MFR is myofascial tissue release. Over the years your muscles start gluing together and moving as a unit instead of sliding gliding over each other and so they weigh down on your connective tissue and pull things out of whack. It’s like a painful massage. In my case, it took me a lifetime of bad Postural habits and bio mechanics that are out of line in my body. It’s going to take me a couple years to get things working as they should. However, I saw relief after the first couple visits. I’m probably nine months out of going twice a month and we can feel my muscles having separated, so they are less weight And my body is behaving much better. Circulation is getting where it needs to go and I feel much better. I am 68 years old and I still like to work and abuse my body so it is a must. I went to a couple people before I found the prints. There is a section here at the Mayo Clinic on MFR that you can read up on and you can also look it up online. You can get it covered under Medicare with certain diagnosis disease and also if you go to rehabilitation they might establish that you need manual work and then it might be covered but only 10 or 15 minutes. I go for an hour and when I get up off the table, I am feeling rather drunk and woozy and have to wait a little bit before I can drive home yesterday. I really noticed that that drunk woozy feeling is now gone as all the toxins have really moved through my system over nine months and I’m starting to feel more energized after the session. A lot of people here really recommend it.

I forgot to say how I keep my spirits up-that is multifaceted. I keep many things lined up that I can do at any given time. I like to get the Mayo Clinic online forum digest every morning. I like to help where I can. I am also an artist so I go to place is doing artwork. I volunteer And help on an annual event where I prepare a map of movies along a 5K route. I get out every day and walk 15 or 20 minutes in the morning and in the afternoon. I have been on low-dose opioid (Percocet) for 25 years. Sometimes I can’t do the exercise without it. It allows me to get through the challenges. I also am an activist for my own well-being and I bugged the crap out of the doctors if I don’t get a satisfying answer. I asked for tests and labs. I feel horrible because my doctor is so overworked, but she said last week that she really is grateful that I bring all the information to her That I research so we work together collaboratively even if the answers aren’t readily apparent. I have many more things that are personal struggle, but I guess I reconciled when I was a child that my choice is life and to find hope and optimism when I can bring it. I only get depressed when I can’t move through things i.e., when I can’t work on something or when I get blocked from progress. I also learned during menopause 20 years ago that not having enough vitamin D metabolize properly was caused for depression. That symptomatic depression was resolved entirely by having sufficient amount of vitamin D.