Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an experienced PD health practitioner in my area?
At this time we are no longer able to collect names of practitioners and would-be patients who want to participate in the program. We were doing this previously, but the project has grown far too large and unwieldy, and certain fraudulent aspects have crept in. We cannot protect ourselves from practitioners who are only claiming to be performing our techniques, while they are in fact merely performing scalp acupuncture (proven to not work) or else ignoring the FSR work and only doing the acupuncture (also shown to be ineffective). We regret that we therefore can no longer recommend names of practitioners to patients who inquire.
To protect yourself, please familiarize yourself with the protocols in the books available on the web site so that you can tell if the practitioner is attempting to follow our suggestions. Also, if your practitioner intends to charge you money for the treatments, find out if he/she has had success with other PD patients. Be aware that you should begin experiencing the earliest changes in the practitioner's handbook within a few to six months. There should be a change in the toenails, or a change in temperature in the feet, or some sort of indication that something is happening.
Do not look for quick improvement in your PD symptoms. Many people imagine that the proof of successful treatment is a few hours cessation of the tremor, or a short term (up to two days) increase in speed of movement. These short term "mood" changes are not what you are looking for. You are looking for lasting change in the electrical patterns in your body, and repair of the damaged body parts. While tremor may respond in the very short term to any relaxing treatment, the actual physical damage in the body, the underlying cause of the tremor, will take a long long time to heal. The tremor itself will be the last symptom to truly go away. Instead of looking for quick changes in your Parkinson's symptoms, look instead for the physiological changes listed in the patient's handbook. These changes include return of feeling, blood flow, proprioception, and, unfortunately, very often, pain, in the injured parts of the body, plus deep fatigue and lassitude, as if one is recovering from a very long-term stress. These changes, and other changes listed in the Patient's Handbook, indicate that your body is changing in such a way that the entire process which drives the PD is coming to an end. Also, revisit the web site every six months to see if a newer version of the handbooks has been posted. We are learning new information every month, and hope to someday have regular updates on the site . The History of this Site page will tell you if it is time for you to do a new download.
Also, we understand your desire to communicate with us and discuss your personal case, and ask us questions about your personal suitability for treatment. But please do not send us this information. We cannot diagnose nor make medical treatment suggestions via email. So many of you have decided that you want to come to Santa Cruz to be treated, but our waiting list is very long. Please do not imagine that you must be treated here in Santa Cruz. We cannot treat everyone! Also, we do not have the time for "just a one hour consultation" with the many, many of you who want to travel to Santa Cruz to meet with us. Also, we do understand your desperation to receive treatment, but we will not be swayed to put you onto our wait list in return for monetary consideration or influence. Please understand that we are tremendously busy, and while our goal is to ultimately help the greatest number of people in the soonest possible time, this goal can only be achieved if we stay focused on our ongoing projects. Our email address is available so that practitioners who have technical questions can write to us for advise or to request that their name be added to our continuing education class mailing list. This is a reasonable use of our time. Other questions, including requests from Parkinson's patients for referrals or personal advice, will not be answered. We regret very much that we cannot make personal contact with each and every one who has questions, and we hope that at some point in the future we will have some system to certify experienced practitioners and enough volunteer energy that more personalized services and information can be provided to interested parties.
We hope that if you are interested in using our techniques for treating Parkinson's disease you will find a practitioner in your area and give it a try. We hope that you can locate an acupuncturist, physical therapist, friend, or light touch massage practitioner in your area who might be willing to learn the techniques that we are using to treat Parkinson's disease.
Because treatments seem to be the most successful if they are received for an hour every week, and because the duration of treatment might range anywhere from six months to two years or more, we highly recommend that you find someone to work with who is within a reasonable commute distance. Very often, would-be patients have found that acupuncturists, physical therapists, or light-touch massage therapists who are recently out of school are often the most interested in learning a new technique. This is because they are still actively learning, and also because they don't yet have a client base which keeps them too busy to learn something new. Please refer any interested health practitioner or friend who is interested in learning this work to our web site:
Technical questions regarding the techniques can be sent to pdinfo@cruzio.com or to PDteam@cruzio.com.
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