New experiences continue to come my way in retirement. And my current adventure finds me with some magnets plastered to one of my legs. How did this happen?
Well, yesterday I woke up and noticed a new pain area in one of my legs below the knee. Since this pain did not disrupt my normal functioning, I got on with my day … which involved a volunteer role at a local workplace.
And at my workplace, for lunchtime only, an invitation had been given for a therapist in Chinese medicine to be on the premises and to give free short (no needle) consultations to any staff who wished to participate.
I took my turn and presented my new pain area. The therapist demonstrated a correlation between my arm muscle function and my pain affected leg, and then prescribed a special (30cm) plaster (“as worn by international athletes”) to cover the pain area on my leg. And then on to this long plaster, three small magnets (each within a small plaster) were attached (over the pain area). I was advised to keep these plasters on for about five days, and the therapist hoped that this would heal the muscle pain. I thanked the therapist for this intervention.
This morning, I am saying to myself that the pain area has reduced.
And I am thinking to myself that this can be explained in one of three ways. Either, ‘magnet therapy’ works, or the ‘placebo effect’ works, or most of nature’s ailments are self-limiting.
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