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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by art[/i] [br]I don't want to go too far with this. For one thing, I'm mindful that just because I'm in a relatively good mood at the moment, others are not. Many are struggling with great pain and all that goes with that. I'm deeply sympathetic to that. For another thing, I know I might be right back in that same boat tomorrow... But for the moment anyway, I just wanted to express my gratitude for this forum and the kind, helpful, and courageous people on it, as well as for the whole TMS approach. In prior years, given the number of injuries I'm currently walking around with, I'd be sitting indoors despite the beautiful weather, afraid to run, or bike, or golf, or even take the doggies for a brisk walk. Now I'm doing all those things. It's really quite remarkable. I still have pain, and I still have fear, but for the first time in a very long while I've got lots of hope. Finally figuring out what might be underlying some of my injuries, psychologically and emotionally speaking, has really helped. But just as important has been participating in this terrific forum, and hearing how others are struggling with, and overcoming, many of the same difficulties I am. I can't help wondering just what would happen to the world of medicine, including obscenely high health care costs, if TMS were to become part of the mainstream. As I write that, it occurs to me that there's a huge vested financial interest that that very thing not happen. There's just so much quackery out there....much of it well intended enough, but quackery nonetheless. It really boggles the mind. Just to take the most obvious example of chiropractic. How many of those guys are there in this country? Probably tens of thousands, all taking people's hard earned money for essentially doing nothing...What a waste. So much for my good mood[8D]. That didn't last long... [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.