FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

What would you recommend for injuries? Specifically it seems that I have bicep tendonitis. That is what my Chiropractor thinks. I am planning on getting a more in depth look if it is still bothering me in another few weeks.

I recommend seeing a local practitioner in person.

Seriously - it's so very common to try to get help about an injury online and it's almost a matter of pissing in the wind.

Without seeing you in person any diagnosis is limited by you, the person with the "injury" in terms of diagnostics. That's a severe handicap.

Heck, it's actually been ruled against by the Florida acupuncture board that practicing acupuncture (the diagnostic techniques) via the web is not permitted (per a petition I read a couple years ago).

It's great for gathering info (to help you figure out what to do / who to see), but frankly, in a case like this, it would be like me (a total ignoramus when is comes to cars) trying to get my car issues diagnosed. You can get options, opinions, figure out what things it might be, but not good real diagnosis and then treatment (fix).

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FYI, I make these kinds of long posts so they can be referenced in the future....

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In your case, you're not sure what it could be and not even sure how certain a case of biceps tendinitis would / could be. In the medical world, in the case of most tendons, tendinitis is as easy to diagnose as a flat tire.

But which biceps tendon?... (I'm not referring to left or right here, either.) Is is a developing tendinosis, possibly?... How long its been bothering someone will tell a bit about this, too.

The catch 22 is that someone like me (I'm medically licensed as an acupuncturist) will be most likely the person who can NOT (and should not) give you medical advice over the net (at least not blanket statements, answering a question like " What would you recommend?...)"

You'll find a million 2-3 sentence answers of what worked for one person when they had "elbow tendinitis" and I've answered many times online what can be done for tendinitis (I even have an article on it on eliteFTS - "Rustproofing the iron Warrior"), but the leap from symptoms to diagnosis to treatment is a scary one.

Symptoms --> Many many diagnoses. (A knowledgeable practitioner can list these off, of course.)

Diagnosis --> Treatment possibilities narrowed down. (Different preactitionerw will have different treatment modalities of course.)

But for full resolution of an issue, you'll need a straight shot from Symptoms to Treatment and that's not an online thing as far as most medical issues, IMO, at least without a lot of Q and A, signing a consent form and perhaps seeing someone in person at least once...

-S