Dolphin Address 3
January 18th 2005
By definition a problem can only be a problem when it can be solved. An odd 25 years of hard physical labor as a sculptor has left its marks and in particular its pain on my vertebral column. Earlier attempts to ease this, particularly with physiotherapy, have yielded mere temporary alleviation. The best results I discovered to get by swimming with a monofin. In 1987 I could hardly walk without a stick, but after 2 months of monofin swimming I could do without the stick. Some five years later I added the waterwing and whenever the pain got close to unbearable I could bring it back to a liveable level. But it never really went away.
It was not until the shiatsu treatments that Verena gave me that hope was budding inside me that I might ever live without pain again. When she suggested I might find relief in a relatively soft way of spinal correction I was strongly interested. Years ago I had one chiropractic correction and I still shiver by the memory of how my head was unexpectedly jerked sideways.
We visited a practitioner of the so-called Dorn-therapy and I received treatment twice. First the length of my legs was compared and by way of gentle pushing they were adjusted. Then my spinal cord was traced for aberrations that were pushed back to their original positions. There is a little bit more to it, but basically it is an elementary treatment with astounding results.
This weekend we followed a seminar to learn how to do this ourselves. There proved to be the obvious difference between watching practiced hands and finding deviating vertebrae, but hopefully practice will make perfect.
I'm not pain free yet, but it has already diminished considerably and it also helps to have gained some understanding about what's going on at the other side of my shoulders. Moreover we can support and practice on each other in order to keep this demonkey off our back.
Jan Ploeg, Berlin, January 18th 2005
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