Back surgery prevented: I was told I needed back surgery but went to Dr. Kane. Within a month I was feeling no more pain! I was able to stand and sleep normally again. It was unbelievable. AK-works!
Deidre DeVito Teacher
“He relates to me as a whole person with a complex set of influences in my life that can affect my health, committed to curing causes, not just treating symptoms. “ Molly Monahan
Hay fever relieved: Dr. Kane naturally alleviated my pollen and tree allergy symptoms. For these reasons and more, I highly recommend Dr. Kane without any reservations. Franz Hall Montclair, NJ
Jaw grinding, Headaches: “I have suffered from terrible jaw pain and headaches for years. After one visit to Dr. John Kane, my pain level decreased immediately. I can’t recommend him enough – I feel like a completely new person now that I’m pain free. Additionally, I have more energy, better focus, and reduced anxiety as a result. I was skeptical at first about this technique, but the significant improvement in my overall quality of life is proof that this technique really does work! I can’t thank Dr. Kane enough for all his help – he is the only chiropractor who has been able to relieve my pain and enhance my overall well-being.” Elizabeth
Rheumatoid Arthritis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I first came to see Dr. Kane in October 1999 after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. My primary care physician wanted to put me on conventional drugs to control the disease and ease the pain in my joints. For many years I have been under a great deal of stress which culminated 13 years ago with my being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, after a viral infection. I was told that their was nothing that could be done about it and that I would have to endure it. That was the prognosis of my life.
After a few weeks of seeing Dr. Kane three times a week and following the lifestyle changes he determined I needed, I started to feel an increasing rise of energy which made me realize just how low I had been for so long. It is now nine months since I started to see Dr. Kane and I feel like a whole new person. I have so much energy I hardly know what to do with it! Sandra, Montclair, NJ
Moved Away from Tears: I have seen Dr. John for my health care for many years. He has helped decrease my pain, improve my joint mobility and increase my general health. It is my most recent visit that I wanted to write about. I had been feeling emotionally drained from the daily stress of life. For weeks, I had found myself crying several times a day for no apparent reason. I had a persistent feeling of sadness that lingered throughout the day. It was becoming harder to hide and harder to bear each day. I thought I was become clinically depressed. These feelings were new to me and very concerning. I talked about them with a counselor but they did not abate.
When I saw Dr. John for a treatment I went through my usual list of “here is what is bothering me physically”. I confessed that I had also been, what I now termed, “depressed” and explained my symptoms. Dr. John listened, took some notes, and then treated me. I am not sure exactly what he did that made the difference, but I ended the treatment feeling grounded and calm. I did not expect it to last, it did. I stopped crying. My feeling of sadness and hopelessness disappeared. I felt like myself again, a positive, calm, happy person. It has been a couple of months since John treated me. The problems and stress that are in my life remain. I am able to face it without difficulty and have Dr. John to thank for this.
A couple of months later I developed shoulder and arm pain. I was in the middle of moving and the pain was preventing me from being able to pack or lift boxes. The pain which had started in my left shoulder had traveled down the length of my arm and up into my neck. Dr. John assessed my condition and I was surprised that I was unable to lift my arm above shoulder height. Dr. John spent an hour treating me. By the end of the hour I had full range of motion in my shoulder with no pain. Since then I have been packing and lifting boxes without any problem. The treatment was amazing.
Eileen; Occupational Therapist
Allery/ Sleep: I was having difficulty sleeping, I was suffering with terrible allergy symptoms, and I began to notice that I just didn’t feel “well” anymore. 4 months later I can report that I am completely allergy-free, I am sleeping better, the minor “aches and pains” I had are gone, and most of all, I feel “well” again. –AK-works! Lynn Vowinkel, Nurse Practitioner Montclair, NJ
Knee Pain
The knee is better and I feel wonderful…something like comfortable with everything about my life. I felt this way the last time you treated me. It’s confidence and deep peacefulness. Pretty good!!! It’s a terrific feeling. Barbara Keller Summit, NJ
Allergy migraine asthma To see your 9 year old suffering from migraines is horrible, but to see it since the age of 2 was unbearable. My son had food allergies along with seasonal allergies (spring through fall) causing these “headaches”, and he was taking daily medication (a total of 5 doses a day) to keep this at bay. Even with the daily meds, if he ingested too much dairy/soy he would begin to have bowel problems. At age 7 he went through a series of GI, MRI, CAT Scans and even Neuro-Ophthalmology tests. I was told that there was no cure for his issues, only a lifelong regimen of pills.
