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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Anaheim, CA
Posts: 737
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Anaheim, CA
Posts: 737
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Edgelow Protocol
TOTALLY THE BEST STARTING POINT.
I started it 4 years ago after 4 years of TOS pain & still do everything I can 2-4xs a day.
At the beginning I couldnt even lay on my back and open up.
It took weeks, months to get me to keep at it.
Then I started feeling the body loosening up.
You gotta trust the program!
It gets your BP opened up, gets the circulation moving & your body limber.
Thats the key to TOS. Keeping limber, breathing, & moving.
I dont mean moving like a bat our of hell but feldenkrais style.
Slow, calm & percise guided imagery movements.
I have an option...Either lay in fetal position, in bed in pain, crying, throwing up, on OPIODS & pain meds all day or get up and move.
*Dr. Jordan says to ride the stationary bike for 15 minutes per day. Start what you can do & build week by week.
When you feel the pain coming on the worst thing you can do is lay down as I do in fetal position for days weeks at a time.
*Get up & move, ride the bike for 4 pedals, whatever it takes for you body to move.
*He also states to swim!
*Stationary bike & swimming takes the gravity off the body. TOS is constantly pulling us down.
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