Janice Hadlock-Walton's work?

[JS852]

Has any one read and followed Janice Hadlock-Walton's work on Parkinsons? Her theory is, a small in part, that sufferers have a dissonance (disconnect) from their pain or are "stuck on pause"? I may not be representing her work well but she is no longer seeing clients and I have been reading her work to understand my husband's PD.

[MBAnderson]

Here are some reviews from people who've been through her program.

forum.parkinson.org/topic/5...

[CuriousMe12 in reply to MBAnderson]

I can't access that.Wonder if she's had the page removed

[MBAnderson in reply to CuriousMe12]

apparently so

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"The really disappointing aspect of the program is that Janice essentially "blames the victim" for not completely recovering, claiming that if a person can overcome emotional issues that block full recovery, full recovery is possible. In other words, there is no flaw in her system. "

This is almost always a red flag, and reminds of some the "therapies" or "treatments" that are routinely promoted on HU. Not going to mention any names.

Advocates for treatments that actually work (both PD specific like DBS and C/L - in my mind they 'work' even if they don't slow/stop/reverse the underlying disease progression, people wouldn't use them in such large numbers if they didn't - and other stuff like chemo or radio or ibuprofen or the flu vaccine or...well, pretty much any legitimate treatment you can think of, really) are usually among the first to acknowledge that there will be individuals that do not benefit from the treatment. We accept this as yet another quirk of the complexities of the human body and medicine.

People pushing treatments that are purported to work for absolutely everyone with the relevant condition are often deluded (at best).

[LAJ12345]

I read it a while back. I think she wasn’t treating people if they had taken C/L for more than a week ever?? Or something like that?

[park_bear in reply to LAJ12345]

As I recall she refused to treat anyone who had ever taken any of a long list of medications for more than three weeks on any occasion in their entire life. The list included Parkinson's medications. As a result of this she would mainly have treated people with mild symptoms. In such cases placebo effect could look like a cure.

[park_bear]

Her latest is here:

pdrecovery.org/wp-content/u...

It is so full of nonsense on every level one hardly knows where to begin. It repeats her claim that Parkinson's can be due to foot injury: " being stuck in normal, biological dissociation from a foot or ankle injury"

Here is a doozy: " The reason their Parkinson’s symptoms appeared is not that their dopamine levels had dropped. We[sic] now know that people have more than enough dopamine at the time they are first diagnosed with Parkinson’s."

Another: " People with Parkinson’s haven’t used dopamine for motor function for decades –sometimes since childhood."

More: " Researchers in the field of Parkinson’s have repeatedly disproved the hypothesis that idiopathic Parkinson’s is caused by the inexplicable death of dopamine-producing cells."

By way of reference for this she cites a science daily report of this study: "Three Mechanisms by which Striatal Denervation Causes Breakdown of Dopamine Signaling" jneurosci.org/content/34/37... which contradicts rather than supports her claim.

Hadlock is a source of misinformation.

[lenamm]

I recommend not reading her work if you have taken any medication as she pretty much tells you that you have destroyed your brain.

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Imagine what she thinks of PTT 😂

[LAJ12345]

Yep I decided it sounded a little implausible so ignored it.

[Trailing]

I just came across your post. And was wondering, even though you got many negative remarks previously from others, what was you opinion after reading her book?