I am not familiar with Reiki. What is it?

New age hippie stuff.

Ok, it's actually and ancient Japanese form of "healing." It's classified as a type of massage but is more a "laying of hands." It involves using universal energy to promote mental and physical wellbeing and to help the body heal itself.

It has shown some benefits in MS but the studies have been very limited.

If nothing else, I hope it helps me relax a little.

Hi Jessica. My cousin practices Reiki and although I've never had it done on me, I've watched her 'use' it (don't know of a better term) several times on my father when he was dying of cancer back in 2005.

What I was able to witness was amazing. It provided him pain relief and relaxed him like no other meds could. It made a believer out of me at the time.

Well, it sounds interesting.

Hi

Interesting, let us know how it went.

Alma

Try doing a search on Reiki in the search engine of MS group. There is alot of posts, positive ones, about this treatment. Good Luck, and keep us posted on how it goes and how you feel after.

Well darn it. She's not feeling good so I'll have to wait until next week for this wonderful Reiki session. Sounds like it's Monday or Thursday of next week now.

As a former Director of a Massage Therapy school, I had this done quite often. I never felt better. If you like it you can continue and if you don't mo harm and no foul.

Good Luck!

This might work better than PT. I have not been having good luck with PT so I was thinking about going more new age or something holistic. Thanks for this reminder. I will look into it.