[hillbunnyb]

Anybody else tried Feldenkrais? It is a form of PT where you move roll stretch etc on the floor in the movements of an infant. Reprogram your body back to it's natural movement patterns.

It helps me. It is the only thing that helps a friend with MS. Anybody else?

[Rhapsody]

Hmm -

I have NEVER heard of this type of treatment...... I will have to look into it.

Thanks....
LoVe,
Rhapsody - ((( hugs )))

nope and I have had PT all my life for my Cerebral palsy which is simular to MS. and have friends that have MS and they also don't go through that.

I and they work on muscle stretching, and cordination activities like walking between handrails, going up and down a set of stairs, catching, throwing balls, but not crawling around like a baby.

I know they do that kind of reprogramming with stroke survivors who cant walk, crawl and so on but have never heard of it being used for CP and MS.

[hillbunnyb]

I spelled it correctly, google away

my MS friend is distaught when she misses a session because, as she says, " I can walk after a treatment"....... she is very weak.
I had experience with it too. One day I went from my treatment into the dressing room of the health club and there on the floor was an infant, naturally making the same moves as he lay there on the floor geting changed as I had just done in thereapy. Not crawling on the floor. More rolling and strecthing in this imitation infant form.......

The exersizes that have saved my sorry buttmore than once were the foot moves. Part done on the floor and part done facing a wall. After I had become proficient at it, I tripped out here in the woods, and would have broken something except that my feet hand a new mind of their own and reacted in ways that kept me from injury.......

i think it has to do with that awareness a baby has of it's body while it's getting to know it. we loose that connection. we aren't as active and using our bodies with age. . . .

Kinda takes us backward to go forward. I still do my feet thingies and some of the others.

You lie on the floor with a tape recorder that walks you through the moves. There must be a dozen tapes to get you through your whole body. Or join a group. Or????