Osteopathy

A patient contacted for an Osteodouce remote session.

We met on Zoom and I started the treatment. The pain is located at the lower part of his neck.

When it comes to neck problems, Osteodouce therapists have to be sure that the base of the skull is balanced. Indeed, if the occipital bone and the temporal bones are in torsions, the skull will then turn slightly on one side. Then first cervical vertebrae (Atlas) and second vertebrae (Axis) will compensate.

I started the session remotely by checking his skull base. The occipital and the temporal did not present significant torsions but the whole area was blocked, without movements.

- I harmonized the occipitomastoid suture on the right as well as the sphenobasilar symphysis, then I waited for the Occipital and temporal bones to be well harmonized.

- I checked the first cervical C1 / C2 / C3 / C4 which had a good and harmonious motion.

- C5, C6, C7 leaned to the right (right side-flexion), T1 and T2 turned right, D3 was blocked and D4 had a good movement.

- I harmonized each of these vertebrae, especially T1 / T2 which was strongly compressed on the left. Once released, C7 / T1 presented a new adaptive twist. The body indeed accumulated different layers of compensations over time and traumas experienced.

The work of Osteodouce is one of the few techniques that allows to release one by one these different adaptive layers.

I asked this person to move and then I checked all the work from the base of the skull.

- Harmonization T1 / T2. A new layer appeared which gave me the impression that this man felt on his head which he confirmed. The patient moved again his head.

- A new adaptive layer appeared. I harmonized C6 and C7 which had jammed, then C5 / C6 which appeared now to be very blocked. I released them and I asked the patient to moves his head.

- C6 was again blocked and particularly C5 / C6. I worked on the left articular facets between them as well as those between C7 / T1. The patient moved his head again.

- Now only T1 / T2 presented a new twist that I harmonized. T1 had gone in rotation on the right. The patient moved his head.

- I checked all cervical and dorsal and they all indicated a good Movement of Life, sign that they were in harmony in their place.

End of the session.

The patient told me that the pain had dropped considerably.I told him that muscles and ligaments will continue to relax after the session.

One month later, this patient came to see me at my office. He said that he did not really need a second session as his neck is fine but as he was visiting friends who live near my office, he took the opportunity to redo a session, especially as he felt a light pain in the lumbar area.

- I checked his cranial, occipital and temporal bases which are fine.

- I harmonized C6, C7 and especially the vertebral disk between C6 and C7, slightly compressed on the left. I worked on C5 / C6 and especially the articular facets on the left. The patient moved his head.

- No adaptive layer appeared. The cervical vertebrae had a good life movement, a sign that everything was fine.

I looked at his pelvis. I did not feel any significant torsions except an absence of harmonious movement of the whole sacrum / iliacs bones.

- I quickly harmonized both sacroiliacs joints, right iliac bone, I released both right ilio-lumbar ligaments, L5, L4 and L3.

-Harmonizing his two ischium bones, I noted during the work that they seemed to move both in a different direction.

This made me think of a difficulty of choice to make, as if this person was hesitating between two paths to take which made ischium bones going in two opposite directions then blocked his pelvis.

After the pelvis harmonization, I asked him to walk a little and I share with him this fact.

Pleasantly surprised, he was currently hesitating between continuing his present job and working in another country.

- I checked his pelvis, which was fine with a balanced and large movement of life.

I checked his low cervical vertebrae et thoracic bones which were fine as well.

The patient felt no more cervical and pelvis pain.