Leslie is AMAZING. My story is long and detailed but, I have brain injuries from my atlas being so tilted and twisted for so long. It was Dr. Windman, from a good friend from a tbi site's recommendation, who started me on my real path of healing. I had learned from another informed doctor about 8 months prior to meeting her that my 3 years of progressively debilitating every day, all day migraines (16 months of pushing myself and all the while losing more and more abilities until eventually I could no longer push myself and then 14 months of profound, often bed-bound, in a dark room mind-melting pain and skill disability) were actually just symptoms of a deteriorating and destabilized neck that was compromising the nerves that fed my brain what it needed to function and grow. A neck that was injured very badly while caretaking a family member. So I was beginning to feel some sense of myself through my other doctor's correct assessment (the first real one after 7 wrongly diagnosing doctors) and starting to think more clearly. But, it was Dr. Windman and her husband's xrays that showed me my complete damage. And it was Dr. Windman and her ao procedure that had me get up from the table without migraine after having had the same migraine for 3 years 8 months. Within 2 weeks I was reading and memory was returning (I had almost no memory for the previous 2 years), within 3 my moods were stabilizing. My brain started thinking faster. My intelligence started improving. I was able to start driving short distances, my disorientation and dizziness drastically improved. I have been seeing her weekly ever since. I have had a few set backs but she is there every step of the way, showing me new things to help reverse all the damage of those horrific years. I still have brain injuries and my bones learned to pop out and lock up after all that trauma, but I am learning and improving weekly and without this wonderful woman I would still be stuck back in the half-life I had. I avoided a surgery that my other doctor was encouraging. There is no need for it now (it was a nerve-neck release surgery that would have been uncovered by insurance).
Each day I am gaining new skills and finally my brain has what it needs to start repairing all that damage. I am working on postural therapies that Dr. Windman has suggested. She also is amazing with cranial sacral work and every week my brain frees itself again after locking up when I do activities that I could not do at all for those previous years. She patiently puts back the parts that have fallen out again and teaches me more to help me learn how to improve. I am getting stronger each month.
It is a reversal of my first year of progressively bad health. It's amazing to feel. I may never reverse all the brain injury that occurred during those dark years, but my chances of gaining a new life have improved substantially because I went to this ao practice and this wonderful doctor. read more
