Thanks April, can you tell me more about this Bikram Yoga method? Any
links you can provide would be helpful, thanks again!

- Rob

--- In piriformissyndrome@yahoogroups.com, April Rader
<danapril1@y...> wrote:
> Stroke o luck,
> My name is April and I have had pain with piriformis syndrome, but
mine is held at bay now. I used trigger point therapy on myself,
which help tremendously and after I felt better (got the pain down
from about a 7 to a 2) I started taking Bikram yoga. Now I have no
pain at all and I just drove from Reno to Whidbey Island, WA, which
is a 16 hour drive, in one day. And I didn't have any pain when I got
home or during the drive. I used to not even be able to drive to the
airport without pain and stiffness, and that was only 2 hours.
Really, I can't even believe it myself. I didn't want to do the
traditional Dr. thing myself, as I feel the meds just mask the pain,
and I didn't have enough pain or problems for surgery. (Which I
probably wouldn't do anyway, unless totally incapacitated.) I still
watch the board though, because I know it is still there.
Occasionally I will feel it tighten back up, but I will just make
sure and get back to the Bikram and loosen it back up. The trigger
point
> therapy is what allowed me the most benefit for the time
though.... Good Luck and keep searching, the answer is out there, but
may not be the same answer for each person.
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