Heal an Injury Quickly
Every so often I get to treat one of my nieces for an illness or injury. Saturday and Tuesday were my lucky days. My niece is an athlete and had a bad ankle sprain while at a practice last week. I didn’t get to treat it until four days later, but was thrilled to get my hands on her ankle on Saturday. I often use a magnetic treatment called Biomagnetic Pairs to clear acidity after an injury. This seemed to turn the tables on my neice’s injury. After her magnet session her words were, “it’s getting better every day”, which she did not say before her first treatment.
The great thing about a magnet treatment it doesn’t need to be repeated. There are some issues that can reverse the polarity again, namely, another injury, illness or stress on the body. Also chemicals, such as medications, chemo and other medical and non-medical toxins. Fortunately, the “undoing” doesn’t reverse everything, just those points pertinent to toxins and heavy metals that someone is exposed to.
Tuesday, for my niece’s second treatment I used my biofeedback device called the Ondamed. When I tested my niece it was confirmed that she moved out of the acute phase and into the chronic phase. She asked me if she should continue using ice. Once the acute phase is over, which is often around 48 hours after an injury, ice no longer helps and in fact can be detrimental. Ice initially slows down the chemicals that rush in to start the healing process. This means lots of inflammation. Inflammation causes pain. Slowing the inflammatory process also assists preventing massive pain and swelling to the injured tissue. After the acute phase is over, ice is not a good plan. Ice slows down circulation and the healing process. Icing for too long can create a chronic situation preventing a rapid recovery. Once the mending process has begun and pain is decreased it’s time to move the tissues.
Moving joints and muscles increases circulation that brings nutrients to injured tissue for permanent mending. Activity clears out built-up fluids and lingering chemicals in the lymphatic tissues of the area. We hear about the great benefits of exercise and it is particularly true for full restoration after an injury. Since we are talking about ankles here, my favorite suggestion is making the alphabet with your foot. You want to imagine using your foot to draw the letter ‘A’ in the air, then the letter ‘B’, etc. until you complete the letter ‘Z’. Using these simple motions incurs movement of all the tiny muscles of the foot and ankle.
To ameliorate damage of any area of the body positional changes are essential. If we keep a moving part static for any length of time, there is a risk of it becoming permanently immobile. As the body lays down the fabric for adhering tissues, movement allows them to remain pliable. Adhering is the operable word here. Adhering is a good thing adhesions are not. Adhesions are tissues sticking together. It is a cousin to scars that are taught, immovable fibers stuck together. If we don’t move during the second phase of healing, the risk of adhesions increases.
Fortunately my smart little niece understood completely and went home and started doing her alphabet exercises right away. I’m so proud of her!
Dr. Julie Wilson 6009 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL. 60646 773-481-9988
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