Pain control has been our major focus for the past few weeks as Ellen’s hip degeneration has progressed. Unlike simple osteoarthritis, she has avascular necrosis, a rapid breakdown of bone due to a loss of the blood supply to the bone. Her surgeon has told her not to use any opioid drugs before surgery as […]
Ellen and I use quite a number of devices and contraptions to support our efforts at keeping well. I thought it might be good to generate a list of what we use and what we use them for to give the newsletter readers self-support options in their own lives. Most of the stuff we […]
A couple of months ago I was introduced to the world of dynamic electro-neuro stimulation (DENS). This is a type of physiotherapy that has been in use in Russia since the 1980s. When it was first developed for use with the Russian space program, it was promoted as a new Star Trek healing device. It […]