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stanfr
USA
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 Posted - 05/29/2007 : 12:11:30
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I had a sudden realization the other day, while thinking about the psychological aspects of a previous medical condition. Here's what i discovered:
1) all my broken bones have been on the right side.
2) I had surgery on my right ankle to remove unatural bone growth (it ruined my running career)
3) I had a benign growth on my right leg.
4) My acne was much worse on the right side.
5) my psoriasis is worse on the right side.
6) my TMS (scatica) was in my right leg/buttock; disc herniations were on the right side of the spine.
7) I also had neck pain; right side.
7) I have TMJ in my right jaw.
8) My nasal conjestion was primarily on the right side; i had a septoplasty to correct a deviated septum (curved to the right)
9) I have minor hearing loss in my right ear
10) my eyesight is much worse in my right eye.
Now, i'm right handed so some of this can be explained--but not all of it! I tried to come up with a similar list for my left side, and came up with: nothing! So--what does it mean??? THe first thing that comes to mind is some connection to left-right brain theory; im fairly strong in both sciences and liberal arts (scored even on my tests) but if i had to define myself, it would be primarily creative (artist/musician) although my careers have been more analytical. But i can't figure out how this relates to the TMS theory. Any ideas?? |
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ralphyde
USA
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Posted - 05/29/2007 : 15:08:24
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I read a book not long ago that someone recommended on this Forum, called, Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology, by Fredric Schiffer, MD, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, which was quite interesting, and which investigates the extent to which we are each composed of two separate minds in the two brain hemispheres, and how the relationship between them is critical to our lives. Sometimes one sabotages the other.
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stanfr
USA
268 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2007 : 08:41:10
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hey Ralph; thanks for that reference, ill have to look into it!
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lidge
USA
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Posted - 10/09/2007 : 19:36:34
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Hmm. Most of my bad stuff is on the right too. Oddly the damage is seen more on the left in MRIs! They always have an explanation for that. A fuzzy one.
Could it be if we are right handed we favor the right therefore stressing it more? Computer mouse, etc.
wouldn't explain everything.
I could never learn to skate right because I just kept favoring the right leg. Maybe I'm just not well coordinated.  |
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Penny
USA
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marytabby
USA
545 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2007 : 07:14:56
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AnthonEE
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2007 : 08:54:19
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Fantastic! Look at my case (I'm right handed, and being an electrical engineer I'm a left brain thinker). Mostly from top to bottom:
1. pins and needles in fingers - right side
2. wrist pain - right side
3. strained bicep - right side
3b. Occasional psoriasis on elbow - right side
4. trapezius / shoulder blade pain - right side
5. chronic headaches - right side
6. thoracic back injury from skiing - right side
7. chronic pain / strained gracilis muscle in thigh - right side
8. previous hamstring tear / chronic ache - right side
9. sharp anterior knee pain - right side
10. chronic (minor) calf pain - right side
11. occasional tinnitus - right side
12. and the eye with worst vision - you guessed it.
The ONLY exceptions to this are my left shoulder - tore a rotator cuff and had it fixed surgically six months ago. It's recovered and "almost" as good as new. And a recent strain in the left hamstring. Otherwise it's all been on the right side. I've noticed it before, and often thought I'd like to trade in my right side for a replacement. |
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shawnsmith
Czech Republic
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Posted - 10/10/2007 : 09:27:14
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Interesting that Dr. Sarno says in his lecture that torn a rotator cuffs are not painful.
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Sarno-ize it!
Read chapter 4 of Dr. Sarno's "The Divided Mind." Also chapers 3, 4 and 5 in Dr. Scott Brady's "Pain Free For Life" are very important. |
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AnthonEE
USA
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Posted - 10/10/2007 : 10:02:46
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Originally posted by shawnsmith
Interesting that Dr. Sarno says in his lecture that torn a rotator cuffs are not painful.
I can speak only from my experience, and possibly that of several others that I've talked to with similar injury to the shoulder, it hurts like the devil. Then after a few weeks it settles down only to return again when you do something to aggravate it. The pain is absolutely terrible. This is one topic where I personally have to disagree with Sarno.
I do think surgery is overprescribed for this condition. You can go through life with a partial tear and get along just fine. I know several guys in just that category. But mine was a full thickness tear and I could tell from the mechanics of my left arm it was not working properly. And when it was acting up, it could be as bad as any pain I've ever had. So depending on the particulars, surgery may be the better option for some. I chose to get it fixed after getting about 5 opinions, and six months later I'm glad I did. I have no pain, and have regained full function of my arm/shoulder.
Maybe some would say the pain was TMS and the surgery was placebo, but I would disagree. I know how it was injured, for a full year I could feel the pain and the compromised function of my arm, and I could see the tear clear as daylight on MRI. After surgery it took 3 months before I could even lift my arm, and 4 months before I could do anything useful with it. Placebo doesn't wait 4 months, especially since I expected recovery to be MUCH faster. So I'm now at six months and it continues to get stronger as the weeks go by. This pattern does not seem characteristic of placebo.
What Sarno teaches really resonates with me, but when he discusses rotator cuff injuries and surgery in his books and lectures, I have to raise an eyebrow. For me it is not his more convincing subject matter, and I try to just pretend I didn't read it, because I so much want to believe the rest of what he has to offer.
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