"My brain is floating in my head."
A forty-four-year-old woman presented with migraines and nausea. Her symptoms became worse when she looked at a computer screen.
She had a history of five auto accidents over a two-year period. As a beginner, she was not a good driver. She also experienced a hard labor at birth.
On examination, she had a zero-second brain cycle. I could not feel any fascial strain anywhere in her body, so I knew from experience that her entire craniosacral fascial system was very restricted.
In my view, migraine headaches can be a full-body fascial strain condition. This fascial web extends to the head around the brain as the dural meninges. When trauma tightens these tissues, the brain may not be able to normally expand and contract, thus creating a zero-second brain cycle.
On the first visit, I worked primarily with her head, neck, and upper-body fascia. She opened to thirty seconds in expansion and thirty seconds in contraction for a total brain cycle of sixty seconds.
On the second visit, her pelvis and trunk released a twist, and she opened to ninety seconds. On the third visit, her pelvis and trunk were still letting go, and her brain cycle finished at 140 seconds. She related that her headaches were going away and that her nausea was improving.
I expect her to do well with continued therapy. The ideal time for treatment would have been right after each accident to reset the craniosacral fascial system.
“I know of no part of the body that equals the fascia as a hunting ground. All nerves go to and terminate in that great system, the fascia. By its action we live and by its failure we die. The soul of man, with all the streams of pure living water, seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.”
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