As you know, the state of a current health care system is a hot topic among many people including politicians, health care workers and consumers. There has been a lot of speculation about what is going to happen to our health care system in the future. But what concept they are missing is that most therapists are taught obsolete techniques that only produce temporary results which drive up health care costs.
All of this consternation about the collapsing health-care system is to me no more than a reshuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic. The Titanic is an inept health-care system based on principles that are more than 300 years old and were proven to be obsolete in 1923 by Max Planck, the founder of the Quantum Theory. Many of the principles taught in medical, dental and therapeutic schools have been proven to be wrong for more than 70 years and yet are still being taught. Medical theory has degraded into the biochemistry of disease, as if we were just mindless bags of chemicals. A massive amount of recent research supporting our experience with myofascial release has shown that fascial restrictions change the shape of the cell and the viscosity of its surrounding environment, the extra-cellular matrix.
For more information about the future of health care, you can access John’s new Therapeutic Insight article titled, “The Titanic is going down” at the following link: http://www.massagemag.com/News/massage-news.php?id=8721&catid=62&title=therapeutic-insight-the-myofascial-release-perspectivethe-titanic-is-going-down .
As always, feel free to ask any questions or add your valuable insights on this topic.
Thanks,
John
In addition, below is a comment from my friend, “The Cayman Cat,” giving an update on his condition:
Dear John,
Thanks to everyone out there sending me support with their prayers and love and light. It is greatly appreciated. I know I must have written you in the middle of the night and didn’t proof read my work prior to sending it out since my last name lost an “a” in it. So just for the record it’s East, George Lee East, P.T. aka The Cayman Cat, Toast and Breeze. My email address is breeze_east@hotmail.com (that is an underscore between the breeze and east). I really do appreciate hearing from everyone and forgive me if it takes a while to get back with you right away, since I seem to be having a lot of low energy days lately and the pain meds make me feel totally out of it! I personally believe I am going to figure out how to lick this thing since I was just coming into my own as a therapist, energy worker and being able to reframe the consciousness behind the cause of my client’s problems when this happened to me. I would love to hear from the Old Mastery Group and anyone who is into alternative healing techniques, especially remote work. Anyway, The Cayman Cat Lives! I also can’t wait to come out to play again with all of John’s MFR family. I got way too much stuff on my plate to do before packing it up for good. Too much yet to be learned and too much fun yet to be had. So keep me in your prayers in a posititive light and if anyone needs a practice patient, pick me, pick me, pick me! Until then,
Lots of Love & Light,
George Lee East, P.T.
Breeze
The Cayman Cat
1 response so far ↓
Cathy Covell // Mar 29th 2010 at 6:07 pm
John-
I think the health care problems have started to bring to the surface that fact that current health care is about treating symptoms instead of helping people to become healthy.
My Myofascial Release treatment center has gotten busier as other clinics have gotten slower. Why is this? Because people want results.
My clinic is in a rural area and an area that has been hit with a lot of job loss. The people who come to me do not have money to waste, and that is why they end up seeing me.
Now that more people have higher deductables or have to pay more out of pocket, they are less willing to contiue doing treatThey have heard from others that I can help themments that do not have results.
People can come to me and during the first visit they feel a change and they also leave with self treatment exercises that will help to increase their function and decrease their pain.
If they really want to make a change in health care, they will start taking notice of what helps people become healthier instead of wasting so much money on things that just mask symptoms.
Myofascial Release is the most effective way to help people return to health. How do I know this is true? Because I see it every day.
Cathy Covell, PT, MT
Orland, IN
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