This welcome guide explains how to treat tics and Tourette syndrome using natural and alternative therapies, with a focus on environmental medicine and nutritional and dietary therapy. The status of behavioral and counseling therapies, EEG biofeedback, homeopathy, bodywork, energy medicine, and Chinese medicine as approaches are explored. Author Sheila Rogers DeMare discusses a range of
This welcome guide explains how to treat tics and Tourette syndrome using natural and alternative therapies, with a focus on environmental medicine and nutritional and dietary therapy. The status of behavioral and counseling therapies, EEG biofeedback, homeopathy, bodywork, energy medicine, and Chinese medicine as approaches are explored.
Author Sheila Rogers DeMare discusses a range of categories of tics including spasmodic facial movements, eye blinking, mild sounds and vocalizations. She persuasively counters the medical establishment’s standard claim that such disorders are “mysterious” and based only in genetics. The dramatic spike in cases, she argues, belies this explanation. Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette’s takes a closer look at the environmental factors and underlying physical imbalances that trigger these conditions’ symptoms.
In this second edition to Tics and Tourette’s: Breakthrough Discoveries in Natural Treatments, DeMare offers a detailed natural treatment plan. No more will patients have to rely on traditional, drug-based treatments that often carry multiple side effects.
In eight sections, the book offers advice from medical experts, the latest reports in medical research, a checklist of common tic triggers, inspirational stories from families who have successfully conquered tics and Tourette’s, and practical worksheets for readers to use in their treatment and research. Each of the 23 chapters includes a place for notes and “Takeaway Tips” summarizing key points.
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Fantastic resource for those who are not satisfied with the American medical approach to treating tics This is a great book that I highly recommend to parents who have children with tics. As someone who was dissatisfied with the doctors’ advice that “tics are hereditary, there’s nothing you can do, take these drugs, go away” this book really helped me explore alternative ways to help my 6-year-old. (He did try clonodine and had bad side effects, so we stopped it after 11 days.) This book led us to a gluten-free/dairy-free diet, some testing that turned up high levels of yeast and bad gut…
A good starting place to understand triggers This book has been helpful suggesting possible triggers for tics and TS. It also gave us new solutions to explore. What helped most was reading about other families whoâve nearly eliminated symptomsâthat gives us so much hope! Tic disorder can feel overwhelming to kids. This book gave us encouragement that things can change. We are still in process of discovering triggers, but itâs nice having suggestions and encouragement along the way.
A must for those learning about tic disorders. This book is a wonderful start for anyone who has a tic disorder or whose family member has a tic disorder. I think every person should listen to the advice in this book before turning to synthetics medications. It helped me identify my son’s triggers and find ways of eliminating them. I would have liked some more detail in some areas, but I guess the book would have been twice its existing size. Still, it is a great buy which helped me understand this mysterious condition.