loess
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I have a lot of lingering skeletal and spinal issues that I've mostly ignored while they have steadily worsened over the years. Basically I've got something going on with my right wrist, right elbow, my right knee, and and all over the place in my spine and back due to various factors, for instance:
- years of bad posture from sitting in chairs and in positions that don't fit my tall and slender frame
- being hunched and curled over musical instruments and computers for hours at a time for most of my life
- carpal tunnel type problems from typing and playing a lot of guitar and mandolin
- mental and physical stress in general for many years stemming from low thyroid and deranged hormonal/metabolic function before discovering Ray Peat's work a year ago and finally beginning to implementing method of encouraging cellular respiration via nutrition, sunlight, bag breathing, etc
On one hand, I'm pretty certain my musculoskeletal system has developed abnormally enough and has been stressed enough that I won't be able to recover fully, and I am inevitably going to have to keep fighting situations where I can't avoid sitting in bad chairs and working in fairly anti-metabolic conditions in general. Regardless, I'd like to begin to focus on and put effort into therapies and methods of healing that can give me as much freedom of movement as possible as I age. So in addition to the ways that I have shifted my diet and lifestyle, I would like to find a medical technology that can help me visually evaluate what exactly is going on so that narrow down how to proceed with things like acupuncture, massage, practicing good posture, etc.
I'm a pretty active person and I really like to move around whether it's climbing trees, doing handstands, playing basketball, swimming in the ocean, or just running around and trying to see the world more like a playful child. Yesterday I pulled some sort of muscle in my neck while goofing around on some monkey bars on the playground. Little injuries like that happen to me all the time, and I usually recover OK as the inflammation subsides, but I'm getting older and I can't expect these things to go away without major consequences on down the line. I want to be able to keep a sense of adventure and play in my life but still do what I can to avoid any major injuries or surgeries.
So this is my question: Obviously x-rays are super harmful and I'm not willing to subject myself to them anymore short of an emergency situation. What kinds of musculoskeletal examination technologies are available that are free of radiation, affordable and relatively safe? I should note that I live in the midwest where there are not many "alternative" resources so I will likely need to tap into the medical community to get this done.
- years of bad posture from sitting in chairs and in positions that don't fit my tall and slender frame
- being hunched and curled over musical instruments and computers for hours at a time for most of my life
- carpal tunnel type problems from typing and playing a lot of guitar and mandolin
- mental and physical stress in general for many years stemming from low thyroid and deranged hormonal/metabolic function before discovering Ray Peat's work a year ago and finally beginning to implementing method of encouraging cellular respiration via nutrition, sunlight, bag breathing, etc
On one hand, I'm pretty certain my musculoskeletal system has developed abnormally enough and has been stressed enough that I won't be able to recover fully, and I am inevitably going to have to keep fighting situations where I can't avoid sitting in bad chairs and working in fairly anti-metabolic conditions in general. Regardless, I'd like to begin to focus on and put effort into therapies and methods of healing that can give me as much freedom of movement as possible as I age. So in addition to the ways that I have shifted my diet and lifestyle, I would like to find a medical technology that can help me visually evaluate what exactly is going on so that narrow down how to proceed with things like acupuncture, massage, practicing good posture, etc.
I'm a pretty active person and I really like to move around whether it's climbing trees, doing handstands, playing basketball, swimming in the ocean, or just running around and trying to see the world more like a playful child. Yesterday I pulled some sort of muscle in my neck while goofing around on some monkey bars on the playground. Little injuries like that happen to me all the time, and I usually recover OK as the inflammation subsides, but I'm getting older and I can't expect these things to go away without major consequences on down the line. I want to be able to keep a sense of adventure and play in my life but still do what I can to avoid any major injuries or surgeries.
So this is my question: Obviously x-rays are super harmful and I'm not willing to subject myself to them anymore short of an emergency situation. What kinds of musculoskeletal examination technologies are available that are free of radiation, affordable and relatively safe? I should note that I live in the midwest where there are not many "alternative" resources so I will likely need to tap into the medical community to get this done.