Did you ever wonder what
we would be like if we didn't
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have a skeleton think what
you would be like if you didn't
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have a skeleton to support
the face, or to support the
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internal organs, we would
just sort of melt down into
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a big glob and then we
couldn't carry on our functions
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because we wouldn't be
able to carry on a circulation,
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so the skeleton is
most important to us and yet
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because of the very complexity
of it sometimes it gets
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either sick or it gets injured.
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We are going to be talking
about how to take care of
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various skeletal problems
and we think you will enjoy this
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program, we hope
you will stay with us.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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I am very happy that we have
a skeleton and I am very happy
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that it is made out of bone,
and I am happy that nutrients
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that we have in our food
can take care of everything
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that we need in the
way of dietary care for it
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and also the things that we
ordinarily do in life can be
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very helpful in making the
skeleton function just right
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but have you ever miss-stepped
and you didn't hit exactly
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as you would have liked to
with a foot and unfortunately
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you were left
with a sprained ankle.
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Dr. Don Miller is going to talk
with you about sprained ankles
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and I'll bet that you have
never had a sprained ankle.
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- I wish I'd never
had a sprained ankle.
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I've had plenty of sprained
ankles and they are very, very
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painful, if you've had one you
know what I am talking about.
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Having broken both legs and an
arm I can attest that a sprain
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is often and more usually
painful than a break itself.
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When I broke my left ankle
in a motorcycle wreck I broke
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both bones and
sprained badly my ankles,
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I was in all kinds
of pain for that one.
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But a sprained ankle is a very
serious injury because often
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you are going to find that
if you have sprained your ankle
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one time, it's an injury that
will be weakened and weakened
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ankle for months and years
to come, unless you play it
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right the first time.
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Before I get into to much about
the sprained ankle I want to
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just mention a little bit
about what happens is you have
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had a sprained ankle,
and now you are nursing that
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sprained foot and you
are on the recovery process.
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God has built into us a special
mechanism that if you are
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nursing an injured area,
it will be much more sensitive
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if you are conscious of
the injury that you have done.
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I will give you another example,
let's say you burn yourself,
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you put your hand on a
hot stove or something,
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and you burn your finger,
in a few minutes the pain
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goes away, but what happens
the next time you wash your
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hands in hot water?
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Exquisite pain, the
same burning is there because
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the body said look you've
injured us here, we are going
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to be a bit more sensitive
in the future in that area
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to the heat and
so you feel that.
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Same thing with the
ankle, I remember when I had my
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bad ankle injury with the
motorcycle wreck, I had the cast
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taken off, I was in college
at the time, I had taken off
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to my home in Cincinnati,
Ohio, had the cast taken off,
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went back to my college
inn Kentucky, and that night,
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I hadn't been walking normal
for awhile, as I was walking
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out the door, apparently I
stepped on something that just
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tiny rotation on my
ankle, not enough to sprain it,
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but that tiny
little bit of stress
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on a little collateral ligament
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the ligament said wait a minute
you've done this a couple of
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months ago you are
getting ready to hurt yourself.
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It sent a message without my
permission, without my brains
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conscious knowledge up
to my thigh muscles and told
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thigh muscles let go, and
I was on my face in the dirt
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wondering what happened there.
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It's because my body
was protecting itself from
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further injury, let's say
you do have a sprained ankle
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80% of the sprained ankles
are when you rotate you foot in
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or stepping wrong or
whatever else and you tear some
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tiny ligaments in your
ankle area that keeps everything
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together, extremely painful.
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Normally when you first injure
yourself, usually you are able
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to then walk a bit further,
not the best thing to do,
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once you've done a good sprain
it's best to go through the
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whole process and there is an
acronym I want you to remember
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we used to use the acronym
rice, we are going to make it
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the acronym price, the first
thing is you want to protect it
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from further injury and
that's why not walking on it
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watching where you walk if
you have to walk don't injure it
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any further than you
already have: That's the P.
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R- Is you want to rest it,
you don't want to sit there
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and keep it in activity.
I - Is you want to ice it.
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C - You want to constrict
it. E - You want to elevate it.
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These are very nice
things to do for your ankle.
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A few years ago I was working in
my yard and I stepped in a hole
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sustained a very bad sprained
ankle, this was a Wednesday
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evening I was getting ready to
go on a long trip the next day
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driving my truck which had
a clutch which means it was
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my left ankle,
that's your clutch foot.
