Re: Adhesions questions

[Guest guest]

Dear Unda group,

I have two clients who have issues relative to adhesions.

One had a knee replacement in the summer, I had not seen him since

before that time but was checking in, and his nerve was damaged and

in pain until a recent nerve block, and he can't bend the knee.

Relative to bending he has had two procedures in the interim and was

told there are too many adhesions so the knee will not bend.

Period. No next step suggested.

A second case is a woman with possible adhesions from uterus to

surrounding tissue and so far has been told only way of dealing with

this is hysterectomy.

There has to be more to this story. Has anyone seen success with the

dissolving, removal, not rebuilding adhesions? Relative to

gynecological and/or structural.

[Guest guest]

Hi Leni,

Ditto on the castor oil, but also I guess I might ask what you mean by adhesions here? Donna and I work with patients who have fascial and/or serosal organ adhesions all the time, and we definitely see these adhesions unwind, see the tissues be released, and movement/motility restored. Connective tissue has the continual capability to shift into a sol state and reconfigure (cf. Dean Juhan’s work, Job’s Body). There’s lots of approaches out there...we build on Barral’s work, with the inclusion of incorporating the flow of fluid pressures in the body—a method developed by Lowen. Post-surgically, for your knee guy, perhaps you are talking about scarring which is restraining the tissue. You’re probably already using homeopathic thiosinaminum. I would say you might want to additionally do something to actually induce local inflammation at the joint. There’s probably titanium in the knee. Titanium has low heat conductivity, yet I’d want to research it before I tried something like U/S. Moxa needles could possibly be a viable option, but I think you’d still want to steer clear of their being too close to metal. I have a patient with a torn alar ligament, and in addition to Chinese herbs and UNDAS, we are trying local injections of homeopathic viscum (accelerating the potency), stannum symphytum, arnica, and cartilago argentum. With the viscum I am trying to encourage a local inflammatory response. Stannum has an affinity with the liver and ligament healing (stannum ointment can be applied topically as well). I don’t know..the verdict isn’t totally in yet, but I will say he is getting relief that he wasn’t getting elsewhere. On this note too, while I haven’t experimented with it myself, I have colleagues who work with Klinghardt who tell me that his use of lidocaine injections (what I believe he calls “neural therapy”) into local scar tissue seems to give the tissue an opportunity to heal, possibly by allowing the restoration of ion flux across cells. Regularly alternating hot and cold to that knee to induce blood flow there is really necessary I think, and getting this guy into some kind of light yoga program to gently encourage stretching and opening of ligaments would seem to me to be at least worth exploring. I might consider using curcumin too—it’s a warming herb and it acts on the liver/spleen (read: ligament/tendon) meridians. And all of this could be done in conjunction with good diet, BTG’s, and drainage, to continue to clear out his extracellular matrix. I don’t know, have you seen the x-rays or a radiology report? Did they sew something together that is restricting movement? Is there metal or bone in an impeding location architecturally? Is his inability to bend the knee due to the nerve block?

Uterine adhesions are very amenable to the kind of bodywork I mention above. Castor oil here, applied regularly with heat, would likely help a lot. Currently I have a female patient with a prolapsed uterus who also gets substantial benefit from homeopathic Berberis/Urtica along with abdominal, low back, and upper back of leg (BL-36) massage 2-3x weekly with a 10% lemon body oil. Such an issue with the uterus often involves an adhesion to the bladder, and can often present post pregnancy. Hope something here is helpful........Bob

Dear Unda group,

I have two clients who have issues relative to adhesions.

One had a knee replacement in the summer, I had not seen him since

before that time but was checking in, and his nerve was damaged and

in pain until a recent nerve block, and he can't bend the knee.

Relative to bending he has had two procedures in the interim and was

told there are too many adhesions so the knee will not bend.

Period. No next step suggested.

A second case is a woman with possible adhesions from uterus to

surrounding tissue and so far has been told only way of dealing with

this is hysterectomy.

There has to be more to this story. Has anyone seen success with the

dissolving, removal, not rebuilding adhesions? Relative to

gynecological and/or structural.

[Guest guest]

Hi Leni,

Ditto on the castor oil, but also I guess I might ask what you mean by adhesions here? Donna and I work with patients who have fascial and/or serosal organ adhesions all the time, and we definitely see these adhesions unwind, see the tissues be released, and movement/motility restored. Connective tissue has the continual capability to shift into a sol state and reconfigure (cf. Dean Juhan’s work, Job’s Body). There’s lots of approaches out there...we build on Barral’s work, with the inclusion of incorporating the flow of fluid pressures in the body—a method developed by Lowen. Post-surgically, for your knee guy, perhaps you are talking about scarring which is restraining the tissue. You’re probably already using homeopathic thiosinaminum. I would say you might want to additionally do something to actually induce local inflammation at the joint. There’s probably titanium in the knee. Titanium has low heat conductivity, yet I’d want to research it before I tried something like U/S. Moxa needles could possibly be a viable option, but I think you’d still want to steer clear of their being too close to metal. I have a patient with a torn alar ligament, and in addition to Chinese herbs and UNDAS, we are trying local injections of homeopathic viscum (accelerating the potency), stannum symphytum, arnica, and cartilago argentum. With the viscum I am trying to encourage a local inflammatory response. Stannum has an affinity with the liver and ligament healing (stannum ointment can be applied topically as well). I don’t know..the verdict isn’t totally in yet, but I will say he is getting relief that he wasn’t getting elsewhere. On this note too, while I haven’t experimented with it myself, I have colleagues who work with Klinghardt who tell me that his use of lidocaine injections (what I believe he calls “neural therapy”) into local scar tissue seems to give the tissue an opportunity to heal, possibly by allowing the restoration of ion flux across cells. Regularly alternating hot and cold to that knee to induce blood flow there is really necessary I think, and getting this guy into some kind of light yoga program to gently encourage stretching and opening of ligaments would seem to me to be at least worth exploring. I might consider using curcumin too—it’s a warming herb and it acts on the liver/spleen (read: ligament/tendon) meridians. And all of this could be done in conjunction with good diet, BTG’s, and drainage, to continue to clear out his extracellular matrix. I don’t know, have you seen the x-rays or a radiology report? Did they sew something together that is restricting movement? Is there metal or bone in an impeding location architecturally? Is his inability to bend the knee due to the nerve block?

Uterine adhesions are very amenable to the kind of bodywork I mention above. Castor oil here, applied regularly with heat, would likely help a lot. Currently I have a female patient with a prolapsed uterus who also gets substantial benefit from homeopathic Berberis/Urtica along with abdominal, low back, and upper back of leg (BL-36) massage 2-3x weekly with a 10% lemon body oil. Such an issue with the uterus often involves an adhesion to the bladder, and can often present post pregnancy. Hope something here is helpful........Bob

Dear Unda group,

I have two clients who have issues relative to adhesions.

One had a knee replacement in the summer, I had not seen him since

before that time but was checking in, and his nerve was damaged and

in pain until a recent nerve block, and he can't bend the knee.

Relative to bending he has had two procedures in the interim and was

told there are too many adhesions so the knee will not bend.

Period. No next step suggested.

A second case is a woman with possible adhesions from uterus to

surrounding tissue and so far has been told only way of dealing with

this is hysterectomy.

There has to be more to this story. Has anyone seen success with the

dissolving, removal, not rebuilding adhesions? Relative to

gynecological and/or structural.