Diane
23-08-2007, 10:29 PM
Today a new patient came in and had no complaints of pain, referred by a friend of hers, because she'd heard I "treated nerves". No complaints of pain. Interesting, thought I. This is a rarity worth noting, in my practice, someone who DOESN'T have pain. Instead she had twitching that she found distracting, that she had been putting up with for 8 or 9 years, ever since it had started during a meditation, together with lots of visual disturbances, on the right side of her body mostly. She's been examined upside down and sideways for pathology, by all kinds of specialists and alternate types. The areas she had inked in on the body diagram were right back of head and low back/pelvis right side.
Curious individual, late 50's early 60s maybe, difficult to track a history chronologically, seemed quite anxious for someone who had been a meditator as long as she had, i.e., a decade probably. And we're talking three month retreats. Turns out the same year she developed the twitches, she had been injecting her right inguinal area with a compound thought to combat cancer. She was dealing with right sided breast cancer at the time, had no hair, etc.
As she talked she sat there, and several times, crossed and uncrossed her left leg over the right. I asked her about this, and she replied that she couldn't cross the other way because her right hip felt "stiff". She seemed fine for ROM in standing other than a bit of restriction in neck rotation, and the right knee did not rotate back as fully as the left.
Up on the bed, I asked her to be a cooked noodle, then gently and slowly lifted each heel upward, just off the bed, feeling for resistance, feeling for weight. The left lower leg lifted up just fine, and the knee stayed on the bed, but the right leg was a different story. It wanted to come up like a log. The right knee could not even lay flat let alone fully extend. Turns out she had had a knee injury a couple decades before that she didn't tell me about, because it doesn't bother her. (Doesn't twitch I guess..)
I started at the front of the hip, where she'd done all those injections, and mopped up what I could find (translation: I dermoneuromodulated the area to assist the inguinal nerves to self-oxygenate, as per the manual.) I treated her neck next. Standard occipital nerve and superficial cervical plexus both sides. Then I had her turn onto her front, and treated the obturator/saphenous overlap, which on her felt like a big glob of hard tissue inside back of the knee. Before long it softened.
I told her I plan to deal with the knee. She's wondering why I would want to bother treating the knee, since it doesn't bother her, but she's also someone who cuts off explanations abruptly with a sudden "I've got it, let's move on" kind of statement. Very much in charge of herself. Very unlike most of the other patients who come, who need to be taught to become self-reliant. Should be interesting. She seemed pleased with what went on today, in any case, so we shall see what transpires. And she didn't exhibit any twitching on my table. Not so far anyway.
Curious individual, late 50's early 60s maybe, difficult to track a history chronologically, seemed quite anxious for someone who had been a meditator as long as she had, i.e., a decade probably. And we're talking three month retreats. Turns out the same year she developed the twitches, she had been injecting her right inguinal area with a compound thought to combat cancer. She was dealing with right sided breast cancer at the time, had no hair, etc.
As she talked she sat there, and several times, crossed and uncrossed her left leg over the right. I asked her about this, and she replied that she couldn't cross the other way because her right hip felt "stiff". She seemed fine for ROM in standing other than a bit of restriction in neck rotation, and the right knee did not rotate back as fully as the left.
Up on the bed, I asked her to be a cooked noodle, then gently and slowly lifted each heel upward, just off the bed, feeling for resistance, feeling for weight. The left lower leg lifted up just fine, and the knee stayed on the bed, but the right leg was a different story. It wanted to come up like a log. The right knee could not even lay flat let alone fully extend. Turns out she had had a knee injury a couple decades before that she didn't tell me about, because it doesn't bother her. (Doesn't twitch I guess..)
I started at the front of the hip, where she'd done all those injections, and mopped up what I could find (translation: I dermoneuromodulated the area to assist the inguinal nerves to self-oxygenate, as per the manual.) I treated her neck next. Standard occipital nerve and superficial cervical plexus both sides. Then I had her turn onto her front, and treated the obturator/saphenous overlap, which on her felt like a big glob of hard tissue inside back of the knee. Before long it softened.
I told her I plan to deal with the knee. She's wondering why I would want to bother treating the knee, since it doesn't bother her, but she's also someone who cuts off explanations abruptly with a sudden "I've got it, let's move on" kind of statement. Very much in charge of herself. Very unlike most of the other patients who come, who need to be taught to become self-reliant. Should be interesting. She seemed pleased with what went on today, in any case, so we shall see what transpires. And she didn't exhibit any twitching on my table. Not so far anyway.