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charlz_lynnMy day started with my first time participating in a study I'll be part of at OHSU. it's about low back pain in pregnant women, and it explores three treatment methods that have all shown to be helpful but have not been clinically tested in pregnant women. The three are spinal manipulation, exercise, and this Neuroemotional technique (NET). The treatment type for each individual is chosen at random, and I got NET. It was fucking intense. It goes along with some principles of chinese medicine, and using muscular testing shows what trauma you have held onto in your body. So, by doing this, it also helps, somehow, lead the practitioner to your problem areas, which then are treated with light spinal manipulation.
Now, going in, I was thinking I better not get NET because I'm so well adjusted and my pain is completely physical and blah blah blah. And then I was chosen for it, and almost immediately I had to fight back tears when she started testing and asking questions. Stress. Money. Not knowing how I will survive -- beginning in utero! My fear about how I'll support myself with the baby now that it's really time. Shame about repeating patterns... All things she brought up without my verbally answering anything at all. My arm told her. That was all very crazy.
So it's like therapy. With some spine tapping. Very weird, and I am open to what might happen here. I don't have complete faith that it will help my back in the way I really need because it's been hellacious especially at night.
Anyway, I just got home from tutoring and now I am on my way to a focus group where we will discuss flu shots as pregnant women and I'll get paid 70 bucks. Oh yeah, the study pays 20 bucks every time I go there. So, free treatment and a little pay. Woohoo!
Now, going in, I was thinking I better not get NET because I'm so well adjusted and my pain is completely physical and blah blah blah. And then I was chosen for it, and almost immediately I had to fight back tears when she started testing and asking questions. Stress. Money. Not knowing how I will survive -- beginning in utero! My fear about how I'll support myself with the baby now that it's really time. Shame about repeating patterns... All things she brought up without my verbally answering anything at all. My arm told her. That was all very crazy.
So it's like therapy. With some spine tapping. Very weird, and I am open to what might happen here. I don't have complete faith that it will help my back in the way I really need because it's been hellacious especially at night.
Anyway, I just got home from tutoring and now I am on my way to a focus group where we will discuss flu shots as pregnant women and I'll get paid 70 bucks. Oh yeah, the study pays 20 bucks every time I go there. So, free treatment and a little pay. Woohoo!
