🌱🌀 TAICHI PA’ LA VIDA REAL 🌀🌱

Uno se mete a ver un videíto inocente de Taichi creyendo que es mover los brazos como una antena parabólica… y ¡zas! WebMed te recibe con la revelación: “Las piernas mandan aquí, no el ego.” Así que prepárate para meditar y sudar sin show. 💦🧘‍♂️

Arrancamos suavecito con el calentamiento zen, que básicamente consiste en sacudir los hombros como si estuvieras diciendo “no fui yo” 🙆‍♂️ mientras respiras profundo pa’ que el alma vuelva al cuerpo. Los chinos dirían “chi en movimiento”; nosotros diríamos “botando la mala vibra pa’l piso” 😌✨.

Ahora, ojo a las posturas:

🏹 Postura del Arquero

Es como decirle al universo: “te apunto con intención, pero no me disminuyas la presión arterial”. Pierna adelante, otra atrás, cintura en modo “tapa de frasco” 🫙, columna digna. Sensación oficial: “Ay, carajo… sí trabaja.” 😅

🐎 Postura del Jinete

Párese ancho, baje la cadera… y sienta que las piernas le empiezan a hablar en lenguas antiguas. Esta postura alinea, estabiliza… y te recuerda que hace rato que no has hecho sentadillas. 💪🫠

🪶 Postura Vacía

Todo el peso en una sola pierna, la otra apenas saludando el suelo. Perfecta para mejorar el equilibrio y practicar la filosofía del “no me caigo, no me caigo, ¡yo puedo!” 🤸‍♂️

Luego vienen los brazos, que se mueven como si ofrecieras tu corazón al universo ❤️🌍… y el universo te respondiera: “Muy bonito, pero flexiona la rodilla”. Y bueno, uno obedece.

Finalmente, la relajación: sacudidita sabrosa, sonrisa obligatoria 😄 y esa sensación rica de “esto me hacía falta”.

Hacemos Taichí para relajarnos… pero, entre postura y postura, descubrimos músculos que teníamos archivados desde el 98 📂💀. Aun así, funciona. Calma, equilibra, fortalece y te reduce el martilleo mental.

Hágalo suave, hágalo diario, hágalo sonriendo. El cuerpo también agradece la paciencia… y el humor. Así se cultiva la salud… igualito que la espinaca hidropónica, pero sin bomba de agua 🌿😄

🧘‍♂️💚 Y antes de que cierres este viaje entre Taichí, agricultura vertical y buena vibra, déjame dejarte este detallito práctico para que no te pierdas la joya del movimiento consciente: Si vas a ver el video de WebMed que mencionamos, aquí lo tienes: 👉https://youtu.be/z-67xARlGmE?si=GrQ0QFA-ss4BxrTb 🎥 🧘‍♂️

Cuando lo abras, fija’té bien en la parte derecha de la pantalla: aparece un piñoncito ⚙️ —ese que uno solo toca cuando algo no está funcionando, pero esta vez sí sirve 😄. Púlsalo con calma 🫳✨, baja despacito entre las opciones ⬇️ y buscá el recuadro que dice “cc”, “subtítulo” o “audio track” 🎧📝. Elegí tu idioma 🌎 ➡️ ❤️, actívalo… y deja que el Taichi te hable clarito, sin necesidad de traducir mentalmente como si estuvieras en la ONU 🧠🎤.

Así todo se siente más ligero, más tuyo, más conectado 🧘‍♀️🌿. El movimiento consciente siempre se disfruta más cuando la información llega en el idioma del corazón 💛✨.

Si no te convence, inténtalo tres días… y me cuentas si tus piernas no te mandan una notificación “push” 😆📩

— Equipo Sendero Saludable 💚

Luis   Galo “Fhercho” http://bit.ly/CHIRIBOGA 🔑 😎

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THE ATHLETE'S PAIN

As Sports Medicine Surges, Hope and Hype Outpace Proven Treatments
By GINA KOLATA

Published: September 4, 2011

Until she tore her hamstring a year and a half ago, Tina Basle ran marathons. Since then, she has been on a desperate search for a cure.

It took her from doctor to doctor, cost her thousands of dollars and led her to try nearly everything sports medicine has to offer — an M.R.I. to show the extent of the injury, physical therapythat included ultrasound and laser therapy, strength training, an injection of platelet-rich plasma (or P.R.P.), a cortisone shot, another cortisone shot.

Finally, in February, she gave up.

“I decided this is never going to heal, so let’s get on with it,” she said.

And so Ms. Basle, a 44-year-old digital media consultant who lives in Manhattan, started running anyway. She has lost a lot of speed and endurance. And, she added, “the stupid hamstring is really no better.”

Medical experts say her tale of multiple futile treatments is all too familiar and points to growing problems in sports medicine, a medical subspecialty that has been experiencing explosive growth. Part of the field’s popularity, among patients and doctors alike, stems from the fact that celebrity athletes, desperate to get back to playing after an injury, have been trying unproven treatments, giving the procedures a sort of star appeal.

But now researchers are questioning many of the procedures, including new ones that often have no rigorous studies to back them up. “Everyone wants to get into sports medicine,” said Dr. James Andrews, a sports medicine orthopedist in Gulf Breeze, Fla., and president-elect of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

Doctors love the specialty and can join it with as little as a year of training after their residency, as compared with the more typical two to four years for other specialty training. They see a large group of patients eager for treatment, ranging from competitive athletes to casual exercisers to retirees spending their time on the golf course or tennis court.

The problem is that most sports injuries, including tears of the hamstring ligament like Ms. Basle’s, have no established treatments.

Of course, some remedies for certain injuries do work: putting a cast on a broken bone or operating to repair a torn Achilles tendon. But patients whose injuries have no effective treatment often do not know that medicine has nothing to offer. And many expect cures.

“They watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and think we can do anything,” said Dr. Raymond Monto, a sports medicine orthopedist in West Tisbury, Mass. “And to a certain extent, we allow that.”

Added to that is the effect of sports stars and their doctors. Patients “see a high-profile athlete and say, ‘I want you to do it exactly the same way their doctor did it,’ ” said Dr. Edward McDevitt, an orthopedist in Arnold, Md., who specializes in sports medicine.

The result is therapies that are unproven, possibly worthless or even harmful. There is surgery, like a popular operation that shaves the hip bone to prevent arthritis, that may not work. There are treatments, like steroid injections for injured tendons or taping a sprained ankle, that can slow the healing process. And there are fads, like one of Ms. Basle’s treatments, P.R.P., that soar in popularity while experts debate whether they help.

All this leads Dr. Andrew Green, a shoulder orthopedist at Brown University, to

ask, “Is sports medicine a science, something that really pays attention to 

evidence? Or is it a boutique industry where you have a product and sell it?”

“For a lot of people it is a boutique business,” he said. “But are you still a doctor if you do that?” Continue reading > http://nyti.ms/nbhqwj