multiple sclerosis
this story was written by a patient with MS for 20 years. Its a long testimonial, but I hope someone can benefit from reading it.
NEW Steve's update as of January 2007 appears below NEW NEW

M/S, Me
&
"The ATLAS Man"
 
Hi. I am Steve and this is my story.
 
I was given the business card of the man who would ultimately and actively change my life. I rang his number and we arranged to meet at my place the next day.
He himself had experienced this treatment with great success and he explained the procedure and benefits, describing his own personal experience after a spear tackle in a game of rugby football rendered him unconscious in 1997. He went to see a specialist in his home town, who was so unsure of the problem that troubled Greg he consequently thought of looking toward diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis because his symptoms were similar therefore he was to be placed in that same category. Incidentally it was the same specialist that I used to go to but unlike Greg, I already had the diagnosis. Consequently Greg dismissed the idea as highly improbable and sought other treatment. His health continued to deteriorate but after much research and five years of periodic treatment with *The 'Atlas' Man* whom I call 'God's Instrument' he is now 100% fit, and not far away from earning his black belt in Karate. What a come-back. Amazing stuff.
Actually, Greg Buchanan is a well read IT Professional / Computer Engineer and his explanation of how and why this treatment worked I agreed with 100% knowing exactly what he was talking about having studied Computers myself in a small way.
The Brain is the body's CPU. (Central Processing Unit)
I made arrangements with him to take me down to *The 'Atlas' Man* the following week for assessment, and, if applicable to me this treatment would commence immediately. I call Greg, this caring and unassuming man, 'Gods Messenger'.
I was indeed the guinea pig as I was the first person with Multiple Sclerosis in Australia to undergo this treatment so intensively. This treatment however has been used in the USA for some M/S sufferers for many, many years with reported success. Papers have been written reporting the very real and positive findings since before the Second World War, so my question is this;
WHY is the information concerning this treatment suppressed?
What about the freedom of information act? Or is that only for certain things?
I think that it is not in Doctor's/Drug Companies interests to promote this non-invasive Drug Free treatment because it is monetarily unfavorable.
It is therefore, in my view, a crime against humanity.
Let you the reader be the judge.
 
Tuesday 6th November 2001.
Exactly one month short of 22years with M/S.
Enter the adjustment and my friend's for life:
 
