Allergies	Brain Injury	Fibromyalgia	Psoriatic Arthritis
Arthritis (osteoarthritis)	Chemical Sensitivities	Headaches	Unexplained Symptoms
Attention Deficit Disorder	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	Hormonal Problems	Vertigo
Autism	Chronic Pain	Hypoglycemia
Auto-Immune Disorders	Digestive Problems	Multiple Sclerosis
Back & Neck Pain	Discoid Lupus	Obesity

This list of examples is by no means complete. The cases described here illustrate Dr. Yanuck’s style of practice, and the possibilities that are available when insights from several diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are drawn together into an integrated approach.

People often ask "Do you treat this...?" in reference to their problem. Since 1992, Dr. Yanuck has helped people with all kinds of problems. Where appropriate, he provides the primary or sole diagnosis and treatment approach. In other cases, Dr. Yanuck participates in the patient’s care in concert with other physicians whose roles are also critical to the patient’s well-being.

Because each patient’s needs are different, there is no standard program applied in every case. What these cases demonstrate is the power of identifying the specific needs of each patient and supplying the correct treatment for that patient’s unique needs. What will work for you may be entirely different. The key is systematically diagnosing your unique situation, and providing you with the right combination of treatment elements to restore you to the fullest possible level of function and abundant health.


Allergies
Jean had had severe allergies for decades. Her sinuses were always inflamed. She always had post-nasal drip. Her energy level was low, she was cranky, and she ached all over. Because allergies are primarily a problem involving the body chemistry, Jean’s treatment mostly involved nutritional factors. She took herbs that reduced her histamine level and healed the mucous membranes in her sinuses. She stopped eating certain foods that stirred up her immune response and increased her mucous production. She took certain vitamins that the body uses to break down histamine and clear it out of her system. And she took a vitamin that reduces the body’s sensitivity to environmental irritants. Her allergies, which had been a major source of stress and discomfort, became something she noticed only occasionally, in the background of her daily activities.

Jean’s allergies were caused by responses to environmental factors like pollens. Some people’s allergies are related to foods. Still other people have sensitivities to perfumes or other chemicals. And of course, some people have several of these problems together. All these problems can be addressed successfully with proper treatment.


Arthritis (osteoarthritis) (2 Cases)

Diane - Arthritis in the Hip
Diane is a fifty eight year old woman who came to my office with arthritis in her left hip. She had been told that her hip was simply wearing out, and that she could expect it to get worse, until the point when she’d need to have it replaced. She brought x-rays that had been taken, which showed that she clearly had some degeneration of her left hip joint.

A detailed examination revealed that Diane’s hip muscles weren’t stabilizing her hip joint properly. Diane had a problem with the muscles that flex the hip to bring the leg forward during walking. When she walked, these muscles weren’t stabilizing her hip joint, so she was getting excess wear and tear in the joint. When joints move the right way, they don’t wear out. When they move the wrong way, they wear out.

Diane’s treatment involved correcting the neurological control of her hip muscles, using specific neurological rehabilitation techniques, so that her hip joint could move correctly. When the problem with her hip muscles was corrected, her hip joint could move correctly, and her hip pain resolved. In addition, her hip joint stopped wearing out. It stayed at the level of wear that was present when her treatment began, rather than declining further.

John - Arthritis of the Hands
John is a sixty year old man with arthritis in both hands. His mother had had the same condition, with significant disability later in her life.

John’s history revealed a tendency toward problems related to inflammation, which made his arthritis flare up. But he had tried many different herbs and medications to reduce inflammation, none of which had been of much help. The details of John’s history suggested that a particular nutritional substance might be particularly useful in reducing the specific mechanism that was driving John’s inflammation. When I gave him that specific nutritional substance, the pain in his hands disappeared. As long as he takes that substance, his hands don’t hurt, and the arthritis in his finger joints doesn’t progress.


Attention Deficit Disorder
Kenny is a boy with attentional problems. Though it was clear that he was a well meaning child who wanted to please his parents, he was often agitated and had trouble keeping himself on track. He did poorly in school, and carried an ongoing feeling of frustration. He knew that he was capable of better function, but didn’t know how to achieve it.

