Osteopathic Tips, Tricks And Techniques

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The headache was in her head. The problem was in her big toe.

An intern working on a girl’s foot while she glared at him and finally said out loud, “Tell the stupid doctor the pain’s in my head, not in my foot.”

He corrected the toe. The whole fascial pattern released. The headache was gone.

That case is one of a dozen Dr. Stephen Myles Davidson shares in this 38-minute program, and every one of them is there to make a single point stick: the body works as a unit, and the strain you are chasing is often not where the patient is pointing.

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What you’ll get

Dr. Davidson organizes four decades of practice into seven working principles, each anchored to a real case:

  • Why local complaints sometimes have local causes, and how to tell when they don’t
  • A fifteen-year frozen shoulder that resolved through a knee jammed into a dashboard twenty years earlier
  • How your hands work as a diagnostic instrument, including two cases where the absence of expected somatic dysfunction pointed to a herniated disc and to a spinal malignancy
  • What happened when months of careful cranial work were finally answered by Gordon Zink’s vigorous fascial approach
  • A fugue-state epilepsy case treated with two Counterstrain points, and the boy who went on to finish at UCLA
  • Why hereditary predisposition is a phenotype you can sometimes influence, not a wall you stop at

Then he puts it in your hands. Using Robert Fulford’s structural evaluation screen, you’ll take a baseline, have a partner simply grip the floor with one foot, and watch cervical rotation, arm abduction and pelvic mechanics change in front of you. Pinch the tensor fascia lata. Change the parameters again. Then do it with nothing but a frustrating memory and a pleasant one, and see the diaphragm answer.