Its interesting to me why things hurt or don't heal over time.

I watch my 4+ month old get a scratch and hour later its gone. Where as if I had the same severity of a scratch it would probably take a couple days at least.

I think, as children, we learn the value of holding on to pain, it often gets us attention.

There is a MA system called Systema. I do not know lots about it. There is a class after one of mine at World Class Martial Arts and my friend who teaches MMA there has told me about it. One part of it is that you learn to let the blow pass through you and not tighten up and hold on to the energy. A large part of not holding on to the energy of a blow is mental and emotional. He told me stories, of him training, where at the end he whipped the instructor with no signs of injury (he'd been getting whipped in training and this was last day at a camp or something).

I am also curious about the process of healing in the body. From western science we know that the immune system kicks in and blood flow this and white cells that or what have you... What Western science doesn't know is how an why the body responds.

An interesting book I read (can look up title if anyone is interested) did experiments with DC electricity (very low levels). They found they could speed up and slow down healing (did a broken leg with a dog). They also found with salamanders that they could get the tail, when cut off, to not regrow using DC or stimulate it to grow in the wrong place using DC current.

Very interesting read.

This brings me to the meridians as mapped by the Chinese, the same one's used in acupuncture. They can be thought to be like veins that carry energy instead of blood and disruptions or blocks can occur. Meridians that run through your knee, for example, are not associated only with your knee and not only physical issues also. If there is a disruption with a meridian that goes through your knee and you have a knee injury (possibly weaker because..) the healing could be limited until the energy flows in the meridian are balanced and normalized.

Many things, including thoughts and emotions, can effect meridian flows.

In part I share this cause last week I had a client with some knee issue's. the knee had just started hurting, however (ask right questions) back in '72 (I think) she had a knee surgery.

She was open to this kind of thing and easily started to make links to things going on in her life then and also related stuff now. The old pain, starting to feel again, when some life situations are bringing up past situations that were stressful.

Lots happened with her knee that day (thought we were really focusing on something else)...

Consider this: split personality disorder Person 1, personality A may have diabetes, personality B in person 1 may not.

Person 2 may be near sighted in personality A and far sighted in personality B only.


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/21/Early-Childhood-Stress-Can-Have-a-Lingering-Effect-on-Your-Health.aspx

"In my experience with patients, the vast majority have medical problems related to previous emotional stress. And for the serious illnesses, most of the time, the trauma went all the way back to their childhood.

What was very consistent though is that nearly everyone was in denial that their previous emotional wounding could have any influence at all on their current health. They felt they had previously addressed that with therapists or prayer. While that is clearly possible, if they were seeing me for a continued medical problem, it was actually quite rare where the problem had been successfully addressed."

Knee
Chakra system of India
Root chakra related to safety, security, survival and tribal.
Today that generally means work, money, family. The learning lessons around the above issues are suppose to have happened 0-7 years old.

Many people, including Louise Hay I think, relate the knee's, metaphorically, to moving forward. Knee problems then would often be related to change and moving into a new stage of life.

In Chinese medicine the right side of the body is related to masculine energy and energy flows and the left to feminine energy and energy flows.

In my experience, in most knee cases, if the person is open and looks they can find mental/emotional stress close to the onset of the injury or pain appearing related to work, money, family or moving forward and usually, if a family member male if right knee and female if left.


This is simplified and a rough view from my opinion. My experience includes watching swelling in knees go down before my eyes after finding the related cause (knee holding fluid - got some results working on physical and wanted to go deeper I asked "if the fluid in your knees represented something, what might it be" - she guessed and we worked on an emotional thing being held on to and watch the swelling go down before our eyes).

In my opinion, if you want the best results with your knee, you approach it holistically from multiple directions.