Attentional problems are almost always caused by several factors. This fact is critical to understand, because it means that trying any single approach is unlikely to work. Indeed, kenny’s attentional problems were caused by a combination of neurological, biochemical, and meridian system problems. His parents had tried several things, one at a time. No single treatment had worked. What Kenny needed was an approach that encompassed an understanding of as many factors as possible, especially those that were at the core of his problem.

Kenny’s neurological exam revealed that the right side of his cerebral cortex was not functioning adequately. The nerve cells there were not as active as the nerve cells in the left side of his cortex. The right cortex is responsible for the brain’s ability to hold its attention on a single task. Kenny couldn’t keep his mind focused on a task, because the part of his right brain responsible for that function was not functioning adequately.

In addition, Kenny had several biochemical problems, some related to the balance of the neurotransmitters (the chemicals that nerve cells in the brain uses for signaling), and some related to food allergy responses. Most notably, Kenny was allergic to cow’s milk. In some cases, the proteins in cow’s milk are converted by the body into substances called caseomorphins. These are morphine-like substances that create profound difficulties in brain function. When Kenny would drink milk or consume other foods made from milk (cheese, yogurt, etc.) he would have profound difficulties with concentration, mood, and behavior.

When Kenny rehabilitated his right cerebral cortex, eliminated the dairy from his diet, and restored the balance of his neurotransmitters, his brain function improved drastically.


Autism
Richard first came to my office at age five. He spoke in single words only, never made eye contact, threw tantrums, and was socially withdrawn. He had been diagnosed with autism. I conducted a history and neurological examination. His neurological exam indicated that he needed more stimulation of his left cerebral cortex, which I provided with gentle mobilization of his spine. This was reinforced with specific left cortex stimulation exercises that Richard did with his mom at home. Because he needed targeted stimulation of only one side of his cortex, the more general therapy he had been doing had not been helpful. Changing to one-sided stimulation targeted at his left cortex made a big difference. In the ten months after he started care in my office, he made twenty-one months of developmental progress, based on his occupational therapist’s assessments.

Richard is ten now. He has made remarkable progress, and functions at close to a normal level. He engages in complete conversations, builds toy constructions, draws, plays with other kids, and leads the life of a ten year old boy. Chatting with Richard and seeing how present he has become is one of the great joys of my life.


Auto-Immune Disorders (3 cases)

Gail - Multiple Sclerosis
Gail has MS, of the relapsing remitting form. When she first came to see me, Gail had significant deficits in certain neurological functions, as well as a tendency for her body to shift into inflammatory responses far too easily. Over the course of several years, I worked with Gail to address issues that arose in the ebb and flow of her disease process, supporting neurologic function where it needed support, quieting inflammation where it needed to be controlled. Overall, Gail was usually symptom free. Her exacerbations didn’t last as long as they previously had, her remissions lasted longer, and when she did have an exacerbation, her symptoms were less intense. When she moved out of state, she carried with her the knowledge and skill with which to manage her disease effectively.

Brandy - Discoid Lupus
Brandy has Lupus. She was a fit young woman in her twenties, though she smoked, and ate lots of fast food because of a high pressure job that didn’t give her much time to herself. Her neurological and acupuncture meridian system examinations were entirely normal. However, her nutritional assessment showed several body chemistry influences that were driving her system into a state of excessive inflammation. Since the problems in Lupus are caused by inflammation, her body’s tendency to get inflamed too easily and too strongly made her condition much worse.

I treated Brandy primarily by changing factors that influence her body chemistry. I gave her an entirely different diet, identified the correct anti-inflammatory herbs and vitamins that matched her own specific situation, and gave her an amino acid that reduced her cravings for nicotine, so it was easier for her to stop smoking. When she made those changes, her body no longer created the chemicals that had been driving her inflammation, and her Lupus went into remission. Though I don’t consider myself to be treating her Lupus, it’s clear that by making strategic changes to normalize her body chemistry, she’s much better able to hand the disease. She still has Lupus, but the changes she made shifted her disease process into a dormant state.

Bob - Psoriatic Arthritis
Bob has psoriatic arthritis. Like Brandy, his condition primarily involved inflammation. When his body chemistry shifted toward making him more inflamed, his symptoms would get worse. But in Bob’s case, his inflammation was driven by allergies. When I took Bob’s diet history, it became clear that he was eating far too much of certain foods, and that he was allergic to these foods. This turns out to be a fairly common effect; one craves and eats foods to which one is allergic. Bob’s treatment centered around reducing his inflammation, but unlike Brandy, the key was that he had to avoid the foods that were driving his immune system into an allergic reaction. Once he quieted his immune response down, his inflammation got much quieter, too. Bob also required some balancing of his spleen acupuncture meridian, which also helped balance his immune system. Like Brandy, Bob still has an autoimmune disorder, but its impact on his daily life is minimal, as long has he keeps his body functioning optimally.


