I will send 4 pictures

I spoke with Paul at the Santa Monica Egoscue place. I pay $200 and send four pictures of myself - back front and two sides. Then he and I will do a consultation over skype. He'll give me a menu to do, I do it for a week, then send more picts because he says my body will change. I do that three more times and each time he adjusts the e-cises. I'll tell him I can do 45 minutes a day.

Do I do ecises for neck or feet?

Spoke with Caroline today. She said she used to have severe sciatica, couldn't sleep because of the pain. After she went to the Egoscue clinic for the first time her pain decreased by 50%. After that it took a year of doing the 'menus' for all the pain to go away. Now she feels great and does the ecises almost every day.

Caroline referred me to Paul, also in Santa Monica, her teacher whom she loves. Hopefully he will have experience working with spinal fusion people like myself.

Started Egoscue last night. Since my stiff neck and knees are creaky I think I should do e-cises for those parts, but on the phone Caroline recommended the Supine Groin Stretch, which she also called the Tower. So I did Static Back, which felt so good and relaxing, and then 10 minutes of Supine Groin Stretch on each side. My neck felt weird doing it. I wonder how much of that is because I have a rod in my back. This morning my neck was stiffer than normal. But no heel pain. Then this morning I started what will be my daily Egoscue session on my living room floor. I chose to do the e-cises for a painful neck. These include Static Back for five minutes, Gravity dump or whatever it's called, which I did on the step outside for three mintes, Static Wall for four minutes, (which I couldn't hold b/c my ankles tired out, so I would rest the hold and then hold again), Sitting Floor for three minutes, aand Frog for one minute. I like how it all felt and look forward to doing it tomorrow morning as well. I might call the Egoscue teacher in Santa Monica today too to make sure I'm choosing the right e-cises.

Tried an ecise from the Pain Free book today

Did an Egoscue's exercise today for the first time. For five minutes I lay on my back on the floor with my legs up on a chair. Arms at my side, palms up, breathing with my diaphragm. It felt amazingly wonderful.

I found out today you can Skype the Center so they can see you standing, or you can send in a video of yourself. $250. The nearest practitioner to me is in D.C., too far to go. I think I"ll call my friend Susan whose sister lives in L.A. and is a trained Egoscue therapist. Susan says I can send naked pictures of myself (forget the naked bit) to her and then have a consultation.

Creaking Knees - Not for the Squeamish

Here is how I'll be able to tell if the Egoscue Method works or not: going up the stairs, my knees creak horribly. After a few months of daily Egoscue exercises - do you think that that noise might just go away? My Egoscue therapist does! I took this video the same day that I started the ecises.

Can't ignore what my body's telling me anymore

You know those bodily symptoms that slowly creep up on you? Like creaking, stiffness, a bit of pain in your heel in the morning when you first get out of bed? That's what was happening to me, and I finally took heed this summer.

My friend Susan, an avid runner, told me how much the Egoscue therapy had helped her. It had also helped her sister so much with sciatica that she had become an Egoscue therapist out in L.A.
So I ordered the Book Pain-Free by Pete Egoscue. I've been doing 40 minutes of exercises for two weeks straight, every day. I started this blog to chart my progress, and, if this method works like I'd like it to, share with others what I learn.