On May 6, 2010, my plans for the summer took a rather unexpected turn. I have lived most of my life with the moniker of being “accident prone,” and at age 35, although I haven’t had anything serious happen in the last 10 plus years, it seems I was due. After a fall that resulted in my “football tackling” a tree, x-rays proved that I had broken my collarbone in two places.
As an avid golfer and overall sports enthusiast, there could not have been worse news for me. April in Southwestern Ontario had been unseasonably warm, and I had been able to not only knock the rust off of my golf game but after nine rounds I was playing to my normal “mid-season” form. The orthopaedic surgeon I met with the day after my injury hinted at surgery to reconstruct my collarbone. After some serious deliberation, we elected to give the bone six weeks to see how it would heal on its own. Anyone who has broken this particular bone will attest to the pain and immobility it creates. For two weeks I was unable to drive my beloved “summer car” as it is a 5-speed convertible that requires arm movement I just did not have.
I was told by both my surgeon and my kinesiologist to put my golf clubs away for the year and to talk to the management at my course about my membership fees being rebated.
I am not one to take things lying down, and when my mother (an AIM Member for many years) told me that she had products that she thought would help in my healing process I figured, what do I have to lose? Mom drop-shipped me a supply of AIM BarleyLife® Xtra and CalciAIM™ with instructions as to their use. I am a skeptic at the best of times, but really wanted to get back to my lifestyle and golf game as soon as I could!
I used both products as suggested by Mom, and upon my six-week anniversary of the accident, I went back to the surgeon to see if I would be entering the rehab phase of my injury or if I would be facing surgery. The surgeon was shocked by the progress that my shoulder was making but mostly by the density of the new bone that was forming around the multiple fractures … surgery was off the table and it was time to hit the rehab full on!
The physical strengthening of the muscles and re-training of the arm was a process that took many weeks, but as the muscles got stronger, so did the bone. I was starting to be able to do push-ups and strength exercises that mere weeks prior I would have thought impossible!
On July 26, 2010, I was given the green light to start golfing again, only 13 weeks after being told I was done for the year! I now have three months left in our golf season and am very glad that I did not cancel my membership!
I am convinced that thanks to a lot of hard work and the AIM supplements that I am not only ahead of my recovery expectations, but that I crushed those expectations! Thank you for your products, you have turned a skeptic into a believer! Keep up the good work!
– Adam Vandermey, CSA, Blenheim, Ontario
This testimonial should not be construed as representing results everybody can achieve.