My oldest client referred me to one of his friends, and we had an appointment yesterday afternoon. The work went well, and he was happy.
From work, I hopped on the bus and headed to the home of a pelvic affiliate of mine…
We got stoned and were cuddling and stuff, and I asked him about the paddle he had hanging on the back of his bedroom door, so he brought it down.
We started paddling my butt with it, and I had a brainstorm: what would this feel like on my scar from that old hamstring tear I did to myself back in 2003?
So, I asked him to stop and if I could give him a bit of instruction on what I wanted him to try. He was amenable to that, and so I instructed him on how I wanted him to hold the paddle and where to strike and with how much pressure.
I had him use the edge of the paddle instead of the wide face to concentrate the force of the blows. We worked very slowly and with not a huge amount of force at first so I could gauge how much made sense from a therapeutic standpoint.
Before I had him work on my hamstring, which has a huge knot of emotional energy tied up into it, I tested this idea out on my plantar fascia, which has been experiencing a bit of fascitis over the past few weeks. I showed him exactly where to strike and how much force, which ended up being a considerable amount more than I had originally thought, but wow. My foot and heel do not hurt in the least today.
So we moved up to my hamstring and I had him work on the medial attachment down near the knee of my semimembranosus muscle, which I tore back in 2003 in a tragic dancing accident.
He hammered on the scar for a bit while I stretched the muscle, then I had him move around to the pes anserinus, and with very gentle but persistent percussion, had him work on that attachment for the semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and the gracilis.
Today, my leg feels a million time better – I can’t believe how incredible my leg feels.
