Theraflex Therapy

So I had a lovely weekend in Amsterdam. The weather was freezing but very sunny.

Pretty much the whole weekend I didn’t even really think about my impending spinal surgery (arghh) which I think it really good as last week I couldn’t think of much else.

This week I have decided it is my mission to chase up Mr Stewart Tucker's secretary and find out when my MRI scan is due to take place as I really don’t want to be left wondering things when I go on my holiday in April I want a fresh clear mind to enjoy the final months with my curly back, if it’s even possible to enjoy having Scoliosis.

I briefly mentioned before how I have been trying Theraflex therapy. It really did help with pain relief as I started it in the first week of January and didn’t get any pain again until the first week of February. I was abit sad as I naively thought it was a ‘cure’, I thought it would, after time, magically make my curve shrink but after seeing Mr Stewart Tucker I really believe that the only way that is possible is with surgery. I do however think that the Theraflex machine is marvelous and I also do believe it is brilliant at pain relief. I have no doubt that I would recommend this treatment for someone who suffers with back pain but I have my doubts that this would affect the degree of curvature in someone with large curve.

I have a Theraflex appointment on Friday and at £52 a session and a 3hr roundtrip to get there I don’t know whether I should bother going now.

I don’t suffer with too much back pain, its manageable, it doesn’t affect my life in too many ways, yes its uncomfortable now and again but everyone gets aches and pains. I think I could live with my Scoliosis if I knew that it would stay this way, I would use Theraflex to treat the aches and pains and I am sure I would lead a happy normal life. What I do need to remind myself is that my curve is getting worse, in 10yrs time it will be about 10-15degrees more severe and I am sure it will impact greatly on my day to day life. Probably then I will decide I have had enough of the pain and deformity and then the operation will be harder and more difficult to correct and my healing time will probably be longer as I will be abit older.

It seems like most people get the surgery because they are in vast amounts of pain and so I do sometimes stop and think that because I am not in ‘so’ much pain, maybe this surgery is unnecessary. I bet if I was having back ache today then this whole blog would be written completely differently. Easy to forget how much the pain hurts when your not currently feeling it.