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I was in a lot of pain but I
wanted to go to prayer meeting
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that Wednesday night, I went
and all I had in my refrigerator
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was one of those little blue
ice things, not the ice pack
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the rigid blues, I'm sitting
in the back of the church
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balancing this rigid piece
of ice on my ankle and a friend
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of mine looked back
and saw what I was doing,
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left, came back in
about 15 minutes with a large
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bag of ice, he put that on
my ankle, very thankful for his
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thoughtfulness there, and I
put the ice there, I kept it on
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all that night as much as
I could while I was sleeping,
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the next day it
was still very painful.
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When I got to my destination
I did a very good treatment,
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now when you do a sprain or a
strain and you want to use ice
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for the first 24- 36 hours.
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I got there it was now
close to the 24 hour period,
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I did an extreme hot /cold
treatment, I put my foot in
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water as hot as I could tolerate
it three minutes, then I put it
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in frigidly cold water which
there was at the area I was
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for 30 seconds I went
back and forth, back and forth.
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By now my ankle was very very
purple, even though I placed
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the ice on there I still
had a lot of bleeding underneath
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the skin so I did have a
very purple and bruised ankle
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so I could tell that yes I
had extremely injured my ankle.
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By the next day on Sabbath I
was walking with a very minor
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limp, by Sunday I could not
feel any pain any more at all
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the treatments that I had done
the hot and cold treatments,
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the initial application of
ice, completely did away with
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my pain problem.
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But still whenever you sprain it
you do have a weakened condition
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so what you want to do,
if you sprained your ankle,
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or even broken a bone,
you want to start doing some
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strengthening exercises,
very simple exercises.
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You can sit down with your
legs out straight and you want
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bend your foot
back, on it's own power,
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don't reach down there and
grab it, and point the toes
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toward yourself, you want
to just stretch it and hold it
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there for about 10 seconds
and relax, stretch it and
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hold it for about 10 seconds
and relax, nice exercise.
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You can stand there and
stand on the injured foot about
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6 seconds, come back
down, stand on the injured foot
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6 seconds, come back down,
sit in a chair, put your ankles
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together, your feet together
and push the recovering foot
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into the good foot, a little
bit of strengthening exercise
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and the muscle is there.
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You can put something to
the outside of your foot,
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I like to sit on a rigid
object like a chair, and I put a
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broom stick through there so
that it is sort of sticking out
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in front of me and I
put my ankle up against this
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and push against this
broom handle, so it's keeping my
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foot from going all the way
out but it's a little bit of
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pressure there, you can
also put some type of a band
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around your ankle and affixed
to what you are sitting on
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and try to pull your
foot a little bit forward,
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very nice treatment for
re-strengthening the muscles
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that you have injured.
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Your body will protect
your self from further injury,
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you have to cooperate with it
but you want to speed healing.
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now the reason why I did
the hot and the cold is I wanted
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to bring more blood into the
area which is going to carry off
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some of the inflammation, it's
going to carry off some of the
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blood that's spilled underneath,
it's going to bring healing
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and what you need
when you injure yourself:
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You need good blood, you
need a lot of blood right away
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the two
foundational health principles:
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One is the life is in the blood,
you want life in your ankle
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get blood down there, but
the second one is perfect health
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requires perfect circulation,
you want a healthy ankle
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get the blood down there, good
blood to the ankle that's been
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injured, you will find
that you'll have a whole lot
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better time
recovering from your injury.
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Quite simple Dr. Thrash, I've
done these things because I've
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sprained my ankles and it helps.
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- Yes! These are good principles
and I would like to show you
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how to help a sprained
ankle once you've got it done
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it's all bruised and painful.
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There are some things that
you can do that will make you
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suffer less, this is
Justina Thomas and she has a
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freshly sprained ankle
here, it's not yet swollen,
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not yet blue but we
will pretend that it's a
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sprained ankle, and I'm going
to show you a very nice way
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to strap and ankle.
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First thing you do is to
is to cut two pieces of tape,
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a one inch tape, and the
tape needs to be the same length
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as the distance from her small
toe, the base of her small toe
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and it sets right on the bottom
part of the foot, just like this
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almost off, then on this side
it goes all the way around to
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the base of the big toe.
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This one is the most
important one that you place,
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if you rub adhesive that
makes it stick a little better
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so you do that to
make it stick nicely.
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You have a second one that is
exactly the same length and you
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make it stick on the first
one lapping it over just about
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a third, this is one inch
tape and it works very nicely if
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you'll do exactly this way, then
bring that over and then rub it
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so that it will
stick very nicely.
