| I want to stay alive! | | | | partially paralysed legs as a direct result |
| | | | of such over-enthusiastic chiropractic |
| Do you? | | | | treatment. Such that I use a walking stick to |
| | | | help. |
| Mugging! Rape! Hooligans! Yobs! | | | | |
| | | | A walking stick? Now, theres something |
| Cholesterol! Circulation! Diabetes! | | | | |
| Progressive Joint stiffness! Family genetic | | | | I am not an exercise freak. I positively hate |
| factors! | | | | running. I refuse to (try to) develop bulging |
| | | | muscles. Cycling can be even more dangerous |
| You name it! | | | | than heart attacks (traffic!!). Keep fit |
| | | | routines? Well, perhaps, but not for me, |
| Few diseases of developing age can be | | | | thank you. |
| prevented. | | | | |
| | | | But that walking stick |
| But many so many indeed can be modified and | | | | |
| risks so much reduced. | | | | As a fanatical martial artist since the age |
| | | | of fourteen, I have practised three hours |
| There are many lines to follow. Above all - | | | | every night for years. Non-stop, fully |
| the focus of this article - spinal integrity. | | | | committed. I remember being in tears in the |
| The organs all get what we could call their | | | | dojo (gym) when everyone else was going home |
| electric energy supply from the spinal | | | | and there was no one left to struggle with. I |
| nerves. Electric wires coming out from | | | | mean that, I really do. |
| between the vertebrae (and skull indeed) to | | | | |
| optimise and invigorate all the viscera: | | | | Ah, that walking stick |
| heart, gall bladder, pancreas, liver and | | | | |
| lights!. Everything. Not to mention those | | | | Now in my seventies I get an hours (and more) |
| circulatory pumps, the muscles. | | | | exercise every night when walking Tyson, my |
| | | | Staffordshire Bull Terrier. With my walking |
| Do you want to stay alive? Then keep your | | | | stick. Practising and exercising |
| vital nerve supply in tune and functioning to | | | | sutekki-shin-jutsu techniques walking stick |
| the best level possible. This is the realm of | | | | self defence methods. In sets of ten vigorous |
| the Osteopath. His job is to maintain spinal | | | | stick actions at a time. Invigorating! |
| integrity, freeing and re-aligning those | | | | Enjoyable! Motivating! But so highly |
| small but so-vital facet joints. Minimising | | | | practical! |
| the electrical shortings which so often | | | | |
| affect the out-going nerves. A regular, | | | | Good for my heart. Good for my stamina. Good |
| routine preventive three-monthly visit can | | | | for my personal exercise satisfaction. But |
| make such an amazing difference. I know, Ive | | | | hopefully not good for a would-be mugger |
| been doing it for forty years. | | | | |
| | | | SO good for my street survival. |
| You service your car? Of course. But do you | | | | |
| service your spinal nerves? I wonder! Think | | | | The walking stick is a most effective and |
| on it! | | | | perfectly legal weapon for self defence in |
| | | | these troubled times when no one knows just |
| I personally prefer osteopathy to | | | | who might be around that corner! Perhaps no |
| chiropractic, although I am trained in both. | | | | one perhaps. But can you be sure? |
| In general osteopathy uses gentler, safer | | | | |
| methods compared to chiropractic, which can | | | | I commend sutekki-shin-jutsu to you. |
| be much more forceful. Indeed, I have two | | | | |