Greg, 'Gods Messenger' took me down to see *The 'Atlas' Man*, 'Gods Instrument', at his practice South West of Sydney today. A long drive from the home.
I struggled up the stairs to the rooms of *The 'Atlas' Man* with great difficulty because of the inability to lift my feet higher than each of the twenty or so steps that I had to climb.
I also had lower back pain from my serious work related back injury, further restricting my maneuverability. So the inability to lift my feet was not altogether the fault of M/S as some would prefer me to believe.
*The 'Atlas' man* took three x-rays to discover the relationship between my skull and the first cervical vertebra (The Atlas &endash; C1). After discussing the situation with me and explaining the x-rays, pointing out the misalignment of the atlas, he asked me my thoughts. I asked him what was he waiting for. With that he positioned me on the adjusting table and did what he had to do.
He took aim and shot me with his percussion gun.
Absolutely painless, non invasive and only the joy of re-discovery afterwards.
Within ten seconds of my Atlas re-positioning I felt a warmth flow through my lower legs and feet, as if someone were pouring warm water over them. I had always had cold feet for maybe thirty years or more. My neck became straighter and my legs were perfectly aligned with each other, the same length. Before the adjustment the right leg was 15 &endash; 20 mm shorter than the left and my neck was positioned at about a 20 degree angle and to the right on my shoulders (maybe more than that) as if I was going permanently fast around the bend. (May-be I was.)
My right shoulder had lifted noticeably too from it's previous slumped position but the wasted muscle across the collar bone was very noticeable now. I was told to rest, laying on the table for a short time, and to sleep if I wanted to. I know what I wanted to do.
I walked out of *The 'Atlas' Man's* office with my health moving in reverse.
A new man, on the way to better health.
*The 'Atlas' Man* carried my walking frame down the stairs in front of me with Greg and his friend David, who was also undergoing treatment periodically, close behind. At the bottom of the stairs I turned around and told Greg and David to back up five to ten steps.
How much better I felt already.
I walked back up those few steps without a problem, lifting my feet with ease. Clearing each step easily and without effort.
When we went to get lunch I noticed nothing new about my speech but I would soon find out.
All this after such a short time and only the first adjustment.
Wow!! Where was this man twenty years ago?
His wife told me he would have been in Seventh Grade.
When we got back home sometime later I was completely stunned by the results that were so apparent in such a short space of time. I felt better than I had felt in over twenty years and I could sense and feel improvement all the time.
I made dinner for the family without a problem and afterwards drank a cup of coffee with my wife straight from the cup. No need to use a straw any more as the tremor in my hands was virtually gone and I could now FEEL whether or not the cup of coffee was too hot to drink or for that matter pick it up without using the handle as was my practice.
Approximately fifty percent of the feeling had returned to my hands. Before the treatment I only had five percent feeling in my hands, virtually non-existent at my finger tips. I had used a straw to drink both hot and cold drinks, due to the lack of feeling in my hands and the uncontrollable tremor, always, for the past fifteen years. If I did use my hands before, I would always have red finger tips afterward.
That evening I phoned my parents to tell them of the good news, and was explaining things to Dad when he said that he too fully understood the theory behind the treatment. I told him of the early results I was experiencing and I asked him what he thought. He said that he could tell that I had given up drinking. I asked him what he meant by that and he said, "Well, you don't slur your words any more. Our prayers have been answered."
I gave up both drinking and smoking at the same time back in 1988 because;
a) I could no longer afford it.
b) One went with the other eg you drink, you smoke and vice versa.
c) We had just moved into a new house, a good enough reason in itself. and
d) I had read that smoking deprived the body of much needed oxygen and this had been proven medically to affect proper bodily function especially in people with Multiple Sclerosis.
The stairway up to *The 'Atlas' Man's* rooms was for me most certainly, 'The Stairway to Heaven.'
That night in bed I couldn't stop running my feet up and down my legs. They were no longer cold but as warm as toast.
The following day I found that I could shave without seeing red and could put my shoes and socks on pain free. I could also tie my shoelaces nearly blindfold.
Greg rang me to see how I was going and it was then that I learned that at lunch yesterday both he and David had noticed the difference in my speech but had kept it quiet. This change seems to be an almost instantaneous result of the adjustment.
I told him of my progress in the last twenty-four hours and although it didn't amaze him, later that day with his wife Heather beside him, it just made him cry with joy. His assumption has been seemingly proven correct. It was never a theoretical question in my eyes either.
A little later on that same morning I drove to TAFE and found myself to be a totally relaxed driver who was at ease with the travelling and busy traffic conditions. No longer tense as I used to be but very relaxed and alert.
I can again use my very, very sharp Chef's knives to prepare our meals with no fear of cutting my fingers instead of the carrots for instance. My wife no longer has to count the digits on my hands just in case. The first time in my M/S History, 22 years.
I can spread butter on a piece of bread now instead of on my hands, the breadboard, the bench top and sometimes even the kitchen walls. I have friends who can still do that.
Having started to write again, I can now read what I have written, but this re-training is going to take some time.
Being predominantly right handed from birth, several years after the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis I found that I had to teach my left hand to do that which my right hand would no longer do.
It was becoming a problem to the extent that I had to buy an electric typewriter. I could never master writing skills with my left hand, and I don't think that I will be writing a letter, without the aid of a keyboard, to the Prime Minister just yet. Patience is the order of the day.
My skills on the computer keyboard now are not as clumsy and misdirected as they were before November 6th and my typing speed has picked up a little.
I do need to get in better shape though. Rebuild the wasted muscles in my shoulder, arms and legs and trim up my stomach. Greg's advice. He said that maybe I should start Karate lessons soon. I don't think he knows what he is saying. We will get the training/body building going soon.
(6 days later)
I detected a small amount of tremor in my left hand at breakfast this morning but it only lasted a few seconds and has not yet returned. Nearing time for a re-adjustment maybe.
Mowed the front lawn today no problem.
I don't intend to do much more today.
Just taking it easy.
I seem to have short periods when I am slightly unsteady and have a little more of a problem with tremor in my hands but it is easier to control.
Swallowing as in drinking has improved 10 fold. I can drink now in continuous gulps instead of one mouthful or a sip at a time. My hearing has also become sharper.
All this and in only 6 days. How will it be in 6 months?
Remember that today we went down to *The 'Atlas' Man* for a re-adjustment.
A total of 4 hours traveling, plus two for lunch & treatment. The actual adjustment takes about thirty seconds. Normally I would have been asleep five minutes after getting home from a trip like that. We arrived home at 3pm but the highlight of my day came at 5.30pm when I walked into my Doctors surgery using only my walking sticks.
I had to get a medical report filled out confirming my ability to drive for the Roads and Traffic Authority otherwise I would not have been there.
When he saw me I think he developed instantaneous lockjaw. "Where is your frame, what's happened?" he said.
"I got my head examined. It's on nearly straight now. See?" I said
"But, how, I, this is unbelievable. You look a lot better too," he said.
So I explained a little to him and he told me that he was very pleased for me and to keep up the good work."
That goes without saying, "I will."
I had been dependant on a walking frame since 1998.
Today was a day of hard work. With all the wind of the last couple of days I had to clean up the fallen leaves around the house. So out came the Garden-Vac and within fifteen minutes, that was done.
I also made some Anzac biscuits as a treat for the cookie monsters in the family after all the hard work was done. Other than that I had a lazy day.
I continue to walk only short distances without using walking sticks as my confidence has not fully returned enough to go all the way on my own. After nearly 15 years of support dependency I still need to be within easy reach of something solid but that's OK. It is still early days.
The heat starts to affect me as it did before but not quite so severely. Dry heat I can cope with easily but with added humidity, not so good. But according to Greg it is the same with ordinary people too. I must believe him because an ORDINARY experience like that only happened to me a long time ago.
