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notes to self
Aug. 24th, 2011 07:03 pma) I'm feeling a lot better!
b) I'm tidying things up and filing the MRI CDs and reports, and who knows if I'll find them again - so. "Small posterior central disc protrusion at C5-6 which causes effacement of the ventral thecal sac and slight indentation upon the ventral cord contour, without associated foraminal stenosis." Which I understand to mean: very slight alignment issues at the base of my neck/top of my shoulders, which is causing some thinning of the front (i.e. inside, I guess?) of the ... case, I suppose, that my spine lives in, but is not impinging or damaging the spinal nerve(s). (I am a big fan of not damaging the spinal nerves.) That is: something ain't right, but it's not all the way to bad in there.
Generally, the PTs have got me convinced that what's wrong with my neck has to do with the muscle being tense pretty much all the time, whether I need it to be working or not, which is (among other things) pulling my spine a little bit out of whack. One of the things they're doing to fix it is moving my head around to a place where the muscle is relaxed, keeping it there for a moment, and then verrry slowwwly moving it back again, with the idea that if they can put it (my head) back where it was without the muscle bunching up, it (the muscle) will eventually learn that "at rest" is not a position where it needs to be tensed. So far it seems to be helping, albeit a little bit at a time. So, hurrah.
b) I'm tidying things up and filing the MRI CDs and reports, and who knows if I'll find them again - so. "Small posterior central disc protrusion at C5-6 which causes effacement of the ventral thecal sac and slight indentation upon the ventral cord contour, without associated foraminal stenosis." Which I understand to mean: very slight alignment issues at the base of my neck/top of my shoulders, which is causing some thinning of the front (i.e. inside, I guess?) of the ... case, I suppose, that my spine lives in, but is not impinging or damaging the spinal nerve(s). (I am a big fan of not damaging the spinal nerves.) That is: something ain't right, but it's not all the way to bad in there.
Generally, the PTs have got me convinced that what's wrong with my neck has to do with the muscle being tense pretty much all the time, whether I need it to be working or not, which is (among other things) pulling my spine a little bit out of whack. One of the things they're doing to fix it is moving my head around to a place where the muscle is relaxed, keeping it there for a moment, and then verrry slowwwly moving it back again, with the idea that if they can put it (my head) back where it was without the muscle bunching up, it (the muscle) will eventually learn that "at rest" is not a position where it needs to be tensed. So far it seems to be helping, albeit a little bit at a time. So, hurrah.
