Injured Vertebra and NDP

With Kathy Oddenino's permission I have been encouraging my massage clients to try Neural Depolarization. I have a very successful story to share with them, as I will now share with you.

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, my Mom, Mrs. Kathy O'Dea, fell during a walk with my Dad. She fell on her back and the pain throbbed all through her body. As she was assisted back onto her feet, she was asked if anyone could do anything for her, so she asked for a ride home.

She promptly called me to come over and help her, so I dropped everything and was there in 2 minutes.

I had Mom lie on the sofa with cold pressing on the injured area, and we called the doctor, who advised exactly what we were doing, and if the pain began shooting down the leg, get Mom into the Emergency Room. My Mom did not want to go to the ER, but after several hours, she caved in and I called an ambulance since she could not walk. The pain was not traveling down the leg, but was too intense for her to endure any longer. You see, my Mom can be stubborn sometimes, but now she realized that no matter what she did with her body to make it comfortable, her back was hurting worse than anything she has ever experienced.

At the ER, an X-Ray was taken, which showed a compression fracture of the 2nd lumbar vertebra. They gave her pain medicine and sent her home. The pain meds were not working and my Mom was getting more and more frustrated, so she actually asked me to work on her. "Do anything, Honey, I don't care. Just take this pain away," my Mom pleaded with me.

I could not touch the injured area, so using the knowledge that I have learned from Kathy Oddenino, I began at the base of Mom's skull. Ever so gently, I touched this area. I felt the nerves and the upset that was going on in Mom's lumbar area, and I proceeded to work from her head.

My Mom, being a skeptic before this situation occurred, was quite shocked when she felt the energy of the calming nerves go down her spine. When it reached the injured area, Mom was amazed that her pain left. My Mom is a believer now.

I continued to work with Mom every day for almost three weeks. At the suggestion of her primary care physician, she consulted with a specialist who might be able to perform a new procedure called "vertebra plasty" (watching through an X-Ray machine, the doctor inserts needles into the area he intends to work on, then injects a kind of "cement" that glues the bone together, but also increases its height so that it will not impinge on any nerves). The doctor insisted on an MRI to check the status of the injured vertebra before he performed the procedure to make sure that everything was okay. He was very happy about the amount of healing that had occurred in the area when he saw the results. Now he could perform the procedure. On Thursday, April 24th the doctor performed the vertebra plasty. It was successful, and Mom has had fewer and fewer problems since then. Of course, I still work with her once a week, and she's even able to raise her right arm higher than she has for 31 years (from a radical mastectomy)!

As I have worked on my Mom, I have been able to tell her what I feel that is going on in the area, and she has shared with me that is exactly what she felt. She's flabbergasted, happy, and grateful. She had tried, on one occasion, to have my sister "do what Peggie had done" because she had felt bad about me coming over at 5AM. But everything that my sister did produced no results. So Mom caved in and had her call me. My Mom says that she has no idea of what I am doing, but she feels it, and it feels wonderful. She now gives my business cards out to all of her doctors and her physical therapists.

I am grateful to Kathy Oddenino for the training we are receiving in this amazing and beautiful procedure. I am passionate about it, and I have had successes with many other clients. But my Mom stands out. She was a non-believer before, and that has totally changed.

I love this work, I am passionate about it, and I encourage clients who have a difficult time relaxing to engage in it. It has proven to be more successful than massage therapy, because since the nerves are the "brains of the muscles," once the nerves calm down, the muscles follow suit. You don't need a massage after that, although sometimes I may give a gentle massage to the feet at the end of a session. The clients who have tried Neural Depolarization have found this to be true.

Thank you, Kathy, for all that you are teaching us! I want to learn as much as I possibly can and help people to learn to help themselves through Neural Depolarization.

Peggie O'Dea - Annapolis, Maryland