Mitchell R. Mosher, DPM, LMBT
STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
A Doctor's discoveries
7 Simple Steps To Optimal Health
That Your Doctor Wont Talk Much About
And
The Missing Chapters From The Western Medical Repair Manual
Drs. Discoveries.com
STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
A Doctor's Discoveries
©Copyright 2012 Mitchell R. Mosher
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Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
Health Consultant - Medical Bodywork - Retired Podiatrist
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STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
A DOCTORS DISCOVERIES
SIMPLE STEPS TO OPTIMAL HEALTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------------------- page 5
PROLOGUE --------------------------------------------- page 10
ABOUT THIS BOOK ----------------------------------- page 13
ABOUT THE AUTHOR -------------------------------- page 14
INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------- page 23
CHAPTER 1 - STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM -
Step 1 ----------------------------------- page 31
CHAPTER 2 - BOWEN THERAPY - MISSING CHAPTER
1 - Step 2 ------------------------------ page 38
CHAPTER 3 - BODY - MIND - BODY CONNECTION –
MISSING CHAPTER 2 - Step 3 - page 83
CHAPTER 4 - HYDROTHERAPY - MISSING CHAPTER 3
- Step 4 --------------------------------- page 104
CHAPTER 5 - EXERCISE THERAPY – INCOMPLETE
CHAPTER 1 - Step 5 --------------- page 112
CHAPTER 6 - NUTRITIONAL THERAPY – INCOMPLETE
CHAPTER 2 - Step 6 ---------------- page 118
CHAPTER 7 - VIBRATION THERAPY – MISSING
CHAPTER 4 - Step 7 -------------- page 145
CHAPTER 8 - MORE MISSING CHAPTERS FROM YOUR
DOCTOR'S REPAIR MANUAL ---- page 1
Direct Currents – Missing Chapter 5
Connective Tissues - Missing Chapter 6
Meridian System - Missing Chapter 7
Outside the box - Missing Chapter 8
Chapter 9 - OTHER THERAPIES THAT YOU SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT ---------------------------- page 196
Chapter 10 - HOW'S YOUR HEALER? ------------- page 207
EPILOGUE ------------------------------------------------- page 216
REFERENCES -------------------------------------------- page 2
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
THE RIPPLE!
One afternoon a few years ago a patient was eagerly telling me all of the wonderful things she could do following the foot surgery I'd performed for her a few weeks before. She was so happy that she'd sought my expertise and all of that mushy stuff. She’d had surgery two years before by another doctor and had a terrible experience. She was reluctant to have the other foot operated on. A friend of hers referred her to me and all went very smoothly. I had a startling realization (Epiphany), at that very moment. It was – that I wouldn't have been able to perform her foot surgery, or any one else’s, if it hadn't been for my algebra teacher at Marin Junior College in 1961. It occurred to me that I'd helped to improve the quality of life for thousands of patients – and becoming a podiatrist and foot surgeon would never have been possible, had I not passed Algebra 1-A! In addition, I probably would never have become a myofascial therapist either. This has enabled me to help thousands of other patients with their trials and tribulations (Chapters 2 & 3).
When I decided to pursue a career in some type of health care profession, I mapped out all of the prerequisites and made up a plan for achievement. In order to get into any school of health, a student must pass, and get good grades in chemistry and physics. In order to take chemistry and physics one must pass algebra and trigonometry and it helps to have taken classes in calculus. Therefore, in the fall semester 1961, I enrolled in Algebra 1- A. The teacher was a pleasant, strong, attractive, 30'ish woman, named Mrs. Blair. Three weeks into the semester I came to Mrs. Blair with my drop class slip to have signed because I was totally lost right after we left decimals and began lessons on equations. Even my wife who claimed super powers in mathematics couldn't help me to get it. Mrs. Blair asked why I wanted to drop the class, and I told her. She said, "If you need to pass this class I will give you extra help until you can catch on." I said, "I don't think that I can catch on. I've never understood mathematics very well beyond the basics, and I have no aptitude for math." She said," Sure you can. Can you spend an extra half hour after classes Wednesday afternoons?" I answered, "Yes. I can." After two or three attempts, using different approaches, she finally succeeded in showing me how to conquer equations and word problems. Because of her dedication to teaching and the goodness in her heart - I am where I am today. I would've taken an entirely different career pathway and possibly could have ended up in an occupation that I despised. When I think about all the lives that I've been able to help as a health care giver; Podiatrist, Myofascial Therapist, Health Counselor, the RIPPLE from her good deed was gigantic.
As this sunk in that afternoon in 1997, I immediately called the College of Marin and asked for the math department. I got to the head of the department and told him the story. I couldn't remember the teachers name but when he told me, "That must have been Lorna Blair." I said, "That’s her." I'd like to write or call her and say thank you if I could." He said he would see if that could be arranged as, she had retired a couple of years ago. An hour later, he called back with her home telephone number. My heart was racing just a little as I dialed the number. When she answered, I announced who it was but of course she didn't remember the circumstances from 25 years earlier. Nevertheless, I thanked her for keeping me on course so I could pursue my career. She was quite honored to be held highly in my esteem and thanked me for my thoughtfulness. In addition to Mrs. Lorna Blair, I commend all of the other teachers who will go the extra mile with their struggling students. They may never know what the ripple effects of their good deed to a student might bring about, years down the road.
Thank you once again Mrs. Lorna Blair.
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Tom Bowen, developed his remarkable bodywork system and passed it down so I could find it via my healer and teacher, the late Milton Albrecht. Milt was a California Redneck of sorts. In his first calling he was a machinist and builder of racing engines and hot rods. He learned Bowen therapy and was anointed the teacher of the technique in the US in 1994. In our fireside chats he shared lots of tidbits of information with me, for which I am very thankful. He had a profound distrust of doctors but he trusted me, and only two or three other physicians. I guess our personalities must have meshed. He knew that I still did cortisone injections, prescribed drugs, and performed surgery, but he must have known that I only did those as a last resort, even though I never told him that.
When I spoke at his memorial services in 2003, I brought forth that, not only had he performed some 80,000 treatments since 1990 on his clients, but he had taught hundreds of practitioners worldwide to perform the technique. And, they were also having significant influences on their client's lives also. I alone have treated over 12,000 different people over the years, and I helped most of them. You will meet some of them in chapter 2.
Milton was very encouraging to me. I was one of his prized students and friend. I have total respect for him, his intuition, and insightful visions toward health and wellness.
At one of our fireside chats, he told me that ganglionic cysts were caused by an overload of caffeine. He told me that when he "popped" the cysts for his clients, many times they had sleepless nights following. I had a large one behind my ankle when he told me this. I thought, "Oh yeah." At the time, I drank eight to ten cups of coffee a day. I cut down to two cups and about three months later, the cyst was 80% reduced in size. After three more months, it was gone! He was right-on once again. He told me lots of other things that didn't add up. But, down the road they often came to fruition.
I am grateful for Tom Bowen's daughter, Heather Edmonds, who provided me with her first hand accounting about her father's journey as a healer.
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I appreciate my wife, Diane, who has put up with all my projects, disappearances from the scene, and aloofness due to my preoccupations. My Office Manager, Barbara Nemanic, and Medical Assistant, Miki Machetta, who for 20 plus years endured my continual new ideas and changes in the ways of doing things in our practice. Their support has enabled me to go on with my learning and teaching curves. My children, Stephanie (nutrition specialist), Greg (naturalist), and Amy (spiritualist), who have kept my interests in natural health alive.
My new friends in North Carolina, who have helped me learn about one of the missing chapters in the Western Medical Repair Manual; Billy Wease R.Ph. and Mike Pruitt. Editor, Kaiti Odonnell. And, Eugene Vickery who motivated me, guided, and helped me to finish this book.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
PROLOGUE
When I deliver my motivational programs, I bring up the fact that I wouldn’t be here today doing this presentation, if I knew then – what I know now! I probably wouldn’t be finishing this book, either. Because, I wouldn’t have met my friend Eugene, and he motivated me to complete and publish my book. He lives on the East Coast and I lived on the West Coast.
I loved my chosen profession, podiatry. I told my patients not to worry about me retiring on them, and that I planned to practice until it was physically impossible to do so. However, as my PAPA Premature Accelerated Physiological Aging problems mounted, I began having second thoughts about my vows. Then one day, an older patient was groaning about how "Getting old isn’t for sissies", and I couldn’t bear to hear that any more. Hearing that every day from my older patients just reinforced to me that I was getting old and feeling it. So, I quit.
I didn’t believe there was any such thing as anti-aging. We all have to age. But, as I later learned, we can do it gracefully. This book is about how you can prevent or reverse your PAPA problems. PAPA is an acronym for; Premature, Accelerated, Physiological Aging.
Millions of Americans are suffering from it, and they don’t have to. Some of the signs of PAPA are:
· Obesity
· Depression
· Acid Reflux
· Hypertension
· Type II Diabetes
· Skin Disorders
· Arthritis
· Aches and Pains
· Cancer
I was suffering with many of them until I moved to the East coast and learned about one of the chapters that are missing from the Western Medical Repair Manual. My book is about those Missing Chapters, and the Seven Steps on the Pathway To Optimal Health. My goal is to inspire people so that they can experience better quality of their lives.
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Another book that I'm writing is; PATHWAY TO OPTIMAL SUCCESS. Success also has to do with Optimal Health, but I decided to do just two medium books, rather than one big one.
This is the Prologue to it.
I recall sitting at my desk at my office one sunny afternoon in June, 1973. I pondered that, "I have good health, high energy, free time, BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY." There were lots of things I wanted, places I wanted to go, things I wanted to do, but no extra money to do them. I thanked God that I was able to support my family without my wife having to work, and I wondered how I could become rich.
As my practice grew, I noticed that many of my older and retired patients were wealthy, but now they DIDN'T HAVE THE HEALTH OR ENERGY to go places and do the things they wanted to do.
Then, in my mid-life, I made plenty of money, had good health and high energy, BUT DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME to go and do what I wanted. Wouldn't it be nice if Dad could take afternoons off, pick up the kids and go to a show, the park, or the zoo? We should be semi-retired when the children are young, and then make our fortune in our later life, instead of the other way around. Many wealthy people made their riches after the age of 55. The major problem is, we need cash flow to raise and maintain our growing families.
I finally arrived almost at the point where I wanted to be. But it took me until age 65. By then, my kids were raised, and I say almost, because my health was declining quickly. I am writing this book along with two others that will give you the tools for attaining; Health, Wealth, Abundance, and the Time to enjoy it all, and to have Physical and Emotional Peace and Freedom. In other words, to have all of the many, "RICHES OF LIFE", per Napoleon Hill in his classic book, THINK AND GROW RICH.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book is for educational and informational purposes only. It is based on my personal experiences, my patient's experiences, observations, studies, and my conclusions from all of these.
It provides information about medical conditions and the therapies which have anecdotally shown to be effective in the reversal of some medical issues. However, these concepts are not a substitute for professional medical evaluation, assessment, and care.
I do not make any recommendations to any reader, on what to do for their medical conditions. I only illustrate what I, and others have done for theirs.
To my knowledge, none of the contents of this book have been evaluated or approved by the Medical Community, or the FDA.
I make no assertions, guarantees, representations other than as a teacher of the Bowen Technique, and a recipient of some of the modalities mentioned in this book.
Readers of this book are encouraged to use the information for help in choosing the pathways they wish to take in their quest of optimal health, only after, proper medical evaluation and intervention.
Mitchell R. Mosher, DPM, LMBT, aka Dr. Mosher
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This is the only part of my books that I'm a little doubtful about writing. I don't want to be too much about me-me-me, on one hand. But, on the other hand, I want people to realize that they can be successful in the achievement of good; Physical Health, Financial Health, and Abundance - For Physical & Emotional Peace and Freedom, regardless of up-bringing, their past, or their present. Anyone can start from right here - right now- today - and go anywhere they choose.
I like the story that was told by a motivational speaker at a personal growth meeting I attended a few years ago. As the story goes, a driver pulled into a, "Service Station". Back then, gas stations were called "Service Stations", where an attendant pumped your gas, checked the oil in your car, washed the windshield, and filled the air in the tires. While the attendant was washing the windshield, the driver leaned out the window and said, "Hey Mister. Just where am I anyway?" The attendant replied, "Sir. You’re in GAINESVILLE, MISSOURRA, quite proudly." The driver said, "Well, then - tell me. Just what's Gainesville, Missoura known for?" The attendant thought for a moment and replied, "Sir. From Gainesville, Missoura - you can go just about anywhere in the world that you want to go!"
So, I'll give you some background information about me.
#1. I have a wild creative imagination. My mom's probably responsible for that. She was a single parent, who always cared for my needs, but if I had any "Wants", I had to find a way or make a way to earn the money so that I could obtain that, "Want".
I made fresh blackberry pies in the summer, Christmas wreathes in the winter, sold newspapers at the local commuter bus station, baby-sat, and cared for neighborhood yards. Whatever it took to earn the money to get what I wanted, I did what I had to do in order to get "it".
I was also a "Wanna-Be High School drop-out". Shortly after my 16th birthday, I went to the principle's office and picked up the forms to complete in order to drop out of high school. I carefully placed them at Mom's seat at the dinning table one evening, after I had set the table for dinner. After she read them over, she looked up at me and adamantly said, "I refuse to sign these papers, and you will finish high school!" (bless her heart). So, I reluctantly finished high school.
I volunteered to be drafted, into the US Army, shortly after I turned 18 years old, much to my Mom's dismay. But, under the military system in the 1950’s, I had to go sooner or later. So, I opted for a sooner option, rather than later.
Oh boy! If I hated high school, I really hated the Army! I was love-sick, home-sick, over-worked, under-paid, under-loved, and harassed beyond words. It took about 3 days in Boot Camp to finally, "Figure it out".
Trait #2 surfaced - I had my first behavioral analysis, (People Watcher) experience. I noticed that the commissioned officers (Captains, Majors, Colonels) had life better than the non-commissioned officers, (Sergeants, Corporals, Master Sergeants). The commissioned officers; lived in nicer homes, drove nicer cars, made more money, dressed in nicer uniforms and off duty clothing, and were treated with more respect than the non-com's. Most of the commissioned officers had graduated from college and had attended ROTC. Many of the non-com's were high school drop-outs, and a couple never even finished grade school! So, I re-thought the schooling process. Then, I recalled my friends back home. The ones whose fathers had gone to college had similar advantages as the Commissioned Officers comparatively speaking. They lived in big houses, had nice vacations, drove luxury cars, and belonged to the country clubs.
I was talking with one of my buddies one night over a couple of beers at the PX (ten cents a beer back then), and he told me about getting discharged early to go to college. If your discharge date was within 90 days of the beginning of a semester, they will let you out for enrollment. I told him I'd like to do that, but my grades weren't good enough to get into college. He said, "All you have to do is enroll in a Junior College. If you graduated from high school they have to accept you as long as you have a high school diploma". So, I immediately wrote the registrar at Marin Junior College, near where I grew up, to find out what it would involve for me to enroll. I wanted out of the Army in the worst way, and ASAP. I had the high school that I attended, forward my below average transcripts to the college. A couple of weeks later, I received a letter of acceptance to register at Marin Junior College for classes in September 1960.
I showed the letter to my commanding Sergeant at Fort Lewis Washington. He apparently had not finished high school and was unable to read beyond 5th grade level. He asked me what the letter meant, and I told him that the Rules and Regulations Manual, paragraph x, section y, line z, states that an early discharge must be given to any G.I. who has been accepted for college which term begins within 90 days of the their date of discharge and mine was Nov 11th. He about fell out of his chair. As I explained the concept to him, he must not have encountered it before, he finally "Got It". He tried his hardest to get me to "Re-Up" for another 4 years (which I'm sure he would have received a commission for). He offered me a large signing bonus to do so, but I graciously declined since I knew what I knew! He signed my release papers, and I was out of there August 31, 1960.
I was on my way to Kentfield, California to attend college, and to be back with some of my old high school friends.
