rectly treated by orthopedic surgeons. I am convinced that many people have
written themselves off from vigorous activity when there was no need to do
so—as long as trigger point therapy is practiced.April
. Come April , the “miracle” had continued. Progress was slow but
steady. I was now squatting × , stiff-legged deadlifting × and
bench pressing × . All very modest lifting, but for someone who was
so recently disabled by injuries throughout his body, and who was starting
almost from scratch but with a very sensitive body, and doing it drug free,
this was fine progress.. In April I bought and started using the “jacknobber” tool from Pressure
Positive Co. e bodo I was using previously did the job I wanted, but I sub-
stituted the jacknobber because I found it more versatile. I was now almost
exclusively using the backnobber and jacknobber as my therapy tools.. Much later that year I discovered that the jacknobber could also do the job
of the backnobber. e jacknobber has a triangular base that enables it to
be placed on the floor, with stability. I could lie over the device, positioning
the upright prong where I wanted it to go on my back or glutes. Eventually
the jacknobber became my sole therapy tool. is reduces to about .
the total cost of a multi-purpose therapy tool and the book by Prudden, to
enable you to apply trigger point therapy on yourself. at is even more of
a pittance than the . I shelled out to begin with, to get started on the
job.Anger with the orthopedic surgeon
. I had now made sufficient progress, without surgery, to know that the diag-
nosis of the surgeon I visited in the summer of was way off the mark.
I was already lifting weights way beyond what he would call “light,” and my
knees were doing fine.. I was angry that he could have been so wrong. And what makes me more
angry is that the same man, and probably many others like him, so casually
prescribe surgical measures that in many cases are not only unnecessary but,
over the long term, may make matters worse. People like him, in private
practice, are getting rich from their ignorance of non-invasive alternatives.
(He was going to charge about , total for an hour or so of arthroscopic
surgery on each knee, and one night in his clinic—a fee which is probably