Sachin invited to Osho Commune
The leading Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar, is being invited to Osho Commune International (OCI)-Pune, to get his back injury attended to. "We invite Sachin to spend a week at OCI to get his back fixed by one of our experts", Swami Chaitanya Keerti, spokespersons for the commune told toins here on Friday.
"The commune is well known for bodywork, massage and healing therapies during the past two decades. "We currently have an excellent American chiropractor here, Dr. Gregory Press, DC., who specializes in athletic injuries", Swami Keerti, stated. "Dr. Gregory Press recently retired from a very successful practice in Baltimore, USA. He has doctorate in science and chiropratic. He is a license physical therapist, nutritionist, radiologist and accupunturist. My feeling is that --`Rantu, as Dr. Gregory is referred to by the commune name --is the ideal man to help Sachin overcome this injury -- and in such a way that the problem does not recur", Swami Keerti explained.
Dr Gregory Press became a celebrity of sorts, in Baltimore, after he successfully treated back problems suffered by three musicians accompanying the well known American singer Paul Simon on a concert tour. "He was abel to restore sensitivity to the playing hand of the lead guitarist, the nerves of which had been affected by his back problem", Swami Keerti added.
Dr. Gregory Press said that he would be happy to offer his services to India's famous cricket star. "In my experience of athletic injuries, when the proper structure of the back is restored then optimum function of the body is quickly resumed" Dr. Press commented.
Yoga expert offers help to Sachin for back problem
Internationally acclaimed yoga expert Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar said he can suggest proper yoga exercises to star cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to overcome his back problem. Iyengar said there were lots of yoga exercises which are excellent for toning the spine and he would be glad to help Sachin should he need any. "If Sachin seeks my help, I would suggest him 'yogasanas' like 'Bharadwajasana, Marichasana, Ardhamatsyendrasana, Sapta-Padangusthasana' etc., which can help in back cure," he said. "A number of cricketers and other international sportsmen have benefited from my advice," the octogenarian noted.
Meanwhile, the Osho Commune International has contacted Sachin's wife Dr Anjali Tendulkar and informed her about it's invitation to the batsman to spend a week at the commune for treatment for his back problem. The Commune spokesman Dr Chaitanya Kirti said: "I had a telephonic talk with Anjali this morning and told her that we have an excellent American chiropractor Dr Gregory Press D.C. alias Swamy Rantu who specialises in atheletic injuries. "Anjali informed me that they had not recieved any invitation and hence we despatched one this morning. We hope Sachin will avail of the therapies which we have here. Anjali informed the Commune that she would discuss the matter with her husband," he added. Sachin had picked up the back problem during his knock against Pakistan in the first Test in February.
Osteopathic treatment suggested for Sachin
A Mumbai osteopath, who had cured former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar of a severe back problem at the beginning of his career in 1976, has suggested that super bat Sachin Tendulkar should undergo similar treatment to recover quickly from his back injury.
Dr K M Modi, a practioner of osteopathy which is a system of healing or treatment mainly involving manipulation of the bones and joints and massage of the muscles that provides relief for many bone and joint disorders, has said the two-weeks' rest and exercise routine prescribed by London specialist Ken Kennedy to Tendulkar is not the ideal remedy.
Modi, who treated Vengsarkar in 1976 in six weeks after the stylish Mumbai batsman was forced out of the game for six months due to back pain, has said in a press release that the best treatment for Tendulkar would be `manipulative adjustment of the lumbar spine and sleeping on a wooden plank with a thin carpet spread on it.' Vengsarkar, when contacted by reporters, said he was first put on traction by an orthopaedic surgeon and when it was not effective an operation was suggested. ``Then I came across an article in a magazine about osteopathy and decided to try it. I was cured in six sittings (a sitting once a week) by Dr Modi,'' Vengsarkar said.
Tendulkar has been ruled out of the ongoing triangular series at home because of his back problem for which he has been advised two-weeks' rest and given a set of specific exercises by Dr Kennedy whom he consulted in London recently.