On registration day, I got in line in the gymnasium behind the counselor at the card table registering students with last names between J to O. His name was Mr. Kinnard. He was dressed in a gray flannel coat that didn't match the shirt and tie, in any way shape or form! When I told him my name, he removed my high school transcript from a file box. After glancing at the paper, he looked up and said, "Son, you're not college material. Your high school grades are far sub-standard. I’d suggest that you go to a trade school and learn a good trade. I’ll give you the names of them." I said, "No, I have to take 9 units this semester. Here's my letter from the registrar. I was discharged from the Army to attend this semester, and I'm not going back to Fort Lewis, Washington." He said, "Okay. I suggest that you take English 10, Mathematics 10, and Business 44." These were remedial - bonehead classes which I needed to get through before I could take anything serious. Shame on him for his assumption that I was, "Not college material", but I’m glad he gave me easy classes, because my study habits were trace to none. And, I choked every time I took a test. That first semester, I got two - B's and a C. The next semester, I took Advanced Remedial English, Advanced Bonehead Math, and Business 44 B. I got through them alright and got all B's. From then on, I took transferable classes to university level in preparation for pre-med. My mission over the years, was to prove that Mr. Kinnard was wrong about me. Unfortunately, He died from cancer, about the time I graduated, Cum Laud in my class of 44 students, from Podiatry School. I had no intent to go and rub it in his face, but the thought had crossed my mind a few times over the years.
I met and studied with two Pre-Dental students at Marin J. C. Since my grandfather was a dentist, the thought crossed my mind to go into dentistry. They motivated me to keep up my pre-med studies. Mrs. Blair encouraged me to push on too. As did my wife, my family, and friends. But, I was an assistant manager of a pharmacy, and thought that I wanted to be pharmacist and own my own drug store. Although, my heart wasn't really in it. Hear my words- Always, listen to your heart !
My wife had foot problems. She put me through college and podiatry school as a grocery checker, (with a little help from my parents, and the G.I. Bill). I re- met my wife's foot surgeon. Actually, he had taken care of a callus under the ball of my foot when I worked in a drug store owned by his brother-in Law two years before. The lesion was killing me. I was petrified to have the growth worked on. But it was absolutely necessary since I couldn't stand or walk without pain. I’d had a Plantar's wart in the same location when I was 12 years old. Mom took me to the old Family Doc, and the injection and burning out of the wart process was so painful - I'd never want to go through that ever again. I was sure the wart had returned. The podiatrist's removal of the lesion was so painless, and when I walked out of his office pain free, I was amazed. A couple of years later, while he was taking care of my wife, I inquired as to, "What does a Podiatrist do all day long?" He invited me to spend a day in his office so that I could see what kinds of foot problems a podiatrist takes care of, which I did. When I observed all of the simple things that he did in order to relieve people's pain and suffering, and improve their lives, I thought, "This is my calling."
Dr. Norm told me where the Podiatry College was in San Francisco, California, and it was not in one of the better parts of town. I drove to where the school was located. I parked in front of a high-rise, low rent, apartment building across the street from the Podiatry School. After I entered the front door, I found the entrance to the registrar's office. I asked the lady at the front desk for an application for enrollment. As she handed me an application, she said, "Would you like to meet the Dean?" I said, "Yes. That would be great!" She escorted me down the hall to the Dean's office. Dr Norbert was a large, statuesque man. His handshake was firm, but had a slight tremor. He inquired about my college classes and grades. I told him that I had taken Chemistry 1- A & 1- B, Organic Chemistry, Zoology, Spanish, Algebra, etc, and that I had a "B plus grade point average." He said, "Okay. If you take physics or trigonometry this summer, you can start the fall semester." I agreed to that, and promptly enrolled at the University of California, Berkley for trigonometry in the Summer Sessions. I had done my Basic and Organic chemistry there a year before. I chose Trigonometry because I knew how hard physics was.
My best friend's father was a G.P. "General Practitioner". One Saturday afternoon, I went over to his house and told the good doctor my dilemma. I was in Pre-Pharmacy, thought about Dentistry, and now had learned about Podiatry, and that I was confused about how to proceed? He encouraged me to go into medicine or dentistry as they were the accepted professions. And that, Podiatry, Chiropractic, and all the others were a bunch of "Quacks." I listened to my gut feeling and went ahead and enrolled in podiatry school anyway. I'm sure glad that I didn't take his advice.
Podiatry school was easy. I met 2 study partners. I learned how to take notes in the lectures, and then later in the day re-write my notes. We (my study partners) shared notes and information if we missed something, or a class. I also learned how to study and the art of how to take tests. I got straight A’s except for a couple classes, and graduated 2nd in my class of 44 students. Even though the only "A" grade I got in high school was speech class, an omen that something was on the horizon. I was glad that I didn't have to do the Valedictorian Speech at my Podiatry School Graduation.
I was awarded with a Residency in Foot Surgery for two years. There were only 12 slots at that time in the US for 300 applicants, and I got one of them!
My residency included; foot surgery, internal medicine, general and vascular surgery, pathology, anesthesiology, radiology, dermatology, and my favorite - Emergency & Trauma for two months. I wouldn't trade those sleepless nights in the hospital for any of the ones that I had while I was in the US Army.
I'll never forget the afternoon that I made the incision on my first surgical patient's toe. As I directed the scalpel through the skin and dissected the tissues down to the joint, I thought, "Wow! What a trip. From a "Borderline Juvenile Delinquent & Wannabe High School Drop - Out, to an aspiring foot surgeon." I did that surgery without a flaw, and thousands more thereafter. If I could do that, then why can't you accomplish something you dream to do?
During my podiatry practice building program, I got my #3 personality trait, divine discontent. I was always on the vigil for a faster, easier and better way to get the job done (creative imagination). Also, how could I be of better service to my patients. The good ones stuck, the not so good ones were replaced, and I was always tuned into finding a better way - never satisfied with the "Status Quo", as so many people are willing to accept. The constant changes that I made drove my office staff crazy. People and animals are not comfortable with change.
This enabled me to experiment with some Natural Health Options (Alternative Medicine) in my personal life and my podiatry practice, which is what this book is about.
So, if I could overcome all the challenges that I had, why can't you?
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
INTRODUCTION
Health and Wellness are the opposite of Disease and Sickness.
Diseases and Sicknesses are a result of many factors; genetics, environment, toxins & pollutants, traumas & accidents and all the perils that follow them, life style choices, stress, and even thoughts - yes, thoughts.
Sound Physical, Mental, and Emotional states can result in Optimal Health and Wellness. Therefore as I see it, if we can tend to these 3 wheels in action, we stand the best chance of living healthy, happy, and productive lives. They engage with one another like gear wheels, all interlocked, rotating, and continuously moving at varying speeds at all times.
(PHYSICAL) (EMOTIONAL) (MENTAL)
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Optimal Health and Wellness means to me; to be able to arise every morning feeling better than I did the night before - day after day - after day, with a sense of purpose and excitement for the upcoming day. To be pain free, medication free, doctor and hospital free, feeling and looking good, and have a sense of well being.
Taking the steps and following the pathway they take you on, will help you to attain Optimal Health too. These steps trickle down to the cellular level which will aid in providing them with their basic needs; Oxygen, Water, Nutrients, and a Good Environment.
HEALTH AWARENESS
In 1990, the medical director of a leading pharmaceutical company stated that his mission was to see that every American was taking at least one pharmaceutical agent. Presently, the average American who is suffering from problems caused by PAPA Premature - Accelerated - Physiological - Aging is taking 11.6 medications. Some signs of PAPA are; Obesity, Depression, Acid Reflux, Arthritis, Type II Diabetes, Hypertension, Skin problems, Cancer, and many other chronic signs-symptoms-disabilities.
During the 1960's, when I worked my way through college in pharmacies, we filled about one to two prescriptions per customer. There was only one small shelve - counter which stocked all of the over the counter non-prescription medications. In the 1970's, my patients took on average, about 3 to 4 medications. In the 1980's they were taking five to six prescriptions. And when I retired in 2006, many of my patients were taking 12 to 16 different medications. Now, there are 4 to 5 large shelve - counters in Walmart which stock the OTC, (over the counter) medications. Also, in many parts of North Carolina, there's a pharmacy or two on many of the major intersections. Plus, there may be an independent pharmacy on the boulevard in between. They're all selling drugs to control the signs and symptoms of PAPA.
There are 3 main reasons why medical professionals can't fix many of your PAPA health issues.
First, cures of disease such as arthritis, cancer heart disease, are not options in our medical system. Control and maintenance of your problems are the goals, and thus the control of you.
Secondly, prevention, and wellness are way down on the medical doctors' list of priorities.
Thirdly, because your doctors are missing some crucial information about how to lead you toward better health as follows:
Bowen Therapy - Medical Bodywork
The Irrigation System
Body-Mind-Body System
The Cell Environment System
The Direct Current System
The Connective Tissue System
The Meridian System
Thinking Outside Of The Box
THE SEVEN STEPS TO OPTIMAL HEALTH
1. Straying From The Mainstream
2. Bowen Therapy and Bodywork
3. Body - Mind Reset
4. Nutrition Re-Set
5. Exercise Your Body
6. Hydration - Use The Perfect Water
7. Vibration Management
Step 1 gets you started.
Steps 2 - 7 aid in cellular integrity by affecting; hydration, oxygenation, nutrition, and the maintenance of your cellular environment. Cells make tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make systems. Organ systems make us go. So, it's imperative that our 75 trillion cells are as healthy as possible. Cells; retract when the environment is unfavorable, and they go into the growth stage when the environment is favorable.
The following chapters will show you my health and wellness journey. They will tell you how and why following these same simple steps, might lead you to a better quality of life. They include some missing chapters from the Western Medical Repair Manual, and why your doctors can't get you to run right.
I will explain these and give examples, as I take you through the chronological experiences I've had in my Natural Health Journey, plus my Allopathic career doing Podiatric Medicine and Foot Surgery.
If you want to prevent or reverse any PAPA problems and you want better health, your first step needs to be a commitment to yourself that you will take the appropriate actions for your personal growth process. You’ll need to commit to; spending the money, and the time that it takes to get you where you want to go. And, spend a portion of each day, working on the integration of most, if not all of your health and wellness steps. You will have to remain open minded and be willing to explore and experiment with the H.M.O'S from A to Z. Experience and become educated on the myriad of Health Maintenance Options listed in Chapter 9. Remember, your medical doctors don’t have all the answers to all of your problems.
If you are sick and want to stay sick, don't read any further.
If you are sick and want to be under control by your doctors, medicines and surgery, please don't read any further.
If you want to get healthy, stay healthy, and have control of your health destiny, I hope you enjoy my books.
Here's how I've made changes in my life. First, I decide on what's the necessary change that needs to be? Next, I visualize myself in the new mode. After that, I feel how I'll feel in the new mode. If there are any substitutes available, I commit to use these as much as possible.
For example, when I quit smoking in my mid 30's, I made an advanced mind-set acknowledgement that this was a necessary change that I had to make. I knew from past experience that it was hard to do. First, there's the physical withdrawal. Then there's the psychological withdrawal. And then, there's an emotional void. At bed-time every night, I visualized myself in one of the activities during which, I loved my cigarette. I felt the sense of accomplishment and how good it felt to be doing this activity smoke free. Each night I rehearsed a different activity; Coffee, 1st thing in the AM, talking on the phone, having a beer with the guys, at the party, driving home from the office, after dinner, etc. One by one, I imagined and felt how good it was not smoking a cigarette whilst doing these things. When the day arrived, I knew when that was, and the cigarettes went into the fire-pit. Sure, the first two days were a little rough from the nicotine withdrawal. But, when doing those activities where I really liked to smoke, I was not much bothered by the psychological dependence. Because, I'd so deeply ingrained into my sub-conscious the activity could be done without the smoke. It worked quite well. One other trick I used, was to note the time on my watch whenever I had a craving for a cigarette. I would make a mental commitment to wait for at least 20 minutes before blowing my project. Every time I did this, it would be hours later that I would recall that urge. I never encountered the 20 minute deadline. As the months went by, the nicotine and dependency issues came less and less frequently. And, after a year or so they never returned.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 1
STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
I must confess that I didn't go totally astray. I merely deviated from the flock. And, that was only off and on. I still spent two thirds of my day communicating with doctors and patients about, "Modern, Mainstream, Conventional, Interventional, Western, Establishment Medicine". My activities in this arena included injection therapy, prescription drugs, physical therapy and good old-fashioned foot surgery (cut it out, implant it, straighten it if it's crooked, make crooked if it's too straight, make it longer if it's too short, make it shorter if it's too long, tighten if it's too loose, loosen it if it's too tight). You get the idea don’t you? The only foot surgeries I didn't perform were; preventive surgery, cosmetic surgery, nor did I ever correct a Normal Foot Surgically. There are doctors out there who can do those procedures! The remainder of the day’s work (it really should be called play) was focused on being an H.M.A. This stood for a, "HEALTH MAINTENANCE ADVOCATE." I promoted H.M.A. This stood for, "HEALTH MAINTENANCE AWARENESS." And lastly, I worked with an H.M.A. That is a "HEALTH MAINTENANCE ALLIANCE." I refer to all of this, as dealing with the “REAL H.M.O’S”, (Health Maintenance Options), AKA "Alternative Medicine." Now that I've left my podiatry practice, I can devote more time to help people with; Health Awareness, Health Solutions, the name of my business, and Health Reform.
I'm not in favor of the terms "Alternative Medicine", or "Complimentary Practitioner." Alternative means that you are going to this instead of that. What if, "That" is what you need? Or, you are going to that instead of this. What if, "this" is what you need? Why not do both? I noted that my patients who did both did far better with their issues than the ones who just did one or the other. As a behavioral analyst, I often noted patients who sought the services of a, "Complimentary Practitioner", often had spontaneous remissions of their chronic medical enigmas after sessions with these practitioners. That doesn't sound very complimentary to me. Especially when, the hallowed medical people couldn't do much other than run tests, prescribe drugs, and offer surgery. However, since the public uses and understands the term "Alternative Medicine", I often refer to it.
My first experience with, "Alternative Medicine" was a story told to me by my wife shortly after we married. She'd experienced a Chiropractic treatment at age five. Having been plagued with chronic ear infections during early childhood, she had seen many different Medical Doctors, plus taken countless antibiotics. Apparently this took place prior to implanting tubes in the ears otherwise, and she probably would have had surgery too. Her mother took her to, “Doc Jones” who in a matter of 10 minutes removed an impingement in her neck, after which, copious amounts of a puss-like drainage came out of her ear. She never had another infection after that. I'm sure that the Medical People call this a "spontaneous remission", and only a "quack, or charlatan would do such a thing".
My next Alternative medicine experience was with my mother. Mom came to visit shortly after I opened my Podiatry practice in Roseville, California. She promptly showed me her fingers and then said, "Look at my legs." My mother had always had a bad case of arthritis in her fingers and varicosities in her leg veins. The nodules and swellings in her fingers and most of the varicosities had somehow been eradicated. She went on to tell me that she'd been having weekly acupuncture treatments by a Chinese Doctor of Acupuncture down in Palo Alto, California. She was traveling from Mill Valley, which is over an hour’s drive. All of her pain had resolved and she never experienced any reoccurrence of either during the last 20 plus years of her life.
One of the scrub nurses at our local surgery center asked me one day, if I knew anything about arthritis. She showed me the gnarled finger joints in her hands, and now I knew why she was so doggone slow at passing instruments. I only saw her with gowns and gloves on and had no idea about the shape that her hands were in. After I told her what I knew about degenerative arthritis but, that I did not make any diagnosis or recommendations for the hands. She asked me, "What treatment would you have if these were your fingers?" I immediately replied, "Acupuncture." I then gave her the name of a good Acupuncturist. Two weeks later she came to me in the doctor’s lounge and showed me her hands and thanked me for the referral. As with my mother, her fingers were hardly swollen and they had a full range of motion when she demonstrated them to me.
