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This is a letter from a doc about someone going through a
bunch with unwinding, blowing away a big problem and coming it
out fine. Pertains to scoliosis, and all other structural
problems.
- In discussion group "Dr. Brad Ennis" <ATLASDOCTOR@a...>
wrote:
> Jesse,
My girlfriend started to go forward again yesterday and I
checked her and she did fine. Well she kept unwinding every
couple hours to a new spot. She would have something new hurt
on her and literally feel like she was getting sick. I ended
up adjusting her 4 times in about 7 hours. I got the end
product every time. Posture popping up breathing didn't feel a
thing.
My question is, and I probably know the answer, but could she
truly unwind that fast or was I missing things and she was
just compensating for my screw ups? I doubt the last because
they were some of the hardest releases I think I have ever
done in my life and she was like "that felt so good". I
couldn't believe it. So, my other question is if new positive
findings come up and they aren't swelling could you constantly
just keep this going until they started to take longer to
unwind. Because she hadn't gone forward for like a month and
she kept asking me when will I start going forward again. Well
it came on her like a ton of shit. I never adjusted things
twice except some meninges and first ribs so I doubt I missed
things. Thanks.
> Dr. BRAD
The answers here are yes and no and yes.
Yes, she can unwind that fast.
And no, you were probably not missing things for each time
through.
And yes, you could constantly keep that up until they took
longer to unwind. It is getting them through their forward
unwinding faster. The truth is that you get them through it
just a bit faster but you get them through it with much fewer
symptoms.
The two factors that seem to affect
people most unwinding is not getting
adjusted enough so that the body keeps unwinding rather than
getting stuck at some point and developing a temporary
overcompensation pattern and reworking (remodeling) the inside
of the body
to handle the changes. Your girlfriend seems to have the best
of both worlds here.
1. She was getting treated, unwound a bunch of stuff to a good
point. On the inside her body was continuing to improve and
remodeled itself.
2. Then her body got to a point where it was good enough to
handle unwinding something big and slammed forward but as well
handled by the doc.
This is a perfect instance to demonstrate to docs that going
forward, even if it feels lousy, is a good thing for two
reasons:
a. It indicates the body has improved enough to be able to
release the compensations for a previous injury and,
b. When the body is far enough into the injury position, the
doc comes along and adjusts it --- like magic the body changes
directions and the person notes that "that thing I had since
I....., is gone!"
Remember that an injury is defined as when something got stuck
forward that the body could not self-correct, could not
compensate for with a little compensation, and that the body
could not leave unlocked and be stable -- therefore the body
twists itself in other places [note the plural] to compensate,
keep the pressure off the area that is now forward and not
damage anything else either.
A thing to note is that the amount of pressure created when
that injury occurred is too great to shift to any one area.
Therefore, the body creates a whole compensation pattern to
spread the mechanical stress out over a broad region or even a
few regions so as not to injure any one area.
And remember, that if one of the things the body does to
compensate happens to move a vertebra or other bone in a
direction the body cannot self-correct, you now have a PBP
that is part of a compensation pattern. Therefore, you start
adjusting and you find this one PBP (or two) that never seems
to correct fully.
These are people who suddenly hurt in the neck or ribs or arm
or where have you and take quite a while to unwind through. As
noted about the Network docs I posted about a while ago, some
of these things are really nasty.
Then, as the person unwinds you suddenly get this gigantic
release or set of releases and the whole body changes. What
happened there is that you had something that was a PBP
because it was stuck in a direction the body could not
self-correct BUT, it was part of a compensation pattern so
many things had to correct before the body could handle the
correction of that one thing, finally enough things correct
and the original injury shows up to be corrected;
OR, that was the bottom thing that the body was compensating
for and it could not correct until the compensation pattern
pieces were corrected in sequence. This would be because the
original injury was balanced by the compensations (or pattern
of compensations) and the compensations were balanced by the
original injury.
To correct the original injury without having corrected the
PBPs that were created to make the compensation pattern and
were counter balanced by and counterbalancing the original
injury would then leave the body with PBPs that were
unbalanced and result in the body being unstable and unable to
function.
This is the situation when people suddenly have all these
problems that do not go away quickly. Don't treat the often
enough and you get what seems to be an irresolvable pattern
but what is really just a pattern that you are not treating
often enough to prevent it from resetting or partially
resetting.
Remember that sometimes bones are pushed forward to create a
livable compensation pattern for the body. This means that the
body can create PBPs in the compensation pattern to balance
the original injury. This happens often when C7 or something
in the upper half of the body goes anterior. The pelvis slides
forward to get under it.
This results in a lot of pressure in the pelvis and legs. L5
sliding forward lets the body get forward under the now
forward upper body but lets the pelvis release somewhat.
