indeed--Don’t waste money on charlatans. You may find that the best therapists will be willing to give you an initial visit inexpensively or free, to see if you can get benefit. The School for Self-Healing does not claim to be able to cure ALS. In fact, Meir Schneier says there is little he can do to help with the breathing difficulties. This at first left me feeling like, “What’s the point? The breathing is critical. Why maintain the body if i lose breathing?"
But the massage therapy has been able to help me retain range of motion, limberness, circulation, and hope. One way of looking at ALS is that it will wreak havoc on your body for a number of years, and then may stabilize. Unfortunately, may PALS are so devastated by the time it is stabilized that they are physically unable or unwilling to maintain life at that level.
Stephen Hawking has been alive for a long time, but at a level that many would find unacceptable.
If you can maintain the body, that’s worthwhile in an of itself. Additionally, you increase the opportunity to benefit from future therapies or from the possibility of it stabilizing at an acceptable level of mobility.
I am well into my fifth year with the disease, and still eating, talking, swallowing, and even walking a little. I traveled to SFCA to get this therapy, found it beneficial, and invited them to NC. I found them; they didn’t fid me, which makes me more confident in their credibility,