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The Frenchman Who Forgot His Pelvis"Halù, Dr. Jacùb. My name is Bernard Halimi. I have back pain five and one-alf weeks now. I try evëry'ting. No one can help mè. Physical therapy, chiropractique, acupunctùre, nothing. My pain is shooting, my leg. Oh my Gùd! Incredibël! Worst pain of my life, ùh? I have numbness, tingling, burning, evëry'ting. I can not sleep."And on the describing went. Questions, details. Exam. I lay the hands on and receive the body's testimony. Minutes pass. The pelvis is heavy. Very heavy. As if an elephant sits atop. Closer exam. One hipbone is rotated forward, one backward. One has shifted up, the other down. One has slid toward the belly, the other toward the back. Wonder what trauma caused this horrendous distortion. "Uh, Bernard? Ever injure your pelvis?" "No. I am eating organique, running ten miles evëry mùrning, evëry'ting good." A locomotive. Now that could do it. "Bernard, are you sure? No trauma?" "No, No. Vegetarian, vëry healt'y." I treat the pelvis, twenty minutes now. Then suddenly... "Oh my Gùd! Dr. Jacùb! I just remembër. When I was child, thirteen years old, with my friend, playing in Frànce, on the gràss. Many cut treès, how you say, on top of each othèr. One of thèm, roll down the hill, over my legs, my body, break my pelvis, four placës." Treat the injury, and the body remembers it, the patient remembers it. Amazing! I can't count the times that a patient has forgotten to tell me a past trauma, and in mid session, while treating the area injured, they will suddenly recall, as if struck by a sudden knowing. Osteopathy frees the tissues, and often awakens memories of traumas forgotten. We continue our sessions. Five treatments later, sixty percent recovery. Less pain and less numbness, much less. No surgery, no drugs. Just Osteopathy. Remove the restrictions and watch the body heal itself. Pure, simple, perfect. With time, Bernard would come to full recovery. The disk that may have needed surgery had healed. Normalcy, to his leg, had been returned. And so, the Frenchman who forgot his pelvis, remembered it. His broken pelvis, tight and bound, had softened, allowing his back to heal. Memory revived, body restored, he perseveres. All names and stories are true. Printed with express patient permission. |
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