Why do I touch your head?

Cranial Scan.

Counter/strain deals with fascia. What is fascia? The best way to describe fascia is using the image of a raw chicken breast. When you pull the skin away from the breast, that clear opaque layer is a form of fascia. Fascia is not only on soft tissue but is also on your nerves, arteries, lymphatic/venous (lymph nodes and veins), viscera (around organs), and muscle skeletal. Muscle is soft tissue and skeletal is hard tissue or bone. It also includes ligaments, cartilage and tendons. There are over 1000 potential fascial restrictions in the body. The app I have will show all the various system in different colors and the locations of the tender point. For example, cervical c2 has ten potential fascial restrictions on the posterior aspect of the left hand side. If I would press on c2 I would hit more than one of those tender points. To figure out what tender point I need to treat, I do something called a cranial scan. A cranial scan is when I feel the motion of cranial bones and sutures or when I actually find bones and sutures that do not move and are possibly tender or painful. When I find the tender/painful area in the cranial scan, this is a positive scan which tells me all sorts of information. First it tells me which side of the body it is located. There will be a point on both sides of the body because our bodies like balance. For example if you have a cervical c3 dysfunction on the right hand side of the body, you will either have a cervial c2 or c4 dysfunction on the left hand side of the body. Also if you have a tender point on the right hip, there will be tender point on the left hip, etc. The scan also tells me whether there is disfunction in the anterior of the body which is the front or the posterior part of the body which is the back. The scan can tell me whether its a superior point (that would be thoracic T7/8 and up) or bra line and up on a woman. It also tells me if there is an inferior point (thoracic T7/T8 down) or bra line down on a woman. Lastly, the scan will tell me whether it is a nervous, arterial, lymphatic, visceral, or muscle skeletal dysfunction.

How the therapy works: I scan your head and to find a positive scan. Then I go and find the point in the body that relates to that scan. I treat that point and then I check the scan to make sure it has changed. Then I go to the other side of the body and I find the stack or mate or parter in crime of the point that I just treated. Once I have treated that point, I check the scan and then I find the next scan to work on. The treatment is either head/body or head/head depending on what I’m working on. There are 2 ways to explain the therapy. First analogy would be an onion where we are peeling back the layers to reach the core or root cause of your dysfunction. The second anaolgy is a Rubik's cube. A rubik’s cube is three-dimensional object as you are three dimensional object. The rubik’s cube is a puzzle and you are also a puzzle. The Rubik’s cube has various colors and your body has various tender points related to the colored dots on the app. To solve the rubik’s cube, you rotate the cube. A lot of times when you rotate the color where you want it to go, a color rotates out of where you want it to stay. This is the same thing when it comes to the body; when you fix one point on the body, something else may change or pop up in the process. The goal is to solve the rubik’s cube or fix your disfunction but a lot of times that can take more than one treatment to completely solve the puzzle.