Why did one unusual patient have an incredible first visit?
A thirty-one-year-old woman presented with neck pain and cervical instability. She has had emergency room visits because the pain was incapacitating. She was finishing orthodontics unsuccessfully to reset the position of her lower jaw.
She had pain in her shoulders and upper back. Her left hip felt stuck and had pain in each knee. She was taking painkillers as needed and was an archer at birth. She had a zero-second brain cycle with strain in her legs going up into her neck and jaw.
In the first hour of therapy, I started working with her feet and found fascial strain going into her knees. The left-sided strain continued into her hip. After a few sessions, these tissues released easily, and she felt nothing during therapy.
In the neck area, a distinct arch appeared that released down into her shoulders and upper back over a series of sessions. The tissues let go calmly as she felt no pain. At the end of the visit, all of her areas were quiet with the body processing the physiological changes. I am not sure if I am done in therapy, but for now I will just let the body process the changes.
The amazing factor was that her zero-second brain cycle went to 300 seconds in an hour—what planet are you from? Most adult patients come for months of therapy and never get to that freedom in their craniosacral fascial system.
What was so special about her fascial web that it released so easily and quickly? Was she so clear emotionally and open to healing so much better than other patients? Was there something different about the makeup of her fascia? Was this the next step in her healing process that her body was just waiting to happen? There are so many questions with no definitive answers.
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