Nervous System
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2021 Articles
Aging and the Fascial Web
An older patient presented with difficulty in walking. She was shuffling more, and the tightness in her chest and neck…
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2021 Articles
The Gillespie Approach Thought Process
A mother emails: “I am writing because we have been trying to figure out the pain that my 17-year-old daughter…
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2021 Articles
Severe Infant Breathing Issues
A one-year-old presented this week from outside the Philadelphia area with raspy breathing, difficulty swallowing, and aspiration issues. At birth…
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2021 Articles
Wired at Birth
A woman in her 30s presented with head and neck tightness, headaches, digestive, and many other issues. She felt like…
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2021 Articles
The Many Diverse Infant Conditions of the Gillespie Approach
In his poem “The Divine Comedy” Dante describes his travels down the nine circles of the inferno. We are going…
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2020 Articles
Patients Ask, “What Is Craniosacral?”
Craniosacral refers to the normal neurophysiological motion of the brain, spinal cord, sacrum and all the connecting tissues. Emanuel Swedenborg…
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2019 Articles
“When Will I Be Finished with Therapy?”
No one knows for sure. When a new patient presents on the first visit, no one knows how many layers…
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2019 Articles
Suck, Swallow, and Breathe Revisited
Newborns need to suck, swallow, and breathe well to thrive. An acceptable suck-swallow-breathe coordinating ratio is 1:1:1 or 2:1:1. Poor…
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2019 Articles
The Cognitive Aspect of Gillespie Approach–CFT for Newborns/Infants
Since 1980, mothers of Gillespie Approach–Craniosacral Fascial Therapy infants have told me exceptional stories about their growing children.
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2017 Articles
The Brain Score/The Baby Brain Score (BBS) and the Brain Cycle
I want to clear up any confusion about the Brain Score/Baby Brain Score (BBS) and the brain cycle.
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