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moose1
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 Posted - 12/13/2004 : 09:36:00
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All,
I just put all my old, physical/structurally-based "back care" self-help books for sale on Amazon...there were 6 of them, including a book on sciatica and trigger point therapy. While each book had the best of intentions, they were all totally useless. I put them up for sale last night. I've already sold three of them. It's amazing how many people are buying this stuff. If you're looking to unload all your old back books, Amazon is the place to do it.
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 12/13/2004 : 17:54:43
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Hey Moose!
I never had any books (I just pitched 'em) but I DO have a drawer full of "relics" that I've found uses for.
#1.One of those picker-upper-johnnies so you don't have to bend over to pick stuff up....reason: When I lose whiffle balls or baseballs in hard to reach places(like wedged between a fence,or in the creek in the back yard) it saves the balls my arms are to short to reach.
#2. My Ice pack....reason:My sons and I all play Baseball and every now and then get drilled or hit by a foul tip(my son's a catcher)....best way to play tomorrow is keep the immediate swelling down
#3. My heating pad....reason: same as above....works out stiffness from REAL trauma like...sprinting for a half hour after laying around during the off-season winter months....(I over-do it all the time...the good kind of sore)
#4 .The Neoprene knee brace...reason: when I'm on one knee all day painting baseboards,I get ingrown hairs in my knee cap...they hurt/sting when they get infected...I keep the brace as sort of an overgrown piece of mole skin.
....I used to be afraid that having them around would prolong the structural myth,but it's what you think they're for that is the real problem.
I hope you were kind enough to include a note in the books you sold!! ...like...uhh...
"Oh,by the way...this book is from the FICTION aisle".. 
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Edited by - Baseball65 on 12/13/2004 17:57:02 |
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pault
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2004 : 04:54:02
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| That's quite a list of aids,as it tells a story in itself.I had a yardstick with a knotch in it to change the t.v. stations , before there was remote controls.that was at a time when I spent 8 weeks on my back.Thank God for Dr.Sarno! |
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Logan
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2004 : 08:58:44
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| A couple of years ago, when I first read MBP, I gathered up all my "pain" books and all my exercise books and put them in a box. It was the greatest feeling, picking up that heavy box full of books and loading it in my car and not worrying about hurting myself. I took the box to a local book exchange store and sold its contents with a big goofy grin on my face, the girl must have thought I was drugged! :) Then, with the money I got for all that useless junk I bought some good literary fiction, much better. I highly recommend a similar getting-rid-of-all-the-crap ceremony to anyone. |
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Michele
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Posted - 12/14/2004 : 12:05:57
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OK, I suppose I better gather up all the books I bought on "How to Cure Arthritis" and pitch them, or re-sell them.
When I started this TMS journey, I sat down and wrote letters to my chiropractors, thanking them for their service and letting them know I wouldn't be seeing them any longer. OK, so I didn't mail them, but it sure felt good to put the thoughts down on paper!! (I told them personally that I wouldn't be coming back for treatments.) |
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n/a
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Posted - 12/14/2004 : 15:46:30
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Good idea, Moose and I really enjoyed reading all the replies. It makes me smile when I think about all the stuff I bought - books by the shedload, a TENS machine that cost - £70 ($120 approx), pain magnets, glucosamine gel patches, a lumbar roll, a lavender scented cushion that you could heat in the microwave, a special car seat that could be heated and could be set to pulse - that was supoosed to work like a TENS machine - another £70.
But the purchase that beats all of those was a back stretcher. It was made of hard wood in an arched shape that you put on the floor and lay over it, backwards - I expect it had been adapted from some instrument of medieval torture. What on earth possessed me to throw away good cash on that one (nearly £100, I seem to recall).
If I totalled up all the money I wasted BS (before Sarno) on equipment, treatments, medication etc, I expect it would be enough to buy a new Mercedes car. Talking about cars, I was on the point of selling my manual gear exchange car BS, because a chiropractor told me that having to depress the clutch constantly was bad for my back. I hadn't driven it for months and had almost decided to buy a bigger (more expensive) vehicle with automatic gears - for my poor, painful incurable back! Dr Sarno's book dropped through my mailbox just in time to save me from that expense.
Total spent AS (after Sarno) £7.99 on a copy of The Mindbody Prescription for a good friend - she's getting really into it, so it's money well spent.
Anyone else bought something really stupid BS?
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moose1
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Posted - 12/14/2004 : 17:41:02
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Anne,
Speaking of your "back stretcher," I once went to an "alternative healer" who strapped me to one of those things, except that his contraption inverted me upside down, where i stayed suspended in order to stretch out my back, or some crap like that. At one point the guy left me there while he went to answer the phone. All the blood went to my head and I thought I was going to pass out. If it wasn't such a pathetic and desperate situation it would've been hilarious. By the end of our little session, he was trying to sell me every nutty back saving device you've ever seen. it's 75 bucks i wish i had back.
I'm also curious as to how much money I spent on supplements that were supposed to help back pain...fish oil, chinese herbs, white willow bark, cats claw, and all that glucosamine junk...man, it's probably hundreds of dollars. It's utterly insane what all of us have spent on a "cure" to what is so clearly a psychologically-based malady.
not to be outdone, i also spent $100.00 once on a hypnotist to rid me of my low back pain. it was the most useless thing you can imagine. this woman read this horribly written "visual journey" script while i laid on a sofa. such a waste...
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2004 : 18:22:03
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Oh yeah...I forgot about my magnetic lumbar johnny...
I had almost bought a magnetic bed set...sheets and under pad for $1400 or something crazy like that...I remember constantly shuffling that magnet around,as it would only work in the right spot..(I must have never found the right spot)
I also went to places that put me on Funny machines that HURT!!
I don't know about you guys,but I don't like being shocked..it's not soothing..I'd leave tenser than I arrived.
Ahhhh Aesops fables,Grimms fairytales,Mother Goose and Herniated discs
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moose1
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Posted - 12/15/2004 : 09:57:54
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| oh, i almost forgot the other machine i was strapped to during PT...it was a traction machine that slowly stretched me out with weights on either end of me. yeah, that worked really well. i felt a little taller, but that's about it. |
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Sell your back care junk on Amazon