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Now the next one goes
on the bottom of the foot
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just like this, just
the back of the heel,
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and the and the person should
bend the foot up just a little
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bit like that, so the tape goes
right on the back of the heel,
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make it stick and then
bring it down and cross it over
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on the foot, like this,
see how that is crossed over
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on the foot like this, and then
you take a second one and now
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you make a Roman boot, you
come about a third of the way
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of the first one that you
put across the top of the foot,
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and do the same thing, make
it fit over the first one in
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this way, and you make it
fit across there and bring that
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across like this, and you keep
on doing that until you have
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come all the way up.
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You can keep on traveling
up so it's shorter and shorter
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pieces of tape are required
for that and this is strapping
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the foot, you will finish that
always when you are doing this.
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Now with this kind of sprain
you will get some good relief
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immediately, just by strapping
it in this way, what happens is
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that you take the pressure off
the plantar fascia and bring it
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up to the side and top of
the foot, and that's an enormous
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amount of comfort for you.
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But you need to study the
anatomy of the area in this
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place and I would like to teach
you to take more responsibility
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for your own health, so I have
a graphic that will help you
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to do that, notice number one:
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So these thing can help
you to know how important it is
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and how beneficial it is for
you to take more responsibility
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for your own health.
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When you think of it no one
can take this responsibility
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for you, you health is in
your hands, it's not in your
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physicians hand, nor
some trainer's hand, nor some
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counselor's that you may
be working with, it's actually
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in your hands with
your day to day lifestyle.
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Now the plantar fascia which I
have spoken about concerning the
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foot is a membrane, a
very tough ligament and again
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I've asked Justina to let
me demonstrate on her foot
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just what the plantar fascia
is, so I will first show you
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a picture of it, and if you
will just look at this picture,
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this one right here is
the one that we want to see.
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This nice picture of the
foot is not one that I drew,
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but I got it off the
internet actually, and with
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plantar fascitis, the place
where you feel the pain the most
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is usually right here,
but the entire foot has the
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plantar fascia, so let's take
another picture that will help
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you to see a little better
just what the plantar fascia is.
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So here is a sheet, this
sheet is the plantar fascia,
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right here this dark line, the
plantar fascia goes all across
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the foot, and if
we look at it head on
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here it is, the plantar fascia
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goes from the heel all the
way up to the base of the toes.
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Now once you know this
information then your quite
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prepared to treat plantar
fascitis, or understand it
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at least.
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So Justina let me see your foot
again, and if you will notice
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her foot does not show exactly
what I have shown you but it
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does show the bottom of the
foot, so that this is the place
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where the pain is going to be.
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It can be anywhere from
here to down here, but the worst
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part of the pain is always
right here, or right over here,
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or right over here, it may have
a very strong tendency to be
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right in the
center, just like that.
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But some people will have
plantar fascitis that hurts
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the whole bottom of the foot.
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How do we get plantar fascitis?
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Well it's pretty simple, it's
by having the foot in this kind
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of position a lot of the time,
that's one of the big reasons
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why we have it, so women wearing
high heel shoes will have a
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greater tendency to
have plantar fascitis.
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But also people,
especially weekend exercisers,
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they are also likely to have
plantar fascitis because they
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exercise on hard surfaces on
the weekend without adequately
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preparing the foot for that
kind of exercise and they get
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plantar fascitis as well.
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There are other
reasons why people get it but
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what can you do
once you have it?
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One thing you can do is to
massage the foot and of course
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just as you would expect,
it's in the place where you have
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the most pain, so right down
here is where the massage would
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go the most, and you can
just massage the foot in a
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stepwise fashion across
the entire fascia of the foot
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(plantar fascia), and
just keep asking the person
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does this hurt?
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Once you've gotten out of
the painful area no need for you
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to continue to massage, but
just the place where the pain
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is the worst, it's there
that you put your attention.
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Thank you Justina!
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So plantar fascitis can
be treated with massage and
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also with icing, icing is very
important for this as well as
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many other afflictions of the
skeleton and we will be showing
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you that in a moment, but before
we show the ice I would like to
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tell you about a product
that you can get on the market
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called Zostrix, which is a red
pepper solution in a cold cream
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of some kind, and this can be
purchased fairly inexpensively
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if you don't buy the Zostrix
but instead of that you buy
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one called Red Pepper
Extract or Cayenne Extract.
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Just ask the druggist for
it, and he will get for you the
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inexpensive
kind of this product.
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Then it is smeared on the
foot, rubbed in a little bit
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and six times a day is the
schedule and then for six days
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you rub it in six times a
day, then you can drop down to
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two times a day and as
long as you continue to do that
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it will usually
help quite a great deal.
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Now there are sprains of the
back and other afflictions that
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require icing and Dr. Don
Miller now has an ice block here
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that he's going to demonstrate
something, what is that?
