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- Multiple Sclerosis (https://www.neurotalk.org/multiple-sclerosis/)

- - Accupressure (https://www.neurotalk.org/multiple-sclerosis/43726-accupressure.html)

Cindy - I personally have never had it but, I had a friend who did it - they called him the "pain doctor". He was a wonderful man and wonderful at what he did. I met him on one of those "match"ing websites - he was a great guy and we became wonderful friends just no attractions. He died of a massive heart attack while running at the local track. Heathly as a horse or so we thought....

Sorry, back to you question - he would do the pressure and cause serious pain to his patients. He specialized in athletics and patients with MS (he was the first person to tell me I had MS)
He said that his MS patients would come into his office with a walker or cane and walk out on their own.

Good Luck and keep us posted.

Cindy
I say try it. Ya never know and if so, teriffic. If not, cross it off the list. The mind is ever so powerful, if we just tap into it. Keep us posted.

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Originally Posted by greta (Post 260345)

Can't help you with acupressure C, but it is possible to train your brain to use other neural pathways. My mom's neuro talks about focusing on the part you want to move and "talking to it" (this neuro is a hoot!). In PT, I'd work with a woman with dead legs (she had MS) as well as very weak trunk strength. We focused on rolling over If I'd initiate the motion, she could often pick it up once it had been started. By the end of the therapy that day, she could do it herself. Initiating the movement (with your own hands to move the leg) if necessary and then focusing on it/talking to it:p to finish the movement without assistance really does help to retrain the neural pathways around damaged areas. Won't be perfectly good as new, but it will make things easier.

I borrowed the book, The MS Recovery Diet from the MSAA last month, but had to return it before finishing it. It was just published in 2007. I never got to the diet part, but there is a whole section on exercise and getting people out of wheelchairs and walking. It's exercises that build on each other like a baby learns to roll over, crawl, stand up, and walk. It so grabbed my attention.

I plan to buy it when funds allow, just to have as a reference. Oh and to finish reading it too.

:hug:

My sister gets those sessions for her IBS. She feels it has helped her greatly, and she wants me to try it for my various symptoms because her doc has had quite a few MS patients who apparently have greatly benefitted from the acupuncture treatments. I'm thinking about it.......

I haven't had acuppressure, but have had acuppuncture and really liked it. I felt a diff while I was going through the sessions, but after I stopped going, I felt my sx's returned.

Was it mentally or physically helping me? Maybe both.

Can't hurt to try it Cin!