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"I had never had a massage in my life, but through a friend who had received help at ITM I went for a free evaluation. I had been suffering from severe right leg pains for almost two years. Prescribed medication and therapy hadn't helped. At this point I was willing to try anything. I couldn't believe the results from that visit. Through massage, the problem areas were pinpointed and I went back a week later for my first appointment. By the end of the second appointment I was free of the constant pain, and stopped taking pills altogether. In the days following my third visit I could get up out of a chair without having to do it in installments. After a two week break over the holidays, I started a three-week program of daily massage. By the end of the first week the swelling in my legs had diminished to the point I could make out my knees. I have now completed the second week, and the soles of my feet feel like I am walking on sponges. The other night I realized I was not only feeling my feet, as feet, for the first time in years, but because of the diminished nightly swelling in my ankles, my feet had shapes. I still occasionally have some pain, but to have come from complete agony to the state I'm in now is a miracle. I still have hurdles to conquer, but I truly believe that through this kind of therapy I'm beginning to get my life back."

Dorothea M. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

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