Questions

This is the #1 most frequently asked question. The answer is: there is no need to find someone familiar with our work. Recovery from Parkinson’s is pretty much a do-it-yourself program or a do-it-with-a-friend program. You do NOT need to work with someone who is trained in treating Parkinson’s. Besides, there are no such people.  Our research team found that people who are determined to get “help” or “healing” from someone else such as a trained health practitioner are unlikely to recover. Those who have recovered have done the work themselves.  Most people with PD, 95% of people with PD, even if they have a foot injury, will need to work first and foremost on the psychological stance that is created when a person induces pause mode in himself. This is very simple work, but no one can do it for you. A person with Parkinson’s must do it by himself/herself.

A very small percentage (approximately 5%)  of people with Type II PD, who have ONLY a foot injury from which they have dissociated, triggering their PD, and NO psychological component, might need someone to help with their foot injury.The 5% of people with Type II PD from ONLY dissociated foot injuries can receive the necessary treatment from a friend. Instructions are included for free on the website. The friend does NOT heal your foot injury. He just holds your foot for as long as it takes for your brain to acknowledge that your foot was injured and to acknowledge that you are now safe enough to mentally attend to it. After that, your brain re-associates with the injury and starts the long-stalled healing process.  The holding is very simple. A child can do the holding. People with Type II PD are directed to the necessary Instructions for this type of holding work in the book Recovery from Parkinson’s.

Chinese medicine helps

Although the rarely studied electrical theories of Chinese medicine helped us figure out what causes Parkinson’s and feeling the channels in our patients helped us track changes in people as they recovered from it, treatment techniques of Chinese medicine are NOT used in recovering from Parkinson’s disease. This subject is discussed in great detail in chapter 1 of Recovery from Parkinson’s.  Please read this chapter to learn why you should not waste time looking for the non-existent therapist who is trained in this field. Acupuncture treatments by someone who does not understand the nature of electrical illness can actually worsen the problem and, over time, accelerate the degenerative nature of this syndrome.

If you want someone to feel the currents in your legs and back, to help confirm or refute your diagnosis, a friend can learn to feel these currents. Instructions are available on this website. See: Publications: Tracking the Dragon. Only a very few acupuncturists in the world, maybe a few dozen, have been trained to feel these channels. They don’t necessarily know anything about the channel patterns of pause mode or of Parkinson’s disease. Using the free instructions on this website, your friend or family member can learn to track the channels as easily as any acupuncturist can learn it – and will probably be more motivated.

Please do not write to the Parkinson’s Recovery Project asking “What therapists in my area are familiar with your work?”  If you do, you will be referred to this FAQ page and asked to read the first chapter of Recovery from Parkinson’s, which goes into greater detail than this short answer to the #1 Frequently Asked Question.

Yes. If you go on line, you can find many blogs and case studies of people who have recovered from Parkinson’s. Many people have recovered from Parkinson’s disease on their own in response to Qi Gong, meditation, affirmations, and other techniques that change the focus patterns of the brain.

One of the pursuits of the Parkinson’s Recovery Project has been on figuring out the commonalities that link these recoveries.

This subject is discussed at length in the book Recovery from Parkinson’s, available for free download on the Publications page of this website.

There are no guarantees. The rate of recovery is highly variable. If the dopamine-inhibiting pattern is being held in place only by the electrical aberrations caused by the foot injury, recovery is fairly simple. The treatment will result in highly predictable changes (recovery symptoms) and soon, within weeks or a month or two, the Parkinson’s symptoms will cease.

If the dopamine-inhibiting pattern is being held in place by a decision, such as a decision to be impervious to physical and emotional pain, then recovery will not occur until the patient is able to mentally bring enough stimulation to his midbrain to turn off the instruction, after which, the electrical behaviors that cause Parkinson’s disease will turn off.

This depends on which factors are causing the Parkinson’s: mental attitude or physical injury. In most cases, both factors are present. The subject of “how long does it take to recover” is discussed in depth in Recovery from Parkinson’s.

Probably not. However, we recognize that every person has the right to do what he feels is best for himself. Also, it is possible that some people who have taken very low doses for a short period of time might not have a significant level of lasting brain damage. It is up to each individual to decide what course to pursue. To quote the old Latin phrase, dum spiro spero: so long as I am breathing, I can hope. Anyone considering recovering who has used dopamine-enhancing medications should read the warning on this website’s homepage link for people who are taking medications.

Also, the book Medications of Parkinson’s or Once Upon a Pill provides even more information, and is available for free download on this website. Note: the dopamine-enhancing drugs cause significant distortion in the thinking processes: they often create the feeling that one is more clever or more capable than “other people.” We have seen, often, that people who are on the drugs are unable to understand the risks discussed in the website warning or in the above book. Their drugs cause them to assume that they are “different” from the cases we discuss in the warnings and the book and they conclude that the warnings do not apply.

Therefore, if you are taking dopamine-enhancing drugs, please have a friend or family member read the material and advise you, rather than trusting yourself. The medications work by making you “stoned” and inhibiting your ability to be wary. They diminish your ability to use good judgment. To go to that book, please go back to the home page and click on Publications, then click on Medications of Parkinson’s: Once Upon a Pill.

We are not selling anything.

All the information on this site is available for free. The books that have been written explaining our hypotheses and techniques are available for free download. For the convenience of those who prefer to buy hard copies of the books, rather than downloading them, links are provided for the purchase of the books.

The Parkinson’s Recovery Project is a non-profit organization founded in 1998 and incorporated in California. Donations are tax-deductable. To keep this website up, we rely on donations. To make a tax-deductible donation, please click here: Donation

Parkinson’s disease is currently defined as incurable. Anyone who recovers from Parkinson’s is considered by the medical establishment to have been misdiagnosed. Ignoring this issue, our best evidence is that we have worked with Parkinson’s patients whose symptoms are now completely, lastingly gone. Not only that, when the electrical circuits that cause Parkinson’s turned off, the recovering patients experienced the highly specific, counter-intuitive, short-term symptoms that only occur when a person is recovering from Parkinson’s: “pins and needles” in the face and feet in areas that have long been numb; severely limp muscle tone in muscles that were previously rigid; recovery dyskinesia – spontaneous, gentle muscular repetition of certain moves in muscles that have long been rigid, repetitions lasting for up to twenty minutes per episode; sensations as if the sides of the brain are shifting position relative to each other; and many more.

Recovery

Although western doctors insist that anyone who recovers from PD must have been misdiagnosed, the recovery symptoms experienced by everyone who turns off the electrical processes that cause Parkinson’s suggest that the person did in fact have PD and has gone through the physiological behaviors of a person who is recovering from it. The book Recovery from Parkinson’s has eleven chapters devoted to the recovery symptoms. These symptoms were the greatest asset in helping us figure out what actually causes PD and proof that a person did in fact have PD and has recovered from it.

Read the book, Recovery from Parkinson’s. It is available for free download on this website. Go to the homepage and click on the Publications bar at the top of the page. Then click on Recovery from Parkinson’s.

We cannot give out phone numbers. If you wish to communicate with someone who has recovered, please consider going online to find websites from people who have recovered or who are working on recovering. Some of them will want to sell you advice. Please do not waste time and money on these people. They usually recovered on their own and have no idea why they recovered, so their “secret tips” and “magic formulas” are based on guesswork.

We do not sponsor any sites featuring people who have recovered. The Parkinson’s Treatment Team (now retired) and Dr. Hadlock, DAOM (also now retired) were running legitimate medical research programs, and honor all the laws regarding patient confidentiality.