The best knee brace for my damn osteoarthritis

I had pain in all my joints and many of my bones and my family practitioner told me it was early onset osteoarthritis. So I went to another physician. He said the exact same thing.

Fast forward a half dozen years or so, I got rolfed (for other reasons). Poof! No more arthritis. The rolfing was sufficiently painful that we joked that I’d just got all the suffering over with at once.

Several decades later, still no arthritis. The problem I had (which is not necessarily the problem other people have) was almost certainly accumulated blunt trauma damage, from multiple car wrecks, full contact combat sports, and just generally a lifetime of treating my body as disposable. It was not really osteoarthritis at all… but physicians could not tell the difference.

I’ve always wondered how many people are unnecessarily suffering because they believe unquestioningly in mainstream corporate medicine, and aren’t willing to experiment with alternative therapies. I mean sure, some folks are going to have intractable conditions, but if they never try any experiments (like acupuncture or rolfing or whatever goofy thing the California crystal people are doing now) how can they possibly know?