My name is kath and I can remember a time just five summers ago when I played in the _________ youth orchestra, so happy and full of the joy’s of being young healthy, and feeling that the world was at my feet.

Who knew just 12 months later I would be staring at my violin case that was now gathering dust on the top of a wardrobe! At ———– university I struggled to write essays and take the briefest of lecture notes. Luckily with my disability grant I was able to buy a voice activated computer to help me. I have to say life was hard and I started to appreciate the plight of other disabled people I never considered that I would actually become one myself. From time to time I did feel sorry for myself and the future that was so clear so sure was then just a hazy memory.

My condition was diagnosed as repetitive strain syndrome, which is a combination of trapped nerves in my neck arms, and hands and something called carpal tunnel syndrome. This all meant that the simplest of tasks such as using a tin opener or a pair of scissors was impossible and even lifting a cup of tea was painful.

My specialist, who was a leading expert in this field, put me through a two-year régime of Physiotherapy and ultra sound, all of which seemed to have no affect whatsoever I even tried acupuncture but nothing worked.

About three years ago my cousin told me that she had stooped a 60 a day smoking habit with no effort by using something called an Em-Power Disc. My immediate reaction to this was that it was a ‘load of rubbish’ and even if it did work it was all-psychological and certainly not something that could work on a really serious physical problem, I literally oozed cynicism. The more she told me about the Em-Power Disc the more preposterous it all sounded. I decided to try the disc more to prove to my cousin Heather it was no more than a gimmick.

A part of me felt desperate and I foraged my initial skepticism and deiced to give it a go. Firstly my posture improved dramatically the flexibly in my hands and arms developed, and within a few weeks remarkable as it may seem the pain and discomfort I had now been experiencing for two years subsided. I decided to test my progress by trying to play the piano, I would not presume to understand fully how and why I recovered so dramatically but I have spent the last 18 months cooking professionally, climbing, skiing and snow boarding. Although I experience a very occasional odd twinge I am sure the last three years would have been impossible if my cousin didn’t introduce me to the Em-power Disc.

Now Kath is back playing her music even performing in a full orchestral concert with the Manchester Youth Orchestra. She says: ‘The Em-Power Disc has allowed me to live normally again. I tell my friends about it and they all say it s too good to be true, until they try it for themselves. Thanks to the Disc I now feel I’ve got my life back’.