Okay, I'm actually getting ahead of my doctor here, because my follow-up check-up is going to be after I finish 6 sessions of therapy.
I went for x-ray and my first therapy session last Tuesday -- both covered by the HMO! woohooo! -- and got the x-ray results when I came for my second therapy session last Thursday.
I decided to read what the radiologist's finding were, knowing I can always ask Google to help me understand.
First paragraph said stuff like "no indication of" followed by words of more than four syllables, ending with -osis, but as there were "no indication" of them, I went ahead and read the second paragraph.
That's where I saw it: cervical lordosis.
So I decided to look it up, and found a very nice, non-technical explanation on wisegeek.com:
"Cervical lordosis is a curve in the cervical spine, the area of the spine which contains the neck vertebrae. This curve is entirely normal and in fact desirable because it helps to stabilize the head and spine, but when the curve straightens out, becomes too deep, or faces in the wrong direction, it can become a problem." (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cervical-lordosis.htm)
There's a very good image of the correct spine in spineuniverse.com, including an explanation of how the curves in our spines develop as we grow.
The paper with my x-ray says that my cervical lordosis was straight.
All those years of bad posture -- I remember even as a little girl walking with my head bowed down, counting my steps and leaping over the cracks in the sidewalks. In highschool, some of the other kids said I came across as aloof, ironically because I never looked at people while walking, always keeping my head slightly bent forward, looking at the ground 5-10 steps ahead.
I thought that meant "insecure" not "aloof"...go figure.
They kept telling me to straighten my back...when I guess what was more needed was for me to lift my head. Oh well.
Hmmm...I guess these bible verses address my condition and cure best:
Psalm 42:11 from the New King James Version of the bible:
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
I like Young's Literal Translation:
What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
And then there's Psalm 3:3, also from the NKJV
But You, O LORD, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