Back & Neck Pain (3 Cases)

Joanne - Back Pain Coming from the Back
Joanne came to my office with a ten year history of back pain and sciatica (pain down the leg). She had seen chiropractors, orthopedists, physical therapists, and others, with mixed results over the years. She was never entirely free of pain, and had grown to think of herself as a "back pain patient." She told me that she wanted my help in "stabilizing her back." I suggested that a better goal might be for her to no longer be a back pain patient. She felt that was unrealistic. With that, we began her examination.

Joanne’s low back pain came from two problems. First, there was chronic inflammation and damage to the ligaments that connect the bottom of her spine (her 5th lumbar segment) with her pelvis (her sacrum and iliac crests). These ilio-lumbar ligaments are an important part of the fabric of connective tissue in the low back, but they are often overlooked diagnostically. The second part of Joanne’s problem was that the area of her spinal cord that controls and stabilizes the muscles of her low back was not working properly, so that the muscles that should have been stabilizing her low back were not doing so.

When I treated the iliolumbar ligaments and restored normal neurological control to the muscles that support her low back, Joanne’s back pain and sciatica resolved.

Mary Anne - Back Pain Coming from the Intestine
Mary Anne came from Virginia to my office. She had been diagnosed with severe degeneration of her last lumbar disk, the one between the bottom of her spine (L5) the top of her sacrum (the middle part of the pelvis). Normally, the disks between your spinal segments are like little water balloons. Her L5 disk was like a felt pad. She announced that she was having back surgery in six weeks and that I should fix her if I could in that time.

Mary Anne’s low back was extremely inflamed. I asked her to take black current oil, an anti-inflammatory essential fatty acid, once per hour. She also appeared to have some substantial disruption of her intestinal function. In some cases, sensation from irritated nerve endings in the intestine will come into the spinal cord and interfere with the control signals that go out of the spinal cord to control the muscles of the abdomen and low back. People with intestinal disruption often have problems with the muscles of the abdomen and low back because of this effect. Observing that Mary Anne had disrupted intestinal function, I asked her to take a substantial amount of glutamine, an amino acid that is often useful in supporting intestinal function.

A week later, Mary Anne returned and announced that her back was entirely gone, as was her long standing intestinal problem. In her case, correcting her intestinal function with the glutamine turned out to be the key factor in her treatment. All the mechanical problems I had identified in her first visit were resolved, once the proper neurological control was restored to the muscles of her low back and abdomen.

June - Neck pain after whiplash
June had been in a car accident several years before coming to my office. Her neck never seemed to get all the way better. It was usually stiff, sometimes sharply painful, and she often had headaches.

June’s neck problem wouldn’t resolve because the muscles that were supposed to be stabilizing her neck were not functioning properly. It was not a matter of her neck muscles not being strong enough. Rather, the neurological control of her neck muscles had been disrupted by the original whiplash injury at the time of her accident. Because this problem had never been corrected, her neck muscles were persistently dysfunctioning, so she got no muscular support for her neck.

Correcting the neurological control of June’s neck muscles was accomplished straightforwardly. She went on to a complete recovery.


Brain Injury
Robert came to my office from Kentucky. He had been working in a furniture factory when there had been a fire there. He had inhaled smoke that was laden with formaldehyde, a chemical used in furniture manufacturing that had been present in the factory. An MRI had already established that his left cortex had been damaged by the combination of inhaling chemical smoke and by the lack of oxygen. Robert had impairments in his ability to think clearly and also had significant dizziness and nausea. He had been told that, because these problems were from the brain damage, they were permanent, and there was nothing that could be done to improve his function.

The key to rehabilitation of the brain is often to identify specific activities that stimulate the under-functioning area of the brain, to gently stimulate the nerve cells there to a higher level of function. Robert also took a trace mineral called molybdenum, which the body uses to clear formaldehydes and related chemicals from the system. Robert found that, when he was especially dizzy, he could chew up a tablet of molybdenum and it would cut down hid dizziness substantially.