Only time will tell if further continuing improvement is inevitable, but the early signs are very encouraging.
People still cannot believe what is happening to me, nor can I really, but as the days pass and things are only going forward I have to believe it. I only hope it is for the long term and that my body does start to heal itself as Greg assures me it definitely will. Given the right conditions, help and time the Human Body is a wonderful machine.
The work load today is going to test my ability and staying power, and my confidence in myself as I am on my own.
I firstly had to fertilise the lawn at the front and back of our house. I took about 10kilos of lawn fertiliser down my very steep driveway in two buckets with my walker and experienced no problems at all, in fact I was steadier today than I have been for a very long time. I spread the fertiliser and then took my walker back up the driveway. I then filled both buckets again and proceeded to fertilise the back lawn without any walking aids at all. Not a very wise thing to do unless you feel up to it. There is a one metre fall over the wall onto my concrete patio if you I to lose my balance.
It didn't even cross my mind, as I was confident in the way I felt. Steady as a rock.
I did all of the housework too after that (bathroom, toilet, floors throughout,) plus the hand washing that had to be done. No ill effects, didn't even feel tired. Then I made dinner for my wife and son.
The increased energy level is stunning. Before the first adjustment in November, I would never have even thought about doing what I did today, let alone actually carrying it out. My lovely considerate wife would have done it for me without question.
I woke up this morning (Friday) early, just before the birds, and set about my duties for the day. Had all the housework done by 9.30am so I decided that the lawns needed a haircut seeing that it was a fine day. It grows so fast after the rain with the accompanying heat making it very humid. Ideal conditions for rapid growth and the rains were going to return on the weekend. I had finished both the front and the back lawns by 11am. That is including doing the edges with the trimmer. Remembering that this would abnormally have taken me three or four days as I would have to stop and recover after mowing just one, and then I would still have the edges to do.
Not bad going. I am very pleased with myself.
After a wet weekend and not much happening, the start of a new week began much the same as the previous week ended. Altogether too much house work to be done. Someone has to do it though so it might just as well be me.
The last seven days were much the same as the previous except for subtle changes in additional improvement.
But the tremor in my hands returned with a vengeance today but only for a second or two. I had just poured myself a cold drink and lifted it off the table when the earthquake struck. I returned the glass to the table but only after a mess had been created, 1 or 2 seconds was all it took. I waited a few seconds and tried again with no problem. I was losing my adjustment again. I let Greg know but it may have to go on hold due to school holidays.
The prolonged strength in my legs is apparent as I can do a lot more in a shorter space of time than I could before but there seems to be a little more of the tremor only quite mildly just now but for only short periods. I managed to cope fairly well over the school holidays with no sudden backward slide in my health.
But then, having had Multiple Sclerosis for the last twenty two years, coping is only secondary. Living with this obnoxious, insidious illness for that length of time is an education for anyone.
A person finds out things about themselves that would be otherwise impossible to find out, like their inner strengths and weaknesses, courage and compassion for other disabled people with different disabilities. You could not be expected to know of the different problems they may face each day, but the similarities in many areas of difficulty would be apparent.
All results so far are absolutely unreal; the treatment is definitely worth trying. There is nothing to lose, but everything to gain. Tremor is still in evidence but controllable. It only slightly affects my stability.
I was flat out this morning. Cleaning the house and watering the lawns I mean. I got up at 6 am ready for battle, but the battle never got off the ground.
I am using my walking frame only on occasions where I need to carry something back to the car, just paying bills etc I only need sticks. Just until my confidence returns which I don't think will be very much longer now.
I am a little unsteady on my feet today, having to be more dependent on things to lean on than in the past few weeks. The abundance of energy though is still there but I am losing the adjustment.
I have developed a Bellbird just above my left ear on occasion; it is not there all the time but intermittently. Quite a pleasant sound but it is annoying at times.
The tremor is much more apparent now with the uncertainty of the position of my fingers on the computers keyboard and it is beginning to affect my walking ability. Quite a bit more unsteady but nothing compared to the years before November 01. I can handle it.
The Bellbird is still there and the tremor is still there. I still have more positive responses than negative but the negatives are creeping back.
Tremor now is much more constant but only mildly and this Bellbird is beginning to drive me mad.
The 180-degree rotation of my head has not changed since the first day and the feeling in my hands is still apparent, as is the intensified sense of hearing and improved speech. My ability to walk only with sticks is improving but now with the return of unsteadiness... time will tell.
As I sit here now at the computer the tremor in my hands has abated, but only for a short time as I know it will return.
But the BELLBIRD,
Still calling for a mate from time to time. Hope it doesn't find one. I might have to shoot it before it gets too confident.
What shall we do with the drunken sailor? I used to be a sailor but that's another story.
My concern now is to get down to *The Atlas Man* for a readjustment. Sooner rather than later.
Tremor is still there and more intense than before but only intermittently. It is still not affecting my ability to walk using only sticks but then it could just be my stubborn streak that is not allowing it to get the better of me.
The Bellbird is up and about. AGAIN.
For the past week now I have gone back to using a straw to drink because of the increased intensity of tremor.
Some pain in my lower back has also returned. It has been apparent intermittently for about eight days now.
I am again beginning to get cramps in my calf muscles as before the first adjustment and these occur mainly in bed.
I believe that it is quite reasonable to expect such a backward step considering that we haven't been down to *The Atlas Man* for some 6 weeks now due to Greg's accident and the Christmas / New Year holidays.
We eventually got down to *The Atlas Man* in the first week of February because of the school holidays etc.
OH the relief is incredible.
After being readjusted I have started to get back to being the way I was in November.
Bellbird has pushed off.
I am so glad that I didn't have to shoot it.
I hate violence.
The unsteadiness or loss of balance is lessening, as is the tremor in my hands.
On the way home Greg told me that the wasted muscle across my right shoulder is the reason that I lose my adjustment so quickly.
He made arrangements with his personal trainer, Nicky, to tone up my body and rebuild the wasted muscles and to increase my leg and lower back strength.
Nicky has been working with me for only 6 weeks now and the results are stunning. The increased strength in my legs has resulted in an increase in my ability to balance better which has impacted on my ability to walk unaided. The slight increase in upper body muscle and strength has assisted in keeping my adjustment in place for longer. An increase in stamina is also evident. I can squat down on my heels now, and then stand up straight without losing balance. Whilst trying to squat before I would lose balance as soon as I bent my legs and either pitch forward, sideways or backwards falling to the ground. We continue to make progress in this area. I'm loving it.
The Technique. (With permission)
Special terminology:
Orthogonal = at right angles or at 90 degrees
Atlas = first vertebra in the spine
Axis = second neck vertebra
Occiput = base of the skull
Subluxation = nervous system irritation involving joint problem characterised by either misalignment, disorder of motion, and/or altered nerve transmission.
Atlas (the first vertebra in the neck) Orthogonal (at 90 degrees) recognises the holistic influence that the upper cervical (neck) area has on body function.
Chiropractic is not a cure all - however, because no part or organ in the body escapes the influence of the nervous system, it can affect many conditions by restoring proper nerve function.
This influence is perhaps greatest at the occipito-atlanto-axial joint complex. That is the occiput, or base of the skull, on the atlas, which contacts the axis, or second neck vertebra. If the atlas is subluxated (misaligned, not moving correctly, or adversely affecting the nerves), then a myriad of health problems may arise.
 
