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If you’re interested, you should check out ‘Ortho Bionomy - A path to self care’ by Luann Overmyer. She touches a lot on what you were just saying. Often, peop
by scrose 5y ago
If you’re interested, you should check out ‘Ortho Bionomy - A path to self care’ by Luann Overmyer. She touches a lot on what you were just saying.
Often, people expect to do whatever they want and then go to doctors to ‘fix’ them. It’s good for doctors, but not so great for you.
I just started getting into some of the self-care routines she lists in her book after breaking my foot and having multiple doctors recommend surgery to ‘fix’ things. Instead of going down that route, I asked an Ortho-bionomist I know personally to help me. In a single session, most of the swelling and limp in my foot ‘disappeared’. After sticking to the very simple routines he suggested and that I read in the book(none involving pills or icing it), my foot healed more in a week than it did in the 2 months I sat around taking Tylenol and just ‘waiting’ for someone to fix me.
- aaronchall 5y agoWhat are these simple routines?
- plebianRube 5y agoYou'll never guess what #1 is. Click here to find out!
- faeyanpiraat 5y agoI clicked there but nothing happened.
- dominojab 5y agohave you subscribed?
- scrose 5y agoThere are many little things that depend on what you’re trying to address. In my case, a few of the most helpful things I do now are: - Focused box breathing for ~5-10 minutes several times throughout the day to relieve tension in my body. I find it helpful to do this to figure out what I should try and address next. - Walking indoors in different ‘patterns’ to break my body out of the limping pattern it found itself in after my injury. - Walking indoors as normally as possible with an increasing cadence. Ie. I’ll walk in a straight line extremely slowly as normal as possible. If there’s no pain, I’ll turn and walk faster. - Contrast baths for my foot to properly circulate blood flow in my foot and reduce inflammation. There are plenty of other things, but I think I’d do very little justice trying to write things out. I’m still essentially just a patient and learning more about this as well.
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- spfzero 5y agoDoctors can't really expect all or even most of their patients to take full responsibility for the hard work of actually fixing something. They'll recommend the thing that will work a little bit for everyone. They can't know that you're one of the ones who will put in the extra effort. At least that's the feeling I got from my GP when he diagnosed me with high BP about a decade ago. He prescribed some pills, I asked about lifestyle changes and what happens when your body adjusts to the pills, can you just stop taking them or is there a tolerance, etc. He said something like "some people exercise, and maybe it helps, but just take the pills." I was willing to do whatever I had to do, because I saw high BP as a dysfunction, and wanted to fix whatever the root cause was. I don't want to be an unhealthy person taking pills to help me live a longer unhealthy life, I wanted to be healthy.
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- smeej 5y agoI've had trouble finding doctors who will even believe me when I come in with conclusive test results. For one condition, I came in with clear lab tests showing I had brought all the relevant markers WELL within normal range by dietary and lifestyle changes, and my doctor insisted I should instead have increased the medication I had been able to wean off during the process. She asked me, "Don't you think if diet and lifestyle change worked, we would recommend that to everybody?" I replied, "Absolutely not. Not a single person in your industry benefits if everyone with this condition becomes healthy. No medications are needed. No surgeons are needed. Your whole career disappears. I think the entire industry that trains and forms you depends on people like me staying sick. If you can't at least question the incentives in your industry with a critical eye, I have no interest in any further advice from you." Suffice it to say she doesn't work for me anymore.
- blindmute 5y agoI don't know about your condition, but for obesity a lot of doctors are not even recommending people to lose weight anymore. The data shows that so few people actually do it, permanently, that it's not even worth bringing up. USA fat people are overall uninterested in being thin.
- aesclepius 5y ago> Often, people expect to do whatever they want and then go to doctors to ‘fix’ them. It’s good for doctors, but not so great for you. Hackernews doesn't realize they are the 0.000001% of patients we see. I'd love for all my patients to make the lifestyle, diet and habit changes I recommend in addition to the medications I prescribe. The reality is that users here do not recognize the privilege they have in terms of money, agency and knowledge. The vast majority of people I see are barely scraping by and have very little time/effort/privilege to make the changes I would like them to undergo.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoMy experience has been that doctors don't actually even bother to recommend lifestyle change, they just vaguely cast aspersions on my lifestyle based on my weight and blood pressure, and that's the end of it.
- 52-6F-62 5y agoI’ve had both experiences. Like anything, it’s a complex of the doctor’s personality, personal motivations and their own contentment or lack thereof and how it manifests in their work. One of the finest bedside manners and wholistic approaches was a doctor I’d had growing up who moved up here from Kingston, Jamaica. The life he had led up until his career as a GP forced him to maintain a “big picture” approach. One of the worst bedside manners and considerations is a doctor who I can’t name or point to because he’s one of rather high standing in Toronto. A truly brilliant physician and technologist. Awful manner, poor communication. That’s compounded in emotional effect as it’s your life on the line and not theirs. People are complex and some doctors prioritize their work with patients, others prioritize their research, others their personal finances and so on. If possible, it’s best just to seek out help and insight elsewhere. Sometimes that second opinion doesn’t change anything, other times it’s fundamental.
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- nradov 5y agoMany doctors have given up on recommending lifestyle changes to patients because compliance is so poor. They see it as a waste of time and prefer to focus on interventions that seem more effective. If you want to make lifestyle changes then it might be more useful to consult with a dietician, personal trainer, or therapist instead of a physician.
- nradov 5y agoIcing, and cold therapy in general, has now been pretty well debunked. People like it because it feels good but if anything it probably inhibits healing for most musculoskeletal injuries. The book "Good to Go" by Christie Aschwanden contains an accessible summary of the current research. https://www.goodtogobook.com/ https://www.goodtogobook.com/
- sunshineforever 5y agoThis phenomena, combined with the alternative medicine woo movement, makes me feel like we are hopelessly between a rock and a hard place with medicine. I say "US medical treatment often doesn't explore valid alternative remedies and focuses of treating preventable conditions after they've developed into serious problems." They say "Yes, rub some sage oil to kill the nanobots" scream My favourite example as a trans woman is that the orchiectomy could be apparently replaced by a 2 cent ethanol injection. Saudi Arabians are the only ones willing to try it and publish the results. Get into pubmed commons, see for yourself.