Therefore, when I was getting dressed for work one Monday morning and my back went into spasms, I called my favorite Chiropractor. He was kind enough to see me prior to normal office hours and give me a 15 second adjustment. He informed me that a rib had slipped a little and the one treatment should take care of it. My pain was instantly resolved.
Over the years, I referred countless patients to Chiropractors, Naturopaths, and Acupuncturists, and many of them experienced favorable results, according to their feedback to me.
OH MY ACHING BACK
When I awakened one Monday morning (it always seems to be a Monday morning) I could barely get out of bed. It was about one week after my third annual marathon. I knew that something serious was going on, although I didn't know the half of it at the time. The pain was more intense than anything I'd ever endured before in my life. I called my favorite Chiropractor again and once more he was able to see me before patient appointments that day. After two or three adjustments the pain remained the same. So, I did what most rational people would do, I went to see my family doctor. Since I worked closely with him, plus he was my landlord, he worked me into his busy Monday morning schedule. Following an examination and a full set of lab tests and X-Rays I was diagnosed with "muscle spasms". He gave me prescriptions for a muscle relaxant, narcotic pain medication, and a referral to Physical Therapy.
I attended the therapist’s office for approximately an hour each day for ultrasound with cortisone cream, cross frictional massage, and inversion (hanging upside down on a teeter totter for 20 minutes) until Friday of the same week. By then, I may have been 10% better than the beginning of the week. I already had discarded the prescriptions, as I’m not into drugs.
Leaving my office that Friday afternoon, I spotted the Acupuncturist’s car in the empty parking lot across the street. Why hadn’t I thought of this before? I know that Acupuncture is supposed to relieve all kinds of different pains and, is even used in China as an anesthetic in surgery. When I limped into Peter’s waiting room he was reading the morning paper, he looked up and said, "Hello. You look like you're in pain." I replied, "Yes, and lots of it due to muscle spasms." I asked, "Is there anything you might be able to do for me this afternoon to relieve the pain?" His 5:00 patient hadn't shown up and it was 5:15 so, he took me into the treatment room. After 30 minutes of tiny needles in my back and some moxibustion, which smelled like a 1960s rock concert, I got off the table 80% pain free. By the next morning I was 100% pain free until a year later.
I experienced the second annual episode of spasms two weeks after my fourth annual marathon. Now I'm starting to think that the marathon was causing my back problems. But, my back didn't hurt when I ran, so I discounted the notion. Since I learn fairly quickly, I called Peter first thing Monday morning (there you go again – Monday morning), to see if he had any openings that day. He told me to come at 9:30. This time he placed two needles in my right hand and one needle in my leg below the knee on the outer side. The leg needle got extremely hot when he twirled it. After five or so minutes when he twirled it again it was not as hot. Another five minutes later he pulled the needles out and I was 95% pain free. By the end of the day, I was 100% pain free. I then declared, "Acupuncture is a Miracle."
The next year, a week after my fifth and final marathon, almost to the day, I experienced the third annual back pain incident. Now, I'm pretty sure there is a connection between the marathon and the back pain. But, I didn't learn the connection until 12 years later. Peter was on vacation at the time, and so I called the other Acupuncturist in town. He was gracious enough to get me into his office for a treatment that very day, however, it didn't work. I'll explain why in Chapter 10, How's Your Healer? So, I went to another Acupuncturist in Sacramento who performed an effective treatment. Sadly, my friend Peter, died as a result of a motor vehicle accident shortly after that, so I went to the Doctor in Sacramento from then on.
What's In It For You?
Straying from the mainstream means that; you'll need to form the mind-set that you are going to take charge of your health care destiny. That you will make different choices about the solutions you choose for better health, and that you are no longer totally reliant on your doctor for all of your health care needs.
When you stray from the mainstream, you never know where you'll end up. But, unless you go astray, you'll end up where you're heading. This is your first step. Don't completely distrust your doctors, but understand that they're missing eight important chapters in their repair manual to get you well, sort of well- just better.
These missing chapters are explained in the following chapters on the steps to better health. It's possible, that there are some other options out there that might get you through your issues. But you'll have to look, listen, and try some of them. Stick with your doctor so that you don't have any serious complications from your PAPA Problems, Premature-Accelerated-Physiological-Aging. But you may want to Explore - Experience - Get Educated - Have Enlightenments with; Teachers, Healers, and methods of self help, so that you can get past the PAPA stuff and Become Empowered with Optimal Health.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 2
Bowen Therapy
WHEN THE PATIENT IS READY TO HEAL
A HEALER WILL APPEAR
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 1
After 12 years of intermittent spasms of my lower back muscles and daily aching in by back, groin, legs, and feet, I thought that I'd used up all of my options, (six acupuncturists, six chiropractors, physical therapy on two occasions plus exercises, massage therapy twice, and stretching exercises). I thought that I'd soon have to see the Neurosurgeon, and this made me very depressed. My patient's feedback on back surgery and neurosurgeons wasn’t very good. I also found out what my patients meant when they said, "When your feet hurt, you hurt all over." You could also say that, "when your back hurts you hurt all over." You can't sit, stand, walk, or lie down. At this point, I awakened in the mornings with aching in my right foot and groin, stiffness in the lower back, and fatigue from a poor night’s sleep. Also, my right shoulder and TMJ were out. When first going to sleep at night I'd awaken with twitching and restlessness in my leg an hour or so later, and around 2:00 AM, cramps would occur in the calf muscle in my right leg.
One afternoon a patient was telling me about her foot pain, which sounded like an atypical sciatic nerve problem that was just showing up in her foot. I mentioned this and asked if she’d had any lower back problems? She said, "Oh no, it’s not my sciatic nerve. I’ve had that before. This is different. I got that fixed two years ago." I inquired as to how she, "Got it fixed?" She told me that she'd had Bowen Therapy. I said, "I've never heard of that therapy. What's it about?" She replied, "It's kind of new here and most people don't know about it. The man who does it learned from the Australian people about two years ago, so that's why most people haven't heard of it." She told me about a practitioner in Auburn, California who'd been trained to do the treatments by the "Australian People." I asked if he was a chiropractor? She informed me that he was a Massage Therapist, but that he didn't do massage, only this Bowen technique. I volunteered to her that I was suffering from lower back pain and sciatic nerve problems. She said, "Oh, you must go and see my friend. Not only has he helped me, but I’ve referred my boss, and my sister, and two of my neighbors, and he’s helped us all with our back pains." I asked how to spell the gentleman’s name so I could get his number from the phone-book to make an appointment. She said, “Oh no, you won’t find him in the phone-book. He's got an unlisted number. I've got his card out in the glove box in my car; I’ll go get it for you.” After I finished my business with her foot she went out to her car and got the card. My receptionist copied it and gave me the copy and gave the patient back her card. Then she said, "Oh yeah. By the way, you must call him Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. That's the only time of the day he answers the phone to make and change appointments, and if you call any other time and leave a message on his answering machine, he doesn't return calls." I thought. "That's a little odd?" This took place on a Friday afternoon. So on Monday morning, I saw the note on my desk and glanced at the clock. It was 8:10 and I thought, " Good. I'm within the window of opportunity", so I dialed the number. It was busy, so, a few minutes later I tried again. Still busy, so I handed the task over to my receptionist with instructions to get me an appointment as soon as possible. About 5 minutes past 9:00 my receptionist informed me that he had a cancellation that afternoon at 5:00, which I could have, otherwise the next available time was 3 weeks out. I took the cancellation, as I didn't want to wait for 3 weeks to see him. That was the 3rd clue something was up (unlisted phone number), (doesn't return calls), (booked up 3 weeks out).
When I arrived in his driveway that afternoon, there was an elderly lady sitting in one of those plastic $9.99 lawn chairs, missing a front tooth, and smoking a Camel cigarette. She said with a slight lisp, "If you’re here to see Milton, you ring the bell he answers it himself." I thought to myself, "She’s quite a receptionist, but I guess he doesn't let her do the phones?" The front door was open, while the screen door was shut. About a minute after I rang the chime, a man shuffled to the door to greet me. He was bare footed, wearing a pair of khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, which was unbuttoned to the breastbone. He had a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket. He'd not shaved yet that day, and his hair was all mussed up. All in all, he made quite a first impression on me. He said, "Are you Dr. Mosher?" I replied, "Yes, I am." He said, "How do you do? I’m Milton Albrecht. Come on in." He led me through his house to a back bedroom which was adorned with a map of Australia, a couple of boomerangs on the wall, an ammo belt on the chair, and a rifle standing in the corner. Now I’m thinking, "what did I just get myself into?" He asked me where I was hurting. I told him that my lower back on the right side around the lumbo-sacral area was the problem. He said, "Cool. I’ll fix ya. Just lay on the table with your feet on the pillow, your butt in the air, and your face down in the cradle." I apprehensively complied.
As I received the treatment, many thoughts were racing through my mind. What was I doing here? How was a simple plucking of my muscles here and there going to relieve my back pain? Why'd he pluck a couple of muscles and leave the room for 3 to 5 minutes? Oh well, Ann my patient had relief, as well as all of the others she'd referred to this mystical man. After 10 to 15 minutes I began to get very relaxed and almost fell asleep. One time he put his hand close to my low back and I could feel lots of heat radiating from me. After he turned me over onto my back, he moved a muscle in my inner thigh and I thought I was going to hit the ceiling it hurt so much. I asked him if this was Rolfing, and he assured me that it wasn't. After he left the room for me to rest following the procedure, my palms started to sweat. It wasn't the usual watery kind of sweat, but a sticky - syrupy kind of discharge. When he came back in the room and saw that I was patting my palms together, he touched my hand with his fingers and commented, "Ah Ha. That’s toxins working their way out." I said, "Oh yeah. What kind of toxins?" a little facetiously. He sniffed his fingers and said, "Probably lactic acid cause it don't smell." I left it at that. Then he had me open my jaw and close it and said, "Your TMJ'S out." I recalled that I'd been nipping the inner side of my right cheek when chewing food the past few weeks. He had me make a knuckle with my index finger and place it between my teeth. He then tweaked a number of muscles around the jaw and temple area. When I opened my jaw afterward, I could sense that my jaw was completely realigned. He then instructed me to sit up. When I got up, and I was a little light - headed. I slowly arose when my senses came back. As I stood up, I couldn’t believe how good I felt. I sensed more energy; my muscles all over the body were loose. My back didn't ache. Wow! My patient was right about the therapy. She'd referred her boss, sister and three friends to the therapist and he'd helped all of them, and now, me too. I commented that while he did nothing major to my back, but the pain was gone. He said, "There’s nothing wrong with your back. Your Adductor Magnus muscle was all locked up." That’s the muscle in the inner thigh that hurt when he released it. I said, "What’s that got to do with my back?" He said, "Everything. When that Adductor tightens the Iliotibial band, Tensor Fascia Lata, and Gluteus Medius muscles all tighten on the outer side of the hip in order to compensate. When you lift something and twist those tissues get strained, and then your back muscles go into spasm." I said, "that’s exactly what's been happening. What ever made that Adductor muscle lock up?" He said, "Dunnow. Must have built up lactic acid in them some time ago." I was so amazed at how good I felt and was so relieved to be rid of the pain, I didn't figure out the lactic acid issue till a few days later. I asked how much I owed him for the treatment. He said, "Oh, just give me twenty bucks." As I handed him a $20 dollar bill, I asked, "How much do you usually charge? I'll be sending you some clients, as I grabbed a hand full of his business cards." He told me that his usual charge was $35.00, but he gave seniors a discount. I asked if he was always booked three weeks out, and he said, "Yeah, except in the flu season and during the bad weather when the older folks don't like to drive, it slows down a little." Then I sprung the main question that was on my mind, "How many people do you treat every day?" He replied, "25 or 30!" I thought,
"That’s pretty good considering his business practices." While walking out to my car on my way to go home, I noticed that I was walking differently than before the treatment and the arch supports in my shoes were pressing up into my arch. So, I removed them and walked better without anything inside the shoe. The night of the treatment I had such a good night’s sleep I didn't move my head on the pillow at all. In the morning when I got out of bed my back wasn't stiff, the feet, legs and groin didn't ache, and I felt like a new person. I recalled that I didn't have jumpy-restless legs awaken me shortly after falling to sleep, and I didn't wake up with cramps in my calf muscles at 2:00 to 3:00 AM as I usually do.
A week later as I was dressing one morning, I saw that the hammertoes on my left foot had vanished, sometime between the morning of discovery and the day of the treatment! I had to do a second take in order to believe my eyes. Mind you, I do complicated surgical procedures on hammertoes and sometimes they don't stay straight following surgery. Traditional stretching and physical therapy never helps them so, I realized that this might be the missing piece to the puzzle. I couldn't wait to get to the telephone and call Milton in order to tell him about these miracles, plus to find out how I might learn how to perform some of the technique. After I told him all about what had happened since his treatment, he laughed and said, "That happens all the time". I jokingly told him, "I won’t turn you in for practicing podiatry without a license if you'll show me how to do this for my patients." He asked me for my fax number so he could send me a brochure on a Bowen workshop he was teaching in January 1995, and so I could sign up for it. After I sent him my application and deposit for the class, I couldn't wait for January to come.
WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY TO LEARN
A TEACHER WILL APPEAR
Before the Bowen class began about 20 people were milling around the room as I entered to register for the class. I later discovered, most of them were massage therapists. I overheard them talking in excited voices about things such as "Ethereal Energy", "Chakras", "Grounding", "Aroma Therapy", and all kinds of "Woogy-like stuff." I thought that I was in a different world. I felt quite out of my comfort zone, but as the weekend wore on I found them to be very dedicated therapists who all had a passion for their work. At the very beginning of the class Milton said, "I'm not really a teacher, but I’m going to show you all how to do this therapy, and it will probably change the course of some of your lives." How little did I know that my life was about to change, for the better? As we practiced on each other that first morning, a twinge of apprehension passed through me as I realized that I was touching someone’s body, and that I was outside of my Podiatry license boundaries. I was licensed to treat the muscles of the leg that affect the function of the foot. But, I wasn't licensed to treat the Pectorals, Trapeziuses, Para spinals and all of those upper body muscles. I decided to learn all that I could, and that I'd figure out how I might incorporate some of it into my podiatry practice. Anyway, I was really waiting for Saturday afternoon and Sunday, during which we were going to cover the leg and foot muscles. This is the part of the program that would apply to my skills enhancement as a podiatrist. When we finished the class on Sunday afternoon, I was fairly exhausted from the rigors of learning so much new information. However, I couldn’t wait to go to work Monday morning and begin my new journey. Little did I know where that journey was going to take me?
MY NEW BEGINNING
Day in and day out, favorable outcomes for the treatments that I provided by way of, Injections, Surgery, Physical Therapy, Orthotics, and Prescriptions for foot pains and foot deformities was around 80%. This was slightly higher than my peers, because I used some non-conventional methods that they wouldn't stoop to. In other words, my patients suffered a 20% failure rate. I also saw, (as a behavioral analyst - people watcher), thousands of patients over the years who had experienced the same or worse success: failure ratios with their medical care. I will tell you why in later Chapters.
After I took the four day workshop on the Bowen Technique in January, 1995, I began incorporating it into my podiatry practice. The first week I treated 12 patients with it. Six of them returned the following week for a second session. One of them said, "Dr. Mosher, I don't know what you did? But, you've changed my life!" Then, he explained how. Another said, "Dr. Mosher, you won't believe what happened after that treatment!". Then, she told me what happened. One other said, "I had a runner's high all day after the treatment. And, now I feel a sense of well being and balance." (I'll explain this in chapter 8 - The Meridian System). Another one said, ''If only the medical doctors would take this holistic and natural approach to our health care issues." As the months passed by, many would say, the same things or, "I sure wish that I had met you sooner so that my life could've been better. I've been through years of hell."
