URGENT HELP - Timsley House/Dr Pauc???

[DesperateMumofPDAchild]

We are leaving to go camping in the New Forest in an hour partly to see Dr Pauc but I just searched for directions and found the bads science article saying he is not a neurologist but chiropractor which has misled me and now I'm suspicious. Its £250 so don't want to get ripped off - are we doing the right thing?? Please help

Hiya. Come have a peak on the tinsley house thread when you've got more time. We've all seen him and have been following his programme, some for longer than others. And I think I can say we've all seen at least good improvements, though some far more than this. (Hope I'm not overstepping the mark by speaking for the others). My DS has come on loads since starting in Feb.

I think he did get a telling off for calling himself a neurologist. I think it was the chiropractors that told him off, from what I found.

Personally, I think it's worth a shot but obviously it's your money so needs to be your decision. Hope that rambled reply has helped (I got off a plane from a long haul flight at 5am and my brain is frazzled! )

We think hes great - has done wonders with our two. We started in Nov with DS and took DD in Jan. Very happy to chat to you on the phone if you would like? Have you found the directions?

He's a chiropractor - neurologist. Which is an American qualification you dont hear very often over here.

He does not do chiropracty.

Luckily he's not a conventional neurologist - because, as I'm sure you know, they dont treat ASD/ADHD/Dyspraxia/Dyslexia.

There's been 3 Tinsley House support threads. If you read them you'll see a lot of very happy MNers.

It's not easy. You have to change diet and do exercises three times a day. It's not quick, it takes at least a year.

But it's very, very good.

My DC wouldn't be where they are today without him. Ie coping in class, and working at expected levels or above.

"He's a chiropractor - neurologist. Which is an American qualification you dont hear very often over here. "

To put the other perspective, the 'qualification' is not one which exists or is recognised over here in any clinical sense. It is supposed to be a subspecialty of chiropractic practice. It, therefore, has everything to do with chiropractic practice and nothing to do with clinical neurology. Neurology, being a branch of medicine and neurologists are doctors.

There are many fervent advocates of TH on this board and that is fine and I hope it helps people. But there is another view as you have noted on 'Bad Science' and in articles like this and it is up to you to make your own mind up about what you want to spend your money on.

I've read his books and found them practical and full of good ideas & common sense. However, he did make a claim that his treatments would not work for autistic children ... a bit of a 'get out clause' I felt tbh ... but it seems there are many children on the spectrum that he has done wonders for. He isn't listed in the American Chiropractic Association as a member so not sure what they may or may not mean. However, I've always felt that controversial cures come from controversial people (says I who recently took ds2 to a homeopath which apparently makes me clinically insane according to sooo many on MN). Good luck

Hi Thanks for all comments. We went. We were already doing all the diet / supplement stuff anyway as part of our sons healing, and he has given us 2 exercises to do with our son and go back in 2 months. Was interesting that nearly all his issues are to do with the same part of the brain and he said it wont be too hard to heal him, so feeling hopeful with a dash of cynicism still, especially as £250 is very steep and not very 'accessible' or 'philanthropic' and his house was huge! Our overdraft is growing excessively with all we have been doing to help our little man, but what is money without health

and he said it wont be too hard to heal him

Oh dear - you paid good money for this did you?

If he truly has PDA you will not 'heal' him as he is not ill. He has a benign neurological condition which has been present since birth and will be with him until the day he dies. All you can do is to change/modify the behaviour he presents as a result of having this condition.

WetAugust - I find your view very cynical. I do not agree. I am very active in the healing autism community and know many parents who have seen HUGE gains through biomedical interventions. These children are often very ill with immune and gut issues and many are struggling with parasites and heavy metal toxicity. The brain is not a static thing, especially in a developing 4 year old brain. Epigenetics can turn genes on and off both in the womb and as a child. PDA is just another symptom of developmental delay. regarding Dr pauc, only time will tell but I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that gives me confidence. I choose not to take your view as its an easy one, I choose to do everything I can at my sons early age to positively affect his development. Maybe he will always show some ASD traits but I know through our work as a family these are reducing already. You are in no place to say my son is not ill - he is dealing with multiple attacks on his gut.

I think you meant to say 'sceptical' rather than 'cynical'. 'Cynical' is self-serving and I am not the self-serving one in this.

Sceptical - yes, I am. However, you are entitled to your views and I to mine.

But when you post here telling other parents that in your child's case - a child with PDA - that it will 'not be too hard to heal him' then I am entitled to challenge what I consider to be at best naïve and at worst very misleading to parents of newly diagnosed children.

Are you a 'reverse questioner'? Because for someone who posted an initial sceptical post herself you seem have travelled along way down the road to conversion in a very short period.

Anyway - each to their own and hope you get the outcome you want.

You took the PDA part from my name not my post - that was used for help regarding schools. I don't know what troubles my son, we have no diagnosis as yet but he is currently undergoing assessment.

My conversion to the possibility of 'healing' neurological issues is not quick but something I have been choosing to submerge myself in for years for the benefit of my son.

I am not a long way down the road to conversion regarding Dr Pauc, as stated above, only time will tell. I fully support his common sense diet and supplement advice, and not just for children with neuro symptoms.

cyn·i·cal

1.Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
2.Doubtful as to whether something will happen or is worthwhile.

Cynical does not mean the cynical person is self serving but cynical that others are self serving!

Having an open mind is more my forte.

Good bye and good luck