bass playing ability issue *PLEASE READ*

[DJ Bebop]

Kill a goat and rub some of the blood on your hand while walking counterclockwise around an oak tree 8 times chanting "Mekaleka Hi Meka Hineho, Mekaleka Hi Meka Chaneeho".

In all seriousness internet forums are great for things like advice about instruments, amps and cabinets but not for potential medical issues. Try the above and if that does not work you should seriously consider medical attention from an appropriately qualified professional.

Now somebody close this thread down.

 

[jelly6466]

So, other than the relatively subliminal suggestions to see a doctor and the general opinions on chiropractic services, I have been through this exact same problem. My life before, and during Bass, was as an athlete. I thought of the issue in line with athletics and came to a conclusion, stretching before and after playing. This not only solved the issue for me but also increased my dexterity and speed.

My process is to begin by massaging the palm of each hand for at least a minute. Then for each finger group on each hand, I slowly put two fingers in between each digit and spread the fingers slowly. Hard to explain but easy to do.

May or may not work for you but worked wonders for me.

 

[Yango]

I am a doctor. The finger needs to come off. We call it bad apple syndrome. If left unchecked, all of your fingers will become slow, much like a zombie’s fingers. Powerful, but extremely slow, and they may emit a strange odour.

You’re welcome.

 

[tpaul]

Well, I think you should sacrifice a chicken at the full moon under a bridge while chewing tobacco that has been soaked in blood and kerosene. Or in this case, sacrifice some chicken fingers. But if that doesn't work, you could always try seeing a doctor.

 

[BassBrass]

OK, neither can a dentist. what kind of doctor are you? Please list your degrees...

Actually...dentistry is science based and a DMD can prescribe antibiotics, administer gas and perform oral surgery, so they are close to being physicians. Big oral surgeries are done in hospitals by oral surgeons with MD's who might have been dentists at one time. Being science based the two fields recognize each other. Chiropractic has it's subluxation of the spine theory for causing 95% of disease, so it's alt. reality vs reality. Chiropractic has had to evolve for the modern age, much like Mormonism which got rid of the multiple wives thing. Which after all is supported in scripture, but OK it's better to go along with the mass cultural standards.

 

[john_g]

I got to about page 3 so I didnt read all the posts, but if you are practicing at least an hour a day for 3 years you may need a break. Maybe take a week off or at least a few days and see where you are after that. Certainly if you are concerned, contact your doc too...not sure its been mentioned yet in this thread =P

 

[Ric5]

Yes, I've seen that first hand too. While some alternative medicine involves actual medicinal ingredients and such, a lot of it is based on taking you to a different plane of existence - feeling yourself fighting cancer, etc. It's amazing, and it CAN work (although often doesn't, like everything in the world of cancer). The mind is a very powerful thing, which is a GOOD thing to realize. False prophets, false idols, false experts are not a good thing. Understanding what we can do for ourselves, along with proper diagnosis and, where it's proven to be helpful, effective treatment from doctors, can change your life, or save your life.

But don't put the believe in something artificial or someone who makes up information. Believe in yourself - you're the one who did it, and I am blown away every time I meet someone who's cancer has gone into remission.

for thousands of years the human race has been using plants, herbs, and natural medicines ... somehow in the 20th century we threw all of that out the window for drugs made in a laboratory.

My wife used an herb used by American Indians to remove skin cancer. I used the plant paradox diet, and the bulletproof diet, and natural supplements to reverse Rheumatoid Arthritis. I also go to medical doctors for some things. I will take the best of what each has to offer. My wife and I both did what the medical doctors said was impossible.

I also believe in a spiritual aspect in healing, but I won't go into that because the moderators will then have to close the thread.

 

[bobdabilder]

Ibtl

 

[Eilif]

don't be an @$$ ... don't be insulting and condescending ... you are better then that

Sorry, I could have said it better, but I do think that alternative medicine as a treatment for cancer is impossible.

I'm beyond glad you don't have cancer, but I simply don't believe it was the alternative medicine that did it.

 

[Ric5]

Sorry, I could have said it better, but I do think that alternative medicine as a treatment for cancer is impossible.

I'm beyond glad you don't have cancer, but I simply don't believe it was the alternative medicine that did it.

we all have the right to believe what we believe in and use the medicine that we prefer ...

I prefer a naturopathic approach for myself

and my wife did the impossible by getting healed from cancer without drugs or surgery

 

[Eilif]

OK, neither can a dentist. what kind of doctor are you? Please list your degrees...

Not a doctor. I wouldn't diagnose a hand problem...

...but I wouldn't go to a dentist or a chiropractor to do so either.

 

[Eilif]

we all have the right to believe what we believe in and use the medicine that we prefer ...

I prefer a naturopathic approach for myself

and my wife did the impossible by getting healed from cancer without drugs or surgery

Fair enough. You made good points in a previous post about there being good things coming from past medical traditions. Much in Medicine has come from myriad traditions and history.

I disagree though that we "threw them out". We simply tested them and the ones that were proven to work became medicine and the ones that did not prove efficacious became "alternative medicine".

