Got me out of wheelchair

Mel Svorinic, my physical therapist, had no idea how he changed not only my life, but those of many others. The physical therapy maneuver that he did on me allowed me to walk with minimal knee pain, but only lasted for less than an hour.  It was invented by Dr. Brian Mulligan, a New Zealand physical therapist.

​Dr. Mulligan's theory is that joints are meant to be in motion and that the bones need to be aligned so as not to damage themselves during motion.  The knee maneuver for side to side instability is Mulligan Mobilisation with Movement Glide - you glide the bones back where they belong.  (Mobilization is spelled with s in New Zealand).  Mel used a lot of force and it did hurt to do the maneuver, but I could walk!

​When the bones scrape over each other as when they are not aligned, they damage each other which causes the body to "think there is a foreign invader ".  This results in white blood cells attacking the edge of the bone scraping the other bone.  As a result the attacking bone is slowly dissolved away.

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