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Veterans International Provincial Rehab Clinic

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At the Veterans International Provincial Rehab Clinic in Prey Veng – a handful of hours South of Phnom Penh (by bike) – I was able to get in front of a leper, and congenital amp, and a stroke victim. All of them complained of aggressive Phantom Limb Pain. It was a breakout session for me as these are all disabilities that are afflicted somewhat less with PLP. They all have mirrors now and have been at it for 2 weeks or so. They were busting to give it a try. Mirror Therapy is now being prescribed for maladies as diverse as arthritis and CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome). The message is in the mirror. By helping to re-ignite, re-map and re-locate tasks in the brain and by firing cleansing signals from one hemisphere to the other… the mirror is a key the size of a squash racquet… a key that will unlock and set free an awful lot of suffering. Visualize it!

My first leper

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Ms Mao

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Ms Mao givin’ it up. The guy in the blue shirt is a congenital amputee – he’s all messed up. But the maps in his brain, the maps that started forming long before he was even born, those maps don’t match his corporeal self. It’s a jarring disconnect that often results in acute neuropathic pain. Let’s hope he’s on his way to getting rid of it. You go brother.

THE YEAR OF THE HORSEPOWER

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As usual, the Chinese calendar is playing possum and only telling half the story.

More than ever before, people are up and rolling, with a motor attached. Whether it’s a Honda step-thru or a Tata Nano (the world’s cheapest car – which is dying a slow death because, it appears, no one wants to be associated with ‘The World’s Cheapest Car”) or a 150,000 dollar Range Rover… everybody onna move.

Blithely skirting around such issues as fossil fuel consumption, air toxicity and ‘greenhouse’ effect, in my world it just means carnage. Rage too, but I’ll get to that later. In Cambodia, where I am working right now, there are, on average, 5 deaths and 14 mutilations daily, courtesy of traffic accidents. Getting even closer to my milieu, most amputations in SE Asia now are the result of ‘moto’ (read: scooter) crashes. It’s mayhem out there. I’m treating lots and lots of moto accidents. (more…)