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You know everyone in their
home medicine cabinet should
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have some Styrofoam cups,
but not in their cabinets,
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they should take their Styrofoam
cups and fill them partially
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full of water and stick them in
the freezer, and then when you
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have the occasion to
need to do an ice massage,
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now this is not just for
the back, people with frozen
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shoulders, they have
stiff muscles, ice massage is an
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excellent treatment, I
suggest you give it a try.
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What you do is you freeze
the water and then you cut the
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bottom of the Styrofoam cup
off and put it on top of the cup
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what that will do is let
the ice protrude at the bottom
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of the cup therefore when
you do the massage, your hand is
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not freezing just their back.
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And you do a circular motion
over the area, what I like to do
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when you first start, someone
is laying there and they are
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already in pain and you sick a
cold block of ice in their back
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and I like to wipe once and
rub with my hand, wipe again
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rub with my hand, I go
back and forth with my hand
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and the ice until it
starts to get a little bit pink,
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then I just go
with the ice itself.
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I will also keep a towel handy
because it will be dripping down
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and you are going to be
melting down quite quickly
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and that doesn't feel good for
a person to have water running
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down their sides and puddling
underneath their stomachs
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and so I keep a towel right in
my hand or stuck underneath them
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but basically you do a
circular motion over the muscle.
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It doesn't really matter whether
it's circular, up and down
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is fine, I like to do a
circular motion over the area
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and you do it until it is
red, you do it until the pain
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subsides, and I can almost
guarantee that in most cases
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it's going to
almost completely subside.
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At least subside to the
point where they can now relax
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and they can get some rest.
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I did this treatment like
this a number of years ago...
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I was in Ukraine and a man
injured himself in the little
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town of Noviabyhoti?, and
they called for us to come over
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and help him, it
was in the evening time,
00:21:09.27\00:21:10.78
he had been stepping out of a
truck, he slipped and fell and
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badly sprained his back.
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Now this was extremely cold,
I asked one of the young men who
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came in with me, go outside
and get an icecicle that's
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hanging off the house
and they had big icecicles,
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he broke one off brought it
in I had the woman of the house
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bring some hot water, I doused
the end of the icecicle in the
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hot water which basically
just smoothed it off, and then I
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started doing the ice
massage for this man's back,
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and he was in a lot of pain
from this thing, so he wasn't
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even feeling the ice, I knew
I had finally reached success
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when he started complaining
about the ice on his back.
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Although it is very analgesic
pretty soon it gets pretty numb
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but then he didn't
really like the ice because
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his pain was gone.
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Before we started he could
not be moved, and he wasn't even
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in his own home, he was in
the nearest home that they could
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carry him after he had injured
himself, he was able to get up
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and go to his own home
that night, so if you have some
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blocks of ice in your home,
this is great if you have any
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type of a sprain or a strain.
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Remember this, a sprain or a
strain the treatment of choice
00:22:15.61\00:22:20.59
is ice or extreme cold
for the first 24- 36 hours,
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so have a number of these
things lined up in your freezer,
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.08
and again cut it off
because you don't want to freeze
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your hand, this Styrofoam
cup, I can't feel a thing about
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the ice, just the person
who is your subject can feel it.
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So not very high tech,
not very expensive at all,
00:22:37.88\00:22:42.23
but it really works, and
that's what we're looking for
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Dr. Thrash, things that don't
cost a lot but really do work.
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- That's what we want, we want
the things that really do work
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and I wonder if you would
like to show us how this works
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on a real live patient.
- I think I would like to
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so I am going to ask Justina
to come on, and now a very good
00:22:55.69\00:22:59.55
principle about
giving treatments to somebody
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is let them be a part
of the treatment process,
00:23:02.55\00:23:05.31
it gets their mind somewhat off
their injury, so we're going to
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say that Justina has hurt her
elbow, so I'm going to have her
00:23:08.11\00:23:11.89
hold the towel herself,
that way she is involved with
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what's going on, and then
all you do is take the ice,
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and like I mentioned before
I'm going to rub a few times
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and rub with my hand, sort of
get them acclimated to the cold,
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and it just takes a few
times, then you start rubbing
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and I want to just bring
this down, it doesn't take long
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before you start to see a little
bit of color developing in the
00:23:33.74\00:23:38.14
area, you want to move
all around the injured area,
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it's quite simple but
it is quite effective.
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Now how does that feel
Justina? - Cold! Very Cold!
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- I'm glad it feels cold,
because cold in analgesic, that
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means it's pain relieving,
and already, you may not be able
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to see this but there is a
slight pinkish tone to the area
00:23:55.96\00:23:59.22
because see now blood
is coming to the area.
