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Ironman 2007 Feedback

From Mary Mitchell

Very belatedly, I want to thank you again for the work you did with me both pre and post event. I am absolutely sure it contributed to my PB, with the most improvement showing in the run leg. I pulled up extremely well from the event, with just some stiffness which steadily ameliorated over the next 3 days. In fact, I had my best ever recovery from an ironman event. I have attached a photo of me at the finish line which shows I was still running and smiling - I was stoked to be able to finish before the pom pom girls bedtime.

Sadly I will not be able to catch up with you at IMWA in 2008. In a stroke of extraordinary good luck I was given a lottery spot to the Hawaii Ironman on 11 October. Competing there will be the realisation of a 20 year dream. I then go on to compete in the World 70.3 event in Florida on 9 November (half ironman distance) - I qualified and accepted that slot in February before I got the Hawaii news - so it will be a big 4 weeks.

Anyway I hope you have a great race week and I will check your website to see your results.

From Robin Frankland of South Africa

Hi Arthur,

Thanks for the treatment you gave me in Busselton. As you have already noted on your website, I went an hour quicker than my previous PB which is a phenomenal improvement, especially when you get around the 9 hour mark.

I have written a report on my own website with a link to you. www.tricape.com

Once again thank you, when I am next in WA I will certainly look you up.

Regards,

Robin

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I'd love to get more feedback from people, in your words. Below I have described some of the experiences I have had, but they are my words. Posting emails from you would be a great help to me to improve my services. Send me your feedback

My experiences with clients and Client Feedback

I guess the best recommendation I have in writing is one recently received from the Rockingham Rugby Union Football Club. After three winters working there I announced that my intention to work in Broome next winter. Soon after I received an emailled Letter of Appreciation from the club president, Ash Sewell.

On one of the rare occasions of the winter of 2007 that I was able to work at the beach on Sunday, a chap came up to offer feedback. I have a golden rule to focus on the client I am working on and so couldn't give him the attention he deserved, as I was working on a lady down from Perth for the day. However he said that he had come to me a couple of months previously with hip and knee aches and pain and sciatic nerve pain as well. Since I worked on him he hadn't had the slightest trouble with it. Why tell me I thought? Tell all your friends instead! lol Seriously, it is nice to get feedback like that.

I have a current client who had a brain haemorrhage and an operation to stop the bleeding. As a result of the increased pressure inside the head and sloshing around the brain, she couldn't smell, couldn't hear and could hardly see, and had crushing headaches. The specialists advised that it would take two to three months for the senses to recover, if indeed they were to recover fully. I am pleased to advise that after about six sessions of craniosacral therapy over a ten day period that the senses were fully recovered and the headaches reduced to feelings of pressure rather than pain. This is a testimonial for the tools that I use, namely craniosacral therapy.

I had another interesting experience with the same client. After a bout of flu she had difficulty breathing. I performed my Pecs, Posture and Breathing routine that I offer at the beach. This finishes with a rushing in of air into the lungs, which I progressively starve of air to force clients to breathe deeper. At the next visit she reported that, since stopping smoking 20 years previously, her lungs had still felt clogged up. Several hours after the Pecs, Posture and Breathing routine she had coughed up a lot of nasty stuff and now feels she is breathing way better than for many a year!

Client three was a new client with a whole history of problems going back twenty years since childhood. Halfway through the treatment I asked if she had headaches. Only every day for the last twenty years! Funny how you get so used to pain that you block it out and forget it is there. I spent a few minutes craniosacral therapy. At the next session the client reported that the headaches had ceased.

A client coming to me for another reason reported that she had had a problematic neck and shoulder problem twice. The first time, her sister, a physiotherapist, required three sessions over a week to get a result. When she came to me at the beach with the same issue, I was able to resolve the problem on the spot without it recurring!

Organs can cause pain too! A client recently came to me with a back problem I could not help with. A trip to the doctor diagnosed an inflamed kidney, with possibly a bladder infection which required the client to urinate up to twenty times a day. As part of my Myopractic training (based largely on Bowen techniques) I learned some techniques to deal with organs such as liver, spleen, gallbladder, kidneys and bladder. This was the first time I used them in live action, but the kidney pain had subsided by the end of the session, and a phone call found that the urinary frequency and urgency had stopped!

Another success was with a rugby player. On holiday in New Zealand he had been spiked in his hand by a fish whilst snorkelling. The septic infection almost killed him on the flight back and he was rushed to hospital where he was for a month, having several operations. His hand had to be reconstructed with muscles taken from elsewhere in the forearm. The whole thing was a mess and he had very little movement in the fingers and could not make a fist. It took six months of regular remedial massage work to get his grip back, but he was then able to resume work and play rugby. What is amazing is that some practitioners could have a lifelong career without encountering anything like it. This experience came to me whilst I was still studying for my Diploma of Remedial massage!

If I have been able to be of assistance with any of your injuries and you'd like to describe the experience, you can email it and I'll post it here. Please indicate if you want to include your name or be anonymous. I am hopeful of starting something like a Guestbook. I am also particularly interested to hear from Ironman athletes around the world! Provide feedback

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