10 January 2008
Bio-freeze … where have you been all my life?
Posted by Julie Hurley under: Julie Hurley .
So I woke up yesterday morning with an extremely sore/stiff neck. All I wanted to do was crawl back under the covers with a heating pad (or an ice pack? I can never remember which is better for certain ailments). I went about my day, trying to ignore it as best I could. I was really really looking forward to my chiropractic adjustment later that day.
Does being 30 automatically cause one’s body to start freaking out on them?
Anyway, during my adjustment at Natural Choice Chiropractic, the doc said that I was “extra crunchy” and that I was a particularly difficult adjustment for him that day. He actually had to distract me while taking care of an issue at the very base of my skull. I didn’t even know that part of me could be cracked. He rubbed some Bi0-freeze on my neck, and also on a very tender/tight spot on my lower back and sent me on my way.
I felt the tingles from the blue goo all through my five minutes of traction and while I was paying (and for another couple of hours after I got home). I bought a tube of it myself. After my eight miles last Saturday, I KNOW I’m going to need it.
I know that I’m probably the only dope who hasn’t heard of this stuff, so if I sound like a commercial, I’m really not trying to be like that. I’m sure there are other dope beginning runners who haven’t heard of it either, and just wanted to share!
I’m looking forward to the Craig’s Cruisers event tonight!! Coach Mike challenged us to a pizza-eating contest. Do you see what sort of role models we have to look up to?! 
2 Comments so far...
ernesto Says:
19 January 2008 at 9:08 am.
Thanks for the tip. I have never heard of it but being 48, I am sure I will need it.
catty closet Says:
20 February 2008 at 8:23 pm.
I’m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets — Dave Edison
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you — A Whitney Brown
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious — Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.