How is the atlas determined "subluxated"?
a thorough history and examination is conducted
this includes scanning palpation, and a leg length check
a specific set of AO x rays are taken
the information is presented, along with choices, risks, etc, to the patient who may elect to have it corrected.
 
How the instrument works:
After several prototypes, the instrument today is made from a specific metallic density and activated by a solenoid. That is; a magnetically activated impact on one end of the stylus that transfers to the end in contact with the skin surface. The force generated on the skin is as little as three pounds. The movement of the atlas bone has been verified on cineradiographic studies.
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It is Painless, Non Invasive and Drug free. No wonder the medical fraternity wants to keep it quiet. It works when suited to a patient.
This treatment is certainly working for me, and I would recommend it to anyone. Especially to people with Multiple Sclerosis like myself, or to anyone who has knowingly suffered a whiplash or sports injury to the head or neck. An injury affecting the displacement of the Atlas can be sustained as easily as falling off a log, but the effects of such an injury may not become apparent in ill health for many, many years.
But it will not work for everyone.
The same way drugs will not work for everyone, but this treatment has more than an even chance of being beneficial to the right person.
I have had this cruel illness for twenty two plus years and there was nothing more that could be done for me, not that anything had ever been done for me in the past because I refused to take any kind of medication. I was and still am, unwilling to subject my body to drugs of any kind only relenting on one occasion with catastrophic results.
I only accepted material things from the M/S Society for which I am very grateful as they were things that made a difference, like a personal air-conditioner and the walking frame that has been and still is a necessity at times.
I was to get worse in time with no hope of any beneficial treatment in sight.
A permanent Wheelchair. FOR ME, Never.
But then I was given this, possibly one chance in a million.
I took it in both hands and it has more potential than any drug.
I have never used Avonex etc, but did try BetaInterferon once on Medical advice. Once was enough as it left me without the use of my legs for five hours and I did not like the feeling of not being able to walk.
These are only experimental drugs anyway. The long term side effects unknown.
Unfortunately not proven to be helpful well enough for me.
BUT, I hear you say, So then is *The Atlas Man's* treatment. 'Experimental.'
Not So. Big difference.
There is documented evidence available to anyone interested, on the Internet, to support the positive claims going back to the 1930s treating many different complaints, diseases and Illnesses. Multiple Sclerosis being one.
Does this ring a bell. For example;-
Have you ever gone back to a Doctor with the complaint that these pills aren't working?
How many times has he said,
'Well try these then',
Or,
Was it because of bad side effects. THAT is experimental.
To me, the ending of that word is more than appropriate.
It is MENTAL.
This treatment you cannot take back if it doesn't work, WHY?, because it does work for the right people.
It is not probable, it is factual.
As I said before, if Joe The Atlas Man sees that through the X-rays he takes he cannot help you then he tells you and goes no further, referring you to a Medical Practitioner.
He fulfills his obligation to give you, the Patient, giving advice and access to a Medical Practitioner if deemed necessary.
Why don't these Medical Practitioners return the favor? After all they are supposed to have YOUR health interest at heart, not their own pockets.
 