For 2 years I accepted this, until the allergies in his eyes became so severe that he could not hold a conversation without his eyes rolling into his head and his entire head jerking. The Ophthalmologist told me I had reached the last step in eye drops which was steroids. My son would now have to go visit the doctor 2 times a week to check his eye pressure from these drops and have monthly glaucoma screenings. I did not like this option for my son and started asking everyone I knew about alternatives.
I then learned about Dr Kane. I contacted Dr. Kane and set up an appointment. By his 3rd visit, my son’s allergies went away along with the eye rolling and head jerking. Since undergoing a full course of treatment with Dr. Kane my son is a healthy 9 year old who can eat at friends houses without me providing any “special” food, he can go to school without having an “attack” in the bathroom and he can enjoy himself in every situation. He is no longer embarrassed that he could not control his head or eyes. He can be a “normal” 9-year-old. I often worried about the future damage the medications would have on my son, and I do still worry because he was on them for so long; however, now he is taking NOTHING! No eye drops, no antihistamines, no decongestants, no digestive pills and no inhalers- NOTHING. Thanks to Dr. Kane for giving my son what he has always deserved- a normal and drug free childhood. -Elizabeth Pericone, epericone@yahoo.com Staten Island, New York
Addiction- Cigarettes cessation from a distance.
“ A few years ago Dr Kane fixed my paralyzed leg and I’ve been walking without a cane ever since. Now he is helping me with the impossible. So I have deduced that he is magic. I haven’t had a cigarette in 2 weeks and something tells me that I am finished with them for good… Amazing! Astounding! Doctors have finally found a way to talk to the divine.” S. R. Oregon
From John Kane DC
I had seen this patient for an injury in 2005. She made good progress within a few weeks of care. In her history, she noted she was a smoker and I advised that it was imperative that she quit, and that I would be able to assist help. So in January of 2009, I received a call in which she stated that she was wanted to stop smoking. I suggested other doctors in her area to contact for NMT. Since she had a good response with me in the past, she chose distance treatments, and I accepted.
Except for a few years when she was pregnant, she had been smoking a pack a day since she was 16, and was now in her early sixties. She had tried hypnosis but the results lasted just a few days. Truth be told, I didn’t have much experience with helping people with addiction, and, as with all patients there is a chance that they will be helped, or that their goal will not be reached.
Wanting success, I read up on smoking cessation and what had worked for others. Long story short, after 3 hrs. and 35 minutes of sessions, 5 calls, she smoked her last cigarette. I never told her to quit. I don’t think l will ever forget the excitement in her voice when she spoke with me on her sixth session, and told me that she had quit.
After each session she noted that the negatives of smoking increased to the point that she quit, on her own. She related that it was like nothing she had ever experienced before and that she had no withdrawal symptoms!
Food allergy hives anaphylaxis “I read about AK and thought it might help my 10-year-old son with his food allergies. He is now able to eat the same foods without breaking out in hives and taking him to the ER. My son has also shown significant improvement in his ADHD symptoms and we are hoping for even greater results with further treatment. Meanwhile, I have started treatment for my asthma/allergies and the results have been outstanding.” Michael Flanagan Teacher
Chronic pain: Dr. Kane is a wonderful doctor. When I first visited him for chronic pain issues, I had tried just about everything under the sun. He introduced me to AK. I, of course, was skeptical. But today I am a great believer. Dr. Kane and AK have been able to relieve back pain that I thought would never go away! The work is truly remarkable. I recommend Dr. Kane and AK to ANYONE in pain or discomfort. Jorge Cacheiro; Professor MSU
Chronic Neck Pain, Headaches & Hip Pain
I have been living with excruciating neck pain, which would come and go, sometimes lasting weeks. I was aware of the pain and discomfort day and night and felt like I was never going to feel normal again. I have spent the last year in and out of several doctor’s offices, undergone chiropractic treatments with still no results. I was given more medicine to take that only gave me temporary relief. I came to a point where I thought I had to just deal with the pain for the rest of my life. Then I was introduced to Dr. Kane two months ago. Every time I leave his office, I feel calm throughout my body. I noticed a change immediately after the second visit. I no longer feel the constant pressure I felt throughout my neck and back, and instead I feel less tense and more relaxed.