As Robert’s left cortex rehab progressed and his molybdenum level came up with continued supplementation, his dizziness became milder and milder, and his brain began to work more fully.


Chemical Sensitivities
Elaine was sensitive to a whole range of chemicals and to some molds. Her sensitivities had become progressively worse over time. She’d had to avoid going out, for fear of being exposed to chemicals that would give her brain fog, irritability, dizziness, or headaches. She couldn’t use cleaning products, perfume, or scented soap. She had to avoid places that had new building materials or new carpets.

A detailed history revealed that the chemicals to which Elaine was sensitive were all from one of two chemical types. Laboratory testing revealed that the nutritional substances the body uses to detoxify these chemicals had been severely depleted. Because these are some of the same chemicals the body uses to make energy in your cells, the depletion of these chemicals can cause many of the symptoms of which Elaine was complaining. Replenishing these nutritional substances substantially reduced Elaine’s sensitivities, restored her energy level, and returned her to a more normal life.


Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Bonnie had been suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) for six years when she consulted me. It had come on after a virus, and she’d been exhausted ever since. There was nothing else noteworthy in her history or in any aspect of her examination, except that she had been taking a cholesterol lowering medication for nearly ten years.

Your body’s ability to make energy in all your cells depends on chemical reactions that require specific nutritional factors. In Bonnie’s case, the key factor she was missing was coenzyme Q10, without which she was very vulnerable to fatigue. Because she had been taking a cholesterol lowering medication, her body couldn’t make enough coenzyme Q10. The biochemical pathway that your body uses to make cholesterol is the same one it uses to make coenzyme Q10. So, by blocking that pathway with her cholesterol lowering medication, she lowered her own coenzyme Q10 level to that point that she became more vulnerable to getting CFS. When she began taking coenzyme Q10, her fatigue resolved, and she returned to a normal life.

Though different people with CFS don’t all need coenzyme Q10, it turned out to be the key to Bonnie’s recovery. For other CFS patients the key factors may be quite different, but for all patients, finding and fixing those key factors is at the heart of your successful recovery.


Chronic Pain
Lucy came from Charleston to my office with severe facial pain. She’d had two surgeries on her shoulder, because it had been believed that the pain in her face was referred from her shoulder. The surgeries had not changed her pain.

Lucy’s problem was coming from one of her teeth, an upper rear molar on the same side as her facial pain. I treated her molar using simple acupressure techniques, applied with a particular neurological approach. Her pain disappeared in one session and did not return.

While Lucy’s response was remarkably rapid, eliminating long standing chronic pain is routine in Dr. Yanuck’s practice.


Digestive Problems (3 Cases)

Kim - Ulcerative Colitis
Kim had ulcerative colitis. She’d had it for a decade or so, with flare-ups that were often severe. A detailed history showed that she also had several other problems, all of which involved inflammation, including bursitis in one shoulder and some asthma.

Kim’s intestinal inflammation was driven by several factors. First, I identified several foods she was eating, to which she was allergic. This was increasing the level of inflammation in her intestine and throughout her body. Second, she was eating foods that contained hydrogenated oils, which prevented her body from making its own anti-inflammatory substances.

Kim stopped eating the allergenic foods and the hydrogenated oils. In addition, I asked Kim to take two herbs that significantly reduce inflammation in the intestinal tract. Her colitis improved gradually and moved into the background, where she rarely has a problem with it anymore.

Reina - Diarrhea
Reina had long standing diarrhea. She had been to South America several times and developed the problem after one of her visits. However, treatment with various antibiotics, antifungals and other such substances had been completed long ago, and her diarrhea still persisted. Reina’s diarrhea was a consequence of persistent irritation of her digestive tract, despite the fact that she no longer had any microbial infection there. I gave her a combination of herbs famous in Ayurvedic medicine for restoring digestive health, and her diarrhea went away. Though this was a rather simple case, it illustrates the power of doing the right thing. With the right diagnosis, and a little luck, sometimes the problem resolves quite rapidly and never returns.

Bill - Reflux
Bill came to my office with reflux. He’d had it for two or three years, and tried several medications, none of which seemed to be helping. Bill’s reflux turned out to be caused by an allergy to milk, which he loved and drank all the time. When he stopped drinking milk, his reflux went away. Like Reina, Bill’s digestive problem was easy to resolve. Not all digestive problems are like this.


