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A Complex Intensive for a Six-Year-Old Girl
When a young child comes to you for a three-day intensive, you never know what will present and what will…
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A Typical Gillespie Approach Fussy Baby
A two-month-old presented with sucking issues. He latched better after his tongue tie and lip tie revisions, but still had…
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Childhood Migraine
A former student from a 2000 Gillespie Approach course training brought her 13-year-old son to me recently for therapy. He…
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Adult Torticollis
I have often wondered when working on babies with torticollis, what does an untreated baby look like as an adult?…
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The Oral Onion
After his third treatment visit, the young man suffering with anxiety and depression from the May 3 post reported that…
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Respiratory Compression at Birth
A four-year-old girl presents with continual bouts of pneumonia. After four bronchoscopies during her lifetime, her doctor diagnosed her with…
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Tongue Always Hanging Out, Drooping Eyelid, and Puffy Eye Tissue
New disease applications for the work always seem to find my practice. A six-month-old presented with always having his tongue…
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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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The Fascia Is Overlooked
I saw something new this morning at the office. A six-month-old baby had cerebrospinal fluid build-up resulting in an enlarged…
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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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