UPBEAT TIMES • March 2015 • 9 BALANCING OUR HEALTH “KNEE TALK”


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Perhaps you’ve had the experience of moving the wrong way or sleep- ing in an awkward position, only


to end up


with a new pain. I once twisted my knee stepping out of my car, creat- ing discomfort for several weeks. When our body is ‘accidentally’ thrown off bal- ance, or when our weight is more than ideal, our skeletal frame eventually gets lit- erally ‘bent out of shape.’ Just like a car’s frame, our physical frame becomes distorted. Eventually this dis- tortion can generate pain which seems to come out of nowhere. If you have ever injured a knee, you know how important knees are! Yet it seems that as long as our bodies are function-


by John Van Dorp ~ john@completebodybalance.com


ing well enough, we focus our attention elsewhere. Injuries, like a cry babies, force us to pay attention and bring up two questions: How did I manifest this pain? And what can I do to fi x it? When someone tells me their knee is hurting, my ‘problem solver’ instinct suggests they get off their feet and take a break. That’s


not so easy for us to do. I also add the importance of looking for connections between our pain and our lifestyle.


Three years ago I suggested a client make the connection between the pain in her knees and her extra weight. For every pound she was over-weight, I


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told her, she needed to multi- ply by 3 to calculate the extra weight she was placing on her knees. This extra weight in- creases the force on the knee cartilage, causing it to wear down more quickly.


She called recently to say she had taken my suggestion, lost the weight, and that her knee pain had all but disappeared. Once she made the connection between her excess weight and the pain in her knees, she had a choice.


Simple changes can often


make a huge difference in how you feel and the extent to which you enjoy life. The change this client made not only reduced her pain, it saved her knees. You, too, can enhance your


overall health and keep your body running at its optimum by drawing parallels between your pain and your life style— then following through with the changes you believe will help you. Contact # on page 13.


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Albert Einstein Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 4


The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.


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fi rst of her legendary “Peter Rabbit” children’s stories in 1902.


In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.


The word “nerd” was fi rst coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I Ran the Zoo.”


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