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Published: July 15, 2008
Rolfing brings woman relief from disorder
By Heather Warlick
Muscle spasms and pain have racked an Oklahoma City woman so severely that her friends have described her body as a human pretzel. After 14 years of searching, she's finding promise in a relatively unknown muscle treatment.

Karen Harkins searched for relief for tardive dyskinesia-dystonia in medicines and traditional and alternative therapies, but it was Rolfing that eventually took her from almost complete disabil...

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