Thursday, April 24, 2008

Successful resolution of constipation - Clinical study

Recently, young woman in her early 20’s came into my office with a baffling case of severe and chronic constipation. Engaging and vivacious, she also had GI discomfort frequently. She had not been able eliminate without some kind of herbal or other laxative for over 4 years. And, the bad news was, she was becoming habituated and many of those remedies no longer worked.

I told her up front that I wasn’t sure if I could help her, because, frankly, I have not had overwhelming success with constipation over the years Over about 10 visits we tried a number of different avenues, from emotional to nutritional to structural, and while her health and well-being definitely improved (her moderate obsessive symptoms and eating patterns improved greatly, and her chronic low grade leg pain was gone) the constipation was unchanged.

Then, I tried something new. Without getting too specific, what I tried involved reducing neurological distortion in the operation of the ‘valves’ of the GI tract. Almost immediately, she simply normalized, eliminating 1-2x/day, every day, without any laxative help. She even found that she could eat foods, like pizza, which before would have made her problem so bad she could only get back on track through colonic irrigation.

Why did the treatment work?
That's the real question, isn't it? The answer gets down to what I believe the NeurOntogenics work is actually doing, that is, in a nutshell, erasing memory patterns that the body has taken on.

It is very easy to show, over and over again, the principle of memory reset in action on skeletal muscles, which can be tested. If weak, they are easily strengthened by a wide variety of methods. These methods seemingly have nothing to do with the muscle, from the eye movements of EMDR to the point tapping of EFT (both ostensibly treatments for emotional issues) to the more complex body treatments that I do, often to areas distant from the muscle that I am trying to affect. My conclusion is that they change because the treatments affect their learned behaviors, which are part of larger, body-wide patterns of muscle activity.

Why should muscles in the digestive system be any different? If they are at all like the muscles of the outer body, they are subject to learning as well. Since learning is erasable, and, like the treatment of other muscle issues most of the treatment to this young woman was not to the digestive system itself, it is reasonable to assume that the reason for the constipation, and the success at treating it was due to erasure of learned patterns of activity that were not conducive to elimination.

Clinical Study

Needless to say I am excited to try this method on some others with similar chronic constipation, and that is the reason for this study. I would like to offer free treatment to 5 people who have chronic constipation, to see if this was a fluke, or not.

So, if you know anyone who would like to participate in this small clinical study, please have them contact me. The treatment will be all natural, and based around chiropractic, acupuncture, and kinesiology. The chiropractic may be ‘low force’, and most of the acupuncture ‘no-needle’ if that is necessary for the comfort of the patient. I presume that the treatment would take 3-6 visits, about 30 minutes each.

I would be glad to talk in person privately, over the phone or by email to anyone who wants more information, and of course all information is 100% strictly confidential.

You would need to give permission for me to publish the results of the study, possibly referencing your case, but never mentioning you by name.

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