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Old 06-14-2012, 11:48 AM #3
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My PT is having me do "conduction breaks". Three times a day (preferably when you feel your best or better) you close your eyes for ten minutes and do absolutely nothing. She said that visual stimuli use up about 70% of brain function and this gives the MS brain some downtime to rest and store up some energy.

I really do feel better on days after I have actually had time to do 3 of these in a day. Then, she said the key is that you do NOT do more once you start feeling better. You just keep doing what you were doing normally and rebuild some more stamina over time. She said it is like creating a savings account of energy. Rather than deficit spending like we tend to do when we just push past our limits.
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