Okay, that's just freaky.
Apr. 1st, 2002 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynCo-worker came up to me wailing that her neck hurt. Apparently she'd turned her head and WHAMMO - much pain, much stiffness. Normally my instinct would be to wonder why someone was telling me this, as I'm not a nurse or whatever, but I've been studying shiatsu and acupressure-type stuff off and on since I was eight years old and first read about reflexology massage. Anyway, I started working a bit on her neck, mostly with thumbs and pressure points. It helped a little, but damn, the entire muscle that ran from the back or her neck to the shoulder blade was like a rock. One of the deltoids, I think, it wasn't the trapezius...
Gave her a packet of raspberry leaf tea and told her to steep it for 10 min. as it always helped when my lower back started seizing up. (My body is apparently not sufficiently entertained by standard-issue monthly cramps, and believes that the nerve impulses need to be rerouted to my lower back instead.) The freaky part was that my brain was very busily compiling a list of things that needed doing, including finding a better variety of tea for this (something nice and relaxing for preference), the use of alternating warm and cold gel packs, and, er, acupuncture needles. Anti-inflammatory painkillers were briefly considered but instantly tossed aside - I'm not sure why. Those are for use with headaches, or chronic pain in a joint that's in the process of healing from an injury that causes the inflammation. This? This just roared up out of nowhere. I'm almost sure there could've been some kind of move that involved twisting/stretching/pushing, too, but I know no chiropractic, only the basic pressure points... Thing is, I haven't even properly studied acupuncture. I've got two textbooks on it, I just haven't read them yet. I just saw what probably would have worked. I ought to check that out when I get home, see if the image was anything like correct.
Gave her a packet of raspberry leaf tea and told her to steep it for 10 min. as it always helped when my lower back started seizing up. (My body is apparently not sufficiently entertained by standard-issue monthly cramps, and believes that the nerve impulses need to be rerouted to my lower back instead.) The freaky part was that my brain was very busily compiling a list of things that needed doing, including finding a better variety of tea for this (something nice and relaxing for preference), the use of alternating warm and cold gel packs, and, er, acupuncture needles. Anti-inflammatory painkillers were briefly considered but instantly tossed aside - I'm not sure why. Those are for use with headaches, or chronic pain in a joint that's in the process of healing from an injury that causes the inflammation. This? This just roared up out of nowhere. I'm almost sure there could've been some kind of move that involved twisting/stretching/pushing, too, but I know no chiropractic, only the basic pressure points... Thing is, I haven't even properly studied acupuncture. I've got two textbooks on it, I just haven't read them yet. I just saw what probably would have worked. I ought to check that out when I get home, see if the image was anything like correct.