Chiropractic-Kinesiological care is significantly different because not only are the areas that are in pain being treated but so are other areas. I cannot thank him enough!
Marina Rodrigues; Teacher
Motor Vehicle accident becomes a blessing for My Chronic Neck Pain, Anxiety Depression
I visited a chiropractor in January 2009 for neck pain. I’d had this pain in a mild way for at least 15 years, but it had suddenly gone from a nagging inconvenience that occurred at the end of a long day to a tormenting presence that never abated.
The chiropractor diagnosed me with a bulging disc and predicted that with adjustments and exercises, and the help of a neck brace I would wear for 8 hours each day, I would be fine in 6 weeks. I held her in very high esteem, as she’d successfully helped me through a minor injury the previous year and her reputation in the community is stellar. So, of course, I was relieved to hear that both this unbearable current pain and this 15-year nuisance would be in my past before Mardi Gras.
Six months later, several projected dates for when I would be finished recovering had come and gone. In that time, I had created a host of artificial boundaries around my life in an effort to prevent further neck pain. I’d cut down my hours at work, I had eliminated my social life in the evenings, I’d abandoned my garden. I lived in perpetual fear that undue stress on the discs would bring the pain on. Even when I wasn’t in pain, I couldn’t enjoy it.
My chiropractor at home had approached me around the six-month mark and said that she owed me an explanation for why I was still experiencing such pain and why it actually appeared to be getting worse than it had been around the 3–4-month mark. She admitted regretfully that she didn’t have an explanation for me. She suggested I have an MRI on the area to determine what any other interfering factors might be. The results of the MRI showed that I had 4 bulging discs, which was more than we thought, but still called for the same course of treatment…which simply wasn’t working.
In June, I drove up to New Jersey with my partner to visit his family for two weeks. On the way up, we had a small fender-bender. I called my chiropractor immediately and we determined that Dr. John Kane was the closest chiropractor.
I went to Dr. Kane’s office with the intention of getting an adjustment to prevent the accident from worsening the condition in my neck. After determining that I didn’t need an adjustment, he suggested a different approach to treatment. It seemed to me that if we didn’t know what was causing my problem, we didn’t know why it wasn’t responding to what should have been helping it, then it would have been absurd to reject a different approach to treatment. The lack of progress in healing before now had become an emotional as well as physical burden. I left his office that first day with a mixture of excited hope smothered by a fear of getting my hopes up and being disappointed again.
My partner was interested in the new approach. I did my best to explain that Dr. Kane saw my neck pain as manifestations of problems in my neurological pathways. He had identified several pathways that were distorted and in need of attention and by working with my subconscious we would be able to mend these pathways.
After the early sessions I was still so stifled with anxiety and apprehension that I felt basically the same when I left. But as the sessions went on (I decided to see Dr. Kane 7 times in the 2 weeks I was in NJ), my neck had more and more endurance for normal functioning, and I developed an affinity for the NMT sessions. When each session ended, I had a sense of euphoria and gratitude. Then one day I noticed that my neck brace was under a pile of stuff, and it had been there for a few days. I hadn’t been wearing it and I hadn’t even noticed.
Another element that Dr. Kane was addressing in our sessions was depression. I was finally diagnosed with clinical depression when I was 13, after suffering from it from around the age of 5, and have been on anti-depressants for 16 years. I started having panic attacks after Hurricane Katrina and I added an anxiety medicine to my regimen.
Dr. Kane felt that the depression was interwoven with the other physical manifestations of the corrupted pathways and that our goal and our process needed to address the depression in order succeed. We talked much less about the depression itself, though trauma and forgiveness were the most distinct themes I was aware of in the pathway work Dr. Kane did. During one session, the most interactive one, Dr. Kane asked me to invoke memories of “stressful” events in my life chronologically while he pushed on my hands and manipulated acupressure points. It appeared to be a challenging session for both of us, especially when we arrived in 2005 at Katrina.
I’m not sure what we did that day. But the same thing happened to my anxiety medicine as happened to my neck brace. I let it get separated from the vitamins I take every morning. Sure, it’s around here somewhere, but I haven’t needed it. Heather Mack New Orleans, LA