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RE: Exploring Medicine: Surgery versus Alternative Treatments + SKI TALK and a Brief bit of Tree Planting
Yeah if you want to go skying on a torn ACL I guess surgery might be your best option. I wonder if it would have healed if you would have rested.
You know - that's a really good question - at the time I kind of thought I was - but looking back definitely always been a bit restless.
working on it now.
thank for your comment - best regards!
You're welcome. Do you have a very high pain tolerance? I'm surprised you were able to what you did while still injured.
ya - my pain tolerance has been ridiculously high.
When I got the blood platelet injections done - that's a super intense process of putting needles deep into your ligaments...was given stress balls and warned about it.....initially I couldn't stop laughing as I was surprised by the sensitivity and it was almost like a deep tickle.
Since getting the blood platelet injections....I've been more sensitive...in tune...with the pain in the area...the instability....which is what's led me to decide to go with surgery and stop over compensating.
So - it's kind of an interesting process - as |I'm kind of reverse engineering my relationship with pain/sensitivity as a way of tuning into my body's way of communicating with me
Are you on any painkillers? I don't understand how your pain tolerance can be so high. You should probably be extra careful so you don't accidentally destroy more body parts without realizing anything is wrong. I bet you would be a beast at MMA if you didn't get knocked out or tapped out. lol
haha - MMA Beast.
Initially when I ruptured it - I declined any medication for the pain - I was curious to see how intense the pain could be. My thinking at the time, was that the pain killers might limit my ability to heal myself..as my thinking was, " they basically suppress the pain."
So - I had a few nights in the beginning where I would wake up from the pain...and it was like 'just focus on breathing' for some moments....and that was basically it.
I was also at the same time challenging my breathing by doing ice cold showers.
While also really focusing on stretching/mobility exercises.....so I got really good at being rather dialed mechanically in a number of movements.
And ya - I think I just kind of learned to suppress the intensity of pain kind of naturally when I declined the meds....and I think now i'm just kind of balancing myself out - recognizing it's not to create this force shield where you're always on shutdown mode...but in fact can make/play with the best of both worlds.
I'm also thinking about the experimenting I did with regards to the cold and breathing exercises.....and part of the thing with wim hof....the ice man....is in the ability to stimulate our immune systems. Basically by paying attention to breathing - we can tap into our body's potential and use our adrenaline for a variety of things which seem to enhance our physical abilities
That makes sense. Eventually we do get used to pain.