, and we can intervene by, for example, removing the main threat, and then allowing the body to resume its self recovery role. There is no doubt than in many areas of medical crisis we have learned how to intervene beneficially. But not in all.

Where we fail, we must keep an open mind. There is no point in insisting that an applied therapy, which has been proven to work for one condition, should be applied to another where outcome is unknown. The history of medical practices is one of many failures, and some great successes. The arrogance of those successes must be contained if we wish to always be improving. There also isn’t much point to us entering self congratulatory mode whilst the job remains unfinished.

Where C/S is concerned, I can see where differences occur between my 30 years experience and the efforts of an interested professional, who doesn’t have the condition, to try and understand how the condition works. It might take such an interested party 300 years to achieve the same levels of intuitive understanding that I’ve had no choice but to learn. Its never going to be top of their ‘to do’ list, and results can only be monitored by evaluating trial and error over a wide demographic. It’s a slow process. Not so with me. I’ve been privileged to monitor the condition 24/7…..not a single moment lost. So, my 30years v 300years comparison probably doesn’t look so outrageous in that context.

However, its not a contest. We all want the same end result, and the best way to do that is to share our accumulated knowledge. That is why I chose to share on this site rather than challenging the views of a Physio in a clinic somewhere. I would just be reducing the options to that same old slow process. I believe that most professionals who deal with C/S have a particular ‘accepted’ overview of the condition which I have difficulty relating to, and that overview is determining treatments which don’t necessarily meet their purpose in ways which I consider beneficial.

The purpose of these postings is to try and encourage trained professionals and patients to revisit their basic understanding of the C/S condition, and to not ignore how the nervous system uses the sleeping process to instigate the varied ‘associated’ symptoms, which in turn can then be controlled somewhat by adjusting sleeping postures. I understand that there might be a certain loss of income associated with this suggested therapy, but I can also assure that there will be greater rewards in feedback feelgood factors !