{"id":22244,"date":"2004-10-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/?p=22244"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:46:03","slug":"mikaels-back-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/mikaels-back-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaels back problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/stu-micke-stor.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Mikael has suffered from back problems during 12 years\" > I have been practicing Zhineng Qigong for three years now. During this time I have had both wonderful experiences as well as hard periods. The practice influences, develops and challenges the whole person, both in mind and body.<\/p>\n<p>I feel clearly how I in many areas have moved my positions toward a better health. But it seems as damn certain as a law of nature, that every step forward includes one or more back slips, before certain processes can &#8220;sail on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I have choosen to tell about how one of my problems has almost vanished. I&#8217;m pleased to say I am 95% recovered. In periods for about 12 years (I&#8217;m 31 years old now) I have been suffering from lumbago, due to stiffness and &#8220;lockings&#8221; in the lower part of my back. Tree or four every year so severe I could do nothing but lay down or crawl. Any attempt to move around created weird looking walks, accompanied by loud painfilled sounds. I consumed pain killers like snacks and was a frequent customer with chiropractors and naprapaths. At best they helped me overcome the worst part. The periods in between the lumbago attacks where occationally symptom free, but more often a continuous, though low intensity pain remained. This all affected me a great deal mentally. I became miserable and mad at the never ending pain. This didn&#8217;t make things easier.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the summer of 2002 as one long pain tolerance quest. My back had a stubborn &#8220;lock&#8221;. And my chiropractor at the time was giving up hope, talking about putting me on the rack. I went to a summer course for 18 days, convinced everything would heal, but no. When I came home again my chiropractor managed to release the &#8220;lock&#8221;. He also said that maybe my back was getting better and that could be the reason for this &#8220;lock&#8221; being so relentless. A paradox in it self, which I very much wanted to believe. Now it has been almost two years since that time and I havent had one total &#8220;lock&#8221;, just a few minor reminders.<\/p>\n<p>I now pay my chiropractor a visit every third or fourth month to recieve minor adjustments, since I work as a painter. He says he considers my back healed and that that in it self is quite incredible, considering both my occupation as well as my earlier problems. I feel much calmer now, knowing that I myself have trained my back back to a much healthier point. And that I and every one else actually has a lot of influence over the personal healing process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mikael Westh<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/stu-micke-liten.jpg\" alt=\"Mikaels back problems\" style=\"border: 0; float: left;\" \/>Mikael Westh tells about how he managed to handle his back problems (lumbago attacks over and over again) by continuously practising Zhineng Qigong.<\/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-22244","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\/22244","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=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23061,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions\/23061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}