{"id":162,"date":"2015-09-30T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:32:36","slug":"case-study-claires-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/case-study-claires-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Claire&#8217;s Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I switched on my computer this morning to find a lovely update from Claire. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Diary Extract &#8211; 30th September 2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<code> Woke up at 4 am. Pain in thigh. Maybe I was too keen doing exercises yesterday. But no longer do I reach for the Anadin. I am no longer in a state of learned helplessness. I start taking control. I feel for my known trigger points, run through the glutes, the TFL, the IT band, then hit the spot on QL. Eureka. I know I have found it. Massage both sides, relief, followed by deep,restful sleep until 7.30, when I wake up pain free and exulting in the control I now have over my so-called \u201cOsteoarthritis\u201d.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Trigger point therapy won&#8217;t be the miracle cure for all. But for many it can be a huge help. Half the battle is believing in the approach enough to give it a good go. Claire has without a doubt worked hard for her pain relief. She&#8217;s been thorough, systematic and has gone to great lengths to research her own problem. But she&#8217;s proof that it CAN pay off. There is often a lot we can do to help ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>She also shared a link to a guide that she found useful and thought might help others. This one is specifically about the Quadratus Lumborum which she&#8217;s discovered is one of her main culprits. But I believe there are more available.<\/p>\n<p><code>I have found a useful DVD guide to Anatomy, you can see some extracts on Youtube. It is the \"Trail Guide to the Body\", by Andrew Biel, a massage therapist. I always found Anatomy difficult to envisage, this makes it easier.<br \/>\nClaire<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find the video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VsW896n71HU\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the previous post about Claire&#8217;s story <a href=\"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/resolving-hip-osteoarthritis-case-study-claire\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up at 4 am. Pain in thigh. Maybe I was too keen doing exercises yesterday. But no longer do I reach for the Anadin. I am no longer in a state of learned helplessness. I start taking control. I feel for my known trigger points, run through the glutes, the TFL, the IT band, then hit the spot on QL. Eureka. I know I have found it. Massage both sides, relief, followed by deep,restful sleep until 7.30, when I wake up pain free and exulting in the control I now have over my so-called \u201cOsteoarthritis\u201d. &#8211; Claire <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/case-study-claires-progress\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impossible-takes-longer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}