Imagine you are just 13 years old and all you want to do it play basketball without pain.
Shouldn’t be too much to ask, right?
This was yet another interesting one. This young boy had pain in both of his knees. Could hardly play basketball anymore.
When I tested his leg muscles, 2 quadriceps muscles in each leg weren’t working.
- Vastus Intermedius Medial Division
- Vastus Intermedius Lateral Division
These are very important muscles that stabilize and add power to the knee. All other muscles tested normal.
In taking his history I found out that he had severely broken his right femur in a football game.
He had a rod put in while it healed, but that was since taken out.
He was left with some nasty scars on his leg.
I forget how long before he came in that he had the rod out. But, I think it was about a year or so.
Now notice that parts of the scars are bright red, and other parts are his normal skin color.
That is a clue that his nervous system hadn’t fully integrated and healed the scars.
Now for the diagnostics…
When I had him take his fingertips and simply touch on the red parts his Vastus Intermedius muscles instantly tested extremely strong. On both legs.
His nervous system was signaling that the reason why those muscles weren’t working was because there was a problem with the scars themselves.
We had found the cause.
I thought it was interesting that by touching the scars on the right leg, the left leg muscles also strengthened.
Something was happening at the spinal cord level to create a spill-over effect. It was like the body was mirroring itself from side to side.
By freeing up the scar tissue and getting the body to re-integrate the tissue I knew he would be just fine.
I had to treat the scar over a few visits.
First we started with the skin level scars. This is where the scar is trapping nerves in the skin. That was the easy part….
The next part was going to get to deeper tissue. This was the deeper muscles. I had to unbind the tissue in this area.
And finally for the big one….
This was the scar tissue on the covering of the bone, called the periosteum. This is where all the nerve endings are. It’s what hurts when you break a bone.
Ouch. Not too fun getting this worked on, but he did well.
After those several visits his quadriceps muscles turned back on to full power and his knee pain vanished.
The last I heard he had played 8 games of basketball in just a few days with no problem.
The way it should be.
This was yet another case where you have to treat the patient and not the pain. You have to have a way of discerning where the problem is actually coming from. You need a system that can systematically provide that result.
He had bilateral knee pain. Similar to this girl. But his problem and her problem came from completely different places.
And neither of them had anything to do with the actual knees themselves.
Their knees were fine. It was the control of the knee muscles that was the problem.