About Me

Hi, I'm Chris Telden. I am not a healthcare professional; what I am is perhaps best deemed a "patient professional."  I have what some might think is more than my fair share of pain and health problems, including but not limited to:

• Plantar Fasciitis (foot)
• Spondylolytic Spondylolisthesis (back)
• Neural Foraminal Stenosis (back)
• Migraine Headaches
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (wrists)
• Trigger Finger
• Prediabetes/Insulin Resistance
• Knee Problems

Here, I share my experiences with my own treatment and my research into the health areas that interest me.

I have a very practical outlook when it comes to my health:

• I want to be able to treat myself, because I'm my own best health advocate.
• I want to be able to apply the vast and ever-growing body of knowledge that is biomedicine to my situation.
• I also want to be able to use the anecdotal experiences aggregated on the World Wide Web in informal forums, comment threads, and advice websites.  I believe this kind of data constitutes a legitimate form of preliminary research and is where formal scientific research often begins - with a glimmer of an idea presented by individuals in vivo.  I hope very much that my visitors will leave comments here to engage in this anecdotal type of research.
• And I want to do all this as effectively, independently and inexpensively as possible.

I hope what I and others share here helps you heal, too.