Every so often, someone posts about just how horrible and miserable BK 7/13 can be and often is.
Few, however, realize the stress BK13 leaves behind doesn't dissipate instantly once BK ends like some temporal cloud. Instead for some, it imbeds itself deep in your tissues and may remain there for months or even years after your discharge and closing.
In my case, my mysofascial woes did not remain in Colorado where I hoped to leave them .
Rather, they followed to me to Washington state. One of the few downsides to the Seattle area is the tightly controlled and restricted disbursement of PT and chiropractic care. Dry needling (which was mobile saving during some of my shoulder/neck and ankle injuries while the five-year bk13 was underway) is expressly outlawed here and sport acupuncturists are rare in the area I live and as my current doctor wryly noted, "Chiropractors here know to keep in their lane." (i.e., that means few offer Graston, cupping and of course, ART (active release technique.) He was very impressed by my knowledge of the various chronically inflamed parts of my own anatomy, such as levator scapula, QL (quadratus lumborum), supraspinatus, Sub chromium bursa, abductor hallucis, talar drome, etc. He commented that I either had gotten a lot of care or I must have studied medically myself, LOL!
Since all PT has to be coordinated 100% through specialty physicians and only six visits are allowed before an evaluation to continue treatment is mandated, chronic flareups such as mine are difficult to manage because of the time spent finding these sports doctors and scheduling much needed PT treatments (which maybe I can delay or bypass if losing enough weight and exercising as often as I want can make me as healthy as I was before.)
I think the only way around this state bureaucracy is to get as many medical messages as my chiropractor is permitted by law to prescribe, and then continue with qualified but privately paid MTs after that. At least I can afford $100 messages now unlike during the days of BK 13 deprivation.
Maybe that's all I really need!
Few, however, realize the stress BK13 leaves behind doesn't dissipate instantly once BK ends like some temporal cloud. Instead for some, it imbeds itself deep in your tissues and may remain there for months or even years after your discharge and closing.
In my case, my mysofascial woes did not remain in Colorado where I hoped to leave them .
Rather, they followed to me to Washington state. One of the few downsides to the Seattle area is the tightly controlled and restricted disbursement of PT and chiropractic care. Dry needling (which was mobile saving during some of my shoulder/neck and ankle injuries while the five-year bk13 was underway) is expressly outlawed here and sport acupuncturists are rare in the area I live and as my current doctor wryly noted, "Chiropractors here know to keep in their lane." (i.e., that means few offer Graston, cupping and of course, ART (active release technique.) He was very impressed by my knowledge of the various chronically inflamed parts of my own anatomy, such as levator scapula, QL (quadratus lumborum), supraspinatus, Sub chromium bursa, abductor hallucis, talar drome, etc. He commented that I either had gotten a lot of care or I must have studied medically myself, LOL!
Since all PT has to be coordinated 100% through specialty physicians and only six visits are allowed before an evaluation to continue treatment is mandated, chronic flareups such as mine are difficult to manage because of the time spent finding these sports doctors and scheduling much needed PT treatments (which maybe I can delay or bypass if losing enough weight and exercising as often as I want can make me as healthy as I was before.)
I think the only way around this state bureaucracy is to get as many medical messages as my chiropractor is permitted by law to prescribe, and then continue with qualified but privately paid MTs after that. At least I can afford $100 messages now unlike during the days of BK 13 deprivation.
Maybe that's all I really need!
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