Great to hear you are feeling better! I'm reminded of a phrase I heard from an actual practitioner (something neither your physiotherapist nor your AI's were): "What the gym breaks, the gym fixes"
Such is the nature of complex adaptive systems like the human body.
Admittedly "The human expert wanted to psychoanalyze my butt." has to be one of the funniest sentences I've read all month. I really appreciate the article overall, not just for the humor, but for the reinforcement that it's OK not to yield to "expertise" because, frankly, we all have biases at some point. I respect the hell out of medical professionals, but I've also challenged them (pre-AI) to "dig deeper" when the assessments I was receiving didn't align with the experience I was living. It's admittedly a bit unnerving to be sitting in a doctor's exam room while watching your PCP pour over your results while consulting medicine interaction documents and hearing him half-whisper "*uck me" when the realization hit that all the tests and different things tried were useless, and the answer had been in the small print all the time.
Great to hear you are feeling better! I'm reminded of a phrase I heard from an actual practitioner (something neither your physiotherapist nor your AI's were): "What the gym breaks, the gym fixes"
Such is the nature of complex adaptive systems like the human body.
If you want to have a laugh at somebody who was both a doctor and a practitioner and found the same as you THE HARD WAY, read this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2021/09/29/how-defying-ones-boss-led-to-a-new-medical-discovery/
Indeed. I love such counterintuitive insights.
What a journey. That sounds incredibly frustrating. I am glad you are better.
It's so vital to stay attuned to our own lived experience and still allow experimentation, especially when “expert certainty” drowns out presence.
Admittedly "The human expert wanted to psychoanalyze my butt." has to be one of the funniest sentences I've read all month. I really appreciate the article overall, not just for the humor, but for the reinforcement that it's OK not to yield to "expertise" because, frankly, we all have biases at some point. I respect the hell out of medical professionals, but I've also challenged them (pre-AI) to "dig deeper" when the assessments I was receiving didn't align with the experience I was living. It's admittedly a bit unnerving to be sitting in a doctor's exam room while watching your PCP pour over your results while consulting medicine interaction documents and hearing him half-whisper "*uck me" when the realization hit that all the tests and different things tried were useless, and the answer had been in the small print all the time.
When your physiotherapist tries to be your psychotherapist, run!