{"id":22136,"date":"2012-09-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/?p=22136"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:44:20","slug":"karis-arm-injury-improved-with-qigong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/karis-arm-injury-improved-with-qigong\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari’s arm injury improved with qigong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crushed elbow became pain free<\/h3>\n

I started practising qigong because of a bicycle accident in the late 1990’s. My right elbow was completely crushed and I still have a metal triangle that holds it together. At the time when I started practising qigong my elbow functioned as a weather barometer and the doctor said that I will have to live with it. But I don’t. It has not ached for years.<\/p>\n

Qigong instead of physiotherapy<\/h3>\n

Later I fell once more on the arm of the damaged elbow and got problems with my shoulder. Then I got it working again thanks to qigong. In 2011, I fell and injured the shoulder of my previously healthy arm. It was terribly painful and I was urged to go to the doctor and get it properly investigated. Encouraged by the local contact person, I went to the group training sessions, although I could not do the exercises properly.<\/p>\n

According to the X-rays nothing was broken but I was prescribed strong pain medications and 15 hours of physical therapy. I showed some of the qigong movements to a physiotherapist who said, “Oh, what good movements! Keep it up! You do not need any physiotherapy.” I practised qigong, and through that my arm gradually improved and after a few months I could lift my arm properly again. Nowadays, it hurts only when I make certain movements backwards.<\/p>\n

\"Kari's<\/p>\n

Help to manage retirement<\/h3>\n

I had a few years left until retirement when I started practising. I would very much have liked to continue to work and was very sad because of that, but with the help of qigong, I could balance the sadness.<\/p>\n

Varicose veins disappeared, better posture<\/h3>\n

I also noticed in other ways how good qigong is. For example, I have had quite a lot of varicose veins in my legs that have disappeared by themselves. My posture has also improved a lot and I am very pleased.<\/p>\n

The summer course a powerful experience<\/h3>\n

I have joined many courses and each time I have thought that it was the best course ever. And it has been like that every time. Last year I attended my first summer course. Before the course, I had had a very tough period of strenuous commitments and my friends in the local group saw that I needed a summer course in order not to fall apart. It was a powerful experience to be there. Only then did my body start to understand at a deeper level what practicing qigong is about. Qi-regulation and the qi-field are examples of concepts that I for a long time found difficult to understand, and I thought they sounded strange. But despite the fact that the brain did not understand, the body understood how good qigong is.<\/p>\n

Kari Appelgren<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Kari'sKari has successfully managed her arm injury with qigong. At the same time she also got rid of varicose veins in her legs and got a much better body posture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-story","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonny Eliasson","author_link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/author\/jonny\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23118,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22136\/revisions\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}