Several weeks ago, a colleague of mine asked me to check out her knees. Without any specific trauma, she told me that she began to experience severe pain upon walking distances and going up steps. She is young, athletic, and in very good condition and couldn’t understand why all of a sudden she felt limited in her daily life.
Interestingly enough, all her physical tests, x-rays, etc revealed no pathology and all seemed normal. From a Western Medical perspective, she was perfectly healthy and the doctor gave her some pain medication and told her it should pass within a week or two. However, with the passage of time, the pain did not subside , but rather intensified when she finally approached me.
However, from a CranioSacral Holistic perspective , I noticed a restriction of her fascial system from her pelvis through her dural tube affecting the Lumbar region and the nerves connecting to the muscles in her thighs and also her kidneys. She also seemed a bit stressed and her breathing patterns were shallow and restricted. This caused a lowering of her CranioSacral rhythm at the area of her diaphragm and also in her neck region. With all this information given to me through her body, I sensed the Inner Wisdom was speaking to us as pain and restriction of the CranioSacral system and that there was something out of balance in her life.
From a mind/body understanding, I know that pain in the knees could be a symptom of a fear of not being able to move forward in one’s life. While checking her CranioSacral Rhythm, I asked her if she has been undergoing any stresses in her life, or any major life decisions that have come up and have not yet been resolved. She looked at me with both wonderment and relief and said that yes, she has been overwhelmed with her three major life decisions about where to live, where to work and whom to marry. The emotional stresses simply had been somatized in her body in her tissues and caused a physical manifestation as pain in her knees.
As I helped her clear the body resrtrictions, she understood her life situations and she was better able to make decisions and move forward with her life.
How is she doing now? No knee pains, she decided to leave her job, go back to the states for a visit and confident that one day her soulmate will be there .
This my friends is an example of the power of Holistic CranioSacral Therapy.
