Work for the Oreos

The number one thing you need in order to maintain or improve your fitness is movement. You’ve got to move to get healthy. That’s obvious. Right?

What if you’re having trouble moving? It might sound absurd but it’s a real issue for people. I am finding myself to be one of those people more and more.

Here’s the real problem — if I can’t workout as much as I want to, then I need to clean up my diet. But I’ve got a complicated relationship with Oreos.

For about 15 years I’ve been able to stay active in spite of some structural damage in my right knee from a basketball injury. Now that knee is starting to bother me something fierce along with my left knee, which has never been injured.

Through a series of events I came into contact with a myopracticioner named Kendra. Myopractic is like chiropractic except "myo" is for everything except your bones. Muscles, ligaments, and tendons are all in play.

Kendra went to work and identified several issues which are wearing on my body. First off, I guess I have no cartilage remaining in my right knee and precious little in the left one to boot. This is a result of my posture and walking stride.

“No one ever teaches you how to walk. Everyone is just excited you stood up and walked as a baby,” Kendra explained.

She’s got a point there. I don’t remember anyone telling me to use my hamstrings more than my quads when walking. According to Kendra that’s what we’re supposed to be doing. Walking should be two-thirds hamstring and one-third quad.

The most surprising thing during our session was when Kendra adjusted my face. That’s right, my face. My muscles were pulling my jaw ever so slightly to the left.

There is a difference between someone who practices medicine and someone who practices healing. One must have significant practice to be a healer but there is a gap between receiving treatment and healing.

Healing has almost dropped out of the medical vocabulary. It’s all treatment and mitigation. The money isn’t in the healing, it’s in the repetitive treatment. Very few people fall into the healer category.

I would say that Kendra is a healer.

I asked her if she was trying to find more clients.

“No, not really. I work with a few people on an ongoing basis but anymore once I fix someone I pass them off to one of my students if they want maintenance. What I’m interested in is growing my shamanism.”

I didn’t mention that? Oh yeah, when I entered the room it was dominated by a Peruvian medicine table. That is a story for another day.