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Mickel and Reverse Therapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - update

I have received a steady flow of emails about these therapies since putting this article online in October 2004, and a number of questions do come up regularly.

FAQs about Mickel and Reverse Therapy

Which company?

Many people ask about the differences in the treatment offered by the two companies, Mickel Therapy Ltd and Reverse Therapy (UK) Ltd. For information on that you'll need to contact the companies themselves. I am not a spokesman for either company. Both Dr Mickel and Dr Eaton have now published books on their therapies which may or may not go some way towards answering this question (I've not read these books myself).

How is your Chronic Fatigue syndrome now?

In short, GONE! It is now several years since my last session. I began part time working in September 2004, then signed off Incapacity Benefit and in January 2005 started working full time. So for several years I have worked a full time job, I sleep and eat normally, and have spent the last four years rebuilding my Victorian house. To all intents and purposes I am fully recovered from M.E / CFS! The only difference in my health is that I still get occassional headaches and neckaches. These are not M.E / CFS headaches but a kind of whiplash effect from the assault which caused my illness in the first place. I have found cutting Tea and Wheat completely out of my diet has made a dramatic improvement in these.

I've heard about someone who didn't get better. So isn't this all a con?

Absolutely not. I realise that these therapies have not worked for everyone, and in some cases progress may be slow and relapses can occur. Some people understandably give up on their treatment and still being afflicted with M.E./C.F.S. may even believe they have been conned. The point is the treatment worked for me, and a good friend who recovered in 3 sessions. The best proof of this treatment's effectiveness will come when proper clinical trials have been conducted - something I know both companies are keen to see done. There is no doubt in my mind that such studies will show these therapies to be an effective and lasting treatment for M.E / CFS in the majority of cases.

Certainly symptoms can return - particularly as you try new things such as full time working. But I found that by using the messages and responding as quickly and honestly as I could to my symptoms, the tingling muscles, the sore legs, have remained as just that, symptoms and gone away in their own time - they have not triggered the full illness again.

Recently I talked to a friend who is a nurse in a Cancer ward. She does long hours, frequently distressing work and was having a hard time in her personal life. For a couple of weeks she developed the M.E./C.F.S. type 'head fog' despite never having had M.E./C.F.S. This has passed and hopefully learning from my experience she will never end up developing M.E./C.F.S. It is however instructive that the head fog is how the body/mind reacts under stress when the body/mind feels a problem has not been adequately dealt with. So I may well be getting M.E./C.F.S type symptoms at different times throughout my life - the difference is now I know how to respond to them.

Can you reccomend a therapist?

Unfortunately not! I only know of two personally, both in the South West of the UK. As I said earlier in the article I would look for someone local to you to minimize the effects of travelling to your therapist. Also before booking your first session you could talk to your local therapist, by phone or email. Hopefully this will give you the confidence that your therapist understands your illness and will not be expecting you to become a totally different person in order to recover.

What is the biochemistry / pathology involved in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

Again for that see either the websites of the two companies, or contact either Dr Mickel or Dr Eaton who know far more about biochemistry than I ever will - trust me, I am not a doctor!

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