 

[La Faro]

 

[dr doofie]

If it were phrased in your manor, I would not have responded. Unfortunately, the subject was painted with a fairly broad paint brush covered with mostly an untruth.

As for health insurance companies, as a veteran of 43 years dealing with health insurance, sales and service, for decades what was a covered expense was dictated to the State Insurance departments by the AMA.

The AMA-Pharmaceutical partnership has deep ties and an extremely beneficial relationship. The classic example is what is going on with Covid-19. You want to know what’s going on in healthcare, follow the money. Hydroxychloroquine as a palliative treatment was dismissed almost as soon the words first came out of Trumps mouth. It’s cheap and and available. Further studies are now showing in the correct dosage is effective. So far, the best solution offered by the AMA is a med regimen that requires hospitalization and $1,200 a dose.

What you have to understand is insurance is a payment mechanism to cover expenses you can’t afford to pay. The cost of the health insurance and what is covered is not determined by the insurance company, it is set by combination of state regulators on the advice of a panel of MDs and hospital administrators.

So... the insurance companies are just the pawns of some high level low profile docs and hospital bureaucrats calling all the shots? Makes as much sense as any other explanation I suppose... same end result being I can’t afford it

 

[dr doofie]

I understand that quite well. I have relatives with careers in the health insurance industry, numerous friends and acquaintances who are medical professionals, and my SO worked for most of her career in our state’s social services department.

And no, it is not determined solely by the insurance companies. But it is heavily influenced by their lobbying efforts and their negotiations with those contracting for coverage groups. It’s not a purely one-sided discussion with the service providers and government. Insurance companies have been very successful at capping what they need to pay out and what they’ll have to cover. They can also always walk away from a contract negotiation. Refusal to offer universal coverage, their ability to be allowed to retain pre-existing condition clauses, lifetime benefit maximums, restricted provider networks, employing primarily non-doctors to review and bless off on the initial determination of appropriateness of a service referral, restricted prescription formularies, etc.

The insurance industry is far from completely helpless in the face of negotiations with government agencies or the medical profession. Nor is it utterly innocent of any culpability for much of what goes on as far as eligibility and coverage of medical treatment goes.

I don’t see where there’s an untruth in saying the promotion of chiropractic alternatives over treatment by an orthopedic doctor, or a licensed physical therapist who works in cooperation and with the guidance of an orthopedic surgeon, os being done for any reason other than cost savings. Or why the insistence that therapeutic remedies be pursued first, and require that a person must first fail said therapy, before the medical treatment that was initially advised by a medical doctor be authorized.

With 43 years in the industry I’m sure you’d be aware of that.

As far as Trump goes I won’t discuss it because it will too easily stray into politics since the lines between politics and personal financial benefit have become do blurred as to now be impossible to keep separated. The success of some parties at turning everything into a political issue deserves full credit for that.

However, if you want to heed your own suggestion to follow the money (which is always a quick way of getting at the truth) take a look at who in the upper echelons of power either hold, or have recently taken, large stakes in various pharmaceutical companies. Interesting too how many also control or have a say in the doling out of Medicare and Medicaid payments. I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader

I’m worn out enough just picking through your post... I just assume the reasons behind anything and everything, no matter if philanthropic or nefarious, is always the almighty dollar.

 

[40Hz]

I’m worn out enough just picking through your post... I just assume the reasons behind anything and everything, no matter if philanthropic or nefarious, is always the almighty dollar.

Sorry I was so fatiguing. It’s a tiresome topic.

And yes. Money may not be everything. But it is often a rationale for otherwise hard to fathom behavior. No argument there.

 

[CJAZ]

Here's a chiropractor for you.

Now someone please shut this thread down.

 

[Ellery]

I had a fretting finger lock up once. It was numb and tingly and I couldn't move it, and the problem did not go away. I sought medical attention and the problem was relieved over time by seeing a specialist. Bonus: gave me a graceful exit from a lame cover band I wanted out of!
P.S. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR

 

[BassBrass]

for thousands of years the human race has been using plants, herbs, and natural medicines ... somehow in the 20th century we threw all of that out the window for drugs made in a laboratory.

My wife used an herb used by American Indians to remove skin cancer. I used the plant paradox diet, and the bulletproof diet, and natural supplements to reverse Rheumatoid Arthritis. I also go to medical doctors for some things. I will take the best of what each has to offer. My wife and I both did what the medical doctors said was impossible.

I also believe in a spiritual aspect in healing, but I won't go into that because the moderators will then have to close the thread.

Well you know down in the S America jungle somewhere there's a tribe that has an initiation rite for 8 yo boys, they sew on a mitten of Bees stinger side down, and these bees are much more painful than anything we got here...the children hover around consciousness and usually recover, but they are protected from cancer and many other diseases including arthritis as a result. At least that's the story. I know a gentleman who has arthritis and has to have an infusion every 6 months of a medicine that to me would be the equivalent of the mitten of bees, but leaves him pain free for about 4 months. There are still people in labs and crawling around jungles looking for insect snake and frog venoms and herbal tinctures of tribal healers to use in modern medicine.

 

[La Faro]

A friend of mine had a chronic bad back, tried hydrotherapy. Died of dihydrogen monoxide inhalation.