Is This Helping At All?

[skatss]

Since I can't walk and am in constant pain from the arthritis in my hips, I am getting more and more pain in the muscles up and down my whole leg. They are both also getting weaker.

I take a lot of narcotics to try and control the pain, but my body just doesn't respond to narcotics for pain killers. I can only do a few moves with my legs before the pain takes over and I just have to wait until the pain is bearable again.

If I can just straighten my leg for 30 reps, or get up on my toes for a few repetitions as I am holding on to a walker, does anyone know if that will help me at all? Sometimes if I push through pain and keep moving, my legs do feel warmer as if the blood is circulating better. But within a half hour after I stop, the pain comes back with a vengeance.

Does anyone know if the little bit I do does anything to improve the circulation, or is the pitiful small amount of reps I can do are useless.

I keep looking for some exercise I can do, bit it's difficult to find anything really.

[jimmys devoted]

how about paying a visit to the local heated pool for some aquacise?
you do weight relief exercise ina heated pool!
you could do teh same in yoruown home. with a hot bath, jacuzzzi unit and some simple exercises.
I know when my hip acts up and i walk like a 100 yearold woman with a hunchback limp and dragging foot that its no fun.
But often a very very hot bath with some batherapy salts and a soak with gentle exercises helps............

any exercise helps at any time...
are youc onsidering perhaps keneseology or acupuncture instead of systemic narctics foir pain?

[skatss]

I don't even want to think about getting into bathing suit or into any pool. I also have a stoma from my ongoing battle with colon cancer, so I can't get into a pool.

I don't know what you mean by keneseology, I looked it up but there's nothing spelled like that. Acupuncture isn't covered by my medical coverage and I do not have any funds to go to one and pay for it.

I was wondering if anyone thinks the things I can do are enough to be considered beneficial?

[jimmys devoted]

sorry. often my books have original old english spelling......
you could try Kinesiology..
anyway its both atreatmenta nd a muscle testing.
Basically its accupressure, only deeper.
You find teh pressure points near where you hurt. a constant steady pressure is applied to the point until it hurts from the pressure. when the pressure is removed the nerve is dedened by the reverse blood flow next to it.
At leastthats what the book and Master White explain.
All I knwo is its works wonders. My husbnd was in martial arts and it got him through many an injury and it helped with my injuries.
we even use it to stop RLS at night when i am in ketosis and its hurting in my legs.
plus if he does it i get anice massage too!