A Very Brilliant Man

I am not refering to the author of this rather slow moving blog, but a man named Richard Bourassa.

After getting stuck with a less than brilliant, less than expreienced physio (like requested) to hold me over while the hospital staff has vacation staff, i personally called this man, who owns Bourassa and Associates. Physio. He intended to see me once and refer me to one of his people, but after working on me, said he is not giving this to anyone, he wants to see it to the end himself. Last night he tried stuff with weights, pullies, cables, straps, etc. to tire the muscles out that resist his work on my elbow, then he went to work. Wow, He got so much movement, he would come and check on me, and get ready to start working, and found the arm fully stretched out, then he would switch to flexion. After a little prep on that, he got great movement, then back teh other way, and then wanted to end in flexion. he set his pullies up, started to hook me up, and looked confused. He said 'look at the bend in your elbow after going fully sttraight'...I looked, and there was almost nothing left to gain. It was bent (not as much as you normal people) but functional. He sent me home, said see you wednesday. (late in evening, as he normally does not ahv etime for cases as involved as mine while runnign 3 clinics.)

We stll have a tonne of work to do on elbow, and a long road ahead, but it felt better than in last year and half, last night. ( by better, I mean that he made me almost cry, lots, but it worked,)