{"id":646,"date":"2007-11-27T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-11-27\/646"},"modified":"2007-11-27T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:37:22","slug":"hamamoto-bonesetting-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-11-27\/646","title":{"rendered":"Hamamoto Bonesetting Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Last week was not a good week for me. The cold I<\/span> got Monday evening was\nthe least of my problems, because earlier that same afternoon, something\nhappened to my back that left me, for the most part, unable to walk for\nseveral days. Whatever it was, it was unlike any condition I could<\/span> find\ndiscussed on the Internet (it's not related to a pinched<\/span> nerve, slipped\ndisk, etc.). As one might<\/span> expect from a sudden<\/span> and severe back pain, the\npain was utterly excruciating.<\/p>\n\n

I was mostly okay so long as I didn't move, so that bode well for\nsitting at my desk and getting stuff done<\/a> on the\ncomputer.<\/p>\n\n

The same thing happened about four years ago, and after three weeks of\nthe aforementioned excruciating pain and trying everything I could<\/span> think of\nto ease it – massages, cold packs, acupuncture, copious amounts of\nibuprofen, sports creams, even moxibustion<\/a>, all to no\navail – I finally<\/span> found a doctor<\/span> who could treat it, Dr.\nHamamoto.<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Hamamoto gave me a massage that was perhaps more painful than the\ncondition, massaging my feet, hands, legs, arms, neck... everything but my\nback, and all in the most painful way I could<\/span> imagine. It was like<\/span> torture,\nbut the results were nothing short of miraculous. After the pain of his\nmassage wore off, I could<\/span> immediately tell that my back was a lot<\/span> better.\nAfter three sessions over the course of a week,<\/span> I was much<\/span> improved.<\/p>\n\n

(During the final session, which was not at all painful, I asked<\/span> why he\nwas going so easy, to which he replied “I'm using the same pressure as the\nfirst time. It doesn't hurt because you're getting better<\/i>.”)<\/p>\n\n

The clinic is\n\u6d5c\u672c\u6574\u9aa8\u9662<\/span><\/a>\n(Hamamoto Bonesetting Clinic<\/i>), in Hirakata, Japan (between Osaka and\nKyoto).<\/p>\n\n

The condition seemed to have been rooted in a right<\/span>\/left imbalance in my\nback\/butt muscles, such that eventually one set of muscles just seizes up,\ncausing the pain and staying that way until “eased” back by the tortuous\nmassages.<\/p>\n\n

Over the years since, I've been better about stretching, but I have<\/span> had\nfairly often mild lapses of an ouchy back. I've tried to find a similar<\/span>\ndoctor in Kyoto, but none are even close to achieving the results this guy\ncould do. So, when I had<\/span> my major can't-walk-anymore relapse a week<\/span> ago,\nhe's he first and only place I called.<\/span> It's a good<\/span> hour to get down there,\nbut luckily, I could<\/span> sit and drive without too much pain – it was\ntrying to drive with a cold,<\/span> and the painful bending involved in getting in\nand out of the car that posed the most difficulty.<\/p>\n\n

I've gone almost every day for the last week, and like before, each\nsession is less and less painful. Today, I finally<\/span> feel I'm almost back to\nthe generally-have-a-mild-touch-of-back-pain level I was<\/span> at before. I even felt<\/span> good enough to take the scooter down, which cuts drastically into the\nround-trip time.<\/p>\n\n

After it happened this second time, I was surprised<\/span> to find that I was<\/span>\nstill as flexible as I was<\/span> before, so it seems that the type of stretching\nI've been doing was wrong, or, at least, not complete. I've learned some\nnew stretches this time, and hopefully will be able to put this all behind\nme for good.<\/p>\n\n

I don't suppose too many people will find the recommendation for the\nclinic useful, but I had<\/span> to post it. I mean,<\/span> really, how else would I get<\/span>\nto use the phrase “bonesetting clinic” in a post<\/span> title? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week was not a good week for me. The cold I got Monday evening was the least of my problems, because earlier that same afternoon, something happened to my back that left me, for the most part, unable to walk for several days. Whatever it was, it was unlike any condition I could find discussed on the Internet (it's not related to a pinched nerve, slipped disk, etc.). As one might expect from a sudden and severe back pain, the pain was utterly excruciating.<\/p>

I was mostly okay so long as I didn't move, so that bode well for [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}