We have now arrived at the six-month period after my initial adjustment and I can tell you that I still continue to improve.
If Joe had been around twenty two years ago I may not have gotten to be in the state that I am now in.
The cause of M/S is still unknown. This treatment alone throws up huge questions for me and should do so in medical fraternities throughout the world. I firmly believe that research into this area of treatment should be undertaken. Chiropractic ATLAS ORTHOGONAL.
The place to start would be with young people newly diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. These young people are more susceptible to the kinds of injuries that displace the Atlas, through sports and rough and tumble activities as well as accidents.
Coupled with the body building exercises that I have undertaken over the last three months things are really moving. I now use periodically one stick. I can walk for a limited distance without any support in a familiar environment and I only lack the confidence to go it alone in other places such as shopping centers etc. but this will come in time. When I go shopping for a few things on my own I take the frame because it has a basket on the front so I don't have to carry anything. I find it difficult to carry things whilst walking using two sticks, as I'm sure would anyone else.
When I get down to needing only one stick all the time then that would be different.
I have now been going to see Nicky for the body building exercises since February nineteenth 2002. Two Months. I now ride a stationary exercise bike for two kilometers which takes me seven minutes to achieve. My goal is six minutes by Christmas. Before last November even the thought of such a thing was out of the question. I perform a series of set exercise with weights and other apparatus, including a rowing machine, which is not too tolerant of my back problem. But, I'll survive.
My balance has become more stable due to the increased strength in my legs assisted by the exercise program, and I can at times walk unaided up my very steep driveway. The feeling has come back into my hands to around seventy percent. My writing is still improving but there is a lot of room for improvement.
 
