• numbness or weakness in the limbs
• lack of coordination
• unsteady gait
• fatigue and dizzness
• severe pain
  

When Montel Williams was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, he described his primary symptom as pain: “I’ve got pain from my shins to my feet, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and it’s been there for the last 10 years.”

 
Montel's interview with Oprah Winfrey

Then the pain spread to Montel’s face. “It literally feels like you’re taking a fork and stabbing me right now.  And when asked how he deals with the pain, Montel said: “I bundle up the pain and keep it in a box, so I can deal with other things.”

”There was this time, Montel said, that I went into my closet and put a gun in my mouth.  I just wanted to stop the pain.  {However}, the only thing that stopped me from doing this was the fact {that} I had very small children in the house.”

From Montel’s description of his disease, one can easily appreciate how devastating this disease can be.

Many MS patients, unable to withstand the incessant, unrelenting pain resulting from MS, become depressed and have suicidal thoughts.  In fact, a leading cause of death in MS sufferers is suicide.

However, what is of paramount importance to MS patients is that many of their severe symptoms may not be due to MS.  That is, I have seen many MS patients who concurrently have Rothbarts Foot, an embryological foot structure present at birth. This foot structure, if left untreated, can lead to many of the same symptoms attributed to MS.

When these MS patients are treated for the Rothbarts foot (a therapy referred to as Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy or RPT) they dramatically improve.  The numbness in their limbs decrease, their coordination improves, their gait becomes more steady, their fatigue decreases, and most importantly, their muscle and joint pain decreases. 

One may ask, how can this occur?  Is RPT a cure for multiple sclerosis?  The answer is an empathic no!  What is happening is that RPT eliminates the symptoms resulting from the Rothbarts Foot.  These patients still have MS, but they dramatically feel and function better because the symptoms resulting from their foot structure are eliminated. (To learn more, listen to my interview with Coach Marla Matindale where I discuss the link between Multiple Sclerosis and Rothbarts Foot structure.)

So how can a MS patient determine if he also has Rothbarts Foot?  A very common symptom of Rothbarts Foot is a forward head position.  As you can see in Montel’s photographs above and below, he definitely has a forward head position.

Montel's Forward Head Position

However, not all people with a forward head position have Rothbarts Foot.  If you would like to determine if you have Rothbarts Foot, take the Rothbarts Foot Questionairre.

Professor/Dr. Brian A. Rothbart
Chronic Pain Elimination Specialist

Discovered the Rothbarts Foot and PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity
Developer of Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy
Designer of Rothbart Proprioceptive Insoles
Founder of International Academy of Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy
Author of Forever Free From Chronic Pain

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