Charlie, thank you! I’ll have a look and come back, if needed, for further details.
ESTI, we’ve tried just that, but progress has been slow for this athlete and/or the time available perhaps. Could you provide a link with the zheng gu shui? What is it?
One of my athletes stumbled upon it. I posted in a forum here, but seemed like limited use from members. Results have been good for knee pain using this. Main ingredient is camphor. The shipping is usually more than the bottle, so I get a set of 4 or more and give them to my athletes.
Also, I believe another member here tried the plastic bag and heat rubs on a joint sprain and said it helped.
What about electricity on the tendon problem?
A few months back I was crippled with upper hamstring tendonitis. Since supplementing with glucosamine the problem went away. It may not have been the glucosamine that healed it but who knows.
Traumeel is often injected into the deficit at the injury site and does a great job but must be done by a specialist using a high resolution ultrasound to see exactly where to put it.
Yes, possibly electro-accupuncture or other means to line up the proper charge on either side of the ion channels to promote nutrient exchange, removal of waste products, etc.
Isn’t Traumeel a homeopathic remedy? I used to use it myself and on my clients but stopped using when I discovered that Homeopathy is really a sham with no basis in science. Is there something different about Traumeel that actually makes it effective compared to regular homeopathic remedies which appear to do abosultely nothing since there’s absolutely “nothing” in them.
No more of a sham than ‘science’ is.
The injections were done by a doctor, but with no ultrasound (we were lucky to get them as we did…).
As for chondroitin, glucosamine and omega 3s (as you’ve suggested in another post) are all included in Joint Support, which we’ll try (I’ve heard good things about it from different sources, so…)
We also tried a powerful laser yesterday, which seemed to help. We’ll see; still a day by day thing…
Traumeel comes from Dr Muller Wolfhart from Germany and he’s had a fantastic record for injury treatments. I’ve seen the injections work myself, including clearing a 3cm tear in less than two weeks.
It may help a little - but not really. Check your pm
ksniderman–
As a person who is involved in reseach at a major research-based hospital, as well as in evo. bio. research, there is an awful lot that is neglected in medicine or simply cannot be understood. For example, people look at sham electroacupuncture working as well as “real” electroacupuncture to say it is just placebo, but neglect the fact the real, unique, and measurable effects are seen that are not observed in “other” placebos. Throwing out the baby with the bath water.
On the other side, we have plenty of studies showing how “great” blood pressure meds and birth control are, when it is known these have numerous problems for a large percentage of people and dare I say way overprescribed. Yet somehow, arnica/traumeel/acupuncture/etc. are shams… but you’re telling me giving a girl birth control to handle moderate acne isn’t a sham?
There are just a lot of things we do not know yet.
I had a 2nd degree hamstring tear approximately 8 weeks ago. After the initial recovery period. (my physio recommended no stretching of it for three weeks but I was able to do EMS work on it) I have since included strength training but stayed away from the explosive stuff until this past week. I was successful with power cleans and GH raises. Do you think then it is safe to try some short accels?
I too have experience with neural therapy treatment where traumeel was injected as well as vitamin B with tremendous results. What also sounds odd but worked well for me on a calf injury last year and healing of this tear was to put topical traumeel over the injured area. I then wrapped the area in a flannel cloth that was saturated with castor oil. this was then wrapped in plastic wrap and finally a light tensor to hold in place. Then hot water bottle. I also use Wobenzyme tablets.
Where in CFTS manual is the 10 day rehab? I can’t seem to find it.
Pulled left hamstring a couple of days ago :(. In good shape and the season only a week away everything looked real good and then it didn’t…
It’s in Gerard Mach’s book…floats around the web as a pdf.
I have been doing the 10x10 for just over a week now. I have progressed to 10x20m x 2
I am starting to pick up speed over the final 10m but still nervous about starting aggressively. At what speed are these at, somewhere btw 50-70%?
“in tempo” is like 50%
“accelerations” are higher%
It’s all just a general guide though not to be used as a cookie-cutter protocol. If you feel you shouldn’t start aggressively then maybe you should delay such work.
thanks mortac8, I have physio on Wednesday so will use that as a guage when to move into accelerations.