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Rotator Cuff Impingement:

H. Randolph Tracy, violinist:  link to article
Concertmaster, Billings Symphony Orchestra
Faculty, Red Lodge Music Festival, Rocky Mountain College

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Back Pain:

I have bean struggling with lower back pain for the past couple of years.  Every time I would get a 'flare-up' the pain was so intense that I could not walk and rolling over in bed was one of the most painful activities I could do.  Most of the doctors I visited with would just send me home with prescriptions that would make the pain subside for a couple of weeks or months.  Then one of my doctors suggested medical massage.  WOW!  A couple of days after my first visit I could see a huge difference.  I was able to stop taking the drugs and I feel much better that I have in years.  Kimberly has truly helped me become me again.  My wife and I are very grateful for the help she has given us.  I have and will continue recommending her to all friends.

-- Doug Wild

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Chronic Migraines:

Before November of 2008, when I began treatment with Kimberly, I had chronic headaches for several years. In the months before treatment, the headaches had progressively gotten worse.  I would wake up with one almost daily , have it all day, and go back to bed at night with the headache. Besides pain, sometimes severe, the headaches also at times caused nausea, dizziness, blurred vision, sensitivity to noise and light, difficulty sleeping and ineffective sleep, mental fogginess -- and always, fatigue, irritability and depression.  Basically it felt like there was a little man with an icepick living inside my skull jabbing away continuously, day after day. The headaches were debilitating. Being a single Mom of 3 kids - ages 15, 13 and 10 - and working full-time 12-hour night shifts as an RN in the Neonatal ICU, life was becoming difficult and overwhelming.
 
I tried various pain medications. Midrin would mask the pain just enough that I could function on a daily basis. I was taking the prescription maximum -- up to 5 capsules on a daily basis. I also was taking Imitrex for the headaches that turned into  totally incapacitating migraines. No other medications helped at all - Motrin, Tylenol, etc. - none of them had any effect.

I also having chiropractic treatments routinely - which had minimal effect on the headaches.
 
After the first 2 treatments from Kimberly I noticed much improvement, but it was after the 3rd treatment that I noticed a drastic change: the headaches were gone. I stopped needing any pain medication. My mental outlook totally changed - the mental fogginess was gone, sleep was greatly improved, the fatigue was lifted and I felt like I had been given a new outlook on life.  It felt like a 500 pound weight had been lifted off of my head and shoulders. I remember telling Kimberly that I was smiling A LOT more - because it no longer 'hurt' to smile. I hadn't realized prior to pain relief that the reason I rarely smiled was because it physically hurt to smile - secondary from the chronic pain. It was and is still amazing to me - the difference between how I was feeling prior to treatment and how I have felt since. 
 
It has been 8 months since my first treatment - and I remain basically headache free. Freedom from chronic pain has been life-changing for me and I will be forever grateful for Kimberly's work, and for her focus and dedication to helping those who are in the prison of chronic pain. I have referred others to her and will continue to because I know she can make a difference in their struggle with pain.  

-- Tracey Duncan, Billings, Montana