Back Pain Plans

 So Back/Hip/Knee arthritis acting up so doing the Chiropractor, Massage, Ortho, Cortisone, Acupuncture routing of throwing everything at it and see what helps cause baseline pain level 5 sucks. here is a collection of things that are useful for this

So Good Pain Scales I have found

Fibromyalgia Pain Scale	Stanford Scale

Massage I use Alternative Health Associates - Laura, Lisa, and River are all excellent

Chiropractor I've started using The Joint at Landmark

My Ortho office is Ortho Virginia

Acupuncture with  NOVA Acupuncture

Chair Yoga with Fairfax County Senior Services Reeves RX-Relax Adapted yoga

Some things I have learned

• Hip pain is in the front - if back of hip/butt then is likely your back
• Body Status
• Knee (Oct 2018) Mild patellofemoral arthritis. Spur formation of lateral patellar facet and medial femoral condyle.  Chondromalacia of right patella 
• Hip (Jan 2022) Joint space narrowing, Near bone touching bone in the inferior hip joint.
  No acute bony abnormalities
• Back (April 2022) Near bone-touching-bone arthritis at L5-S1. Moderate degenerative
  arthritis at her left hip with 3 mm of joint space remaining.  Lumbosacral osteoarthritis and left-sided sciatica
• Fragrant Qigong (Xiang Gong) was recommended to me - 15 arm movements twice a day can be done sitting or standing  
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• Essence of Chinese Dietary Therapy  This one I have more of a um maybe reaction to  basically food is classified in Cold, Cool, Neutral, Warm, and Hot. You should avoid Cold and Hot unless using for specific reason 
  
• Cold Foods - makes you fatigued and pained, Raw things, tropical fruit, iced drinks, salt 
• Cool Foods - Goes inward, mushrooms, citrus, cheese
• Neutral Foods - Rice, beef, honey
• Warm Foods - Goes outward, Steamed, Simmered, Boiled, Sautee, butter, garlic, Soup
• Hot Foods - inflammation and excites brain, Baked and Fried foods, Candy, Coffee, Booze
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• Here is an example of Chair Yoga
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