Fibromyalgia (two cases)

Helen - Fibromyalgia with History of Injury
Helen had chronic headaches, body pain in all her muscles, and severe back pain. It had been going on for several years, usually at a level of intensity she described as "eleven on a scale of ten." She had tried a host of treatments and medications, none of which resolved her pain, though the medication did blunt it for a while. She wanted to be free of the pain, but felt despair that it had been going on for so long, it seemed unlikely to change.

In taking Helen’s history, it became clear to me that her problems began when she was in a car accident many years before. Her body had never really been the same since, and her pain patterns began developing gradually from that point. In some people, old injuries play a critical role in the development of other problems later. In Helen’s case, her old injuries from the accident created changes in the feedback from her body to her brain that made it hard for her brain to control her body movements correctly, like when you get novocaine at the dentist, and you can’t feel your mouth, so you bite your cheek. The changes were subtle, but over time they began to add up and take on a momentum of their own. Eventually, the pain itself altered her movements, so that her system got further and further away from normal, pain free movement.

I treated Helen using a neurological method that extinguishes old pain responses, both by eliminating the pain directly, and by resetting her brain’s control and orchestration of body movement. After the first time I treated her, most of her pain was gone, and has not returned in several years. Though Helen’s response was unusually fast, it is typical of pain patients that I am able to make significant progress in reducing or eliminating their pain, often completely.

Brenda - Fibromyalgia with Inadequate Tissue Healing
Brenda had gradually developed chronic pain in most of her body. Her pain came on without an injury or a surgery. Nothing specific had happened that would explain why her pain began. She was a busy executive at a local computer company, and worked long hours.

Brenda’s problem stemmed from two factors. First, she was chronically sleep deprived. She didn’t spend enough hours sleeping, and her sleep was too shallow. Sleep is critical for repair of your body. Your body makes certain chemicals that repair your tissues, but only makes them in deep sleep (stage 4 sleep). Brenda wasn’t getting nearly enough deep sleep, so she wasn’t making these chemicals, so she couldn’t repair her muscles as fast as they were being damaged by the normal activities of daily life.

Brenda’s second problem was chemical. She lived in an old house that had copper pipes, and her water was relatively acidic. As a result, Brenda’s copper level was quite high. A hair analysis showed both high copper and low manganese. Manganese and copper tend to compete for absorption in the body, so the excessive copper was crowding the manganese out of her body. This was critical, because your body needs manganese to repair the attachments of muscles to bone. Brenda didn’t have enough manganese to effect these repairs.

I gave Brenda a series of simple Chinese exercises that induce deeper sleep. Brenda also began to make time for sleeping longer. In addition, Brenda began taking manganese and other supportive substances, designed to improve tissue repair. Her symptoms gradually improved, and she went on to a full recovery.


Headaches (2 Cases)

Gail - Headaches with Facial Pain
Gail came to my office complaining of sharp knife-like headaches that were exclusively on the left side of her head, above her eye. They would come on with stress and stay for about a day. Gail had no allergies or sinus problems and didn’t complain of sensitivities to perfumes or other odors. She had fallen several years before, and struck her head, but seemed to have no ill effects from it currently.

Gail’s examination revealed that her problem was caused by irritation in a nerve pathway that carries sensation from the face, called the trigeminal nerve. Gail responded very well to a combination of acupressure (no needles) and neurological rehabilitation exercises designed to improve her brain’s ability to turn off pain mechanisms.

Donna - Sinus Headaches
Donna had a headache most of the time. Her history revealed several symptoms that suggested she had food allergies. But Donna had been tested for food allergies several years before, using skin scratch testing, and been told she didn’t have any food allergic responses. The problem with this is that skin scratch testing measures a form of immune system response called an IgE response. Many food allergy responses involve a different immune reaction, called IgG. Sure enough, a serum (blood) test for IgG reactions to foods showed that Donna had several food allergy responses. When she avoided those foods, her sinuses cleared up, and her headaches went away.


Hormonal Problems (2 cases)

Roberta - PMS with Liver Involvement
Roberta had severe PMS. A detailed history revealed that she was especially sensitive to medications. Her stress level was very high, because of her work. The liver has several pathways that are responsible for clearing toxins, medications, and hormones out of the blood. Roberta’s sensitivity to medications was a hint that one or more of the liver pathways that clear medications (and hormones) might not be working fully. When I gave her specific vitamins and amino acids to support those liver functions that were working too slowly, her hormones came back into balance, and her PMS went away.