My practice took on a new persona. I had my traditional mainstream patients. I had my holistic podiatry patients, meaning I was taking care of them with both traditional modalities plus the Bowen and other natural health therapies. This latter group many times had other pains that haunted them, and my holistic approach often resolved these other issues as well as their foot problems. The patients, with resolved headaches, would often refer someone else with headaches, someone with shoulder pain referred a friend with suffered shoulder pain. I had one patient who suffered with "Tennis Elbow" refer thirty six new patients at last count, and hardly a one had a foot problem. I was, and still am, very careful, in that I don't treat headaches, "Tennis Elbow", or any other sign-symptom-disability. I do the therapy for stress reduction, relaxation, and postural realignment. I can't help it if their headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel, TMJ problems resolve.
Beginning my Bowen Practice
When I got to the office on the first Monday morning after my Bowen class, the very first patient needed the treatment. She had a sciatic nerve problem in the past and she was certain that it had reoccurred because she had been performing floor exercises for long periods of time and now her left foot had a tingling sensation like the previous bout with sciatica.
I informed her about the new therapy I'd just learned and offered it to her. It took less than a nanosecond for her to say yes. I escorted her into my operating room which I had transformed into a temporary therapy room and placed her on the surgical gurney which I'd converted into a temporary massage table. I quickly checked my notes from the seminar and began the treatment. I only performed the treatment in the waist, legs, and feet to stay within the boundaries of my Podiatry license. When the session ended, she got up and stood on her feet she said, "It sure feels better. Not all the way. But at least 50%."
The next morning she called me to report, "That by noon Monday all of the symptoms had disappeared, and the next time she got the sciatica back she would call me for treatment." I said, "To be sure she had a foot problem. And, thank you."
During the next month or so, I performed whole body treatments on a few patients, when they asked me to, and when I felt comfortable doing so. I quickly learned that these patients did remarkably better than those that I treated from the waist down, within my scope of practice. "When in Rome do as the Romans do." Therefore, I enrolled in a school of massage therapy and received a certificate so that I could give people a full treatment without fear of reprisals from the establishments.
I must confess that the first two or so years that I was performing the Bowen treatment for my patients and their referrals I was a little, or maybe a lot on edge. On one hand, I was very enthusiastic and excited to be able to do the therapy that was so beneficial to my patients and their loved ones. However, the other side of me was very apprehensive about what my peers might think about me doing the seemingly far out stuff. In addition, some of my patients experienced complete resolution of signs, symptoms and disabilities, which were way outside of my "Podiatry Box". This made me a little nervous about how the medical community would react to my helping their patient’s medical problems. So far, I've not encountered any direct negative comments or actions from either group.
I guess this made me a kind of "Holistic Podiatrist ." Patients started asking me all kinds of questions about the "Woogy." Most of which I didn't know anything about. Therefore, I started reading books and literature on Alternative Medicine, Acupuncture, Vitamins, and such. As I learned about these other types of therapies, I began meeting practitioners who performed these modalities and from this, some very nice friendships and relations have followed, and still exist. I currently have a network of practitioners that I work with, which I refer to as an H.M.A. (Health Maintenance Alliance). We all provide H.M.A. (Health Maintenance Awareness), and most of us are H.M.A’S (Health Maintenance Advocates). Some very remarkable results have been experienced by our patient / clients.
STORIES PATIENTS HAVE TOLD
ARTHRITIS
One of my more interesting experiences occurred with a patient and his responses, which took place the very first week I started doing Bowen. Another Podiatrist down the road who was not able to help him referred Bernard to me. Bernard had an arthritic large toe joint, which he did not want to have surgery on. He told me that he was favoring the toe and this was making his hip and back painful. He was hopeful that some type of shoe modification would suffice to relieve his problems. His joint was red, swollen, tender, and with movement grated like sand paper crepitus. I informed him that I could accommodate his shoe and for him to leave it over the weekend and I would get it done. Then I also told him about the Bowen treatment, which might relieve the pains in his hip and back. He begged me to also perform the upper back and neck moves and promised he wouldn't tell anyone. This was before I obtained a massage certificate; remember, my podiatry license only covered the leg muscles. I felt comfortable with him, so I did a complete treatment from head to toe. When I had finished the procedures that I had learned in class, I examined his Extensor Hallucis Longus muscles, the muscle that draws the big toe upward. The one on the right side was like a rope. So, I figured that if they had taught a procedure on this in class, it would be slack to the table and make an anterior move, good side first. So, I worked on the left side 1st, and then did the right side muscle, and he immediately let out a moan. I asked if he was all right, and he said, "I'm alright. It kind of hurt and tickled at the same time."
I left the room for a few minutes in order to let him rest and for the release to take place. When I returned, he was curled up in a fetal position and was quite pale and cold. My first thought was that he'd fainted and was going into shock. I checked his pulse and was going to take his blood pressure when he said, "I’m okay. I’m a little cold. May I have a blanket?" I covered him up and left him alone to settle down for a few minutes. The rest of his story is in Chapter 3. I gave him his post-treatment instructions and told him to pick up his shoe on Monday.
When I saw him on seated in the waiting room Monday morning prior to appointment times I said, "Hi Bernard. I’ve got your shoe ready." He said very emphatically, "I don’t care about the shoe. I want to know when I can get another treatment?" I said, "That’s right, I gave you a Bowen Treatment last week. How'd it work?" He said, "How'd it work? It changed my life! The past 3 nights have been the only full night’s sleep I have had in years. My back doesn't hurt. The pain in my hip is all but gone and look at my toe!" He commenced to remove his shoe and sock and bent the toe up and down and said, "See. Look at this." I couldn't help but walk out into the waiting room and look at his toe up close. The swelling, redness and crepitus were completely resolved. There remained a little stiffness, but the toe flexed at least 50% more than it did on Friday. I told him that he could make an appointment for Friday.
POST TRAUMA
Ethyl was referred to me by her chiropractor. She was hit by a car nine years before we met, and suffered major trauma to her right leg and foot. Following multiple surgeries and rehabilitation, she was stuck on morphine and other narcotics, until one day she decided to get off the drugs. Then, her back and foot became more painful, so her chiropractor wanted me to make orthotics for her feet with hopes that her back would stay in longer following adjustment. She walked with a noticeable limp, she was unable to rise up on her toes and she had a mass of scarring in the lower leg. She spoke very rapidly with a slight stammer, and seemed quite hyper. On her initial visit I gave her an abbreviated Bowen session due to time constraints, and taped her arch for temporary support. She noted immediate improvement in her foot as well as her back pain.
The following week she was a lot better and was looking forward to a full Bowen treatment, which I did.
When she returned the following week, I saw her standing in the waiting room near the hall door, and I asked her, "How are you doing?" She smiled and motioned with her index finger to come here. As I crossed the threshold, she put out her arms and gave me one of those 'Warm fuzzy hugs' and whispered in my ear, "Thank you. I'm a brand new person. I can get up on my toes, my foot doesn’t hurt, and my back is 80% better. I worked in my vegetable garden for hours without getting tired and sore. And, everyone at work noticed that I’m walking normally now." Later on during her treatment she told me that on the day of her last treatment, when she got home afterward, she went into the bathroom and threw – up for a half hour. Immediately afterward she felt much better. This happens frequently following the initial session when narcotic users have Bowen Therapy. I believe that the excess narcotic residues are either stored in the fascial and myofascial tissues, or in the receptor sites for endorphins in the cell's membranes. This therapy quite often will cause this type of reaction in present , and former heavy narcotics users and abusers. This doesn't seem to occur in the other methods of fascial / myofascial bodywork that I've learned, practiced, studied, and discussed - and it doesn't occur after follow up Bowen sessions.
POST CANCER TREATMENT
My receptionist informed me that a patient was on the phone who needed an appointment for Bowen Therapy. She was referred by her neurologist, whom I'd never heard of. Since her only problem was neck pain, my receptionist wanted to know if I could see her or not. I said absolutely not, especially since I didn't know the patient nor the referral source. At that point, I didn't possess a massage certificate, so I really couldn't wander outside the scope of my Podiatry practice. The next day the lady called back and said, she'd spoken to her neurologist and that he insisted that she have Bowen treatments. And, that I was the only person he wanted to touch her. I gave in, and had my receptionist make her an appointment.
When she came for her appointment we had her sign a waiver that she was fully aware that I was not working as a Podiatrist, but only as a Bowen therapist. As it turned out, she had been going through radiation therapy for breast cancer. She'd had a radical mastectomy with lymph node removal. This had left her with a stiff and painful neck. She was scheduled for a C.T. scan in four weeks to monitor some palpable lymph nodes, so she could only have three weekly treatments. Following which, she would return about a month later for the fourth Bowen treatment after the scan and results were determined, to see if she may need additional surgery for the palpable nodes. After her 1st treatment her range of motion improved about 50%. Following the 2nd treatment her range of motion was about 80 %. After the 3rd session her neck moved pain free in all directions.
When she returned four weeks later she was beaming from ear to ear. Her C.T. scan for the lymph nodes was completely normal. I can't make any conjecture on what transpired other than a spontaneous remission must have occurred. She thought otherwise.
CIRCULATORY
One December morning a lady came in to get relief for a painful corn on the inner side of her little toe. Her toe was a purplish color with a hard corn on the inner side adjacent to the toenail. She informed me that her toe wasn't always purple. It always got pink when the weather warmed up. She had a condition called Raynaud’s disease. Not really a disease, but a spasticity of the blood vessels, which is aggravated by cold temperatures. I trimmed the corn and informed her about a minor surgical procedure, which could relieve the corn permanently. However, we'd have to wait until the weather warmed for me to check the circulation in order to determine that she could heal the surgery. The corn removal relieved her pain for about a month.
She returned in January for another treatment. At this visit she complained about pain in her hip and back due to favoring the pain in her toe. I immediately offered a Bowen session in addition to trimming and padding the corn.
When she returned the following week her toe was a little less purple and almost pink. I gave her another Bowen treatment, re-padded the corn and advised to come back when necessary.
On a cold, blustery day in February she returned with the painful corn and said, "I think that you can go ahead with the operation because the toe has remained pink since the last Bowen treatment." I listened to the pulses with my Doppler Ultrasound and sure enough, her circulation was totally normal. Her toe was nice and pink, and after I blanched the tip of her toe with finger pressure, it pinked up in one second. The following week I operated on the toe and it healed very quickly.
Another patient complained about her cold feet, especially in bed at night. She had to sleep with her socks on most of the time, and if she didn’t her husband complained about her cold feet waking him up all night long. Following three treatments her feet warmed up, as well as her hands, and have remained so ever since.
CORNS AND HAMMERTOES
Carol had an extremely painful corn on the inner side of her little toe along the toenail groove. Removal of it only relieved her pain for a week at best. She was ready to schedule surgery at about the same time she entered my bunion study group. As she had her Bowen treatments and foot taping once a week and a set of orthotics, we realized about two months later that her corn had disappeared. It has never returned.
Libby has a hammertoe on her fourth toe left foot. It's one of those that are a little flexed at the first knuckle but, also twisted (adducto-varus). Following Bowen sessions the toe un-twists and is totally straight for about four to five weeks. Then, all of a sudden it contracts again. I had hammertoes on my right second and third toes when I first had a Bowen treatment. To this day over 16 years later, my toes are still straight.
CHRONIC NEUROMUSCULAR PAIN
Jenny came to my office with a sprained ankle. She'd been to one of those "Doc in a Box" places, and was placed in a removable cast boot. Because it was lifting her up about one inch on the left side, her back and hip was painful. She wanted to know if there were any other options. I splinted her ankle with adhesive tape and gave her a Bowen session. I later found out that she'd had a standing appointment at her chiropractor’s office every Friday at 4:00 PM to treat her upper back and shoulder pain. She was in the janitorial business and apparently was straining these muscles over and over again. However, following just two Bowen sessions she no longer had to go to the chiropractor. After four weeks absence, he called her to see if she was all right. When she told him had happened, he hung up on her.
She came back to my office for another problem a few years later, and I asked her about her shoulder/back problem. She'd not had a pain in over nine years! Even though she still does the same kind of work.
COLDS – FLU – SINUSES
Early in my career as a Bowen Therapist, a patient was undergoing a session. When I came back into the room following the basic relaxation procedure for the neck, she told me that when she got to the office she was experiencing a severe sore throat. Following the neck muscle releases, the sore throat disappeared. When she returned for another session two weeks later she said, "Do you remember that sore throat that I had last time which you cleared?" I replied, "yes, what happened?" She told me that when she got home from work that evening her son and husband both had the exact same sore throat and they'd been sick for the past two weeks. She didn't get whatever the virus was. I figured that this was some sort of coincidence and went about my business. But, other patients told me about similar occurrences. Then, one day I felt the familiar scratchy throat and punky feeling one gets when the cold first comes on. So, I performed the neck moves on myself, and within minutes the symptoms cleared. I've been doing this ever since on myself whenever I feel a cold coming on. I also take a dropper full of Echinacea in a glass of water. It works almost every time. I would only guess that the moves to the neck muscles open up the lymphatic drainage system and this reduces the accumulation of viral bodies in the oral pharynx.
One Friday afternoon after I'd completed the same neck moves on a patient she commented that the sinus infection that she was experiencing cleared up while I was out of the room. I commented something or another, and then she asked, "If my husband can get here before closing time, could you give him a treatment too? He has the same sinus infection that I had."
Approximately one year following my early Bowen experiences it dawned on me that I no longer get those fever blisters on my lip (herpes simplex). I used to get them if the weather changed, allergies flared, got stressed, or if I thought I was catching a cold. I've now not had but two of them during the past 16 years.
SAVING LIVES - IS IT POSSIBLE?
My first experience with a patient who told me that the treatments I did had saved his life. It really took me quite by surprise. At first I thought he was kidding, until tears came to his eyes. Jeff was a Police Chaplin from a near by town. His main problem was a pain in his heel. He told me that he was favoring it and this made his back and hip hurt (seems to be a common theme). I treated both his foot and the muscles, which were involved with the back and hip with Bowen Therapy. During the third session we got into a discussion on the release of emotional holding patterns during bodywork therapies. Jeff then asked, "Is that why I’ve been so emotional the past few weeks?" I said, "Quite possibly." He then dropped the bomb, "You know my friend, that you've saved my life!" As tears rolled from his eyes he told me about how he had become suicidal for a number of reasons, with the final straw being about a friend of his who'd had a drug problem. He was trying to help his friend get through the drug addiction. One day, he found his friend dead in his living room from an apparent overdose, and this was about all Jeff could take. I'm not claiming to have had anything to do with Jeff’s desire to continue living. He just told me that's what happened.
I was beginning the third weekly session with Rod. When I asked how he was doing with the treatments he said, "I don’t think that they're helping. I may even be a little worse. It's starting to bother me in bed when I sleep on my stomach." Rod was experiencing low back pain. His hairdresser had relief of low back pain with one of my Bowen sessions, so she'd referred him to me for Bowen treatments. I asked Rod if he'd been examined and worked up by a physician who's qualified to evaluate back symptoms. He said, "No." I then asked, "When was your last physical?" He said, "A couple of years ago. I'm overdue for one." I encouraged him to make an appointment with his primary care physician to get evaluated because there are many pathologies, which can cause low back pain. I've seen patients who were diagnosed with kidney infections, pelvic disorders, cancer, and digestive problems as well as disk and vertebrae pathology. Rod’s wife came into the office to have a treatment just two weeks following our discussion that day, and she thanked me for saving Rod’s life!
Fortunately, he was able to get an appointment the next day for a physical. His regular physician was on vacation, but his wife's doctor had an opening. He was fortunate that his regular doctor was away because in the past, any complaints he had , she always brushed him off and told him, "Oh Rod. You know your just getting old." His wife's doctor found a 12-centimeter aneurysm on his abdominal aorta, and it was about ready to rupture. By 2:00 PM that same day following the diagnosis, Rod had the aneurysm repaired. Within just two days post op, his back pain was completely gone!
A former Bowen patient who mentioned that the treatments had saved her life referred one other patient. I am not sure what that statement meant.
