[pct-l] Backpacking with a cervical disc herniation

[cmkudija at earthlink.net (Christine Kudija)]

Cool.  Thank you!  As I said to Steve, backpacking can be a miracle cure!
I'm really appreciating all the feedback I'm getting - thanks so much, all -

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top.
Then you will see how low it was."  Dag Hammarskjold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey J. Olson" <jjolson@uwyo.edu>
To: <pct-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Backpacking with a cervical disc herniation


| A week prior to what ended up being a 30 day section hike my girlfriend
who
| worked in an adolescent crisis center had a young fellow open up a solid
| door as hard as he could into her forehead.
|
| Her's was a neck injury, a kind of whiplash.  The doctor didn't see how
| hiking could hurt it.
|
| Two weeks into the trip the pain subsided, and was gone for good a week
| later.  She told the doctor about this and he got all excited.  Apparently
| her pack, which was way too heavy, acted as a kind of traction, the
shoulder
| straps pulling equally on her shoulders, making her neck do constant, low
| stress work.  He talked about writing an article about the benefits of
| backpacking to this type of injury...
|
| Jeff Olson
| Laramie, Wyoming...
|
|
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