chlorine

Hi Doc and friends:

I have a question about chlorine. Since I have been laid up with this sciatic problem and not able to exercise for a good 2 months now I am considering the idea of joining a local health facility that I used to belong to and it is a great facility. The reson is that although I am a lot better, I still cannot walk for any lenthe of time and I don't' think that weights would work for me either. I have still got too much pain to try it. So I am thinking of this facility because they have a great indoor pool and they also have rehabilitative hydrotherepy classes that you can participate in with the consent of a doctor. My chiropractor can get me in as he has done for a lot of people.

The only thing I am concerned about is the damned chlorine. They use a combination of chlorine and some other non toxic salt instead of the full chlorine treatment so it has considerably less chlorine than other pools. The teachers are professional physical therapists and the people who participate that I have talked with have good things to say - including my partner who used it for his sciatic problem and it worked. He is now back to going on long hikes in the forest again after a year long problem. I was thinking that it might work if I take a good long sauna after the pool therapy hoping that I might be sweating out the chlorine that way if I drink tons of distilled water during it.

What do you wise ones think about this? I need to get active again! Meditation and breathwork have also been helping along with chiropractic, massage and all the cleansing and dietary changes, but I have been kind of stuck at the 85% reduced pain stage for a few weeks now, which is just enough to keep me down 2/3rds of the day as I feel I am extremely prone to re-injury at this point and I am pretty convinced that a big part of it is that I have noticed lately I have been tensing my muscle up around the nerve in some unconscious attempt to protect it I think. I will find myself tensing my entire leg musculature from my calf muscle up to my hip and when I notice this I will then conciously relax it. So i am trying to be as aware of that as possible and I am always having to let go of that. I also have plantar faciitiis so too long on my feet is difficult and can lead to one step forward and 2 steps back kind of thing. About 15 minutes of walking is almost too much at this point. Plantar facitiis is well known to take a very long time to heal and there have been several times where I found myself getting better and then walked too far in my elation and totally reinjured - plunging myself back again.


Thanks for your help! Sorry to be such a long winded bother.... Any one who is willing to read all this is a saint on wheels! Tweet