Dina,
What is the NACD program?
Mariana
At 12:44 PM 11/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>In my experience: When I was a teenager, I was overweight and stuff. I lived
>abroad for a few years. I lost weight, and walked miles everyday. I was in
>GREAT shape. Every time the weather changed, I knew it in my joints and stuff
>even though I was in GREAT shape. I got sick with an illness (reoccurring
>tonsillitis) for close to a year in my mid-20's. Since then, I have been
>struggling with weight issues (again, sigh!!!!) and food allergies. By the
>time I was 31, I was living with constant pain in my ankles, told to get a
>walker because I had "osteoarthritis, or osteoporosis" and I was going to
>need it soon. I couldn't seem to lose the weight no matter what I did.
>
>I went to a nutritionist who diagnosed me as having food allergies, I lost a
>ton of weight on the diet within a short period of time. I did GREAT for
>about a year. Sine then, I have noticed that certain foods trigger the joint
>pains which will go away as soon as I stop eating certain foods. I am almost
>back to the weight that I was when I started with the nutritionist, however,
>I don't live in constant pain like most of you.
>
>I have a lot of energy. I ride horses 3 days a week, have gained back a lot
>of range of motion and flexibility in my body because of the riding therapy.
>I walk much straighter and taller than I have in years. My Rolfer is sooooo
>impressed with the improvements that I have made in the past few years. She
>can't get over it. She has known me for over 20 years. I no longer walk in
>the crouched position with my knees bent all the time. My upper back pain is
>going away. (I have had a vertebrae or two out of place for the past 7 years
>or so.) It is slowly returning to its place more and more without popping out
>all the time. I am now working on changing my gait which when it becomes
>permanent will be a lot more "normal" and take a lot of stress off my lower
>back.
>
>These changes are occurring because I am doing therapeutic horseback riding,
>neurofeedback, Rolfing, and the NACD program. I also go to a chiro on a
>pretty regular basis. I am also taking nutraceuticals products which are
>helping my body cope as well. So do I think that you can help your body heal?
>Yep, you bet!!! I am living proof of it. Do you have to believe that once you
>start "falling apart" there's nothing you can do about it? NOPE!!!
>
>
>The last ortho I consulted with told me that I didn't have "osteoarthritis or
>osteoporosis" but that I have very limited range of motion in my feet due to
>the surgeries that I have had which led to a "naturally fused bone" in my
>feet which further reduces the range of motion available in my feet. I was
>spraining my ankles on a regular basis trying to get some range of motion in
>them that I don't have. This "naturally fused bone" is one that they wanted
>to fuse in a "triple arthethosis" when I was a teen. I, of course, refused
>this surgery among others and still don't need it. He told me that if I ever
>had to have anything fused, it might be one bone, at worst two.
>
>However since I started the NACD program and got wedges put in my shoes, my
>ankles look less like they are ready to collapse and are straightening
>themselves out because I am using those muscles more properly. I am no longer
>wearing orthotics. I wore UCB orthotics which come up to the ankles.
>
>Like I mentioned last week, I am getting INCREDIBLE results because of the
>neurofeedback. I am much looser when I am consistent with it. Just some
>thoughts of my own experience on how much control you really have over your
>mind and body's abilities. Sorry for this being so long-winded and stuff.
:-))
>
>
>Dina
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