[Vickie]

That's a great story to help illustrate that you can't just treat the pain location but have to look at the 'rest' of the body and it's relationship to the symptom. Since most people don't know anatomy and the fact that the arm muscles attach to the shoulder blade they would not automatically see arm pain being treated thru shoulder blade mobilization. Ofcourse everyone knows how complicated our shoulder joints are but have very little experience thinking of controlling them. I am glad you talked about deep tissue work. Martee started a great thread about this very symptom and I didn't address massage at all. I suppose I was making an assumption that he would seek that out. Thanks for filling in the blank. Good manipulation of the joint can be invaluable as can good chiropractic to move you more rapidly and painlessly to a better joint alignment and consequent elimination of the precursor to the pain.

We teach our children to manage thei money, we teach them work ethics, we train their minds and we teach them the fun of athletic competition. But parents can only teach what they know and most people have never considered that their bodies need daily attention just like the other necessary areas of their existence. I too see this changing as the population is better educated in the real benefits of diet and exercise.

People are always amazed at the how quickly they are able to turn their painful symptoms around. But they are usually equally surprised that they hadn't realized how slump shouldered they'd become or how weak they were getting. Exercise is the great exposer of personal physical condition. I love it when I know a client has really started to 'feel' the benefits and the enticement of regular attention to his/her body. Staying in a routine is so much easier when you have an understanding of 'what' you are doing and 'why' you are doing it and 'how' it's supposed to benefit your life. So I consider myself a fitness tutor instead of a personal trainer because I want to teach people to become knowledgeable and the master of their own physicality and health.

I really started training professionally when I went back to school at the age of 33 to finish my finance degree. But I fell in love with the work and have never looked back. I so appreciate your contributions. I had a CEO tell me early in my career that while he liked that I know medical detail about his issues he couldn't understand a thing I was saying. From that day forward I have been committed to saying everything in the most familiar language possible. But it's still very difficult to put things down in print and make sure the whole picture is painted. I really appreciate you.

We're glad you're busy and glad you appreciate the importance of family time but I know everyone would agree that we are glad you had time for this contribution. Glad to read you again Physioguy.

Vickie