How Did I Not Know About This?: BECOMING PAIN-FREE THROUGH POSTURE THERAPY by LAMBERT GRACE

Author:LAMBERT, GRACE [LAMBERT, GRACE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Scriptor Publishing Group
Published: 2021-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

BETHANY

“Empowering You Through Pain.”

—BETHANY MAHAFFEY, OWNER OF TRUE MUSCLE SOLUTIONS

I was active and played sports my whole life, starting with gymnastics when I was eighteen months old. I didn’t realize at the time that I was a left-handed gymnast, even though I turned out to be primarily right-handed in most other activities. I thought everyone else was different, but I was the different one—doing cartwheels with my left hand first. I also ran a lot in my youth, swam, played T-ball, soccer, and volleyball, and eventually got into lacrosse. I had knee pain on and off during high school, and I temporarily wore a brace, but it was nothing bad, and the pain eventually went away. Other than that, I never had any serious injuries until I was in college.

The only reason I went to college was to play lacrosse because I loved lacrosse. But early in my freshman year at Robert Morris University (outside of Pittsburgh), I started having hip pain. By spring—the main season for lacrosse—the deep, throbbing pain was unbearable. X-rays did not reveal any broken bones, and I didn’t exhibit a stress reaction signal in my hip, which can indicate the onset of a stress fracture, so the doctors were somewhat baffled. When they pressed down on my leg and asked me to resist, it would create a dull pain, and I couldn’t hold my leg against that pressure, and so they said I had a weak hip and diagnosed bursitis. But I didn’t believe that my hip was weak. I’d played sports my whole life without hip pain, and I had been successfully lifting more (weight) than all but two girls on my lacrosse team. Frankly, I didn’t think the doctors knew what they were talking about.

It was devastating to be sidelined by pain, to not be able to play my best or even at all sometimes. During the summer before my sophomore year, I rested and didn’t even participate in many sports activities. Toward the end of the summer, I resumed running and felt really good, so I came back to college in the fall feeling strong. A whole new group of freshman girls had joined the team, and we had some really strong competitors, but I was still the fastest at most of the time-trials. Then, toward the end of the season, the pain came back—but this time, it was in the other hip. At this point, I was crying every day wondering, “Why is it happening to me and no one else?” I really wanted to play and to be running as much as I could and working out after practice and other times. I’d done everything I’d been advised to do, but to no avail. I even went to a chiropractor twice, who used a clicker (Activator® adjusting instrument) that I felt absolutely no relief from, and it seemed pointless to keep going. The coaches, trainers, and my teammates weren’t very supportive—certainly not as understanding as they might have been if

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