[Vickie]

Great Dougt, The response from the exercises will increasingly give you immediate feedback. Then your body will return to the existing default position. The more frequently and consistently you make the movements, make the request of these new tension agreements, the more your body will begin to comply on a regular basis. This means that in the short run the relief of symptom is short but as the changes become more permanent you aleviate the source for the problem. Muscle tensions change with immediate attention. The structural changes comply slowly as many more factors have to change.

Keep up the work and don't be discouraged when you feel like you have become 'stuck' or like no progress is being made; often referred to as a plateau. This is when your body is making permanent committments to the new changes and if you keep up the work you will find that eventually, hopefully sooner than later, the progress picks back up.

Also, don't stop as soon as you think you are out of trouble. Your body will need some time to be reminded that you want these changes to be permanent and will create a new default. Often people begin when the pain disappears only to find it comes back in a few days or weeks. It doesn't mean 'it' didn't work but that there was no reason for the body to stay committed since you didn't.

I'd like to know what you are doing with the physical therapist, so as not to be redundant, and add the next level of work if you like.

Glad you are enjoying some relief. Vickie