How do you feel when you see their reaction?

I can’t really explain. There is a sense of fulfillment. Its mission accomplished. It’s the reason why I studied and why I’m so passionate. I’ve always wanted to help people in pain.

Now, you have regained your purpose.

Yes. I have been with ANF since 2017 and I literally, cannot stop.

Were there any challenges that ANF helped you overcome?

My own health was the biggest one for sure. I’ve had the frustrations of wanting to know more and wanting questions to be answered. There used to be both frustration and anger in my life for many years. ANF helped me to overcome them. 

I have said to Dr. Mikel that we have a love-and-hate relationship. I used to hate him during my first course but he made me feel so good. 

But for what reason, because he gave you the answers you were looking for so many years?

I was so frustrated. How come no one ever explained this to me? How can this man do it in just three or four days while I have been looking for so many years?

With some patients, I thought I would not be able to help them anymore and I lose hope. With ANF, I’m able to help them even beyond. It’s a journey.

Can you tell me a case or scenario that took you a long time to achieve but now with ANF you can obtain the desired results much faster?

I think a frozen shoulder is one of them. Any therapist would relate to that. It used to be when a frozen shoulder comes in, I would think here it comes nearly six months of treatment but not much gain. But now with ANF, in only one session, you can regain a full range of motion the majority of the time. 

How do they react when they see that?

It’s interesting. One of my first patients with a frozen shoulder was an engineer. He didn’t believe it and he said no. 

Did he ask many questions?

Yes. I still do the hands-on as we all do, as Dr. Mikel does. I did all the tissue release and worked on mobility. I said, “Now, we’re going to put on the ANF Devices.” So I put the Device and he was not believing. 

And then he said for the next session, I’m going to keep this on because I feel so good, and I have movement. He said for the next session he doesn’t want me to do any hands-on and just put on the Device. And I said ok. And I didn’t. 

It was very funny because I have the video that he allowed me to share. He said to take the device off just to see the difference. When I took it off, he said to put it back on because he did see the difference. He said, “These things really work.” So yes, I get reactions like that every day.

Yes, but there are many skeptics everywhere.

Yes, But what I always say is that I was also a skeptic. Every time, when Dr. Mikel gives me one of the certificates, he says, “For my most skeptical student.” And I know that’s me. Of course, it’s hard, especially after surgery and years of taking morphine and medications. Suddenly, I discover that these little devices can do that for me without taking any chemicals and they actually clean my body.

I started like that, a skeptic. But what I say to my patients is that they have to be skeptical for sure. We have to ask questions and doubt things in life in order to grow. But you also have to be open. 

Believe without believing and doubt without completely doubting. Be open and try. Again, if it doesn’t work, perhaps you’re not ready for it yet. Like life, everything has its own time.

What did you learn here in the ANF Academy that no other tool or therapy showed you?

Again, finding the root cause of issues. I learned physiological explanations. When we studied in medical school, we studied histology, pathology, physiology, pharmacology, etc. We have to inject animals and stuff and do lab tasks but the dots were never connected. 

Why am I learning this? How do A, B, and C together form the full system in the body? Thank God we now have functional medicine and other things that are coming up now that has a little bit more of this big picture. But we never were able to connect the dots. 

That’s what Dr. Mikel does. And it’s so amazing to see that if I connect here to here, boom, the magic happens.

Why is gaining advanced palpation skills so important?

It’s important definitely. Dr. Mikel always says that we have to be able to do surgery with our hands. 

I did five years of medical physiotherapy in medical school. I did osteopathy. But still, I question how I don’t know about these. It’s fascinating how your hands can tell you and guide you.

When your hands are really connected to your brain, you can just tell what the patient needs. I start palpating and my brain just tells me like this is needing carnosine or something.

It’s connecting. And the surgery with hands, it’s really amazing. It’s a true thing and what you learn here.

It is the most important part before applying the devices?

Oh, that’s for sure. Dr. Mikel says and what I always repeat to my patients and especially to my students, is that “If you didn’t get better, you didn’t find the root cause.”

I keep it as a legacy to carry. Find the root cause and it is your hands that are going to find it.

Otherwise, you’re just masking the symptoms. 

Exactly. 

Do you have something to say to those that never heard of ANF Therapy®️ or want to start the education but haven’t made the decision yet?

Yes. I would say that again, it’s not for everyone. But if you’re passionate and you feel like you really want to help people bring back their quality of life, if you want to look for the root cause and treat it from there, then, this is for you. So be open and ask questions.

Dr. Mikel is used to skeptics too. It’s something that you have to try to understand. It’s impossible to just look and judge it. We have no idea how these little Devices can make a difference, in the physiology and deeper into the cellular level of patients. So, if you haven’t decided yet, do not miss it because it is a life-changer.