Re: Neck/Head Pain Update -

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Anyway after listening to me and then getting copies of my blood

work and looking up info on EDS he came back and said he thought I

had a C1 subluxation. Basically a rotary/twist sublux which doesn't

show on x-rays. He said it is clinically dx'd by the symptoms you

present with (my research since then has found out you can see it

with specific CT scans but even then it may be missed).

He said the subluxed vertebre caused the muscle next to it to spasm

which created a self feeding circle - sublux causes spasm then spasm

keeps sublux from going back in and back and forth.

He also said I had Neuritis which is a damaged or inflammed nerve.

This was what was causing such severe agonizing pain. The nerve

could have been inflammed by the sublux or the muscle spasm.

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A couple of other suggestions for you, including one you can do

yourself.

The one you can do yourself is called the X technique in Polarity

Therapy. You know where C1 is. Reach back behind your neck with

both hands and put the tips of your two middle fingers of each hand

against the transverse processes of the vertebrae. Ground and

center yourself. Close your eyes and do deep, focused breathing.

Breath up your spine, visualizing the breath coming from the center

of the earth straight up your back and right through C1. Breath out

through your mouth, visualizing the breath moving down the front of

your body. You also want to do this so it is deep abdominal

breathing and not shallow chest breathing.

Focus your " awareness " right on C1. See if you can detect what

feels like a tingling, buzzing, wavy vibration or pulse. There are

several acupressure points and meridians in this area. Hold this for

from 3-5 minutes. It also would help if you visualized the muscles

relaxing and the vertebrae moving back to its proper position. This

is an extremely effective technique for sublux problems and the one

I probably use more than any other. Bare minimum, you are also

applying pressure at the same time - which is what you are doing

already. If you can detect the energy (and it might take a time or

two until you realize what it is you are feeling because it can be

very subtle until you get used to it), you want to hold for a

balance. By that, I mean until the energetic sensations are the

same in both hands.

Then again, sometimes the sensations are anything but subtle.

Sometimes they are very vigorous. You might also feel a sensation of

warmth or what feels like the vertebrae " wobbling. " If it feels

like it is " wobbling " it is because that is what it is doing - it is

shifting. Something else you might feel is called the Therapeutic

Pulse. It will be like a regular pulse except it bounces back and

forth between your hands like a ping-pong ball. Typically, it will

start out light and slow, build in intensity and speed, and then

just fade away. If you do get this sensation, keeping holding until

it stops.

The other suggestion to consider is Cranialsacral Therapy. It is

very gentle and non-invasive. I stood for years with my head and

neck angled down and forward because of a cervical misalignment. A

couple of sessions of CST from one of my classmates a year and a

half ago totally fixed the problem and I haven't been bothered with

it since.