Bowen didn't save Chuck’s life, but it certainly enhanced his nursing career. Chuck’s mother, who was a regular patient, asked me if I would see if I could help Chuck’s foot problems? She said, "Chuck is studying nursing and he has feet just like mine, and I'm afraid he won't be able to stand and walk on concrete floors as required during the normal work shift." When I first saw Chuck he had all of the foot problems his mother had informed me about. He also had the familiar hip and low back pain that many times follows after the unstable feet. I introduced him to my foot and Bowen combination and after the first week he noted marked improvement. After the second week he returned with improved skin color and a sparkle in his eyes which were not there before. He informed me that he had gotten his first "A" in a test after two years of nursing school. He told me how he'd "Crammed for exams, and on the day of the test would choke, and thus "B’s" were about the best he could do." Also he said, "While I was at my internship last night I was charting patient notes and all of a sudden I seemed to get everything together." He went on to say, "I was afraid that I wasn't going to be a very good nurse because even though I could memorize the material to pass the tests, it all didn't make a lot of sense to me. Now it's all come together." I finished his treatments, made him orthotics, and told him to come back once in awhile for a tune-up.
A few weeks later Mildred brought her mother for an appointment. Mother didn't speak very fluent English so Mildred told me, "My mother isn't eating very well and she has no energy. I know that you're a Foot Doctor, and mom doesn't have any foot problems. But, I'd appreciate it if you could give her one of those treatments that you do. I go to school with Chuck!" She went on to tell me that about a month ago, she'd noticed a change in Chuck’s demeanor. His entire persona had a new character, and she had to ask him what was going on. When he told her that he was having Bowen Therapy and that is all that was different in his life, Mildred concluded that this was responsible in the change in Chuck’s life. I did two sessions for the mother, and her life perked up immediately. I saw her about six months later for a tune-up and she was fine ever and after. Mildred kept me posted, since she became a patient too.
Following his graduation, I heard via the grapevine that Chuck got 100% on his State Board of Nursing exam. He also got a very good job and received promotions very quickly. Over the next two years Chuck’s mother came in every two to three months for treatment of her corns and calluses. I often asked how Chuck was doing, and she always said that he was, "Doing real fine and he was planning to come by for a tune up."
One day, he was with his mother during her treatment and we got to talking. I asked, "How are your feet doing?" He replied, "Great. My feet have zero pain, and my toes are all straight on my left foot. My right big toe was deviated about 30 degrees at the first of the year. Now it's about 20 degrees. I think by the end of the year it'll be all straight." I looked at his mom’s feet, which were deformed with hammertoes and bunions. She'd had "Corrective foot surgery" by an orthopedist four years before, and her toes were straight for maybe a year or so and then began to re-deform. Something is wrong with this picture. She'd had surgery and her feet remain deformed. He had no surgery, and his feet are straight. What else is striking is that he was still unwinding from the Bowen Therapy I'd done two years prior. Now, I can say without any reservation that you can obtain an 80% good result with foot surgery, or you can obtain an 80% or better good results with conservative treatment. This is my conclusion following many similar cases included in my bunion study.
CREATING LIVES
INFERTILITY TO FERTILITY
When this subject was brought forth in my basic Bowen class, I just rolled my eyes, smiled, and thought, "Yeah-sure!" When I questioned my guru, Milton about, it he casually remarked, "That Bowen Therapy straightened the fallopian tubes so the eggs can drop, and thus become impregnated when the timing is right. When the tube is bent because the posture alignment is bent, the eggs can't drop." I took this with a grain of salt, so to speak, and went on with my business. Then, about two years later, three of my patients miraculously became pregnant following Bowen Therapy. All came in a bunch, about one month apart. The first patient came specifically for that purpose as she had read in a magazine publication that Bowen Therapy was successful with infertility issues. The other two had mentioned their infertility problems, but I never said anything to them about Bowen Therapy helping infertility. I found out later that they'd all recently gotten pregnant.
Marcy, one of my podiatry patients, really got me thinking. She'd been favoring her foot pain during the past few weeks, which made her back painful. In addition to caring for her foot pain, I gave her two Bowen sessions a week apart. When she returned the third week she was grinning from ear to ear. She said, "Thank you." I said, "Thank me for what? You don't have to thank me for fixing your foot." She replied, "I've been going to the infertility clinic during the past eight months. Every month, I only produce one or two eggs, if that. And, none have been satisfactory for insemination. Last week, I had twenty eight eggs! They harvested three and put twelve in my egg bank."
Eight months later she had twins. She's convinced that the Bowen Therapy was responsible for this. I guess, I am too. I met up with the acupuncturist, who practiced next door to me, out in the parking lot one morning. I asked, "How exactly, does acupuncture help infertility?" He replied. "Studies have shown that the stimulation of the meridians and meridian points causes stimulation of the pituitary gland which causes the hypothalamus to increase the production of gonadotropic hormones, which then stimulates increased sperm and egg production." Then he said, "I'm pretty much specializing in infertility right now. The clinic up the street sends me six to eight new patients per week for acupuncture." Then I commented to him, "That's why I've noticed that almost every patient coming and going from your office is a woman between twenty-something and thirty-something."
This acupuncturist was one of my first people to practice Bowen on right after I learned it. After his first session for a knee problem, he said, "Wow! That's as close to acupuncture as I've ever experienced, only without the needles!" Considering that many Bowen moves are over significant meridian points, and over the meridian ductules, it is distinctly possible that a similar effect as acupuncture takes place, which results in increased egg production.
KID'S CORNER
A young woman came to my office four months after giving birth to a son. She’d gained a lot of weight, and along with the Elastin hormone to give flexibility during the birthing process, her feet collapsed and had become increasingly painful. As I was adhesive taping her feet to lift the arches back up, her 4-month-old baby began to fuss. Her 12-year-old daughter was holding him and trying to give him some comfort. Mom said that he'd had a continuous bout of colic ever since birth and it was quite a strain on everyone. I recalled a couple of Bowen moves that my guru, Milton told me about a few years back. When one of my granddaughters was experiencing colic I did it and it fixed her. I asked mother if it would be okay for me to do a couple gentle movements which might help her son. Mom said, "Okay with me." I reached over and moved two muscles across the shoulders twice, and he began to settle a little. I then moved the lower back muscles over the kidneys. And then, did a little arc – like move over the lower abdominal area over the ileum. I showed mom how to do the moves in case she needed to later on if he began to fuss again. He immediately settled down, and his sister fed him a bottle as I performed a Bowen session on the mother. The next week the mother thanked me for giving her son relief. She didn't need to do any of the moves, as what I did in the office took care of the problem for good. As it turns out, he'd only slept for two hours at a stretch and therefore, so did mom and dad. He also was on medication for projectile vomiting, and didn't any longer require any more medication. He was like a completely new child. He also was unable to nap until the mini treatment session, it was really a mini, and now he naps for two hours at a time. He goes to bed now at around nine o’clock and sleeps straight through until eight AM. Three weeks later, all was still well. As I recall, it only took one session with my granddaughter also.
As I performed a Bowen session on a woman one afternoon, we got talking and I told her the story about Chuck, the nursing student, and how his personality blossomed after two therapy sessions. She asked, "Would you please give my 13 year old son some treatments? He's been very angry and withdrawn ever since my divorce." I told her I could, and to go ahead, and make an appointment for him. On his first visit, he didn't say three words. He barely answered the couple of questions I asked him. I didn't pay any mind to the fact that he was wearing entirely black clothing. Following the session I said goodbye to him and his mother, as they made his next appointment. The following week he seemed a little more talkative as I made some small talk with him. During one of the rest periods, I went out to the waiting room and asked mom how the week went. She said, "Allen has really perked up. His anger is less, and he's wearing other colored clothing besides all black." When I went back into the treatment room I saw that he was wearing a bright, yellow T-shirt with black shorts. As the weeks passed, he became more and more outgoing, friendly, and became socially active again according to his mother. His next appointment he had made for himself. And, he looked forward to more follow up sessions in the months to follow.
The mother of an 11-year-old child with cerebral palsy asked me to make a new set of foot orthotics for her daughter. I encouraged three Bowen sessions along with taping of the arches in order to relax the tightened Achilles tendon and raise the arches prior to making the plaster impressions for new orthotics. On the first visit, Tami’s heels were well over an inch from touching the floor when she walked. On the second week, her heels almost touched the floor, and by the third visit when we took her plaster impressions, her heel could fully come to the floor. To my knowledge, she has done fine ever since.
A grandmother brought her 13-year-old granddaughter who was extremely pigeon toed. I did a Bowen session on that first visit. A week later, on the follow up visit, she was walking a bit better. On the next visit, she was walking almost straight, and her grandmother said with a huge grin, "not only is she walking better but, she's not crabby any more. She's all mellowed out." By the third visit her angle and base of gait was 100% normal and, grandma noted that she was still mellow.
I attended an advanced Bowen workshop one weekend and talked with a classmate about our experiences during the previous months performing the therapy. He told me that he'd treated a number of football players at the University of California, Berkeley with acute ankle sprains with the, "Ankle Procedure." He was doing this immediately after the injury. I was amazed that he could do this in spite of pain and swelling that follows an ankle sprain. On Monday morning, a father brought his 14-year-old daughter in who'd sprained her ankle playing soccer on Saturday. Her ankle was extremely swollen, ecchymosed (bruised), and painful. She was using crutches for ambulation and had an ace bandage wrapped around the ankle. Following my examination, which only confirmed the obvious,
I explained to father that the muscles enter a state of spasm following the trauma to guard the tissues from further injury, and this can perpetuate pain and swelling. And, that a Bowen session could help release the tightened muscles. I began a Bowen session. When it came time to do the "ankle procedure", following relaxation of all of the leg and thigh muscles, I thought to myself, "Here goes nothing." I noticed butterflies in my stomach as I moved the anterior tibial tendon medially. Then I slid my fingers over the lateral malleolus and posterior over the lateral collateral and my thumb over the deltoid ligament. As I dorsiflexed and plantar flexed the first metatarsal my thoughts turned to the last part of the procedure which strikes the ball of the foot to, "Set" the ankle." Much to my surprise, she didn't flinch as I struck the M-P joints with my closed fist. I invited her to stand up on her feet. Following, which she walked out of the room quite normally and said, "Oh Dad. You grab the crutches." I gulped, and thought, "Hooray, it worked!"
I recently volunteered my services at a Hematology and Oncology Clinic in Gastonia, N.C. I treated the employees, patients who are undergoing chemotherapy, and their caregivers. One patient brought her eight year old foster-child for me to treat. She was suffering from extreme emotional disorders, tantrums, and attention deficit disorder. The girl was so hyperactive, I couldn't even think about doing Bowen on her. So, I held her head in my hands and began a little Cranio Sacral therapy. Within a minute she was breathing differently, smiling, and was very relaxed. I treated a few of the cranial points and then got her up. Altogether, I spent about five minutes with her. When the foster-mother brought her back the following week she told me that, "Sara had only one temper tantrum all week which lasted for only 10 minutes. She used to have one a day which usually lasted two hours or more!" Sara was amenable to lie on the table so I could do Bowen procedures 1-2-3, in addition to some more Cranio Sacral. When we finished Sara said, "Okay. Dollies’ turn next", as she placed her doll on the table top. So, I had to treat Dollie too. When she returned the third week mother reported that there were no tantrums, and that Sara had sat still for two hours to watch a movie. Unfortunately, Sara was transferred to another home because of declining health of the foster mother that I was caring for, so I lost track of her.
I received a call recently from a distraught mother of a 15 year old daughter. She'd had a very painful coccyx for the past 11 months. She had no injury, it just occurred one day. Medications, injections, chiropractic, and physical therapy were all no help. The medical doctor recommended that she have her tailbone surgically removed.
This was quite disturbing to her mom, who is an R.N. at a local Medical Center. A massage classmate of mine recommended that she call me about Bowen Therapy. The pain was constant, aggravated by arising from a sitting position, and made sleep difficult. She'd been depressed, and had just a plain lousy life the past 11 months as a result.
For those who do Bowen Therapy; I did low back, upper back, neck, lower respiratory, thoraco-lumbar triangle, hamstrings, knee, ankle, pelvis, sacrum, anterior pelvis, coccyx (right to left-right side tender), upper respiratory, TMJ, and my version of cervical release. Her pain began to subside after the coccyx lock on the right side, over the ilio-psoas. When she got off the table, she was pretty much pain-free for the first time in 11 months, and had a big smile on her face. After some tears and hugs, I gave mom a session too. Her mom said when I called her two days later, that about 50% of the pain was gone, but anti-inflammatory medication got her pain free. Previously it did not. The next week mom told me that the pain had returned a little as the day of treatment wore on, but she did get a good night's sleep. Following her 2nd and 3rd visits she remains pain free.
FIBROMYALGIA
I was invited to do a presentation and demonstration at a local fibromyalgia support group in Gastonia, NC. My massage therapist friend, (Bowen student and instigator of this trip), told me to just do a chair demonstration, rather than bring a massage table.
After I told the fibromyalgia people all about Bowen and how it can help F.M., plus some case histories, an overweight man in his early 50’s volunteered to be the victim. I sat him on a chair backwards, and did Milton Albrecht’s "Optional procedure", plus BRP'S 1-2-3 with rests in between. During the rests, he commented, "I can feel heat coming out of my back." I told him that wasn't too unusual. Then he said, "I feel tingling in my toes and I am getting really relaxed." I did a total of four sequences to his lower and upper back and neck areas which altogether took about five minutes.
When we were through, he arose from the chair and said, "Wow! My ankle and back pains are gone. My feet have full sensation-I can feel my socks with my toes. Wow. I don't believe this. How could this be?" He made an appointment to have a full table top session at my office the following week.
When he came for his appointment the next week, he was totally pain free and really didn't need a full table top Bowen session. But, I did one anyway. During the session, he told me the rest of his story.
His feet had been numb since early adulthood. He developed muscle pains throughout the body around seven years prior. Sometime after that, he began experiencing severe ankle pain, stiffness in the feet, wrists, and hands. He also had intermittent low back pain. His family doctor did a preliminary work-up and then sent him to a neurologist who performed many other tests, which were all negative. He then, referred him to a leading neurologist in Chapel Hill, NC. His findings were the same and he referred him back to his doctor in Gastonia. Some time later, his doctor referred him to a third neurologist in Wake Forest, NC, which provided no information or relief other than a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. During all of this, my patient took high doses of narcotics and consumed alcohol in order to cope with the pain. Three years ago he lost his job due to his dysfunction from addictions. He also attended fibromyalgia support group meetings once a month. A year ago, he successfully went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and since has been taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication by the hand full (which only partially relieved some of the pain, and upset his stomach). So, he was, "Just living with the pain." His sleep patterns were dysfunctional and he could’t work full time during the past four years.
There's something wrong with this picture. Rodney went through 10 years of misery which was eliminated with five minutes of Bowen Therapy. He should've had this treatment at the beginning of the trip, not at the end.
FLARES - RETRACING - REMAPPING
Quite often patients will experience a flare of present symptoms. Kind of, like when one has a fever, the fever spikes just before it subsides for good. Other times old, pains come out of the closet. There can be a reoccurrence of an old problem, which has seemingly been resolved for a number of months or years? These unpleasant reactions usually don't last more than a few hours or a day. This is called a, "Herxheimer's reaction".
One of my patients experienced the following incredible sequence. At the completion of Traci's first therapy session, I explained the above to her. When she returned the following week she said, "You won’t believe what happened. When I got home the day of the treatment, my T.M.J. flared up for about six hours. That night I got a throbbing headache, which was gone by morning. Then my neck tightened up until noontime. Then my shoulder froze up until dinner, and then everything's been fine ever since. I've been totally pain free all week." I replied, "That isn't too unusual." She said, "You don’t understand. That's the exact sequence that these problems began to surface five years ago. I had a bout with my T.M.J. for about a year. Then I began experiencing headaches two to three times a week. A year later, my neck tightened and would spasm once or twice a month. Then, a year ago my shoulder froze up and has been painful to lift my arm much higher than my waist." As the weeks went by during her postural and foot realignment process these symptoms didn't return. Traci moved to the East Coast shortly after. Her mother in law came to me on occasion for Bowen sessions, so I always asked her how Traci was doing with regard to all of her aches and pains? She said, "Traci says thanks. She's not had any pain at all this past year since she moved."