Six months has passed since my first visit to "The Atlas Man" and four months since starting on my exercise program with Nicky.
Over this period we have maintained stability of my Atlas or C1 with periodic adjustments, and the exercise program is proving to be extremely beneficial in helping to keep the adjustment longer and in increasing my strength and stamina. During this period of time significant changes have occurred.
I can now ride three kilometers in ten minutes, that is two kilometers in six point six minutes.
My balance has greatly improved since November 2001. I can now pick up awkward objects in both hands and in my own way walk with them without falling over or leaning heavily on something. This is a complete turnaround in my ability of the previous twenty years or so.
For more than fifteen years I could not stand up and lift one foot off the ground without losing my balance and falling over. Now I can lift both feet together and jump off the ground a little.
I could not run or jog but now I can attempt to slowly trot a little. Tragic for the athletic youth that I once was, but now I'm slowly fighting back.
Easy bush-walking is back on the agenda, much to my wife's delight. When we visited our bush getaway cabin in June 2002 I surprised myself with my progress to date. My ability to walk a short distance un-aided has improved further, walking over rough ground using just my sticks (bush-walking) was un-real, carrying things, eating out doesn't worry me anymore as the tremor is all but gone. I can drink without a straw, hot or cold, I can feel the difference. I can still shave without seeing red. The list goes on in this positive manner. I my-self am totally impressed. Gob Smacked.
The promise that I made to my wife in November 2001 of us being able to dance together again before the end of the year I kept. It was my 50th Birthday. We danced together for the first time in nearly twenty years.
The promise that I made to myself of being M/S symptom free within ten years I am working on in earnest and winning so far.
Just recently though, July 2002, I thought things might start going bad again because I have just experienced the worst bout of Flu in my entire life. It lasted for three weeks, I lost three kilos in weight but none of my new found abilities. Just a mere cold would have been enough to affect my legs and balance before November 6th 2001 but I took this on the chin and beat it with no drugs and no negative affects, in fact quite the opposite has happened, it seems to have had a positive effect.
Only the second week back at training saw me achieve, not ten, not nine, but eight minutes forty seven seconds for a 3K bike ride. That is in fact under six minutes for 2K. I have achieved the goal I set myself for Christmas. Five months early. Now I suppose Nicky is going to say 4K in ten minutes by Christmas.
I will soon be able to qualify for the Aussie Cycle Racing Team at this rate. Stationary only though.
As I do my warm-up on the rowing machine, I think to myself that I am rowing on the river Thames in London, going under Chelsea Bridge, London Bridge, Tower Bridge etc etc and increasing my speed each time. I hadn't made very much impression on the ten minutes for 1K that I had set myself because of my lower back pain. But as the adjustments and training continued, so did my resolve to break the ten minute barrier. A few weeks ago I did it. I rowed my way into my record book with a time well under ten minutes.
Due to the weekly regime of the bodybuilding exercise at Reactiv8, and thanks to the dedication of Nicky and Becky, I have continued to improve at an astounding rate of knots.
I have now been receiving the "Atlas Orthogonal" adjustment for twelve months and have had a total of fourteen adjustments in that period of time. It began at one per week for the first month or so before Christmas 2001.
In February 02 the training started with Nicky at "REACTIV8" and the improvement has progressed to the stage that the adjustment is now only needed every five to six weeks. The turn around in the state of my health can be attributed not only to the "Atlas Man" and his adjustment procedure, which has afforded me some incredible results, but also to Nicky and Becky at REACTIV8 and their selfless dedication to what must have seemed like an impossible task in the beginning. They have helped my body recuperate and retain the adjustment for longer periods of time, increased my overall strength which has had a very positive effect on my sense of balance and increased energy, stamina and stability, and the improvement in me continues to amaze my Doctor whom I am seeing less of these days.
I know that I have a long road to travel before I am 100 percent. But, with my Wife and Son beside me (love and encouragement). My friends for life behind me (pushing and urging me on) and my parents / brothers, best friend and extended family supporting (pulling) me through this and my own strong will and determination, together we will win this, the biggest battle of my life. My motto through life has been; do not take risks, never give up, do unto others as you would have them do unto you and above all else love life.
You only get one shot at it.
 
