As my campaign to stave off a mid life crisis gathers pace, I\u00a0set a goal of \u00a0running a\u00a010K\u00a0as fast as I did 20 years ago.\u00a0A few months in and my enthusiasm for training resulted in my left knee suddenly swelling to\u00a0something approximating double its normal size overnight.\u00a0 I could barely walk, was in severe pain,\u00a0\u00a0and was generally miserable. ( It was even \u00a0alleged that I had “man flu of the knee” by some of my less sympathetic friends!\u00a0)<\/p>\n
This sudden and unexpected problem made me really quite miserable and to be honest\u00a0I found the voyage into the unknown world of knee pain quite stressful too.<\/p>\n
What happened next is the interesting bit, I had a couple of visits with the lovely team at Physis in Edinburgh where<\/p>\n
Interestingly though\u00a0I felt much better as soon as I knew the facts of the situation.<\/p>\n
The thing that struck me were the similarities of what I experienced with someone who suffers from dental fear.\u00a0 I had an internal dialogue ongoing\u00a0 throughout the whole episode. I had a FEAR that something was seriously wrong with me and a \u00a0fear\u00a0of something bad happening in the future. \u00a0My wife insists that being a man ( and thus unable to tolerate pain or physical discomfort)\u00a0made me contemplate the possibility that <\/p>\n
Of course all of these thoughts were based on no facts just my observations of the situation as well as my fear of the UNKNOWN.\u00a0 The truth is \u00a0I felt bad, and in the absence of an appropriately trained person to help me, my though process ran riot and created a host of unpleasant futures for me and my knee ( which is now \u00a0by the way is healing very nicely thank you ) <\/p>\n
So what can we learn from this? <\/strong> I know for one that I am hugely grateful for the time that was spent with me allaying my fears and allowing me to achive the right frame of mind to get better. <\/p>\n Now after all this I still don’t know a huge amount about knees, so if that is where your trouble lies please seek out a good physiotherapist!\u00a0\u00a0Equally when it comes to dental fear why not take\u00a0the most difficult step which is always the first one.\u00a0\u00a0The step can be small and need not even involve speaking to a dentist if you don’t want to, \u00a0it can be as simple as\u00a0 watching a video<\/a>, reading the experiences of other nervous patients<\/a>, or by\u00a0 taking the 7 day beat your fear course<\/a><\/p>\n Equally why not \u00a0get in touch with someone who can help you to tame your dental fear.\u00a0 You can begin by, contacting a sympathetic dentist by telephone,\u00a0\u00a0or just dropping us an e-mail at the practice.\u00a0 Whether you stay locally or not\u00a0we’d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As my campaign to stave off a mid life crisis gathers pace, I\u00a0set a goal of \u00a0running a\u00a010K\u00a0as fast as I did 20 years ago.\u00a0A few months in and my enthusiasm for training resulted in my left knee suddenly swelling to\u00a0something approximating double its normal size overnight.\u00a0 I could barely walk, was in severe pain,\u00a0\u00a0and … Continue reading Taming The Fear; a dentists tale….<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigentinny.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Being afraid\u00a0 \/ stressed is a natural part of any problem that relates to our health
Given the chance our\u00a0subconscious \u00a0will run riot with a host of grim scenarios
The problem may take some effort on our part but can be easier to resolve than we realised
With professional help and understanding the road to recovery can start much faster than you think<\/p>\n