Lee - An Unusual Case of Infertility
Lee came to my office with a history of three unsuccessful in-vitro fertilizations. Her examination was normal, but her diet was a mess. With some instruction, she cleaned up her diet and stopped eating food additives like hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. Her next in-vitro fertilization was a success.


Hypoglycemia
When Marie came to my office, she had headaches, irritability, menstrual problems, and a host of aches and pains. She complained that she had been feeling progressively worse for the past two years, despite exercising and eating well. She felt that her diet was pretty good, but it turned out that she ate mostly potatoes, bread, pasta, and other carbohydrates. She also drank lots of diet soda. She felt that this diet was better than eating a lot of protein, which she thought was not as good for her. As a result, her blood sugar was unsteady, raising her insulin level abnormally and putting her system into a constant state of stress. The changes in her chemistry also increased her body’s tendency to get inflamed, so she was always achy.

With some experimentation, we quickly hit upon the right combination of dietary changes, vitamins, minerals, and herbal supports to restore Marie to her old healthy self.


Obesity
Eddie came to my office complaining that he could not lose weight, despite years of trying. He had tried an assortment of diets to no avail. Eddie’s history revealed that his body was not burning fat as its main cellular fuel. Instead, his body burned mostly sugar. For example, when he would exercise, the sugar burning effect meant that his cells would pull in sugar from his blood and burn it, so his blood sugar would go down. As soon as he was done exercising, he would need a soda to get rid of the shaky feeling he had at the end of the workout.

Eddie changed his diet around to support his body’s ability to burn fat. We worked on getting him to exercise differently, so that his exercise programmed his body to burn fat more effectively. A blood test also revealed that he was missing specific nutrients that cells use as part of the fat burning process in the Kreb’s Cycle (the cellular energy making cycle). He began taking those nutrients. When these changes were put into place, Eddie made steady progress in his weight loss.


Unexplained Symptoms (2 Cases)

Mark - Rib Pain With a Liver Injury
Mark came to my office from Atlanta. He had been in an accident three years before and hadn’t been "right" ever since. He had no energy, chronic pain, and had become gradually depressed, as his capacity to function had continued to decline over time.

He’d broken the ribs in front of his chest on the right, below his right armpit. The injury had also damaged his liver, and blood work since then consistently showed that his liver function was abnormal. His triglyceride level, for example, was 1200, where normal would be around 100.

Because Mark’s rib and liver injury was so central to the start of his problems, his care focused on fully resolving the neurological and acupuncture meridian system consequences of the injury. In addition, I asked Mark to take schisandra, an Ayurvedic herb important for liver support. Mark went on to a dramatic recovery.

Janet - Rib Pain as an Acupuncture Meridian Problem
Janet presented with an unexplained pain in her ribs below her shoulder blade that had so far lasted four months. She hadn't injured herself, and had no idea why the pain began. She'd had x-rays, an MRI, and other tests to try to identify the problem, without success. An examination of Janet's acupuncture meridian system revealed an imbalance in her gall bladder acupuncture meridian. She had been eating more fatty food in the previous few months, so this made sense once it was identified. With elimination of the fatty foods, and acupressure treatment of her gall bladder acupuncture meridian, Janet's pain was rapidly eliminated.


Vertigo
Kathryn presented with severe dizziness (vertigo). She walked unsteadily, and felt nauseous most of the time. A detailed neurological examination revealed that one side of her cerebellum (an area of her brain that senses motion) was functioning poorly compared to the other. Cells in that side of her cerebellum were weak. This is like having one arm much stronger than the other, but to a much more severe level. As a result, when Kathryn moved her head, one side of her cerebellum would send stronger signals than the other, giving her the feeling that her head was rotating to one side.

Kathryn’s treatment centered around strengthening the weakness in her cerebellum. She did home rehabilitation exercises that created strength and stimulation in her cerebellum. In addition, she took a combination of herbal substances that improved the oxygen level in her cerebellum. This was key, because the cells of the cerebellum need more oxygen than any other cells in the body. Kathryn was also given exercises to improve her breathing, so she could get more oxygen into her cerebellum.

Over the course of three months, Kathryn recovered fully. Her color returned. She was able to walk steadily, and began traveling again.