Let (*The Atlas man*) do the shooting.
All this and more has happened because of one mans own experience and his genuine concern for the wellbeing of others. Greg Buchanan is a man of few words but has a strong belief in things of a positive, and natural nature. He does not discount the need for medical intervention but abhors the reluctance of the Medical Profession for not recognizing the beneficial qualities of this proven practice.
For this opportunity to regain my health and the very real possibility of beating Multiple Sclerosis all together with gentle non-invasive drug free treatment, I am eternally grateful.
I never doubted this positive method and *The Atlas Man* has my undying gratitude.
Thankyou Joe.
Thoughts and opinions are all my own and are not influenced by outside interests in any way, shape or form.
Thank God someone has brains and is using them.
 
Steve
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NEW My Story  updated
November 6th 2006
 
This update is 5 years after my initial AO adjustment.
 
I continue to improve steadily but have reduced my fitness regime rather drastically over the past six months because of work commitments and a lack of self motivation. I have been the victim of being content with my progress to date and therefore sitting back on my laurels as it were. One trap that must not be fallen into. Although I have not suffered with any setbacks because of it, I must get back into the fitness training.
 
I have since been to see my family in UK, the first time in 21 years. They were all amazed at my progress and are still shaking their heads. 
 
None of this would ever have happened had it not been for, firstly, Greg (God's Messenger) who had an unshakable belief and Joe (Gods Instrument) who has the desire, and of course never to forget (Gods Angel) Jenny who told me about Greg in the first place. I would have been in a Wheelchair by now, with the future looking grim.
They all have my thanks and undying gratitude.
 
Although I am not out of the woods as far as M/S is concerned, I am on top of the World in comparison.
 
Through my personal triumphs and endeavours of the past five years due to this Atlas adjustment by your specialist Chiropractor in Australia, Joe Ierano, which is still largely ignored by the Medical profession, I hope that I have achieved some recognition amongst us ordinary folk for this largely unrecognised profession.
 
Whilst in the UK we did a bit of sightseeing, as is the usual practise, but things have changed so much over there that, to be quite honest, it wasn't the same. After a short time we went to Bavaria in Germany and that is where the things concerning my recovery and their lasting results really shone through. The weather in both the UK and Germany was incredible, and so was I.
 
Everything we did I coped with easily. Never once did I have even a hint of losing my balance anywhere. I walked where the majority of people with M/S wouldn't even contemplate. We navigated spiral staircases, some very tight and narrow, steep, steep hills both up and down eg Schloss Neuschwanstein, and they said King Ludwig was MAD. Nothing ventured nothing gained. I won't die wondering now.
 
We took the cable car to the top of the Zugspitze (highest mountain) in Bavaria, over 3000m. It was the clearest viewing day up there for over 12months and we could see for 300 Kilometres. The temperature was only 5 degrees but there was no wind and the sky was clear. A perfect day. It had been ordered just for us I'm sure. Incredible.
Everything else during our stay was terrific.
 
How was the travelling??
No problem at all going over, I made sure that we both did regular walking around the plane (only on the inside) so as not to get stiff as there is not enough room in economy to move in your seat without knocking your neighbour out.
 
Coming home we had the same routine with a 2hr break in Singapore so the trip didn't take anything out of us initially. Jet Lag caught up with us as soon as we got home though. Recovery back to normal took a week. Aside from that everything else was normal.     
 
I went down to see Joe and told him how much short I was in the right leg which he verified as correct and corrected the misalignment. Everything is AOK.
 
If anyone has any doubts about what I am saying, especially young people just diagnosed with M/S who have experienced head or neck trauma whilst playing sport, especially a contact sport like Rugby League, (I could name two well known Queenslanders who would definitely benefit from AO, initials AL and WL and they are great mates) or anyone just having had a fall, please, Make all this worthwhile, make my day and your life better, see an AO Chiropractor. It is Non-Invasive, Drug Free and will change your life. It has changed mine, why not yours.
 
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