Treatment of children
We have a saying that we don’t care if you can tell us where you hurt, what matters is where there is a lesion. That is, where there is reduced mobility, tissue change and tenderness. These are the areas we are trained to see and find.
This way of making a functional diagnosis is very accurate when treating children. We can find the areas that aren’t working, even if we can’t talk to the child. We can feel whether infant colic is caused by nerve pressure in the skull, tension in the neck or pelvis, or if it’s a tension in the stomach.
We can also test kinesiologically if there are specific problems, such as food intolerances, or dysfunctions in the nervous system, if the child needs cross-training, or if there is a blockage so that the two hemispheres of the brain are not working together as they should.
Hemisphere blockage
Treatment of SSB compression
SSB compression is a tension that occurs due to heavy pressure on the head during birth, or in the pelvis when the baby is attached. It can also occur later with trauma to the head. And it can also occur as a reaction to stress, frustration, and high fever.
SSB stands for Syncondrosis SphenoBasilaris. It is the joint at the base of the skull between the neck bone and the butterfly bone, which means that the base joint of the skull is locked. It blocks the craniosacral rhythm, causing an abnormal flow in the spinal fluid, the cerebrospinal fluid system. It’s one of the most difficult tensions to find, but it can have major consequences for the child or adult.
SSB compression always causes a blockage between the right and left hemispheres. This can cause problems with the level of consciousness. Regulation of sleep/wakefulness, regulation of attentional state (arousal). Children with this tension will often have many different problems, sleep, concentration, attention. Many children with SSB compression are diagnosed as high-signal children, that is, children who have difficulty sorting through sensory impressions. These children are highly stressed children and children who sleep poorly and thrive poorly.
SSB compression is one of the tensions, or lesions, that cause what I call therapy resistance. This means that other treatments don’t really work because the body’s normal function is blocked. Therefore, we often see children who have tried many types of treatments without much effect. Treating SSB with compression can have an effect on this.
Treatment of infants
We will often be able to treat ear problems, stomach problems, and pain or other musculoskeletal problems.
In the past few years, new knowledge has emerged about sucking and swallowing movements in infants. Problems with these are often the cause of reflux problems, both with vomiting and silent reflux.
There can be tongue tie issues and there’s nothing we can do about that. If it’s tight and needs to be cut, but we can see if that’s the problem. We have a lot of experience treating children with short tongue ties both before and after cutting them. There are usually other craniosacral tensions that cause dysfunction with sucking and swallowing movements, and in the gastrointestinal system, the vagus nerve area, and we treat these.
Treatment of teenagers
During puberty, many young people experience problems with their joints. Girls go through a period where their connective tissue is very vulnerable due to hormonal changes. They easily injure tendons and ligaments. Scoliosis in girls often starts in early puberty as a result of connective tissue tension in the pelvis as the uterus develops. Here, visceral osteopathy is very effective. Boys often have chronic stress from their hormonal system, which can cause shin splints, for example. Both sexes often grow rapidly and not always in a balanced way. This often causes pain in joints, bones and muscles. A combination of osteopathic techniques is very effective here.
Just as many children as adults have migraines, but they often behave differently in relation to the pain than adults. They can become introverted or the opposite when they have an attack. There are many children who have tension headaches.
Children are also often very stressed, just like adults. They just react differently. They can become hyperactive, depressed, anxious, have eating problems and behavioral problems.
All these problems are often functional, meaning there are no clinical findings. They don’t show up in a blood test or on a scan. We can identify and treat them very precisely with our approach, even though it’s difficult for children to articulate these kinds of problems. As a parent, you often find that you have a child who is not thriving.
The manual techniques we use are very gentle, we don’t manipulate toddlers, and we don’t use techniques that are painful or can cause inflammatory reactions.
Treatment of teenagers
During puberty, many young people experience problems with their joints. Girls go through a period where their connective tissue is very vulnerable due to hormonal changes. They easily injure tendons and ligaments. Scoliosis in girls often starts in early puberty as a result of connective tissue tension in the pelvis as the uterus develops. Here, visceral osteopathy is very effective. Boys often have chronic stress from their hormonal system, which can cause shin splints, for example. Both sexes often grow rapidly and not always in a balanced way. This often causes pain in joints, bones and muscles. A combination of osteopathic techniques is very effective here.
Just as many children as adults have migraines, but they often behave differently in relation to the pain than adults. They can become introverted or the opposite when they have an attack. There are many children who have tension headaches.
Children are also often very stressed, just like adults. They just react differently. They can become hyperactive, depressed, anxious, have eating problems and behavioral problems.
All these problems are often functional, meaning there are no clinical findings. They don’t show up in a blood test or on a scan. We can identify and treat them very precisely with our approach, even though it’s difficult for children to articulate these kinds of problems. As a parent, you often find that you have a child who is not thriving.
The manual techniques we use are very gentle, we don’t manipulate toddlers, and we don’t use techniques that are painful or can cause inflammatory reactions.
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