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ST's MME Experience
After about 1.5 hours into an MME treatment, my spine would relax and the muscles would release. After about a week, my body did not over react to the treatments after finishing the treatments as they did the first week. There was a considerable rebounding of the muscles for about the first week. After treatments, my body did over react for about 5 to 6 hours. After about 20 days, this times was reduced sometimes to about 3 hours.
There is an over firing of the damaged nerve path from L4-L5, particularly down the left side of the spine from the surgery site to the coccyx. This means, the nerve path burned and stung, electric type pins and needles downward. Using the MME directly over the surgery site started this after about 2 hours and sometimes caused the cauda equina to contract the buttocks and leg muscles. When this would happen, sometimes, I moved the machine downward from he surgery site over the coccyx and it would cause the legs muscles to relax and my legs to release downward in the sockets and also get the buttocks to relax which greatly eased this pain. I stopped MME after 35 days to see if this damaged nerve path could heal a little on its own without it being constantly activated. After 7 days from temporarily stopping treatment I have noticed that there is a reduction in pain in this nerve path and it rarely severely burns as it did before treatment.
The MME treatments after several weeks did relax the pelvis so that the pull to the shoulders was greatly reduced. This I have had since a car accident in November of 1969. After moving the machine upward over the area of T6 where there is disk damage from he same accident did relax the thoracic spine so that the pull and tightness in the rib cage and sternum was diminished. The tightness in the shoulders sometimes actually stopped. This is the tightness that causes my blood pressure to be high. This is probably called myofascial pain syndrome.
After about 25 days, my neck was becoming quite painful so I moved the machine up several more inches to over both T6 and the cervical spine. After about 3 days of this, the tightness in my neck, around C3, where there is spinal stenosis and the pull in the dural tube in the skull released enough that the sacrum also finally released and it relaxed for the first time since surgery in May 2003.
I am able to sit better as long as it is a hard short chair. I still have problems sitting on a soft chair. When the damaged nerve path fires now, it helps to sit on the nerve path and it is quieted somewhat. Sitting at all before the MME treatments would only cause the muscles to contract more and the pain to be greater. I can lie down and sleep for more hours but it is still a problem. The sacrum and lumbar are still quite touchy to lying on those muscles. The genital area is still over active to tough - that has not gotten that much better. The sciatic pain is reduced.
Movement is better as long as I do not over due it. I have not walked very much yet. The muscles still tighten in the lower back and perineum when walking and bending. The upper spine still tightens but not as it did before the treatments. There have been several hours when the pull and tightness is greatly reduced in my spine, more than it has been since I was in my twenties. I have good and bad days. The pain is reduced form what in once was even on a bad day.