Denlinger’s Discovery™ Blog

The next major step (pun not intended) of Denlinger’s Discovery™ was due to foot pain. I had developed an ingrown toe nail on the big toe of my right foot. It apparently was due to shoes which were too tight in the toe, squeezing the side of the toe nail, forcing the edge of the nail to curve around and cut into the flesh. The continually tight shoes forced the nail even deeper into the flesh.

Then I discovered Earth Shoes. They had a big toe which relieved the pressure on my ingrown toe nail. That was a great relief. As a side note, Earth Shoes are no longer made.

But, there was another problem! Those lovely/terrible Earth Shoes had a bump on the inside of the sole, where the foot rests on the sole, just forward from the heel of the foot. Apparently that bump was there to force the foot to have a good arch. But, for me all it did was cause PAIN#%*&$%#!!! I read about and researched Earth Shoes. This was back in the late 1970s, before the Internet. I went to the library and read magazines. I found out that many people loved the Earth Shoes, but also that some hated them. Well, I was one of those who hated! Earth Shoes.

Here was where serendipity came in. I reasoned that if many people loved those Earth Shoes and that I hated them, then I was doing something wrong. So, I started looking for what I was doing wrong. I looked and looked. It took me three months of PAIN#%*&$%# while walking to discover what I was doing wrong. During that three months (as well as before and after) I was working in the Engineering Office of a General Motors factory and having to walk out on the factory floor several times a day to inspect projects. Some of those projects were in the planning stage and some were under construction. Those were very, very PAINFUL#%*&$%# days.

Well, eventually, as I already stated, I did discover what I was doing wrong. There was a particular muscle which makes the foot arch work which I was not using at all. I had to analyze how to use it correctly and how to use the other parts of the foot at the same time. So, it took another three months to get my foot arch to working and the pain on the soles of my feet to lessen. Then it took another year to get it to working so well that the pain was totally gone. During all this time I had to have constant attention on my feet to keep them working correctly. Finally, after another four! years I got my feet working correctly so well that it became a habit and I could forget about it.

All the details of exactly how to use the foot arch correctly and some of the possible problems along with the solutions I came up with are in my two books which are available at http://www.NeckBackFootPain.com and http://www.FootArch.com.

Hello!

I was in pain!!! That is how the discoveries started. One of the later discoveries came about because I had such terrible headaches that I couldn’t even hold down a job. More on that later.

The first discovery was rather simple and for me not terribly important. I had just bought a small motorcycle and was carrying it home in a crate. There were four of us; one carrying each corner of the crate. We lugged it in from the pickup truck to the paved space right outside the front door of my ground floor apartment at the rear of the building.

When the carrying was done I noticed that I had some pain in the top of my chest right under my neck, at the top of the breastbone. After my friends had left I took a look at the pain. I noticed that the pain was right where the collar bone attaches to the breastbone. In a snap I determined that the joint had been over-stretched due to the load I had been carrying. As at the time my job was doing drafting (mechanical drawing) at a big table in an architect’s office, I was not used to carrying heavy loads. So, I reasoned, the problem must be that I had not used my body right.

Next I noticed that I could use certain muscles to raise my shoulders up to my ears and that doing so would move my collar bone. Then I discovered that the pain was actually coming from a joint just under where the collar bone attaches to the breast bone - the place where the top rib attaches to the breast bone. That led to the real discovery: that the pain was caused by the shoulder not being raised, allowing the collar bone to rest on the top rib, forcing the joint where the rib attaches to the breast bone to bend.

 The handling was simple. Using the muscles which raise the shoulder up to the ears, keep the shoulder always raised just enough to keep the weight off the top rib.

Thus, I discovered the Shoulder Spring. Here is how it works. Raise the shoulders up to the ears. Identify the muscles which do that. Let those muscles relax totally so that the collar bone rests on the top rib. Then, using those muscles, raise the shoulder just enough so that the weight of the shoulders and arms does not rest on the top rib. Then, when carrying heavy weights, such as a crate loaded with a new  motorcycle, lift the shoulders even higher to allow a distance for the shoulders to bounce in case of a shock such as bumping into a wall.

This first time I applied my knowledge of engineering basics to the human body, I did it unknowingly. It just seemed to make good sense.

I made other discoveries about how engineering basics can be applied to the muscles and bones of the body to reduce pain, protect against damage and make it possible to carry heavier loads.

In this blog I will write more about the theory of Denlinger’s Discovery, how I developed different parts of it and what it has done to help me and others. To learn exactly how I used it on my own body you can get my books by going to www.NeckBackFootPain.com.

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