Healing Series #2 – Deep Wounds
You are chopping onions and your knife slips a bit and you cut your finger tip. As fingers, with there plentiful supply of blood, are prone to, it bleeds, a lot. You put some pressure on the wound,...
View ArticleA healing sidebar – Inflammation
I want to elaborate on an important process that is essential to healing in the human body – inflammation. As I have moved further into my healing series I realized that it would be beneficial to take...
View ArticleHealing Series #3 – Muscle Strains
Trying out skates for the first time in over a decade, sticking close to the wall, wobbling along. You come up on someone even slower than you (shocking!) and decide to brave open ice and go around....
View ArticleHealing Series #4 – Sprains
I was trying to stop my toddler from running about the parking lot while coaxing my slightly lame dog into the back of the minivan. In frustration, I bent forward, wrapped my arms around the dog’s...
View ArticleWillem Fourie, again…
Last week I spent two wonderful days in Vancouver. With hardly any shopping to enhance the experience. I attended an advanced seminar on post-mastectomy care with Willem Fourie, a leader in the world...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress 3 – Vancouver, BC, Day 1
***Beware – this post is a total fascia geekfest, if you are not prepared to deal with that, read a different post! Also, any factual errors are my faulty memory, not faulty presentations.*** Today...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress, Vancouver, BC – Day 2, the night
Tonight I watched a prophet perform. Not what I expected to see at a Fascial Congress but I am not sure what other words to use. Gil Hedley was the final act in our multimedia night. After three...
View ArticleSome gutsy learning
vis·cer·al adjective of, or relating to, the viscera relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted, inward...
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