Hey, hey, hey!!!!

Oh, I've had ASTM, or whatever you may want to call it.

I call it torture at its finest.

They slap some cocunut buttery cream on you. (for me it was my upper body, neck, pecs, arms, hands and thumbs, and lower back - gettin' greased up for about 2 hours of torture takes a lot of cream)

Then they take these little hard molded instruments/devices, like a hog scraper or a nobby digger, knot buster LOL !!!! and go to town on your lumps and bumps, your sorest parts, scraping and kneading, rubbing and scrubbing. Hell, I can't tell you the moves they can put on ya.

I did endure about 5 weeks of it - I can't remember 2 or 3 times a week. whatever it called for, I was religious about attending to give it a chance.

We decided, for me, it was not giving me the desired results for my bruising/abuse. There is bruising involved... lot's of bruising.

This is where I really learned that Pepsi after therapy is painful. Water is my friend. But I needed whiskey/moonshine after ASTM.

I also coined the phrase "Good pain/bad pain; good injury/bad injury. I'm so confused.

Maybe if you were just treating one area, without overlaying conditions, it could potentially/ideally help. I just think I had a mixed diagnosis and it was hard to find things that didn't hurt me in some way, because of so many problems.

But it was a horrid/failed experience for me! ! ! ! Just too much to deal with on me.

Hope someone has a positive story to tell about it.