A seventeen-year-old girl has had five different lenses in the past nine years as her eyesight has deteriorated. One possible answer lies in the function of the craniosacral fascial system, which can have a powerful effect on vision.
The patient presented with a list of health issues: spondylosis in her lower back, irregular menstrual cycles, allergies, sinus congestion, sleeping difficulty, immune weakness, and vision problems.
She has had a traumatic life, which may explain her predicament. She was six weeks premature, had the cord wrapped, spent tens days in the NICU, had breastfeeding difficulty, colic, and reflux, was in an auto accident at 15 months, and later fell down the stairs and off a horse.
In my clinical evaluation, she had a zero-second brain cycle with severe pelvic twisting and strain. Her back, neck, and head were affected as all of the fascial dots were connected.
I was especially interested in her deteriorating vision. In conventional ophthalmology, the eyes are thought of as isolated organs sitting in boney sockets. In my view, they are fascially connected to the entire body in space and time.
My hypothesis is that all of the trauma in her body (space) can apply fascial pressure to the eyes during her life (time), resulting in progressively worse vision. My goal is to help peel the layers of trauma in therapy to gradually take the strain out of her eyes.
After I spent an hour in therapy at the first visit, her body unraveled and opened beautifully. Full-body strains were indeed leading into each eye, as her brain cycle rose to an amazing 180 seconds. With continued therapy, I am hopeful that the deterioration will not only stop but that her eyes will start to correct.
This reasoning is unknown in current medical thinking, but in craniosacral fascial philosophy, all things are possible. Our goal is to get to the root cause of a problem and allow the body to heal itself.
Einstein said that either you can look at life as if nothing is a miracle or everything is a miracle. I see the world with the latter vision.
Ideally, she would have received therapy at birth and after each successive trauma. Gillespie Approach Training can open the healing door for patients.
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