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The first reaction to
ice is vasoconstriction,
00:24:01.05\00:24:04.61
let's get out of here and find
a warm spot, the second reaction
00:24:04.64\00:24:08.62
is wait a minute we really need
to warm the place up so more
00:24:08.65\00:24:11.46
blood comes to the area
which brings oxygen, nutrients,
00:24:11.49\00:24:15.71
white blood cells, and healing.
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So that's all you would do and
you would continue this process
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for 30- 90 minutes whatever
it takes to get the pain away
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and get the person recovered
from the acute phase of their
00:24:26.60\00:24:29.88
injury and then you want to
go to the hot and cold later on.
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Very simple treatment
but extremely effective,
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and I'm very thankful that
God has given us something as
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effective and as
available as ice Dr. Thrash.
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- Yes it is very effective and
very available in most places.
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Now as we get older we tend
to have more spinal problems
00:24:45.68\00:24:50.50
than we do when we are younger
and one of the important things
00:24:50.53\00:24:53.99
that people get in old age
is hump back, or they begin to
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slouch, and I want to show
you how you can tell if a person
00:24:58.89\00:25:02.97
has an actual
collapsed vertebra.
00:25:03.00\00:25:05.07
As we get older the osteoporosis
may cause that to happen
00:25:05.10\00:25:10.00
so Justina would you step
forward again and let show
00:25:10.03\00:25:13.89
just how to make this
kind of determination.
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What you do is find the spine
and it's easy to do in Justina
00:25:17.38\00:25:22.37
she doesn't have so much skin
and subcutaneous tissue over it
00:25:22.40\00:25:28.14
that I can't feel her spine, so
if you just rub your finger down
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you can feel these knobs
down so what I'm going to do is
00:25:31.13\00:25:36.77
I'm going to press
right here, does that hurt?
00:25:36.80\00:25:38.94
- No! - Does that hurt?
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- No! - Now what I'm doing is
00:25:41.73\00:25:43.25
pressing on the spine on one
of these knobs, does that hurt?
00:25:43.28\00:25:46.86
- No! - Does that hurt?
00:25:46.89\00:25:49.50
- Yes! - Oh, that
does, there is where
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it is, right there! Now
I'll go down to the next one
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does that hurt? - No!
00:25:55.79\00:25:57.32
- No, okay! - Does that hurt?
00:25:57.35\00:25:59.68
- No! - No, okay
so she just has one
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vertebra that's
collapsed and that's this one.
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Now let's say she is 70 years
old then I have just isolated
00:26:05.86\00:26:12.82
a place where she has a collapse
in her vertebra, if she has that
00:26:12.85\00:26:18.29
then I suspect right away
she has osteoporosis or perhaps
00:26:18.32\00:26:24.66
she has been in an injury.
00:26:24.69\00:26:26.41
She may have been having pain
in her back and hasn't been able
00:26:26.44\00:26:30.50
to localize where it is,
but I just found where it is.
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With such an injury
she will probably need some
00:26:34.35\00:26:38.33
professional help, but if
you want to try to help a person
00:26:38.36\00:26:41.97
with an aging back, you can
do so by some back exercises
00:26:42.00\00:26:47.00
even with a collapsed vertebra
they can still do some exercises
00:26:47.03\00:26:52.30
that can be helpful.
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One is simply a stretching
exercise so they just stretch
00:26:53.32\00:26:57.33
upward as much as they can,
they can even elevate themselves
00:26:57.36\00:27:01.86
on the heels a little
bit as they stretch upward.
00:27:01.89\00:27:05.32
They try to get as much space
as they can between the vertebra
00:27:05.35\00:27:09.67
and that often helps
quite a lot for the aging back.
00:27:09.70\00:27:13.88
And then any good extension
type of exercise that makes
00:27:13.91\00:27:19.99
the person go backward,
that can help in this kind of
00:27:20.02\00:27:23.87
problem, if the person lifts
the hands up over the head and
00:27:23.90\00:27:29.33
makes a circle backward,
that will put the back in a good
00:27:29.36\00:27:32.19
position, so Justina would you
just show what that position is.
00:27:32.22\00:27:36.46
Up over the head high,
back as far as you can and then
00:27:36.49\00:27:40.37
down by the side, now that's
perfect posture for the chest
00:27:40.40\00:27:44.85
shoulders back and down, and
the chest in a good position.
00:27:44.88\00:27:49.69
So I hope with these small tips
that you will be able to help
00:27:49.72\00:27:53.08
someone not to
have a humped back.
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