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Some times it’s the littlest detail … today’s story is about a gate affecting gait 🤔 I’ve had a young client who came to me for help with their knee post surgery. Things locally have been going really well with improved function and the scar is looking much happier. There’s been an underlying set of…
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Some people baulk at the multi page consultation form I send out before a first appointment. Overkill, I think one person said. In truth, this is a pared down version of what I’d like to ask people, but I don’t want to scare people off, and it does at least give us a starting point….
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Most people would agree that, even with problem free births, the forces a baby is exposed to can be traumatic. As a result of contractions and / or compression through the pelvis and birthing canal the bones – particularly in the skull – move, and whilst they are designed to do just that, they don’t…
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A client presented in clinic with a range on ongoing issues. Whilst they attended principally for some low back issues, when covering their history, it was noted they couldn’t have anyone touch their face or anywhere on their head without causing them to flinch and / or pull away. They also needed to consciously calm…
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There’s a whole protocol we use in clinic for concussions – cranial work and spinal breathing are just a part of it. Something as seemingly harmless as standing up under a cupboard door, or whiplash should still be considered to have caused a traumatic brain injury (tbi) until proven otherwise (yes, even if A&E have…
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A lady came to see me the other day with intense pain around the whole of her head. All. The. Time. She’s had it constantly for 7 months, causing dangerous, sudden bouts of dizziness, particularly when changing position (laying to sitting, to standing etc) or when changing direction. The pain radiates down into both shoulders,…
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Most in the western world believe the skull to be a singular set of fused bones which protect the skull. They’re not wrong for the most part, but most are under the misconception these bones can’t move independently. The skull bones (should) actually move every time we breathing. The synchronous movement of the cranial bones…
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Face vs coffee table 😳 The coffee table remains unharmed, the face has a beautiful scar “from a fight with a lion” 😎 The client presented with gait issues. The dysfunction in the scar was contributing to breathing and intrinsic issues, in turn causing the issues with walking. Things were much improved after the first…
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In clinic we use a 16 position perturbation test to see if the long chain kinetics are working well together, it’s a nice, quick indicator of how things are going. In clinic today a client presented with neck pain and headaches. They failed 11 of the perturbation test positions – very wobbly! We tracked this…
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Seriously cool session today. Client turned up for a routine check over. Nothing really going on, a few niggles, maybe some aches around the neck. After some basic testing we found the right TVA, front and rear pelvic floor, neck extensors and left pectorals off line. Understandably with these results the breathing was also dysfunctional,…
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