Posts Tagged ‘Osteopathy’
Vilela Difference
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Sharon Fidgeon was plagued with backache for decades and thought she was doomed to a life of pain. Then a new treatment changed everything, says Andrea Smith.
When glamorous social worker Sharon Fidgeon was 13, she received a playful kick in the backside during a pillow fight that was to have repercussions for the next 20 years. Having suffered with recurrent back pain, Sharon was also dogged with chronic tiredness, and she was feeling pretty miserable until a diagnostic technique known as medical thermography was able to pinpoint the exact cause of her health problems and set her on the road to recovery.
Now aged 34, and mother to pretty eight-year-old leah, Sharon recalls how the childhood prank was the first of three injuries to her back. “My coccyx [tailbone] was injured and I was in a lot of pain at times, with numbness down my legs,” she recalls. “It was when I went to college at the age of 18 that it really began to bother me, and my mother was at me to have the problem sorted out.” (more…)