Muscular Trauma, Disability, Homelessness and Early Death

In 2005, The San Francisco Chronicle told the story of Maria King, who was kicked to death in Berkeley.

This poor woman "tried to move a desk in her office". Big mistake.

"The resultant back injury would precipitate her long slide into despair. Surgeons fused her bottom three vertebrae, but it only made the pain worse." She eventually could not hold a job or afford an apartment and she became homeless.

I'm not sure what injury Miss King suffered, but clearly the system failed here. Not the first story of surgery making a problem worse and not the last either.

A fellow that used to cut my hair had terrible back pain and saw many doctors. I remember the day he told me he was to have surgery on his back. He would be away from work for awhile. He never came back as far as I know. The pain became much worse.

Which makes the mission of this blog all the more important. The average person seemly does not have the resources to solve this problem and the medical community is falling short.

We need technology that will the nature of muscular dysfunction and its solutions clear. And its my self-appointed task to get people thinking about whats really going on with our muscles.