1. Pain relief.(plz bear with me as i shall narrate my own experiences )
Now i know what most of you must be thinking that discussing pain relief method on such a site....i must be a bit crazy but let me tell you that many people (here i guarantee that you or someone you know has probably some very old pain that mysteriously comes and then goes after some days or hours)have such pain.
Okay, i was one of these people. About 2 years back in 2009 december i was a avid weightlifter and still am. I used to workout very vigorously 5 days a week. I moved the weight to prove it. I had a pretty good body to show all that hard work.
Then came the fateful day which nearly drove me insane for the next 1 and a half year.I made a dumb bet with a friend ...who would lift the most weight of the floor and press it above the head. We both warmed up and started the competition. I lifted 55 kgs while my partner failed to do so. To put things simply i won. But i didnot stop there. My ego and the praise of others went to my head and i increased the weight ...57...60..then i put on the plat for 65 kgs. At 78 kgs bodyweight a 65 kg press was a pretty good one.i prepared myself mentally and grabbed the bar. Mustering all my strength i pulled the weight from the ground and it was that time when i knew something was HORRIBLY wrong with myy left elbow.
It was a kind of a splitting paiin i felt in my elbow..the one which felt like it was deep inside my bones like someone had pierced my elbow with a hot iron nail.Unable to bear the pain i let the weight fall to the floor and immediately applied some ice on my elbow as this is a standard procedure. Upon returning home i was in pain The pain had somehow spread to the body and was now in my left shoulder, back and elbow.
The next few days the family doctor prescribed some painkiller and told me not to workout for a few days.I obliged but the pain just wouldnot go. It would not go...nor while watching a movie,, not whilw taking the doctors prescribtions, not while sleeping. As the family physician was utterly clueless he sent me to a "sports specialist rehabilitation" center . But these so called specialists simply gave me some more painkillers and charged an arm and leg.
To make matters worse i was told one fine morning that i would have to stay like this for the whole life because such injuries were crippling and the specialists told me that many athletes had bought down with this type of pain.
Fast forward 8 months later....My life-----Popping 9 tablets daily in the mornings 4 in the night....wearing some sort of emt or something on my elbow which would numb the pain(my shoulder and back still hurt).....I was given a brace .a sort of cast used to ment bones in which i had to put my arm every night i slept. ....On top of that the movement made by my hand became very restricted.It was a pain to wear and take off a shirt or tee shirt...It was pain to comb my hair with my left arm.In short i was --Pardon for the language---- but" screwed". My only thought were of pain and anger and i went cranky and became very angry. Worse i would channel this anger at others. I remembertimes when i was in so much pain i cried in pain and frustration. I started seriously thinking that if this was how i was going to be for the rest of my liife i would better end it.
then i dont know how but one day when i was browsing the net i found this---http://en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Trigger_point
This worked like a miracle .. I realised all my pain was being caused by trigger points and some massage done in right areas gave me pain relief and restored my movements of hands. After 10 months of feeling like a pain cripple i finally could use my arms and could exercise again!i felt alive. When my father found out about this he again took me to the same specialists who told me it was a miracle. One ass even told me that the pain was probably just in m head. If my father wouldnot have been there i would have punched the greaseball in the face.
long story cut short(well not too short
) currently i workout again and use my left upper half body quite well. There are still some traces of pain in my arm but i can honestly say that my pain has reduced by 70-80percent.
Using the knowledge i have helped cure some of my friends pain problems such as---
1...Severe pain in the testicles.(pretty common in weightlifters)
2...severe lower back pain.
3...pain in joints of various parts of body of my father. and so on.
Books i would recommend--
Travell & Simons' Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual (2-Volume Set
The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
the second one is a good one for practical use.
There you have it.And bringing this looooong post to an end i would like to say that the above mentioned books are very useful for solving pain in bodyparts of which about 90 perent of doctors in our country have no idea of.