Overall you have a more stable mechanical condition that does
not require constant muscle tension over a wide area. However,
on an overall basis the body is actually worse because it
cannot self-correct the compensation or the original injury
and has lost the ability to move freely in several places.
This will lead to further injury compensation patterns in the
future to make up for the lost motion. Those will lead to more
lost motion.... until the person cannot do much. this is the
cycle of people getting an impact (even a small one sometime
but in just the wrong place) that leads to less and less
activity by the person until they eventually develop some
"degenerative disease".
(To really understand this do it. Stand up -- put your head
forward and then slide pelvis forward to get under it. It will
bother your back and legs or even higher depending upon your
body's current pattern. Leave it there a while and you will
develop an anterior L5 -- if you do not already have one -- or
a more anterior L5 if you do.)
As stated though the "new PBPs" created in the compensation
pattern are PBPs, cannot be self-corrected and create a loss
of motion, they are counterbalanced by the original injury.
When the body finally gets good enough,
you have one end releasing a bit, then the other, then the
other, then the other, etc. until it finally lets go enough to
be corrected.
A great example of this was a patient
treated by my associate when I was practicing in California.
Treated for close to a year, this woman was thin as a rail,
had a chronic problem with asthma and couldn't gain
weight no matter what she ate or did.
One day she
starts complaining about a pain in her ribs. I was out of town
for two weeks so she could not get me to check it. she finally
got me to look at it when I came back. It hurt bet nothing
else what occurring and Dr. Minkin was doing everything
correctly so he kept treating her. Sometime the next
week she said it really got sharp and she remembered that it
hurt just like when her father pulled on her arm when she was
a kid of about 5.
The next time
in when she was adjusted, her
pain left and all the sudden she could breathe more freely
than she ever had. I didn't see her until a few weeks later
when she told me about than and that she had gain 8 pounds --
and no it did not seem like she gained all fat. Stick
with the program, you never know what people have underlying
their ills but you will unwind people through it with ABC™.
Your girlfriend is lucky to have you there and
willing to adjust her so often without changing sides because
there are some severe or funky symptoms (pay attention here
Peter, Kevin and all those others who think things should
always run smoothly). This is the type of case that hangs up
for a few weeks if only treated once or twice a week while at
this point.
That is why I tell people and docs they need to get treated or
treat the patient a hell of a lot more often when they are
going forward and have lots of symptoms.
Good work Brad. Remember this when you have a patient that is
going along fine and has some big stuck point. Even if you
can't charge them for it, get them in more often and get them
through it.
You might want to copy this and give it to them to read so
they will get their bodies' into your offices and get past
these big points.
Dr. Jesse
PS. If following the compensation for the compensation and
having PBPs in the compensation pattern is confusing to you.
Go over it again and email me so we can get this understood.
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This is the answer
back from Dr. Brad.
Jesse,
Thanks for the info there's quite a mouthful there and I
will print it for further study. I am going to give it to
patients because they will understand parts of that which I
had trouble explaining.
Regarding my girlfriend: She is coming back already and she is
amazed! It's funny because the last time I adjusted her that
night was at about 11:30 p.m. She had unwound to a spot where
her posture was a huge lateral displacement. (this means her
body was leaning sideways though she had no pain or problems).
I wanted to drive into the office that late and x-ray her so I
could see it, but she didn't go for that.
I
made sure she set up her pillow as instructed. In the
morning it was straighter. I adjusted her the next day and she
popped to almost straight. I think it finally took out her
low shoulder that she had had for years. Great stuff.
BRAD
Thanks Brad. Well done to you. This is exactly the scenario
one would expect with patients who have big problems. It is
even the scenario one would expect with patients who do not
seem to have big problems but have histories of trauma.
Docs should notice here
that I did not know her body was way to the side when I wrote
the response.
What you have here is a vertebra that was forward and to the
side very badly from something. The body could not stay that
way and function well so it locked it up and created a whole
compensation pattern as discussed in my original response. Dr.
Ennis just unwound her though it.
Now, think about what this was. This was a scoliosis
that the body was able to compensate for and keep a fairly
centered balance. But, think about how much mechanical stress
there was on the body at that point before the unwinding --
not much. Why?
It was spread throughout the body so as not to hurt or damage
any one part. there are probably a whole bunch of new things
that will show up and blow away now but if you measure this
woman's ability to breathe and move in general you will note a
great improvement -- except where she is unwinding at any
given moment.
This is why I do not get too excited when doctors call
in a tizzy about some patient who is sideways or hurting a
bunch while unwinding. Heck, Dr. Skip's wife, outside St.
Louis, spent a day or two in bed because of something similar
but blew away a disability she had for decades.
The thing to do is get the patient though it.
Good work Dr. Brad.
Dr. J.
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