| t to stay alive! | | | | ‘treatment’. Such that I use a walking |
| Do you? | | | | stick to help. |
| Mugging! Rape! Hooligans! Yobs! | | | | A walking stick? Now, there’s something |
| Cholesterol! Circulation! Diabetes! Progressive Joint | | | | … |
| stiffness! Family genetic factors! | | | | I am not an exercise freak. I positively hate running. I |
| You name it! | | | | refuse to (try to) develop bulging muscles. Cycling |
| Few diseases of developing age can be prevented. | | | | can be even more dangerous than heart attacks |
| But many – so many indeed – can be | | | | (traffic!!). Keep fit routines? Well, perhaps, but not for |
| modified and risks so much reduced. | | | | me, thank you. |
| There are many lines to follow. Above all - the focus | | | | But that walking stick … |
| of this article - spinal integrity. The organs all get | | | | As a fanatical martial artist since the age of fourteen, |
| what we could call their ”electric energy | | | | I have practised three hours every night for years. |
| supply” from the spinal nerves. | | | | Non-stop, fully committed. I remember being in tears |
| “Electric wires” coming out from | | | | in the dojo (gym) when everyone else was going |
| between the vertebrae (and skull indeed) to optimise | | | | home and there was no one left to struggle with. I |
| and invigorate all the viscera: heart, gall bladder, | | | | mean that, I really do. |
| pancreas, ‘liver and lights!’. Everything. | | | | Ah, that walking stick … |
| Not to mention those circulatory pumps, the muscles. | | | | Now in my seventies I get an hour’s (and |
| Do you want to stay alive? Then keep your vital | | | | more) exercise every night when walking Tyson, my |
| nerve supply in tune and functioning to the best level | | | | Staffordshire Bull Terrier. With my walking stick. |
| possible. This is the realm of the Osteopath. His job is | | | | Practising and exercising sutekki-shin-jutsu techniques |
| to maintain spinal integrity, freeing and re-aligning | | | | – walking stick self defence methods. In sets |
| those small but so-vital facet joints. Minimising the | | | | of ten vigorous stick actions at a time. Invigorating! |
| ‘electrical shortings’ which so often | | | | Enjoyable! Motivating! But so highly practical! |
| affect the out-going nerves. A regular, routine | | | | Good for my heart. Good for my stamina. Good for |
| preventive three-monthly visit can make such an | | | | my personal exercise satisfaction. But – |
| amazing difference. I know, I’ve been doing it | | | | hopefully – not good for a would-be mugger |
| for forty years. | | | | … |
| You service your car? Of course. But do you service | | | | SO good for my street survival. |
| your spinal nerves? I wonder! Think on it! | | | | The walking stick is a most effective – and |
| I personally prefer osteopathy to chiropractic, | | | | perfectly legal – weapon for self defence in |
| although I am trained in both. In general osteopathy | | | | these troubled times when no one knows just who |
| uses gentler, safer methods compared to | | | | might be around that corner! Perhaps no one – |
| chiropractic, which can be much more forceful. | | | | perhaps. But can you be sure? |
| Indeed, I have two partially paralysed legs as a direct | | | | I commend sutekki-shin-jutsu to you. |
| result of such over-enthusiastic chiropractic | | | | |