This is comforting. Thank you for this post, which for me is so timely. I have been practicing RIC every other day for a while now. I expect to have orthopedic surgery next year. Frankly it terrifies me, but other choices have fallen by the wayside. While it is unlikely I could do RIC immediately after surgery, as a short hospital stay will happen, I imagine I can do it when returning home. The recovery period for this is fairly long while bone and tissue heal.
Consider getting Vitamin C and/or Myers Cocktails IVs before surgery, and Vitamin C IVs after. My wife did so before her hip replacement. She was the first person off pain meds (well ahead of the others) and she healed far faster than the others. It should be part of Standard of Care, but it isn't.
It may be possible to achieve the same effect at home with Vitamin C. For instance, taking one gram of Vitamin C per hour gets you 16 grams per day. Doing that for a few days before and after surgery might confer many of the same benefits as IV C.
Thank you for this. Here's another helpful resource from Twig Wheeler who is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner (SE). He wrote this resource from an SE perspective: https://www.liberationispossible.org/xtras/pdfs/suggestions-for-pre-and-post-surgical-events-web.pdf
This is comforting. Thank you for this post, which for me is so timely. I have been practicing RIC every other day for a while now. I expect to have orthopedic surgery next year. Frankly it terrifies me, but other choices have fallen by the wayside. While it is unlikely I could do RIC immediately after surgery, as a short hospital stay will happen, I imagine I can do it when returning home. The recovery period for this is fairly long while bone and tissue heal.
Make sure you're up on three other things. Vitamin D, magnesium, and boron.
Consider getting Vitamin C and/or Myers Cocktails IVs before surgery, and Vitamin C IVs after. My wife did so before her hip replacement. She was the first person off pain meds (well ahead of the others) and she healed far faster than the others. It should be part of Standard of Care, but it isn't.
It may be possible to achieve the same effect at home with Vitamin C. For instance, taking one gram of Vitamin C per hour gets you 16 grams per day. Doing that for a few days before and after surgery might confer many of the same benefits as IV C.
My doctor will give those. I will. Thanks.