JCnaturals

Usually when a child falls and gets a bump or bruise, what’s the first thing that you think of doing to help?  Grab an icepack, right?  A few years ago I learned that putting ice on the hurt area really doesn’t do much of anything (besides annoy the child!).  I discovered a very simple way to treat any injury like this.  When anyone in my family gets hurt, I immediately apply gentle pressure to the area for at least 5 minutes… until the pain subsides.   The kids have even begun to do this for themselves now.   When they were younger, and less likely to let me put pressure on an ow-ie, I would even just brush over the top of the bump or cup my hand over and around it.

Just last week at market, the side of Jaden’s little finger got stuck in the pole mechanism of my canopy while we were setting it up.  It took us a while to dislodge his hand and his poor little finger was quickly starting to swell and bruise.  I sat him down in my lap and gently pinched his finger for about 10 minutes.  After that, the bruising was gone, the swelling was gone and you could hardly even tell that he had hurt himself.   Later that evening, I asked him how his finger was doing and he had completely forgotten that it had been hurt.  There was no mark on his skin or anything!

Today I was helping Scott install our window ac unit and the support popped off of the window sill and landed on my foot.  It hurt like crazy.  My foot was bleeding and had a dark purple indentation when the metal had crashed into it.  I sat down and grabbed onto my foot and held it for about 5 minutes.  The bleeding stopped and there was no swelling at all.  It still hurts a little… but not too bad!

This blog post was my husband’s idea.  He is still amazed at how simple and effective the whole procedure is and said that I just had to share it with you.  :)  Anyhow, give it a try next time… I think that you will end up amazed, too!