Scoliosis & Ehlers Danlos Treatment

Imagine waking up each day, noticing your posture getting just a little worse. Your lungs and heart feeling just a little weaker as your ribcage twists & squeezes just a little more. Your fingers & toes are numb & turn grey because your circulation is being cut off by your own spinal column. You can't stand for long because your hip and back feel like they're on fire; there's a constant, nagging, digging crick that never goes away. You can't ever speak loudly because there's not enough air. You can't exercise too strenuously, or you'll start gasping and turn red and then blue. And you can forget about even trying to blow up a balloon with your breath. This is life with scoliosis. I know, I know:

I have severe scoliosis with an S-curve & a twist at one end & a hump at the other (I was the Hunchback of North Central College).


I don't like to complain, so not too many people know this, but I've had a ton of really annoying health issues since childhood - unexplained tiredness & pain & weakness & sometimes scary memory fog where I forget entire events, physical problems speaking (hard to explain - it's like my brain moves too fast for my body), debilitating migraines, the inability to regulate my temperature, weak lungs, poor circulation, stomach problems, moderate-severe scoliosis, hypertension, the beginnings of arthritis, frequent respiratory infections, a deviated septum, depression that I've only ever told three people about until now; and last summer I was diagnosed with a rare, incurable, genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos (EDS) to bring it all together. It means that any part of me that has collagen/cartilage is defective. Awesome. Want an example? Below is my hand. Bent backwards. I could never get enough of grossing my friends out with that one, or of bending my thumbs ALL the way back :P


Anywho, I have huge amounts of medical bills after all my tests & procedures, but my main goal in starting this fundraiser is to get enough money for Scoliosis Bootcamp. It includes a brace & lifestyle/posture/exercise changes specifically tailored for me. 

You can learn more about it at http://www.treatingscoliosis.com/ or by checking out one of their brochures or reading the reviews of real people here or here or seeing results here. 

Thusands of people, if not hundreds of thousands, around the globe have been coming to America for the past few years to attend Scoliosis Bootcamp for week-long sessions of spinal reconditioning. There are locations around the country, and I'm lucky enough to have one nearby in Milwaukee! I've now read hundreds of reviews and personally spoken with dozens of patients who say that this system WORKS! Some people are skeptical because the program is run by a bunch of chiropractors and not surgeons. Chiropractic care is a controversial subject, but so is pretty much anything these days.

My only other option is surgery, which is actually out because of the EDS - our bodies can't handle surgery or recovery very well. Also, two orthopaedic surgeons I visited don't recommend it because adults have a really low success rate.

Again, for more info about me & my health journey, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/jessisfallingapart