Manual Medicine Group's "Cervical Session 2" Review

Review:

Stuff we learned on February 21, 2010 included:

1. How to use Bayliss Collapse / Engagement to determine local versus distal / compounded bony locks. Bayliss Mechanics essentially demonstrates how much of what we’ve been taught all along about spinal and bony biomechanics has been false. All of the old biomechanics has been developed on cadavers and bones. That means that all of the old material was based on false or already subluxated models. The Bayliss approach is not only novel – it is the only one that has properly demonstrated to me how subluxations in live people actually happen and can be reduced properly. How is this useful? Here’s a question: You know how a bone slips out of place without a sound? You do? Good. Now, why is it that we insist on “forcing” bones bones back into place with a sound? It’s force that produces the cavitation. Cavitation sounds are not the determinant of having reduced a subluxation properly.

2. How cervical locks differ from other subluxations.

3. The Therapeutic pulse and how to use it. The Therapeutic Pulse (Davidson, 2008) is not a pulse per se, but the combination of responses from the body which indicate that a certain approach is the proper one for the therapist to take (on the perspective that the body itself most favors this approach). The Therapeutic Pulse is determined by taking note of the Circulatory response, the Breathing response, and the Cranial Mechanism response. Other indicators, such as a Still Point (Andrew Taylor Still) or the Neuromyofascial Focal Progressive Unwind (Toledo, 2007), also contribute to the assessment of the Therapeutic Pulse.

4) Digastric release

5) Disconnecting jaw drop from cervical backward-bending

There's a lot more, yes -- but these are the ones we got the most questions on. Hope this helps.

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See you all on March 07, 2010 at the AICA at Pasig!
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And, yes - a whole lot more.

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