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From: JulieDate: 10/2/99 Time: 7:47:21 PM
What are Goode Wraps anyway?
They are ordinary cloth shirts, bands or sports wraps. Each of these is impregnated with a unique blend of natural rare earth semiconductors that increase circulation to reduce or prevent swelling, help the muscles regain strength and prevent or lessen the sharp pain in joints from tendon stress
What are they used for?
Primarily to control stiffness, pain and swelling. They are ideal for tired aching swollen muscles or joints. Goode Wraps are available for the back, foot, ankle, knee, elbows and wrist.
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Shin Splint
Definition: Inflammation of the tendons on the inside of the front of the lower leg. (Sports-medicine specialists don't like to use the term "shin splint" because it commonly refers to several lower-leg injuries.
Symptoms: An aching, throbbing or tenderness along the inside of the shin (though it can radiate to the outside also) about halfway down, or all along the shin from the ankle to the knee. Pain when you press on the inflamed area. Pain is most severe at the start of a run, but can go away during a run once the muscles are loosened up (unlike a stress fracture of the shinbone, which hurts all the time). With tendonitis, pain resumes after the run.
Causes: Tired or inflexible calf muscles put too much stress on tendons, which become strained and torn.
Overpronation aggravates this problem, as does running on hard surfaces, such as concrete sidewalks.
Beginning runners are the most susceptible to shinsplints for a variety of reasons, but the most common is that they're using leg muscles that haven't been stressed in the same way before. Another common cause of shin splint among beginners is poor choice of running shoes, or running in something other than running shoes. Runners who have started running after a long layoff are also susceptible to shinsplints because they often increase their mileage too quickly.
Time to Abandon the "Tendonitis" Myth
Most currently practicing general practitioners were taught, and many still believe, that patients who present with overuse tendonitis have a largely inflammatory condition and will benefit from anti-inflammatory medication.
Ten of 11 readily available sports medicine texts specifically recommend non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for treating painful conditions like Achilles and patellar tendonitis despite the lack of a biological rationale or clinical evidence for this approach.
Instead of adhering to the myths above, physicians should acknowledge that painful overuse tendon conditions have a non-inflammatory cause.
A critical review of the role of various anti-inflammatory medications in soft tissue conditions found limited evidence of short term pain relief and no evidence of their effectiveness in providing even medium term clinical resolution of clearly diagnosed tendon disorders.
Laboratory studies have not shown a therapeutic role for these medications. Steroid injections provide mixed results in relieving the pain of tendon problems.
Some pockets of the sports medicine, orthopedics, and rheumatology specialties have adopted this paradigm, 2-4 10 but it must no longer remain within that cabal. It is time for medical educators to accept the irrefutable evidence that the term tendonitis must be abandoned to highlight a new perspective on tendon disorders.
Adopting the tendinopathy paradigm is essential if general practitioners are to practice evidence based medicine.
Goode Wraps Relieve Pain, Swelling and Stiffness by Relaxing Muscles
Put simply, the philosophy is that the body is a self regulating bioenergetic and biomechanical phenomena which will continue to regulate itself for as long as it has the reserve energy necessary to sustain life, by the ongoing process of biological adaptation.
Bowen realized that the body would regulate itself and return to balance if the appropriate neurological and neuromuscular context was created so that it could. There was never the question of if it could, this was implicit -- the fact that the person had life was evidence enough that it could!
Comments
I have to tell everyone about the relief I got from my goode wraps. I was skeptical but had found nothing that would work very well or last very long for shin splint. I wear the wraps after soccer and to bed and have had no problems. Thank you goode wraps.
Julie
Unfortunately this dogma is deeply entrenched.
If general practitioners, orthopedic surgeons, and other members of the healthcare professions treating tendon disorders made a quantum shift from previous flawed teaching about overuse tendonitis and adopted these data there would be immediate ramifications.
Using anti-inflammatory medication for these tendon problems is a prescription for disaster as they clearly do not treat the underlying cause and have the potential to cause significant complications.
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