I like mountain biking!

 And I like it even more with two arms! After my severe head bop in 2022, my exceptional primary care doc recommended craniosacral treatments with the description, "It's a little woo-woo, but it works!" Doctor Emily Lash then directed me to practitioner Ana Bennett, who has been helping me again in my recovery from the spinal nerve injury last year, and we had another session on Tuesday.

A quick read about craniosacral treatment online suggests that it is, well, maybe even more than just a little woo-woo. Like any therapy, I'll guess it can be done well, or significantly less than that, and given the feedback the therapist needs to perceive, it seems the gap between good and bad could be enormous for craniosacral. Ana is one of the good ones.

At the end of my first treatment back in 2022, I asked Ana, acknowledging it was a hard question, what percentage of time had been diagnosis and how much treatment. She agreed, hard question. Meanwhile, I was once again up from the table, moving my body to put on shoes, and realized, "Oh wow, you did a lot." I'd experienced that feeling of moving with a different body than the one that lay down. It had been a sports massage which finished with an outline of my body in sweat on the table; I'd been working that hard!

Craniosacral treatment is far, far, far more subtle, thus my question of how much treatment had taken place. It's possible, with experience, I've grown more sensitive to perceiving the changes as they occur, and on Tuesday, while still the slight touch of no more than a nickel's weight of pressure, it felt like the session was having a significant impact. 

Yesterday I tested that with mountain biking the Canal Trails, and wow, it truly felt, so close to normal! Yes, I hope there is still more recovery to come, but I'm now even more optimistic. This was good. This was fun. It was so fun I never stopped to take a picture, so I suppose by modern social media standards, it never happened!