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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 37
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 37
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I had P.T. with Dr Edgelow himself for about 8-10 sessions (the max my insurnace would pay for) and got the booklet and CD of breathing music and ball on the stick. (you can make your own ball on a stick by cutting a tennis ball with an exacto knife and putting a wooden dowel stick that is about 1" diameter through it. Not sure what length of dowel however.
When I get into a flareup the first thing I do is lie on the carpet and do the breathing where you kind of rock your pelvis. That was breathing I learned and perfected by my practicing the Edgelow Protocol. I also did it some more with a hand P.T. (lori sweet)
(I no longer have a first rib so the ball on the stick doesn't work anymore).
It didn't really do much for me except give me a set of tools to help center my thoughts and focus on my breathing fduring a flareup.
I still had to eventually get the TOS surgery (because my vascular TOS was so bad and not getting better and because I was still in 10/10 pain)
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