I once talked to a physician who practiced the Bowen technique back in Florida. She was a retired Hematologist – Oncologist (cancer doctor). After a few months of Bowen practice, she decided to look at blood from her patients before and after treatment. She thought to do this because when we perform Bowen therapy on heavy users of narcotics, they'll quite often vomit that night following the treatment. The Hematologist noted normal blood cells and constituents in the blood sample prior to therapy. She was amazed at the amounts of viral bodies, bacterium, and crystalline structures present at the 20-minute post treatment specimens. Some time after, she performed the blood studies on patients with multiple sclerosis. following Bowen treatments, all of the subjects displayed spirochetes in their blood post treatment. Spirochetes cause Syphilis and Lyme’s Disease. Are these releases what are responsible for the re-tracing and flare problems?
It's surmised that the narcotic residues and overloads are stored in the myofascial tissues. Another theory is that the narcotics are stored in the receptor sites in the cell membrane. When endorphins are released during Bowen Therapy, they rapidly displace the narcotics as they are the better fit in the receptor sites. Interestingly, pain management specialists use dextromethorpine (a cough suppressant) in patients who need increasing dosages of narcotics for their pain. The dextromethorpin displaces the narcotics so doses can be lowered. It must be a slower release than in Bowen Therapy, because these patients don't get sick after taking it.
Or, does Dr. Bruce Lipton explain the re-tracing and flare occurrences post treatment in his book, the BIOLOGY OF BELIEF? Dr. Lipton found in his research that blood circulating histamines find localized traumas, and they accumulate at the site of the injury. This initiates an inflammatory response, which begins the healing process. However, if adrenalin is being released from the central nervous system's response to stress, it over-rides the histamines at the wound site. Bowen Therapy releases endorphins, which relaxes the person, and reduces the adrenalin overload. Now, the histamines can go to the wound and begin to heal it with an inflammatory response.
During an inquiry of Tom Bowen in 1974, it was revealed that he was treating between fifty to sixty people per day. All word of mouth referrals. He did no advertising whatsoever. So, it must be good, or all those people were stupid. You make the choice for you.
As a behavioral analyst, I noted that when doing Bowen for my patients I didn't have need to inject as much cortisone or collagen. I didn't prescribe as many drugs or physical therapy. And, my surgical case load dropped by at least 50%! One of the anesthesiologists at the local hospital where I did my surgeries noticed that too. He said one day, "Hey Mitch. Haven't seen you around here very much the past couple of months. Are you taking your cases down to Mercy San Juan?" I explained that my patients were getting better with the Bowen Therapy, and didn't need surgery as often. He had a hard time understanding why a surgeon would do something that would take the place of surgery! I also noted, that the favorable outcomes of my treatments went from 80%, up to at least 95%, and maybe as high as 98%! Whenever I mentioned this to my peers, they would say something like, "That's nice", and leave it at that. One other thing that I took note of was, that when I performed a regional or lower extremity session patients got better with respect to their symptoms. But, those patients whom I performed a full body sequence on, experienced the life altering, favorable systemic reactions, and spontaneous remissions of their chronic medical enigmas.
My curiosity got the best of me. In most of the classes that I took, the instructor would often have no scientific explanations for the physiological changes taking place, that would explain how these therapies cause spontaneous remissions in patient's signs-symptoms-disabilities. Most of the teachers in those classes didn't cover what the mechanism of action is, with regard to their therapy method. They often said, "Oh, this helps you to re-set your client's body so that it can heal itself." Due to my Western Medicine background, and need for scientific validation, I began researching the literature. I read medical texts that seemed related. I read books written by Medical researchers and PhD's. Also, I attended other workshops, and I surfed the internet.
As I correlated the scientific information obtained in my research, with the stories my patients told me, and began connecting the dots, I began to see a picture. Then, one day I had an epiphany. It occurred to me that Western Mainstream Establishment Medicine is missing a few chapters from its Medical Texts and that is why we can't always diagnose and successfully treat many of our patient's signs, symptoms and disabilities! See Chapter 8.
How Bowen Therapy Is Done
& My Theory On How It Works.
Bowen therapy is a gentle plucking - rolling movement over the muscles through the clothing, and usually covers the entire body. The movements create Mini, Knee Jerk - like reactions. The results are; an unwinding or untwisting of the muscles and connective tissues around the muscles, re-patterning of the nervous system, improved networking between the central - immune - endocrine systems, improved flow of Qi / Chi = (Life Force), which is made up of bio-chemicals and direct currents. The loosening of the connective tissues causes greater separation between the cellular structures which allows for improved flow of blood, lymph, ingested water, and extracellular water. And, the endorphins create stress reduction. Stress reduction relieves adrenalin overload which suppresses Histamines. The Histamines circulating in the blood are now able to form around an old or new wound and begin the inflammation phase of wound repair. All of these are good events.
Look in the Addendum for a link to a directory that will point you to a Bowen Therapist. Like all dentists, medical doctors, and podiatrists are not the same, not all Bowen Therapists are the same. Ask around and get a referral from someone who has found a good practitioner. You may need a series of three to four sessions, a week apart. Then, follow-up sessions spaced apart as comfortably as you feel fit. The total physical, mental, emotional transformation can take a couple of years. So, be patient and persist. Develop a trust in your practitioners. If you can't, then move on till you find one you can trust and bond with. In all my years of Natural Health Experimentation, Bowen Therapy is without a doubt the #1 modality for reduction of medical issues. It covers the most ground (physiological systems down to the cellular level), takes the least effort by practitioner and receiver, is one of the most non-invasive techniques, and has the most profound effects on people of all age groups and animals than any other form of bodywork therapy I have ever come across.
Tom Bowen was an Australian who was a self-taught practitioner who had no formal training or credentialing. There have been discrepancies throughout the saga of Bowen Therapy all through the years. Tom studied anatomy, physiology, and Eastern Medicine and, he figured out methods for removing restrictions in the myofascial planes and along the meridian pathways so that the body could release the existing holding patterns and reset itself so it could start afresh. He only taught six people over the years how to perform his technique. They were referred to as, "Tom’s Boys." He either showed the moves and sequences differently to all of them, or they interpreted them differently. So, the teachings of the technique by all of the various teachers around the world, the moves and sequences may be different.
Following are some paragraphs from an article written by Tom’s daughters.
A Little Bit Of The Tom Bowen Story
The Tom Bowen Story - a short biography by Heather Edmonds and Pam Trigg, daughters of Tom Bowen.
Tom left school at an early age, possibly at 15 years of age, and became a carpenter like his father.
It was during the 1950’s that Tom began an association with a man named Ernie Saunders, often referred to as a ‘legend in the 40’s and 50’s as a physical manipulator’. Tom would visit him and they would share many hours together and it was through talking with Ernie that he began to learn what was later to become Tom’s technique.
In the late 1950’s Tom worked for the Geelong Cement Works and it was during this time that there were obvious signs of an interest in healing. What he did and how this came about is a mystery. During this time he became friends with a man, Stan Horwood, who believed Tom had a unique gift. Tom started helping people with ‘bad backs’ and other ailments and so his life of helping others began. Stan Horwood invited Tom to set up a practice at his home every evening after completing a days work at the Cement Works.
The business grew and grew through word of mouth. There was no advertising. People would wait outside the Horwood residence for hours to see Tom. Cars would line the pavement. It became obvious that the practice could not continue this way and so it moved to Geelong, on a full time basis where he moved between two rooms. At this time he used single beds with a mat at the bottom of the bed. It was many years later before he moved to electric massage tables.
At all of Tom’s clinics there were collection boxes for all kinds of charities. At times there were novelty items available for sale. Anything to help those less fortunate than others.
Tom did not have appointments as such. A patient would ring his clinic and told the opening hours of the clinic were between 9am – 11am and 1pm – 4pm. On arrival at the clinic patients were given a number from 1 to 33 in order of presentation. They would wait in the waiting room until their number was called.
During the evening he would do house calls returning home at approximately 9:30pm.
Tom had a Saturday morning clinic for disabled children where they were treated free. Parents would bring their children to him from many miles away, sometimes traveling 3 – 4 hours. Results were not immediate with these children but over a number of years results were amazing.
He held a clinic every Saturday evening for those who had injured themselves playing sport during the day. This was also a free clinic and people once again, came from near and far. If Tom had people attend his clinic who were in desperate circumstances or with disabled children needing extra care, he was a most generous person. At this stage of his career he could have made a great deal of money, but this was definitely not his priority. What Tom could do for people was his greatest reward and this continued to be his cause throughout his life. He did not always immediately have the answer to a problem that was presented to him but he would analyze the problem and have a solution in a few days.
Today Tom’s work has been taught world-wide and is taught at university level in Australia. Each person who has been taught Tom’s technique has their own unique way of interpreting it. Each persons’ interpretation is different. The only original Bowen therapist was Tom Bowen himself. He continually developed and adapted his technique to whatever situation presented itself to him – perhaps sticking to the same basics but always a different interpretation. He had a favorite saying by which he lived his life: “I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.”
Around 1988 Milton Albrecht of Auburn, California learned of the technique, and studied under Ossie, one of Tom's Boys. In 1990 Milton received his massage certificate, quit his job as a mechanic, and began a practice in his home. His practice grew extremely fast and he thereafter taught his cousin, Albert La Shell the technique. They both got requests from massage therapists and clients to teach the technique, and about 1994 or so, he teamed up with Ossie and his wife, Elaine Renche to teach a class. Over the years, class sizes grew from two to three students upward to 30 as the years passed.
About 1997, Milton and Ossie/Elaine parted ways, and Milton started his own Bowen organization and continued to teach the basic class as well as advanced classes. Ossie and Elaine trained other teachers around the U.S. and they offer classes presently. Other students who developed successful practices began teaching the technique also.
In January of 2003, Milton passed on.
He had taught hundreds of people worldwide to perform Tom Bowen's technique. So, between the two of them the quality of many, many peoples lives have been improved
As I spoke at Milton’s memorial services, I realized that I might have to become the messenger for the Bowen technique. I was one of only two or three doctors that Milton trusted. And, through the grapevine, I’ve heard that he was proud of my accomplishments as a Bowen practitioner as I incorporated the technique into a Western Medicine type of practice.
One of my favorite stories, pretty much sums up Milton. An elderly lady client of his was under medical treatment for a cardiac arrhythmia. After a couple of sessions she discontinued her heart medication, and seemed to do just fine. When she went to her cardiologist at the University of California Medical Center for her follow-up appointment, she informed him of what she had done. He immediately performed an EKG, which was totally normal, and couldn't believe his eyes. He compared the present strip with the last one, and asked her more about what she had done. She told him that she'd had some Bowen treatments. Then she gave him Milton’s name and phone number, and specific instructions to call him Monday through Friday between 8:00 and 9:00 AM. The cardiologist called Milton the next morning to learn more about Bowen, and asked if Milton could possibly come to the Medical Center and show and tell about the process. Milton replied, "Hell no", and, hung up on him!
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 3
BODY MIND RESET - The Emotional Trail
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 2
This subject may be as extensive, or maybe even more than the physical involvement of the fascia / myofascia. I've not yet learned even a possible explanation for the storage of emotional information in the muscles and fascia. I've had numerous patients undergo emotional release while performing Bowen Therapy, and also in the days, weeks, and months following a session. In addition, I learned of a technique taught by John F. Barnes, PT., which he's titled, "Myofascial Unwinding", and I've facilitated a number of emotional clearings using his techniques. John Upledger, D.O., titles it, "Somato-emotional Release." I'll pass on some of the more interesting cases for you to ponder.
My Indoctrination.
An interesting experience occurred with a patient and his response, which took place the very first week I started doing Bowen Therapy. Bernard was the patient who had the arthritic large toe joint in Chapter 2.
When I returned to the room after I released his lower leg muscle, he was curled up in a fetal position and was quite pale and cold. My first thought was that he had fainted and was going into shock. I checked his pulse and was going to take his blood pressure when he said, "I’m okay. I’m a little cold. May I have a blanket?" I covered him up and left him alone to settle down for a few minutes. When I returned to the room, his color was a little better, but he was still chilled. I left him to lie on the table for a few more minutes. The next time I returned to check on him, he was sitting on the edge of the table looking a little haggard, but much better. I gave him his post-treatment instructions.
When he returned the following Friday, I asked how he was doing and he said, "I'm doing fantastic. I don’t have any more stress, I'm more focused, and I feel like I’ve been liberated from something that had a hold of me." He went on to tell me that the day before he had given notice at the job he had loathed, and was moving to Costa Rica within the next month to open a restaurant. This was something that he had wanted to do for quite some time but something was holding him back. He said, "Whatever you did that treatment last week released whatever it was that was holding me down." At the time, I wasn't quite sure about what had just transpired because they didn't teach us at the Bowen Workshop I took, anything about this emotional release stuff. After a couple of more experiences, and conversations with other therapists, I finally got a clue about it all. When I checked his right EHL (Extensor Hallucis Longus) Muscle, the rope was gone.
Learning a Little More.
Another somato-emotional release experience was with a young lady who was referred to me by a foot surgeon a few miles away. He knew that I did Bowen Therapy, and his patient was suffering with chronic back pain. She'd been examined and treated by competent doctors, and nothing had relieved her pain. So, she wanted to try a Bowen treatment. She had heard about Bowen Therapy, since she was a Massage Therapist. Her first session was uneventful. She felt only minimal relief of the pain.
She returned two weeks later for another session. I began with the basic relaxation moves, then did the kidney and lower respiratory moves. Then, when I returned to the room following the four minute rest after releasing the abdominal muscles, she was quietly weeping. I asked if she was all right and if she needed a blanket. She said that she was little cold and a blanket would be nice. I said, "It looks like you are releasing something. Do you want to talk about it or keep it to yourself?" She said, "I’ll tell you what it was. I had a caesarian section two years ago and it was against my will. My mother and the doctors pretty much forced me to have it, and I’ve been angry ever since. I felt like I was invaded by aliens."
After the session she was completely pain free, relaxed and has been fine ever since. This illustrates how the abdominal area is the "Front of the Back". And, how that all of the fascia is interrelated.
For those of us who are involved with bodywork, we all need to keep in mind that all of the musculoskeletal structures, including the fascia and myofascia are all connected to one another. The position and motions taking place in the feet; affect the legs, hips, pelvis, back, shoulder, neck, and head. And, twists, tilts, angulations of the pelvis; affect the feet and ankles, as well as proximal structures. Therefore, when a practitioner stimulates a release in the front, it results in a change in the back. When a release takes place at the bottom, a change takes place at the top. Lastly, when there are releases to superficial structures, changes take place in the deeper parts. This also explains why the Bowen Coccyx locks and Kidney moves, help digestive disorders in adults and colic in babies. I do these along with other abdominal and torso moves for patients undergoing chemotherapy. As long as I do them once a week, they have zero nausea symptoms. If we skip a week, they experience severe nausea, and they can't wait for their next session.
Marcia – My very own first hand experience with emotional release.
I suppose that it would be best to tell you just how I became aware, experienced, and enlightened on the subject of Body-Mind emotional release. By a synchronous series of events, a massage therapist came to me to have Bowen Therapy for her foot problem. At the conclusion of her first session I asked, "What types of massage therapy do you do?" She replied, "I do Myofascial Release and Myofascial Unwinding." I told her that I was familiar with Myofascial Release. I wasn't really, I just thought I was however; I wasn't acquainted with Myofascial Unwinding. When she told me about this therapy and how it helps release emotional holding patterns I felt a strong desire to have a session or two. My mother had passed a year ago, and although I was feeling over the grief and all, there was something unfinished. We arranged a trade of services at her office beginning the following week.
