{"id":133,"date":"2009-03-17T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T01:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbottcenterblog.wordpress.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2023-01-02T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:58:02","slug":"hand-pain-and-arm-pain-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/2009\/03\/17\/hand-pain-and-arm-pain-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm and Hand Pain: The case of Aaron D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196\" title=\"wrist-pain-and-keyboard-i1\" src=\"http:\/\/abbottcenterblog.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/wrist-pain-and-keyboard-i1.jpg\" alt=\"wrist-pain-and-keyboard-i1\" width=\"110\" height=\"73\" \/>A 30 year old guy came into my <strong>Neuromuscular Therapy<\/strong> clinic near Boston because his arm and hand pain was having a significant negative effect on his work, his marriage, and his musical pursuits. His life was going to change for the worse unless he found a way to stop his symptoms. He said he was willing to do whatever it took to get well. It turns out, he was.<\/p>\n<p>After 15 Neuromuscular Therapy treatments, he had what I call a &#8220;breakthrough&#8221; with great improvements in his symptoms indicated by an increase in his guitar playing from five minutes a day to thirty, absence of pain at work, increase in energy and strength, and ten weeks without a flare-up. He has continued with weekly NMT treatments, a consistent self-treatment and stretching routine, <strong>Alexander Technique<\/strong> training, <strong>chelation therapy<\/strong> for heavy metals, changes in his diet, normalization of his acidic pH levels, and has finally been able to start a slow program of exercise, increasing his strength and endurance to better than high school levels. He got a promotion at work, plays guitar more than an hour a day, does daily chef duty at home and feels better than ever! He still says he is only 50% toward his final goal and works every day at getting better. He has been in treatment for two and a half years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30 year old guy came into my Neuromuscular Therapy clinic near Boston because his arm and hand pain was having a significant negative effect on his work, his marriage, and his musical pursuits. His life was going to change for the worse unless he found a way to stop his symptoms. He said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,19,38],"tags":[822,828,835,596,866],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arm-pain","category-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-cts","category-hand-pain","category-repetitive-stressstrain-injury-rsi","tag-arm-pain","tag-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-cts","tag-hand-pain","tag-repetitive-strain-injury-rsi","tag-thumb-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbottcenter.com\/bostonpaintherapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}