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