Denlinger’s Discovery™ Blog

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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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