Answers of Natasha Wood

I've sent  letters with my questions to some people with SMA and it was a nice surprise to get their answers.  Natasha Wood was among the first ones.


"Hello again and thank you for your kind words...
Am afraid no Russian history to the name, although my dad used to tell me a tale when i was a kid that my name was suppose to be Natalie but the vicar sneezed at my christening and said "n...aaa...t..iiisha". My dad is totally nuts and funny.

Bright persons with SMA

 When something goes wrong in your life the easiest way to calm down it's to blame your destiny. If I was healthy, I would... Everyone can continue the phrase as one did many times. But there are a few persons who live free and reach their dreams. Nothing stops them. I'd like to tell about 4 strong women who are enough brave to go forward in spite of the SMA.

Back pain

The back pain can come for a variety of reasons. One of the main is long sitting. I can tell about my method of fighting with it. First of all I avoid long sitting, so I use computer in my bed. Usually I sit only during my lessons and while eating. But sometimes it happens that you forced to sit for hours and after you feel quite broken.

My English Language.

In the Soviet Union the most of school children started to study a foreign language in the age of 11. Usually there were only two options to choose, German or English. French was learnt in a few of schools. In my first school I studied German. Almost all the girls had made such choice thanks to a very sweet teacher, who was a kind of our tutor a year before.

A new film about Vladimir Vysotsky

"Vladimir Vysotsky was and remains the icon of the 20th century Russian culture. More popular than Elvis Presley, more acclaimed than Bob Dylan, more worshipped than The Beatles, he was the most revered singer / poet the Soviet Union has ever known."
It took five years of work, a crew of 850 professionals and a $12 million budget to bring to screens the long-awaited movie about Vladimir Vysotsky. The movie tells about the last year of his life. The name of acter who plays role of Vysotsky is kept in secret. The makeup plastered on the actor to make him into an identical twin of Vysotsky reportedly cost $30,000.

• Vysotsky: Thank you for Living  Russia (1 Dec. 2011 ) Color; 2.35:1

• Official  site of the film

How can one fight depression?

Can you imagine a person who never feels sad? It’s easy…an idiot ;-) Well, and if to think better, all people live the main part of their life with sharp feeling of lack. One needs more free time, another needs better work, everybody does need money. People with SMA mostly are used to keep under control all wishes. There is too long list of impossible things. Just start thinking about walking, swimming, dancing, dating, traveling…and you get a perfect reason for falling in depression.

What kind of exercises can help you?

I tried to find a way to keep my muscles alive as long as possible. It’s really difficult without professional help. For people with SMA it’s very important don’t exercise to exhaustion. Wishing to get improvement you can lose even lack of your forces. The first rule: be careful!

Here are some methods and exercises which I tried and got good results.

• The method of Valentin Dikul
• The Vojta Method 
• Mental exercises
• The exercises with a helper