Emerson M Jou

Medically first thing is to stabilize stroke by controlling risk factors and preventing complications. Second is to prevent another stroke in the future by controlling the risk factors.If partially paralyzed, physical therapy is needed to release tightened muscles/fasciae by light touch (Touch-and-Hold Method) but not by stretching. Strengthening exercise is applied only to the unparalyzed muscles. This is followed by gait and ADL (activity of daily living) training to maximize daily function. Foot brace may be used as needed for control of foot drop due to extension synergy. Occupational therapy is applied to the paralyzed upper extremity to maximize hand function. For aphasia or dysarthria, speech therapy is indicated, but it is not very effective. Recovery of stroke largely depends on recovery of the affected brain cells (neurons), not much can be done to enhance it.    

My answer is yes and no. Inflammation and pain of any kind including rheumatoid arthritis can be relieved by light touch (manual therapy), but never by heat, cold, massage, manipulation, stretching, strengthening, etc. Specifically it is called Touch-and-Hold of The Precision Method detailed in my book "NO MORE PAIN  All Pain Considered - A Breakthrough". Please visit my website: NoMorePainClinc.com. 

ADHD is often diagnosed based on behavioral/psychological evaluation. This is acceptable, yet mis-diagnosis or over-diagnosis cannot be avoided because there is also physical cause. There must be physical sources to have physical symptoms. Although ADHD is commonly recognized as psychological dysfunction, physical factor with subtle soft tissue injury plays an essential role and cannot be totally ignored. In fact, soft tissue injury should be considered as the primary and first-line, if not the most important, focus of diagnosis and treatment, before confining exclusively on psychological/behavioral assessment and counseling. Without removing the obstacle of physical cause, psychological counseling, even medication, yields limited results. This is detailed in my book "NO MORE PAIN  All Pain Considered - A Breakthrough". Please visit my website: NoMorePainClinic.com.   

Physical therapy is provided as indicated/needed/justified based on assessment/evaluation.

Kyphosis is the result of strained muscles/fasciae (in the sequence of importance) in abdomen, rib cage including pectoral muscles, neck flexors and upper back where the hump is. It has nothing to do with the vertebrae except for obvious fracture or defect. Therefore the only effective treatment is to loosen the tightened muscles by light touch, but never stretching or traction. It may take 3-4 hours to correct kyphosis. Surgery with insertion of rod in the spine is a terrible thing to do. Not only does it destruct normal bone structure into irreversible alteration, but also it severely affects daily life into disability by limiting movement/function of the spine. The same is applicable to scoliosis.
This is detailed in my book “NO MORE PAIN All Pain Considered - A Breakthrough”. Please visit my website: NoMorePainClinic.com

Pain medications of any kind only mask pain for a few hour each time but have no therapeutic effect to the source of pain whatsoever, meaning the source of pain remains unimproved. To cure pain, the source of pain must be identified, located and effectively treated. The source of pain lies in the strained soft tissue (muscle/fascia, mostly fascia) outside and around the knee and NEVER the knee joint itself. Knee surgery does not treat or resolve pain but adds more injury/pain instead. Therefore, knee pain prior to surgery remains untreated/unimproved and now more injury/pain from surgery is added to the knee. The injury can be easily located only by palpation (yet physicians routinely fail to do so but relying instead on X-rays/MRI which do not show the injury at all). For knee pain, either prior to or after surgery, the focus should be on the strained soft tissue. Once all injured sites are located, pain can be easily cured by light touch to initiate self-healing internally by the body itself. No other treatments are effective enough to cure pain including all external means (medication/injection, hot/clod, ultrasound, electrotherapy, massage, vibration, manipulation, stretching, strengthening, brace, etc.). This is detailed in my book "NO MORE PAIN  All Pain Considered - A Breakthrough".  Please visit my website: NoMorePainClinic.com  

It depends on what and how bad the original shoulder problem is, what surgery is done and what the post-operative condition is as well as what kind of rehab is. I would elaborate only when those specifics are known.