My wife was hit by a car in April 2019 and I've mentioned on here before about how her sense of taste and smell was greatly diminished due to a concussion. 3 months later she started having intense back pain. The doctors were hesitant to associate this problem with the accident, so it was not included in the settlement.
Anyhow, she's found that activated B-12 works well for nerve pain and has reduced her use of steroids subsequently. I thought perhaps glucosamine would regain cartilage growth. I used it when I developed a pain in my knee and I'd feel it going up our stairs after jogging at night. Glucosamine worked well for me, at least. The problem is getting my wife to take anything at all, especially if they come in large-sized pills. She's already taking other stuff, so it would have to be good because she doesn't want to take many supplements. If people have recommendations, especially based on experience, advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've been into alternative medicine for 15+ years already, but I've learned a lot by coming to this forum. GEOTUS talks about medical breakthroughs coming and we've seen the suppression of stuff like HCQ and Ivermectin. I'd never heard of Fenbendazole before coming to this forum. Please help if you can. She goes to physical therapy nearly every Saturday. I have a stretch ball, but I'm surprised they don't have her use one at home. I use it when I have lower back pain, and bought it 12 years ago at a chiropractor's insistence. My wife was doing well over the summer, but now with the weather cooling down, she has difficulty boarding a bus with its steep steps when she goes home. What about even stuff like eating more red meat? Thanks in advance.
depends. Is she in pain all the time? Or does it tweak really hard in certain positions?.
Glucosamine is good to rebuild cartilage. Is that what was damaged?
To my reading, the pain may be muscular tension, which developed after the injury, in which case you might need magnesium. try bathing with a handful of epsom salts in a bath as hot as she can handle.
Have you got a hot water bottle? That can help a lot to relax the tightness. This may also explain the cold weather making it worse.
She's had MRIs done and all that. It is a compressed disc. Not herniated, but just compressed. The docs said that it's because of her job as a nursery school teacher, bending over at the waist rather than her knees. Plus this is Japan, and she's Japanese. One of the first culture shocks I had when I first came here 24 years ago was seeing so many elderly permanently hunched over. Too much bending at the waist and too much soy which depletes calcium. For her now, raising her knee high enough to get onto the steep bus steps is hurting her back.
It's hard to go against cultural habits such as diet or too much bending at the waist.
Re: calcium - vitamin D is what is required to absorb calcium. You are going into winter now, so that will have to be from supplements. (The fact that she is having more pain may be because of waning vit D levels) What the dose is on the bottle is bunkum (1000 IU per day). Most peeps recommend 5000IU to 10 000IU. If she is in pain I would definitely recommend the latter. It helped me when I had bad arthritis BTW.
I have seen some academic articles about bending at knees rather than back, and the verdict is that everyone has their own way, and that those Health & Safety recommendations are just speculation, and possible harmful for some. So don't get your knickers in a twist about how she is supposed to bend over. The point is to avoid the pain, but if she can't pick up a baby without pain, she may have to avoid that, and that means a discussion with the heads of the school, which may be an issue, as Japanese do not like to argue with their employers.
Have you guys investigated some other means of helping children? Maybe setting up a daycare at home. IDK just spitballing here, again I don't know the rules in Japan.
Maybe some yoga? But that is a long term solution.
Is your bed something you can improve? Again, I don't want to infringe on any cultural or traditional beds, but having slept on a thin mattress on the floor for over thirty years, we finally took the plunge and bought a new bed with pocket springs in the mattress, after my hips were excruciating, and it's a lot better now.
Be sure to take vitamin K with your D.
I had this injury and suffered for probably ten years. It sounds silly but ddp yoga literally changed my life. It was the first thing that worked.
HIGHLY recommend it.
Absolutely!!!
To work with an Iyengar Therapeutic Yoga Teacher would be the best, as they are extremely speacialised to work even with old or handicapped people and have a lot of easy techniques at hand, which will only be changed when the patient is ready.
How about rubbing magnesium oil on the area? It would cut down on pills. NOW sells a spray and then you can make your own with magnesium flakes.