[CAUT] Hand, arm and neck pain ... Keep it on topic please!

[Susan Kline]

I agree. Pain is too often part of this line of work (like hearing 
damage), so anything said about it and how to deal with it is not off 
topic, in my opinion.

Having just gone through a major medical crisis, I was glad that the 
MD's were there, even though I had carefully avoided them for several 
decades. We need to make a firm division in our minds over what MD's 
cannot do at all, what they do poorly, what they do well, and what is 
crucial which cannot be done by anyone else. (No doubt, like getting 
Doug Wood's fractures resolved after his terrible bike accident.) 
Certainly, doing the testing on me, and getting the immunoglobulins 
into me in time to stop the ongoing rapidly progressing nerve damage 
was an MD thing, and I was darned glad the neurologist was there and 
did the necessary without delay.

The more we can do for ourselves, or get from alternative medical 
people (like taping and massage for muscle pain) the less we will 
overspend for conventional medical treatment, which often is not 
appropriate anyway. Luckily the days seem to be over when the doctor 
was presumed to know everything, we were presumed to know nothing 
about avoiding illness and injury, and doctors had to pretend to be 
able to fix everything, whether they knew how to or not.

If one can find a doc one likes, that's half the battle. The other 
half is to do everything in our own power to heal and preserve and 
maintain our bodies. Certainly after age 60 this becomes both harder 
and more crucial.

Susan Kline (now convalescing, but the neuropathy in hands and 
partial paralysis of eye muscles from Miller Fisher Syndrome are very 
stubborn.)

At 12:07 PM 5/29/2010, you wrote:
>I for one have injured myself in doing this proffession so I think 
>it is great to help others beaware of occupation hazards pertaining 
>to this trade and help others realize the seriousness'
>Dan
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:smkroeker at shaw.ca>Stan Kroeker
>To: <mailto:caut at ptg.org>caut at ptg.org
>Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:21
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hand, arm and neck pain ... Keep it on topic please!
>
>Wim, Jeff,
>
>While most of us on this list have the credentials to rant about 
>piano matters, please share your 'insider knowledge' of the medical 
>profession elsewhere.
>
>Stan
>
>On 29-May-10, at 1:09 PM, <mailto:tnrwim at aol.com>tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Thanks for sharing this. I relieve my back and shoulder pain with 
>>EFT tapping, which I've described once before. As Jeff said, the 
>>last thing you want to do is go to a MD for most of your aches and 
>>pains. MD's have no clue, other than to prescribe useless meds or 
>>recommend dangerous surgeries.
>>
>>This is a little OT, but Big Pharma has such a tremendous grip over 
>>our health care system, that no matter what the government does, 
>>health care in this country will never get cheaper. Not only will 
>>it get more and more expensive, the care we will be getting will be 
>>worse and worse. All because of the greed of the pharmaceutical 
>>empire.  And the poor doctors are stuck in the middle. Some of them 
>>try to buck the system, but they have basically been told to follow 
>>the prescription line, or loose their licence.
>>Wim
>
>On 29-May-10, at 10:35 AM, tannertuner wrote:
>
>>I'm very glad you have found relief!  I probably would have gone to 
>>a chiropractor, and then to the kinesio taping, and never to an MD 
>>for what you were dealing with. Dealing with back pain for years, I 
>>learned long ago that MDs don't have a clue about back pain and how 
>>the spine affects all the other joints. All they'll do for you is 
>>write you a prescrip that puts you to sleep, or offer unnecessary 
>>surgery that just makes problems worse. Thank you for sharing this 
>>with us. That you have experienced success with this will be very 
>>beneficial to many of us. And it is just one more particle of 
>>evidence of why to not go to an MD.
>>Jeff
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