Healing is a process, not an event.
Scientists have estimated that the adult human body is composed of 40 trillion cells. They further estimate than more than 40 trillion viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other bugs live in that complex. Everything has to amazingly work well together for health and wellbeing.
We know that the fascial web arises around the fourteenth day of fetal life. All of the body cells, except for blood cells and a few other groups, are interconnected in this web.
The web offers body support in tensegrity, but it also acts as a communication system regulating all 40 trillion cells. It has a huge job.
I believe that the web can be stressed by physical and emotional traumas. The body has an innate mechanism of compensation and adaption to maintain homeostasis. Without this mechanism, the body would cease to function. It will heal as much as possible without therapy to survive, but our quality of life may be adversely affected.
The Gillespie Approach offers a clinical solution. After a treatment session with all the moving parts of the web shifting, it may take time for those cells and bugs to rebalance and establish homeostasis.
When the body stops talking during a visit, I respect its wisdom. It usually takes a number of visits for the system to finally reach a happy place.
In all honesty, I cannot say that, when the web is strain-free, it is completely healed. But we can say that there will be significant healing where all of the body systems can function more optimally.
The great aspects about the work at birth are a fewer number of cells in a smaller body that is primed for addressing fresh soft tissue birth wounds. Since this is the best time for therapy, Gillespie Approach Training is a must for all neonatal providers.
