Weird! I was going to message you about your 5 year old injury. Honestly mate Reiki is the only reason that i can mountain bike, I had my ankle shattered in a motorbike crash and was lucky to keep my right leg below the knee. It caused me no end of pain until i found Reiki 6 years ago, i knew it was just what i needed straight away. I became a Master 4 years ago and treat myself daily, it really does help with injuries old and new. A lot of people dismiss it because they only have a few treatments then give up. Practice over time is needed because old injuries are scars that need broken down.
Unless the old injury is a broken bone in which case you can't break the scar down...
But from my limited experience it does seem to work. I had a girlfriend a few years back who was totally into her alternative treatments and was having sessions to help with an old swimming injury to her shoulder. It worked for her so...
Personally I've always found accupuncture to be great.
Errrrrmmmm all these things only work on a placebo level, which is all well and good but come on be serious!!
Acupuncture is kinda proven to work for lower back pain, but they ran the same test with untrained people sticking pins in randomly and got the same result so entirely placebo.
Pate, absorbed rectally would be absorbed into the blood stream pretty fast, so might have it's uses, I'll experiment on some girls I know soon and get back to you
No disrespect intended Dyl but you get some untrained monkey digging needles into a person not knowing what they're doing and they can cause all sorts of trouble.
Alternative treatments aren't just a placebo, they're viable alternatives to dosing up on drugs or folowing a Dr's advice to stop whatever causes the pain.
Without accupuncture I'd have had to stop riding back in 1994 when I blew my knees. My Dr told me it was either give it up or be in a Wheelchair by now.
Sorry ( you watch Bullshit I see ) there is ZERO evidence in any of this stuff, mates wife was into cyrstal healing which is just NUTS also, there is nothing scientific about any of it.
Alot of people are going to alternative cause it sounds better and dying needlessly rather than sticking with conventional medecines why I'm against this stuff.
If someone believes in something and it works for them don't dismiss it as bull shit, the power of the mind is a powerful thing. There is evidence of alternative therapies working where conventional medicine has failed (no I don't have evidence to hand but there are plenty of instances of such things). People undergoing surgery through hypnosis etc, powerful stuff.
Yes, obviously you're quite right. The fact that accupuncture has allowed me to continue riding long past when my Dr said my knees would have given out is complete bullshit and entirely in my mind.
I've been brainwashed to believe the pain is gone.
Dyl, I respect you as a person and I respect your opinion and your right to state that opinion but on this one it seems we'll have to agree to disagree.
Errrmmm Yesss ( Dyl, 69ers still ROCK ) wrote (see)
Someone tried to go through a surgery on hypnosis couldn't hack the pain and started screaming 1/2 way through!!
Wrong:-
Despite being a proven therapeutic aid for many years now, Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy continues to have its sceptics, no doubt largely derived from the antics of the common stage hypnotist.
The fact is hypnotherapy has been used as an adjunct to chemical anaesthesia for hundreds, if not thousands, of years with tremendous success and More 4’s programme Hypnosurgery Live can hopefully only but strengthen the credence of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
The programme in question contained useful historical and background information on hypnosis, specifically related to surgical anaesthesia, all of which acted as a progressive build up to what the majority of viewers were doubtlessly tuned in for, a hernia operation performed with no chemical pain relief!
In the end the surgery was successfully completed by surgeon Tom Hennigan, with the essential help of hypnotherapist Dr John Butler, without complication and the patient in question was wheeled almost straight into the studio to answer questions from the programme presenter seemingly completely unaffected by the procedure - AMAZING. At this stage, under normal anaesthesia, the patient would be transported to recovery for the anaesthetic to wear off. Even then in all probability he would have usually felt nauseous and not quite himself for a day or so.
Now, getting to Karlos point about the hypnosis during Surgery, I know for a fact that Stanford Medical offer this as an alternative for certain operations (appendectomy for example) and it's quite widely used without people screaming.
Are you sure your example isn't from the episode of Scrubs where that happened?
Have had a brief Reiki treatment a number of years ago on a sore lower back.
Did feel a great warmth as it was performed - no touching here - and was noticeably not sore the next day. Have always given this form a lot more credence than Crystal Heading type nonsense, and I'm as cynical as the next man - although opened minded enough to believe that we don't know/can't explain everything.
Depends what you want out of it, I wouldn't expect you to believe in such things, you're far too manly, obviously.
Please don't give me that susceptible mind crap. The power of the mind is what enables me to rocket up a hill on my bike ten times quicker than you ever could
And it's the power of my mind, they realises take it slow whats the rush!!
acepuncture is the subject, Hypnotherapy has some uses as it's just pyscological conditioning doesn't work on every one though, Watch Darren Brown is it he does all kinda mind tricks and things like this, very smart.