After I performed a Bowen treatment on her she had me sit on the edge of the massage table. Then she turned on some kind of tribal chant music on the stereo, placed the palm of one hand on the top of my hair without touching, and the other palm toward the right side of my neck. Within a minute or two I began a series of strange gyrations throughout my entire body, and, before long I was rocking back and forth from side to side. I'm not at all aware how long a time I was moving back and forth, but at some point I started to laugh. I continued laughing for quite some time, and as a few tears came to my eyes, I let out a sigh and said, "Rock a bye baby." I continued with two other series of weird movements and each time I laughed uncontrollably and let out a sigh afterward. As I was driving home I tried to figure out what had just happened. By the way, the entire session lasted 50 minutes, and it seemed like just a few. The only thing I could think of at the moment was, during my childhood we used to swing back and forth in the small, slender Bay trees to see how far we could come to touching and transferring to an adjacent tree. I was never really very good at it and my friends always kidded me about my ineptitude. A few months later as I was telling a patient about the experience, it dawned on me that I no longer have a fear of heights nor have I had any bad dreams about perilous high places. I had about 6 dreams that had repeated themselves over my entire adult life. These would occur at least twice to three times a week. I've not had one since, and this has been going on 15 years after the session. I then recalled that my mother often would sing the "Rock a Bye Baby" Nursery rhyme to me at bed- time. I can't tell you that there was any scientific explanation for this occurrence, but it sure made an impression on me.
John F. Barnes – My first Class.
One day I received a flyer announcing a new book titled, "Healing Ancient Wounds", by John F. Barnes. John was my therapist Marcia’s teacher/guru and she always sang his praise. I immediately ordered the book, and after reading the first two chapters, I dropped everything and signed up for one of his classes in Sedona, Arizona. During the weekend of the class, I had a strong desire to experience a session at John’s clinic, so I scheduled an hour session one afternoon after the meeting. I won’t go into the details of the session, only to say that it was one of the most profound experiences I've ever had, and with a total stranger (Therapist).
My first intentional clearing.
When I returned to my office the week after the seminar, I met with my office staff and told them all about the new therapies I'd learned, and of my experience. After the meeting, one of the young ladies who worked for me asked if she could try a session or two to try and release some emotional childhood sexual abuse issues. She had chronic right hip pain. She'd had acupuncture, cortisone injections, and chiropractic none of which helped. Bowen therapy only relieved her pain for a day or two. We scheduled a late afternoon session for a week later. At that time there were no apparent releases so, we scheduled another session the following week. Right away, as I was holding her feet slightly elevating her legs off the table, her feet started pointing toward each other and then her legs started swinging back and forth. After a minute she felt a pop-like sensation in her left hip (her good hip), then she started to cry. As she wept her skin got very sweaty and slimy. I had a hard time holding on to her feet as my hands kept slipping as her legs swung back and forth. After a few minutes she stopped crying and let out a sigh, that's the "Still Point" which signals the end of the release. When I approached her head and neck, they too were all sweaty and slimy. I asked, "How do you feel?" She looked up and replied with a big smile, "Great!" I sensed that this was enough for this day, so we went home.
The next morning when she came to work she told me what had transpired that night. When she got home, her entire body was sweaty and sticky so, she took a shower to wash it off. Almost immediately her right knee became quite swollen and painful (her bad hip side) and she was very tired, and so retired early. When she got up in the morning the knee was sore but not swollen and her right hip pain had gone away. She didn't experience her usual early morning, "bitchies", and she felt a tremendous burden of weight off of her. Her chronic hip pain has never returned and her life has been quite a bit better since this dramatic release. She told me that her father had molested her until the age of thirteen and she's sure that she was holding the emotional trauma in her hip and pelvic region. She relocated a few months later. A little over a year later, she came by our office proudly holding her newborn baby. She told me that she'd been trying for the past 2 years to have children, and she had 3 miscarriages prior to her "Great Release."
My intuition works.
One morning I was performing Bowen on a patient whom I'd treated two to three times, and we got on the subject of emotional holdings and how they affected our lives. She said, "I think that I need to release something." My schedule was light, as fate would have it, and I said, "I can do something for you now if you'd like." She took me up on my offer. I intuitively placed one hand below her rib cage, solar plexus = 3rd chakra, and the other hand behind her back in the same area. Wow! I felt turbulence under my hand which was over her solar plexus. I would best describe it as if you could palpate the ocean waves coming in and going out, while at the same time swirling around in eddies, clockwise and then counterclockwise. After a minute or two she began to sob and cry. As she did, my hand felt like a suction cup on her skin. As my hand became more and more cupped, she started moving back and forth in a rocking-like motion. My hand felt even more “Stuck”, to her skin. As she let out a sigh, the still point at the end of the release, my hand released from her skin. I detected a definite calm and peace in her demeanor. I said, or asked, "All done?" She said, "Yeah. All done." When she stood up, she placed her hands on the table and leaned over, rocking back and she said, "I see lights - I see feathers - I see a face." After a few of these comments, she stood erect and said, "Thank you. Fifty years of anger and fear are gone from my life. Wow!"
When she returned the following week for a follow-up, she said, "I recall what that was about last week. When I was five years old, I was at a Catechism class and I hadn't memorized my part. When the Nun found out, she slapped my wrist with a ruler and said, “If you don't please God he'll punish you, and you'll burn in hell". She then drew a picture on the blackboard with "Heaven" above-"God" in the middle – "Fire and Hell" down below." My patient had remembered this for her entire life up until now.
Can you imagine what you might have stored in your emotional system, (the 4th dimension of the nervous system)?
More experience
Bev came to see me with a foot problem. During her diatribe, it seemed that she needed a Bowen release. I did my podiatry gig and a Bowen session, which she enjoyed. On her follow-up visit, it was apparent that she liked the Bowen, but would prefer a female therapist. So, I gladly referred her to a lady that I knew who could take care of her other needs besides the foot stuff which I could take care of.
A few years later she returned with one of her daughters, who had a planter’s wart. We talked about how things were going, and she said, "My Bowen Therapist's gone, and I don't know what to do?" Then, I told her about and all the things I had learned since our last encounter, which included somato-emotional release. This sparked her interest, and so she made an appointment for an emotional clearing the following week. Somehow, she was all of a sudden okay with me working with her? Bev then told me that she'd been fondled by a college professor when she was eighteen. He'd sworn her to secrecy, and threatened her with a failing grade should she tell anyone about the incident. This had affected her entire adult life and marriage. I did my thing which intuition led me to, and she did a release.
The following week, I did another clearing, and she released some more. The next week, she revealed that she'd had sexual relations with her husband like never before. After that, life has never been so good for Bev. Then, she referred her clinical psychologist, as he needed a clearing too.
Healing the healer.
Bev's therapist had struck his head on a flight departure / arrival board at the airport during a moment of haste and carelessness. I'm not sure what emotional grief he had stored in him. Immediately after I began some of Upledger's Cranio Sacral holds, he began to violently shake his head from side to side. As he moved back and forth he began to sob, and did some deep exhales as if to remove something from his lungs. He gave a little sigh, indicating the still point and that we were through for this visit.
When he returned the following week, the same sequence occurred only more so. After the sigh indicating he had reached the still point, he smiled and said, "Thank you. It's gone!" Whatever "It" was?
Now, for the rest of the story
In January of 1999, I received a phone call from a hospital in Marin County. A suburb of San Francisco, California. I was told that my mother had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage, and it was "iffy" at best that she would ever survive. I immediately left the office and drove 100 miles to the hospital to see her. Doctors told me of the pathology, the prognosis, and their treatment plan for the next few weeks.
I went to the hospital every other day for two weeks to see my mom. Her only audible spoken words were, "No & Don't." She didn't improve. So, I moved her to an extended care facility a block away from my office in Roseville, California. This way I could see her twice a day, plus I knew the track record of the facilities' quality of care. Every time I saw her, she did some really weird gyrations, and some nonsensical jibber-jabber plus she'd say, "No and Don't", followed by a sigh (still point).
The night before she passed, she went on a real "rant." It lasted about ten minutes. Her body twisted and turned in all kinds of directions. Following which, she said after a very long pronounced sigh (still point) - very clearly - while staring into my eyes - "I want my mama. I want my mama."
I know my mom wants me to share this story with you.
Jean (My Mom) wanted to attend Stanford University since grammar school. She studied and received top grades throughout grammar and high school. My grandfather was a successful dentist in Monterey, California, until his divorce from my grandmother. My grandmother was a flapper girl during prohibition , and subsequently spent my mother's college money on her personal indulgences. On the day my mom was to depart for Stanford University, her mother informed her that there was no money left for her tuition.
This resulted in depression and anger, which lasted my mother's entire life. My mom and step-dad spent well over six figures in counseling, psychiatric, psychology, and hypnotherapy fees. Not to mention, the gas money, parking charges, and time to go to these supposed therapies. Isn't it amazing that my mother went through a myofascial unwinding and emotional release the night before her death. Too bad, she couldn't have released all this 50 years earlier in her life.
Introduction to the Body – Mind – Body stuff.
A Naturopathic practitioner named Gene, who was a Bowen classmate, told me of a technique to remove allergies. He told me that if you know what you are allergic to, you can hold that substance in your left hand and shine a red laser light on the allergy point at the apex of the right ear for 30 seconds. Then, continue holding the substance for 20 minutes, and then discard it, but don't come in contact with it for 25 hours. I asked. "Why 25 hours?" My friend told me that there are 12 main meridians which have 2 hour cycles during the 24 hour day. You don't know which meridian is affected by the allergen, and if you come in contact with the substance while the affected meridian is processing it will make you sick in some way or another. You'll see when you come to the Rosemary part.
My first experience with the technique proceeded as follows. Monday mornings I always sneezed and got a runny nose upon arriving at my office. I guessed that I was allergic to the toenail dust that is ever present in a podiatry office, even though we have vacuums attached to our nail drills. So, one Friday afternoon I caught some nail dust on a piece of adhesive tape. After patients I did the treatment with the helium beam on my CO2 laser and drove home holding the tape, which took exactly 20 minutes. When I went to the office Monday and Tuesday I was unaware of anything different. Then on Wednesday, it occurred to me that I had done the allergy treatment the previous Friday and, that I had no runny nose or sneezing so far that week. As I write this, I no longer have any toenail dust symptoms.
Eggs - My Introduction to N.A.E.T.
A friend of mine who practices Naturopathy - natural healing with supplements, herbs, homeopathics, aroma therapy, essential oils, and other natural methods, told me of a technique she uses to remove allergic responses by the mind – body. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is an RN., Chiropractor & Acupuncturist. Dr. Devi accidentally discovered that by holding an allergen in the left hand and stimulating some acupoints along the bladder and governing vessel meridians, up the back and along the spine, the mind-body association can be repaired or replaced. Her book is titled, "SAY GOODBYE TO ILLNESS". N.A.E.T. is an acronym for, "Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique".
My Naturopathic friend Jean, determined that I was allergic to eggs, plus some other things. When she told me so, I recalled that whenever I ate eggs, which I really enjoyed, I felt very sluggish and spaced out the rest of the day until around 4:00 PM. After she did the N.A.E.T. clearing on me, I've had no further symptoms after eating eggs.
Rosemary – A lesson in the body processing process.
My third significant experience came from a self-treatment which turned out to be rather bizarre. I learned that I was allergic to sillymarin and rosemary, both of which were in my multiple vitamins. One afternoon I used the laser light on the ear point technique, held on to the vitamin tablet for 20 minutes, then discarded it. The following morning I made sure not to take the multiple vitamins which had not passed the 25 hour mark, so I took all of my other morning supplements. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn’t fix anything for breakfast but grabbed a piece of leftover fish from the fridge, and was on my way. When I arrived at my office, all of a sudden I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. I got achy, my head pounded, I got chilled, and my nose bled. We had to cancel my morning appointments. I laid down for a rest on one of my massage tables and covered with a blanket. When I awoke at 11:00 AM, I felt better. And, as I got up, I detected a strange taste in my mouth. ROSEMARY! The fish had been breaded with seasoned bread crumbs and I ingested them as the stomach meridian was cycling from 7:00 – 9:00 AM.
Another visit with N.A.E.T.
Another unusually interesting case occurred with a patient of mine. She was diagnosed with Morton’s neuroma, which is an enlarged nerve between the 3rd and 4th metatarsals. This is a fairly common foot condition, and I felt quite proficient in its diagnosis and treatment options. She had the usual numbness, tingling, and occasional burning in her 2nd, 3rd, & 4th toes in both feet. I performed my usual and customary non-surgical treatments and she seemed to improve. I then made her orthotics to keep pressure from the nerves and instructed her to return in two months if any problems still occurred and we would discuss surgical treatment. About two years hence a friend of her's was seeing me for a foot problem, and she told me the rest of the story. Apparently my patient with the neuromas experienced progression of symptoms up the ankles and legs. Her family doctor referred her to a neurologist who diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis and prescribed drugs for this. She went to Stanford University for a second opinion, and was again diagnosed with M.S. She tried other medications which did not help. Then, a year or so later it began affecting her hands. At this point she went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and again she was diagnosed with M.S., and was given some other medications. About the time she lost the use of her thumbs, she went to my naturopath friend, Jean. After Jean completed her work-up she was surprised that the lady did not show any of the usual findings that go along with neuropathies. She then asked our patient about what was happening in her life when all of this began. As it turns out she was building her dream home at the time of a real estate slump, and she was the not so proud owner of two houses built on speculation, which were not selling. All kinds of stress were abundant in her life at the time. She recalled the first sign of the tingling in her toes when she walked bare footed across the Mexican pavers tiles in the hallway of the new home. Jean then tested her for allergy to the tile, and sure enough, she was. Within days following a clearing her symptoms began to reverse, and within a month she was totally symptom free. However, as soon as she went back to walking on the tile floor the tingling in the toes returned so, she ended up selling the house.
My version of N.A.E.T.
I got thinking one day about the N.A.E.T. technique. It occurred to me that many of the Bowen Therapy moves are over the same meridian points along the spine.
I discussed my allergy theory with a patient whom I was doing some Bowen sessions on. Her 12 year old son had multiple allergies and was seeing the local allergist for allergy shots. One of his main allergens was shellfish. If he ate any shellfish whatsoever, he suffered laryngospasms and hives. He also often craved shellfish. The allergist was afraid to give him allergy shots for shellfish for fear of a serious reaction. I had mother bring him for a Bowen session during which I had him hold a shrimp in his left hand during the treatment. When mother came back the following week she told me that his allergy skin test for shellfish had reduced by 80%. Unfortunately, they moved to Texas shortly after, so I did not get to follow up with them.
Emotional clearing with Bowen / N.A.E.T.
Although this experience did not involve a substance, I include It because it seems to be relevant. My naturopath friend Jean, referred me a patient that she was having trouble keeping cleared of the issues which were causing her headaches. Jean suspected that there might be an emotional block that was keeping her from attaining lasting relief. The patient had an anger issue with her father. It came from an incident when she was five years old. Her father and his friend went duck hunting and locked her in the car at the hunting spot for about four hours. She recalls the fright and feeling of abandonment which resulted in a long and deep anger toward her father. Although she had forgiven him and was at peace on a conscious level, she knew that there was some inner resentment that lingered. The first Bowen session, my intent was for me to initiate a somato-emotional release if that was what she needed. Nothing happened. The next visit, on a hunch, I had her write her desire to be rid of the anger toward father on a piece of paper. She held it in her left hand while I performed a full Bowen session on her. She returned a week later and was over it. She had experienced two days of extreme anger, especially with her two children. She was a single mom who doted over her kids, and hardly ever got upset with them. But, for the two days just about everything they did or said upset her. The last I heard, she was still pain free, and her life was good.
Other Cases of interest.
Another of my patients mentioned that whenever she drank a glass of red wine she developed a panic attack right after. This didn't happen to her with white wine. However, she didn't like white wine. She only liked red. So, we wrote red wine on a post-it note. She held this in her left hand while I did an abbreviated Bowen session using procedures 1-2-3. When she returned a month later for her Bowen “Tune-up”, she was no longer sensitive to red wine.
A friend of mine began experiencing headaches after drinking only a sip of red wine. I performed the same clearing for him, and he has been fine ever since.
