Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorders
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2022 Articles
Newborns With Fast Deliveries Can Have Issues
An eight-week-old presented with difficulty sucking, inability to have a deep latch, an open mouth, fast breathing, congestion from birth,…
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Small Mouth Opening
After the second tongue-tie revision, the surgeon said the baby had a small mouth opening—here’s why. A five-month-old presents with…
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Infant Healing
Infants can present the layers of their traumatic onion in their own space and time. Our job as therapists is…
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Baby Experiences Improvement in Breastfeeding
It was December 2013, and our oldest child was 11 months old. We’d fought a full 11 months (almost 12)…
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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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Unexplained Hand Pain and Swelling
I contend that many people unknowingly suffer from the effects of their birth trauma. A fifty-year-old woman presented with swelling…
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Preterm Births and Low Birth Weight
A 14-week-old low-weight infant presented recently with plagiocephaly, torticollis, and failed tie revisions. This is a hypothetical progression of events…
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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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Infant Neck and TMJ Pain
Note from Dr. Barry Gillespie: All of these posted stories are derived from my practice in the Philadelphia suburbs. If…
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Gillespie Approach–Craniosacral Fascial Therapy Articles
Craniosacral Fascial Strain Likely Connected to Knuckle Swelling
A 46-year-old-woman presented today with swelling in the large knuckle of her right middle finger as it connects to her…
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