Sunday, September 7, 2008

My first and theoretically only visit

So on Sept 6, 2008 I visited Troy Roper III

His place of business is in the basement of a beauty Solon. Solon 247. The 247 being 247 W the address on 900 East. I walked past all these ladies in different rooms, I wasn't sure where I was going but Troy say me coming and met me at the entrance to the basement.

They've fixed the basement up very nicely and they have several rooms for treating people. I say they because his wife Dawn works with him. She is a massage therapist and an intuitive. Whereas Troy does his Atlas Profilax treatments and Pain Neutralization technique. I exchanged emails with Dawn a few weeks earlier and I met her in person that morning as she was suiting up in her cycling attire to go visit her horse who needed some help. She wanted to take their senar to give it a treatment and Troy suggested using 24mh on the horse. I parked just in front of her motorcycle on the side of the building as the few parking stalls in front were taken.

I filled out the patient information sheet while Troy and Dawn were discussing their day. Name, address the usual, what symptoms I had, what do I expect to gain from this visit. I thought it was a fairly simple but effective form. I hate filling out doctors and chiropractors forms.

Troy had me sit in a wicker chair, probably chosen because it would make you sit up straight. He felt around my neck to see what condition I was in. Turn your head all the way to the right, then to the left, all the way forward, then back. Turn your head to the right and stop when you feel the slightest resistence, same to the left etc. He had me lay on the massage table to check out my leg length. The back to the wicker chair for a final look feel.

The the treatment started. Fairly strange. Way non-clinical. More massagy than clinical. Way non-chiropratic. Troy used a vibrating wand of some sort. When I take my wife to have her profilaxed I'll ask more about the magic wand.

I was told to sit on the very edge of the wicker chair very straight back. He explained he was going to step between my legs with his right foot and place my forehead on his chest. This was to put me in a position so he could work on the muscles on the back of my neck. It felt weird and kinda personal but done very professionally.

From the exam he knew where the massage needed to be done. He worked on the same muscle and areas that I have been self-massageing for years. He pushed this vibrating wand into my neck to release the muscles. It wouldn't have been so bad but I needed a hair cut and I had a lot of little hairs that were in the way. In fact it hurt a bit as he pushed the wand, it was pulling the hairs. That hurt a lot more than the massage the mucles. That's a totally different pain which I'm quite used to and was expecting, that type of pain I actually like. But dispite the hair pain I could tell that he was addressing the very problem that I knew would place my Atlas properly. I knew at that time that the Atlas would be put into position. Troy had to work on me from another angle and then the wand had done it's work. He had me lay on the massage table and rest for about 5 min.

We then went back to the left, right, forward and backward movement. There was a lot more freedom and movement which I totally expected, that was not a surprise. I've felt the same after treatments with chiropractors and massages. The movement to the left wasn't as clean as to the right and I told me so. He went after another group of muscles which cleared the left turn. Then he had me lay on the massage table again and check the leg length again which of course was equal. He then did some of his pain neuturalization technique on me. He felt along my spine, and shoulders finding tender spots which he neutralized.

I did the walk down the hallway and back again also similar to chiropractors and I was finished.

Way weird because it was way different than I expected.

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