Over the years I've been experiencing with waist problems. The twisting of my waist had led me lose balance.Some times it's obvious that my waist problem let me shift to the right and at some point in time too, I shift to left side position. My walking has become abnormal and uneven for those who know what I'm. It has taken me not less than 2 years. In fact I am tired of those who have pretended to be quack doctors but certainly not! They would always give me all sort of advice to be on natural herb. To them, that's what they think would eradicate this waist trauma and subside the pain.
Yes, at time it could be possible for some fracture, dislocation of joints or broken legs, arms or any part of bone or joint injury to be healed through these native herbs; or in the hands of these local priest. However, not all bone or joints problems that can be healed through them. If the bone or joint problem has to do with other things else but not accident. The person has to be diagnosed first. That is why I prefer being in hospital first to know what has resulted to this twisting of the waist.
In fact this happens to be my third times of being to hospital for my problem. At first I felt some pains stretching through the veins of my legs to my thighs. It happened to both sides of my limbs. So when I complained to the doctors after diagnosis of my blood sugar and other stuff, they said my blood sugar has rised a little bit. The second time of my hospital too, they said it was some nerves effect as result of pressure which have affected them. They gave me some medicine to be taken to see the next action.
This third visit of the hospital, the doctor present led me to take the X-ray if the complication is visible they would refer me to the physiotherapy department for further treatment. I went for the X-ray which cost me 100 Gh¢ equivalent to $8.78.
What would cause the waist to twist if not by accident or certain injuries? From the X-ray, they detected some abnormalities which has caused all these problems. There has been some pressure on the spinal cord which run through the back bone. I can't specifically tell, but the problem lies between the right and left pelvic and sacrum bone. These bone linking the spinal cord was discovered to have been troubled as result of pressure due to long sitting without the support of the back chair. Yes, I admit, sometimes I would be typing while sitting on my bed or on bear floor for long hours without any chair to support my spinal cord to relax.
I àsked several questions at the X-ray department what really wrong with my waist and losing my balance as I used to be? They explained and showed me some simple exercises that I should do with my pillow. This is by folding my pillow into two and lying at my back with the folded pillow closed to sacrum, or between the lumbar and the sacrum of the vertebral column. Some medicine we given to me in addition with the exercise as directed. The doctor told me to be taken as prescribed and come back next 2 weeks time for them to check status of my condition if there has been improvement for further assistance.
It's therefore imperative to visit hospital with any little changes we see in our body systems. I wouldn't know what has happened to me if not this frequent visit to hospital. I would have been following these traditional herbalist for herbs but the real problem would have been at stake.
I've also learnt a lot about how we sit behind our mobile phones, laptops or computers to chat for long hours. I was thinking about those office workers at Banks and other institutions how their spinal cords are affected. We need to sometimes relax the body for effective functioning. It's not our sitting alone, but our mattresses we sleep on can affect our spinal cord and other parts of our bones. We often complain of body pains, our vertebral column and other parts of joints. All these affect our body systems.