Dr. Dean Howell Discusses Neurocranial Restructuring Therapy Treatments - Part 1
When we are performing
NCR therapy there are a number of treatment sections
that we would typically perform on a patient.
There is
going to be a spinal integration section, which will
feature some deep muscle work as well as some leg length
checking and working with the low back, and then also
doing some deep muscle work in the upper back.
These
sections would normally be performed by a massage
therapist. Then later we will have the patient turn over
and I will show you some of the work that I will be
doing on my patients.
Then we will go further. Do some
external cranial work and then the most important parts
of the therapy will be some very specific testing and
the treatments with endonasal balloons.
Now we are in the spinal
integration phase and you can see me working very deeply
on parts of my model's low back and buttocks. It is very
important how this is done because the therapist needs
to be able to feel the energy flowing between the
different contact points in the patient's back, so this
is not a random therapy.
As this treatment accumulates,
what happens is that we start seeing more symmetry in
the shape of the spine and pelvis. We are very
interested in how their legs and hips track together so
that we show a lot of symmetrical movements as the
skeleton moves into a more symmetrical treatment
position.
Working on the pelvis is extremely important
because of all the connections between the skeleton and
the skull. From the pelvis to the skull there is
connective tissues that will go along with the spine and
go through the inside of the head so that working on the
head and the pelvis are sort of working on opposite ends
of a puppet with strings.
Now you can see me at this
point working with deep muscle pressures on my model's
upper back because so many of these muscles when they
are tight will prevent the skull from being able to
change as we do external cranial work or the more
important internal cranial work.
Remember all of these
treatments are designed to combine so that we can move
the innermost bone in the head, the sphenoid bone, because
as the sphenoid bone can be changed we get permanent
cumulative changes rather than more temporary changes of
trying to correct all of these other structures.