For years I accommodated more and more pain in my upper right back and shoulder. Last year the pain moved to the right arm and pectoral. By winter, my entire upper right torso was frozen, front and back, and I was experiencing pain in my hips from deeply contracted buttocks. The contraction was so great that I could move my right arm to the side only about two feet from my torso. I was forced to give up swimming, canoeing and skiing – favorite activities. I’d become partially disabled.
After months of unsuccessful treatment by another health provider, I had the good fortune to find George Swearington of the Clinic for Corrective Injuries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Over a period of six months, George has restored me to full mobility and health, bringing circulation and
flexibility to muscles that have been contracted like iron and effectively paralyzed. Because so many interrelated muscles have been involved, he has had to unpack the condition layer by layer, like untying the Gordian Knot, strand by strand.
That is what George has accomplished on a physical level, but that is really only half of the story. I am a survivor of severe, prolonged childhood trauma, including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse that lasted for years. At the age of 54 I still experience acute post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Because treating my physical condition has necessarily involved physical pain, which can trigger PTSD, I could not have endured this successfully if George had not been remarkably compassionate, patient, gentle, and skilled as a counselor with someone going through intense emotional manifestations as well as physical ones. George’s strong hands are kind hands. Because of that kindness and skill, I am now somewhat more healed emotionally (PTSD) as well as fully healed physically.
I believe that few people could have successfully healed my condition, with its intertwined physical and emotional intensities. George’s gift seems to me just short of miraculous, and I am profoundly grateful to him for what he has done for me.
-Eric Kolvig, PhD