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50’s. Polio vaccines were not
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As a child, I had to wear braces for a few years but with
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completely and even became a professional dancer. In the last ten years or so I
started having many symptoms and was prescribed meds that I didn't take or if I
did I had more side effects than relief. I am very grateful that, with the help
of a Rheumatologist, I discovered that I was suffering from PPS.
Very few doctors and therapist know how to treat PPS, other
than to prescribe more medications and the wrong exercises.
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