I was going to start a seperate thread with more detailed info, but I can find next to nothing about it.
Myro and Myopracty come out of Australia and they're based a little on Chinese medicine, deep tissue realignment, chiropracty etc. Myropractors cannot be certified in the US from what I understand but the guy I went to was easily the best chiropractor I've ever had.
Here's what I wrote about the experience in a blog somewhere in cyberspace....
"Just got back from the myopractor/medeival torture chamber all star visit. Not as bad as I thought but still pretty traumatic.
Contrary to my earlier belief, they do not tear adhesions out of all of you muscles..only those on the vertebral ligaments, and really that was plenty.
So here's what it was like;
After a few quick chiropractic adjustments(this guy was like the Zen master of chiropractors, the practioner (they're not Dr's..long story) loosens up knots and tight spots in your back and neck with accupressure massage. Pretty nice actually but that's the quiet before the storm.
You are then placed face down on a hinged table. Your feet are strapped to the end of the table and your chest is strapped to the center via a scarey looking girdle deal. The end of the table with your legs on it drops down on a spring loaded hinge that is controlled by the practioner. After he fully informed me of what was going to happen, he gave it a few, light practice runs to show me what it's going to feel like;
"Take a deep breath and let it out." he said as he partially lowered the table. I did and I could feel back tendons, ligaments and muscles stretch that I had never felt stretch before. It hurt and it was then the anxiety of knowing it was about to be 100X worse when he did the real manuver.
When it came time for the real deal, I was scared but determined to do it. He counted to three and dropped the table. I swear my entire existence passed before my eyes. The pain was pure, undiluted, and white hot..but the sound was even more terrifying. Thousands of built up adhesions in my lumbar region tearing loose all at once. A chorus of machine guns firing on a Chinese New Year.
My mind screamed "Hooooollleeee ****!!!!" but all my mouth could utter was a guttoral "agghck!!". My body instantly went into shock. I was panting hard against the pain as he raised the table and undid the bindings. He very quickly touched two different accupressure meridians on my back and slowly, over the span of 2 minutes my body calmed down, breathing slowed, and pain dissapated.
"We've just put an extra half inch of space into your lower spine. Congradulations, you just had surgery without a knife."
After more accupressure massage that allowed my body to relax and come down from that trauma, it was time to do my neck. Same procedure only this time with a strap around my head and chin. It wasn't nearly as painful..just freaky and with the same sound of adhesions tearing.
So far it has added an inch or so to my heigth and I am not in pain at the moment. Tomorrow morning will be a different story though."
I am far less sore than I ever imagined..thanks largely to Cissus and Celadrin and tons of fish oil.
I can already feel my posture shifting to a more upright stance and I am excited about getting the 2 other follow up procedures and seeing what that does for my physique. The only bad part so far is I cannot workout for a few weeks. When I start again, I am told I will be weaker for awhile.
The procedure is way out on the fringes of alternative medicine, and from what I can tell..just barely legal. I can easily see how it could hurt someone with complicating factors in their spine, but for BBers and PLers..this procedure is the bomb. ALL of the adhesions that build up on your vertebral column and alter your posture and muscle alignment get torn off. The Myropractor assures me that I will be able to push past many of the plateaus I hit continually and bring my strength and physique up to a new level.
I hope so, because not lifting is a drag.
i did try to send both
