Wim, This (any pain relief) is good to know, but don't throw all doctors under the bus (my son is one) or I'll have to go to Hawaii and thump on you! <G> jim From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of tnrwim at aol.com Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 12:10 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org; caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] [pianotech] Hand, arm and neck pain Diane 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 -----Original Message----- From: Diane Hofstetter <dianepianotuner at msn.com> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>; College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 8:21 pm Subject: [pianotech] Hand, arm and neck pain Maybe this will help some others on our lists: I have been suffering from pain in my keyboard hand, arm, neck and upper back for several years now. It kept me from sleeping and drove me to the ibuprofen many many days, just to get through. I was always tired and in pain. I tried an MD, a sports medicine MD, an Osteopath, trigger point therapy from Claire Davies books, Biofreeze (mentioned on these lists)..... Last week I worked a health fair. At the health fair there was a young oriental woman, a massage therapist, who had something called Kinesio tape. I went to her near the end of the fair and she massaged and taped my left arm. I thought she would wrap it around my wrist, like my MD wanted, but no, she laid it along some muscles in my arm, just above the elbow and down to the wrist. She told me to keep it on for five days. I tuned four pianos, laid one down on a tilter to put CA glue into the pinblock and epoxy into the soundboard cracks, then picked it up again. Went grocery shopping, carried the bags of groceries into the house, the laundry to the laundramat and back, etc, etc. No pain! Even at night, when my left arm sometimes became so painful that I couldn't sleep. No running for the Ibuprofen. I am looking forward to going back to her. She charges $35 for a massage and taping session of 1/2 hour. I cannot believe the difference it made. Here is a short video I found about Kinesio taping: http://www.kinesiotaping.com/video.html Diane Hofstetter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100529/88d5b585/attachment.htm>
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