My naturopath friend, Jean had a client who she was treating. She suffered headaches during the week. But, not on the weekends. After it was all said and done, Jean found that her client was sensitive to the color orange. She worked for Cal Trans and they had to wear orange vests while at work on the freeways and roads in California. She had the option to wear purple instead, and as soon as she switched colors, her chronic headaches cleared.
Another interesting case occurred recently at the cancer clinic where I used to do therapy. Mandy had sugar cravings, and I cleared her of those. Then she told me that she was unable to tolerate fried eggs. She could eat eggs in any other form, but she vomited after eating fried eggs. I did the clearing, and she now can eat fried eggs with no problem.
Cravings.
I was moderately addicted to potato chips. I always ate a small bag on my way home from work. I went to the pantry soon after arriving home and got more chips, and then some more. This went on most every day. After a hypnotherapy session, I was okay with it for a couple of years, but the cravings came back. I wrote potato chips on a small piece of paper and had a Bowen session with a practitioner whom I traded with. The same day I drove home empty handed. When I got home I did not feel even slightly inclined to go to the pantry and get some chips! To this day, some 15 years hence, I don't crave potato chips at all.
One of my Bowen patients confessed to craving diet sodas. She drank upward to 12 a day. We wrote "diet soda pop" on a piece of paper and did her Bowen session as she held the paper in her left hand. When she returned the following week, she had not had but three diet sodas all week. The next week she had none!
I also eliminated my cravings for crackers and cheese a couple of years ago.
Other cravings eliminated in patients.
Marijuana
Cookies
Cake
Chocolates
Coffee
Doesn't work for nicotine
THE SUGAR CONNECTION
After breast milk, one of the first substances we come into contact with is SUGAR! If there is a moderate amount of stress and turmoil during infancy, there is a possibility that sugar may turn out to be a stressing substance for that individual throughout the years. I have released the craving for sugar in a number of my adult patients. I am looking forward to doing a study on children for the release of the sugar connection. My theory is, that this disconnection process to sugar may be responsible to ADD and ADHD. I surmise that we all might be afflicted by the sugar connection to some degree. It may be possible, that the more the stress was at first contact, the greater the subsequence reactions
How can any of this be possible?
I'm guessing that the process works like this. First, let’s assume that you have never been in contact with root beer. Then during a time of stress and duress you eat your first dose of root beer. From now on your mind associates root beer with stress. And, even though you now are stress free, whenever you come in contact with root beer the body goes into a stress reaction pattern. Depending on which meridian was initially affected symptoms will be the same each time of exposure to root beer. I may be sensitive to root beer and experience headaches from it. You may be sensitive to root beer and you experience diarrhea when you come in contact with it. This is a different type of allergy than the poison oak type, whereby the substance causes the formation of antibodies which attack the allergen and thus cause an inflammatory reaction.
Secondly, my problem with eggs came from my stint in the U.S. Army. I ate eggs for breakfast at least five days a week. I was under stress for most of the two years I served. I was home-sick, love-sick, overworked, underpaid, harassed by the "Officers." I remember eating eggs while in high school without any problems. But, they affected me my entire adult life, until Jean did the clearing for me. So, it was a repeated exposure over a long time frame under stress in this instance.
For patients, I have performed this for all kinds of actual food allergies as well as emotional holdings, and it almost always works. How it really works is beside me, but I remember that my patients really only care if it works, not how. For those of us who must have an explanation, I propose one. I stumbled on to a book titled, "The Molecules of Emotion:", by Candace Pert, Ph.D. She points out that endorphins which are our very own narcotic/tranquilizer substance, are in part, contained in the nodal points along the spine. These are the precise locations for many of the Bowen moves. My patients tell me quite often that during the Bowen session and the day following their treatment, they felt a kind of "Runner’s High", and for the remainder of the week a sense of well-being. Dr. Pert further discovered that the endorphins are one of the mechanisms by which the immune, central, and endocrine systems network with each other. In other words, the mind-body connection, maybe. So, if you have a negative mind- body connection to a food, chemical, substance, or color that becomes a stressor and the meridian system will react to the stimulus of it. If you hold that same substance in your left hand in the presence of endorphin release that substance is now equated with a sense of well being and the old negative program is cancelled out, or over-ridden. In some circles it is accepted that one craves what one is allergic to, i.e. sugar / alcohol.
Why would any changes take place from merely holding something written on a piece of paper? If the ice crystal experiments by Masuro Emoto responded to the vibratory rate of the written word in his experiments, see Chapter 7 - so, that's why this has had some influence on patients while having a Bowen Medical Bodywork session. In the future, I might suggest to all my patients that we do a F.A.S.T. reset - Fear - Anger - Sugar - Trauma.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 4
HYDROTHERAPY
The irrigation System
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 3
“THE GOLDEN YEARS AREN’T FOR SISSIES”
I was very fortunate to fall into a profession that I loved dearly. I had no idea what podiatry was really about until I finished my third year and began seeing patients in clinic. As the years went by, on Sundays I always eagerly anticipated Monday and the following week. I truly had a labor of love, one of Napoleons Hill’s 12 riches. My never ending dream was to "Have an office full of happy and enthusiastic patients, all getting well, coming to me from miles around, for procedures I enjoyed doing". One afternoon, I took a chart to the reception counter and looked out into the waiting room. Every seat was occupied, and there was a man standing in the corner drinking a cup of our gourmet coffee. They were all chit-chatting and laughing. A lady was chatting with my transcriptionist over the front counter. I turned and looked down the hallway and saw charts in all of the chart holders at the treatment room doors. I looked at the schedule on the wall in the hallway, and saw that I had seen seven new patients and performed five minor surgeries including three of my favorite laser procedures. One of the patients had come from Elko, Nevada; a 150 mile drive from the middle of Nevada over the Sierras and down into the valley to my office. She had driven past at least 12 competent podiatry offices to get to me. "Hooray", I thought. I've arrived!" My plan was to practice until I couldn’t hold a scalpel, or see what I was doing, whichever came first.
There were some patient comments that I heard on a frequent basis. The most common one was, "Oh Doctor, when your feet hurt, you hurt all over!" The next was, "Getting old isn’t for sissies!" Another one was, "Oh the golden years, they aren't so special after all." Over the years, I always empathized with my patients, when they made these comments, but they always went in one ear and out the other.
That is until, I began feeling the added years on me. As my blood pressure, weight and blood sugars rose, as my joints ached, my sleeping was dysfunctional, and acid reflux had set in. I didn't enjoy hearing about how getting old wasn't for sissies because I was starting down that pathway.
One afternoon, an elderly lady was telling me all about her health and aging issues, and how the "Golden years were not so golden!" I suddenly decided to give up my podiatry practice, which I loved very much. Hearing this every day was making me dwell on my own aging process, which was not helping me emotionally or psychologically.
That afternoon, I went home that evening and figured out my financial status. Voila! I would make more income in retirement than I was in practice. Besides the aging stuff, there were Medicare, Managed Care, and HMO issues that were also getting me down.
I arranged for the sale of my residence and practice, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. My plan was to live on Lake Wylie and relax. It only took two months to realize that retiring was a big mistake. I missed my patients, staff, and being busy helping people and helping patients solve their health problems.
Having been trained to perform Bowen Medical Bodywork, I obtained a massage license so that I could practice and teach it. So, I flunked out of retirement; or, maybe I just took a lengthy sabbatical before transitioning into my new career: HEALTH AWARENESS - HEALTH SOLUTIONS - FOR HEALTH REFORM.
By 2009, I required two medications to control my blood pressure. I was up to 235 pounds, acid reflux struck at least once a week, my blood sugar was approaching Type II diabetes, my fingers and knees ached, and my 25 year old shoulder injury was getting worse. Now, it really sank in, "Getting old isn’t for sissies, and the golden years aren’t anything to look forward to!" Were my patient’s right? Stay tuned to find out that they were wrong.
What is "Perfect Water" all about?
MY WATER JOURNEY Began in March of 2009, and I passed through a number of significant experiences, which will follow in detail.
I joined up with a Naturopathic - Holistic Pharmacist, named Billy Wease, in Gastonia NC. He practices "Healthy Aging & Wellness". He introduced me to the Perfect Water shortly after we met.
PHASE I
I picked up my water at Billies' pharmacy every two to three days. I experienced some mild detoxification symptoms for the 1st few days. On the positive side, I noted improved sleep, my right shoulder of 25 years duration, which was painful when I slept on it, disappeared right away. As the days passed by I had less aches, increased energy, acid reflux disappeared, and I lost four pounds the first two weeks. After about two months, I failed to refill my blood pressure medication # 2, Tekturna. As I monitored my blood pressure over the following weeks, I found that I didn't need it any longer. Whew! It worked on the kidneys and I was glad to be off of it. I continued to lose weight. In no particular order I no longer had; occasional acid reflux, anxiety, dry skin, fissuring and callusing of my heels, splitting of the skin in my fingertips & nosebleeds in the winter months, and loose smelly stools.
My wife got a MRSA infection following foot surgery. We applied Perfect pH Water to the lesions, and they were gone in two days. So, I began using the water to rinse my mouth twice a day. Within a couple of days the infected bleeding gums stopped. Over time, the bone loss in a tooth socket filled in enough that it saved me from a $2,500,00 periodontal surgery procedure with cadaver bone grafting. By this point, I'd lost about 30 pounds.
PHASE II
I purchased my own machine, now that I was convinced that the value of the water was easily worth the price of a machine. I installed it in the garage due to my wife's insistence. She didn't want it cluttering up the kitchen countertop. We filled two one gallon jugs each morning for the day's use. Within the first few days, I experienced a few more mild detoxification symptoms due to the fact that the water was fresher than before, when I was filling my bottles every three to four days at the pharmacy! The water loses some of it’s quality as it sits for a few days. Over the next two months, I lost more weight, watched eight fungal nails return to normal, and only had to take blood pressure medication # 1 every 3 to 4 days. At this point, I stopped losing weight, but had lost a total of 40 pounds. I did have a little help from a watered down Weight Watchers regimen, which I still follow. My fasting blood sugar had dropped from 132 fasting to 93 random.
PHASE III
At a Perfect Water conference that I attended, it was recommended to drink the water as soon as it comes out of the tap for optimal results because after 20 minutes, it begins to lose its anti-oxidant properties. When I began this practice, I mildly detoxified again, and after a few days I only needed blood pressure medicine # 1 every 10 to 14 days. Shortly after, I moved the Fountain of Youth Machine to the kitchen sink for easier access.
PHASE IV
I started doing Bowen Therapy on patients at a wellness center in a nearby town. All of them had been drinking the Perfect Water for varying periods of time. Many of their previous symptoms had resolved, but they all had some lingering pain here or there. After my 6th week of practicing Bowen Therapy, it dawned on me one evening while driving home, that I had helped 17 out of 18 patients that I'd treated! And then I then remembered that I'd helped about 58 out of 60 people that my pharmacist friend had referred over the past nine months! I only helped about 8 out of 10 people back when I was in the Bowen practice in Roseville, CA.
My conclusion is; that when tissues are tight, the spaces between the cells are narrowed, which blocks or slows the flow of plasma / water between the cells. Therefore, when the tissues are decompressed, the water can flow more freely and then diffuse through the cell membrane and into the cell. Remember, it's not about your intake of water and nutrients. It's about the uptake and utilization (not my saying), of them. This has to do with water, oxygen, and nutrients.
PHASE V:
Recalling a class that I took which was about long, slow, steady stretching for five to seven minutes per part. After stretching, one could see a blushing reactive hyperemia take place, especially around the collar area, neck and face. This was a result of opening the tissue spaces which allows the blood vessels to dilate. In other words, more blood = more plasma = more water, antioxidants, oxygen, alkalinity available for the cells to drink. I borrowed a neighbor's inversion table and for a few days I experimented with drinking a quart of Perfect Water and then inverting at 45 degrees for 5 to 10 minutes. Inversion will stretch the tissues without the need for someone to do it for you. The results were fantastic. My energy increased even more than before, my moods got even better, and I no longer had to take any of blood pressure medication #1. It also eliminated a stiff achy lower back for which I needed monthly Bowen treatments.
Needless to say, I purchased my own table and used it three to four times a day immediately after drinking a quart of water each time. The bad news is that I developed an inguinal hernia shortly after doing this regimen because I over did it. So, I no longer do the inversion at all, but just drink the water, get Bowen tune-ups once a month, and take the other blood pressure medication.
WATER SURVEY
MY survey of 70 people so far, who have been drinking this water for over 30 days, and have had no other lifestyle changes, shows the following:
Those 70 people have been able to discontinue 138 medications of which, 72 were prescriptions and 76 over the counter.
· 34 had improvement or resolution of dry skin and eczema. 95%
· 31 had improvement of blood pressure. 93%
· 28 have had significant weight loss. 94%
· 28 had resolution or reduction of acid reflux and heartburn. 95%
· 25 arthritis improved or resolved. 100%
· 21 had knee pain improve or resolve. 100%
· 24 high cholesterol was lowered. 96%
· 19 headaches improved or resolved. 95%
· 21 low back pain improved or resolved. 100%
· 14 foot pain improved or resolved. 100%
· 14 diabetes improved or resolved. 92%
· 12 Constipation improved or resolved.
· 4 have resolution of fibromyalgia.
· 66 HAVE NOTABLE INCREASED ENERGY.
· 64 HAVE IMPROVED MOODS.
I stopped surveying people at 70 because the same numbers came up at 10 people, 20 people, 40, and 60.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 5
Exercise Therapy
Step 5: Oh Boy, this is a biggie. What's good for one isn't good for all. You’ve got to find the right protocol for you. I've found the right protocol for me. I'll tell you my exercise story, for whatever it's worth.
After I quit smoking, I gained the usual amount of weight that everyone obtains after quitting. Most of us who quit smoking cigarettes, substitute food for the oral gratification of the cigarette. When the dust settled, I took up a running program around age 34. This took my mind off of food, but in reality, it was just another substitute. I lost weight like gangbusters, and maintained 180 pounds, as long as I ran 6 miles a day.
Observation showed me, that this amount of trauma to the hips and knees, might be detrimental to long term joint health. So, I began cutting back in my late forties.
Now, I do my Zen walk every day for 60 minutes, first thing in the morning. It starts me out right every day. After re-joining my Life-Time Weight Watchers, because I found 18 of the 40 pounds I had lost 3 years ago, I’ve begun to work out with Kettlebells for 20 minutes a day for extra caloric burning, cardio, plus upper body resistance training. You do what works for you. But, just do it. There's a great YouTube Video by Art Williams - "Just Do It". Please watch it. Join a gym, buy a treadmill, get a Nordic Track, walk in the woods, "JUST DO IT!"
I go for a morning walk. Every morning, rain or shine, hail, sleet or snow, away from home, in the heat, every morning. I only miss if I'm down for the count with the flu. If I have an early airplane flight, I walk in the airport concourse for one hour, or as long as possible before my flight. I review my affirmations, mission statement, goals and aspirations, etc. I give thanks with love and gratitude for all of my blessings. I review my presentations & demos. I make notes on a folded sheet of paper, which I later transfer to my files in the PC. I’ve written a good portion of this book while on my walks. I check out the scenery and take it all in. Afterward I am always energized, as long as I walk in nature. In the city and at the airport, not so much so. I guess that Mother - Nature is emitting energy which I absorb.
I made an interesting discovery while attending one of my annual Podiatry post graduate seminars in San Francisco, California. One morning following my hour run on the streets of San Francisco, I showered and got ready for the meetings. I didn't feel quite "right". Something was off center. As the day progressed, I felt more and more sluggish. The afternoon classes didn’t interest me too much, so I drove over to my old stomping grounds across the "Golden Gate", in Marin County. I took a jog up Mount Tamalpais. I couldn't believe the rejuvenation which transpired afterward. I felt energized, alert, exhilarated, and back to normal. The next morning I arose early so I could take my morning run in Muir Woods before the classes began. There was a noticeable energy level difference that day. Then, on Sunday I overslept, and went for a morning run in downtown San Francisco. Guess what? Yep, I felt sluggish that day too. From then on, I always booked a room in Marin County so I could take my morning run, and years following my walk, with nature rather than with concrete and left over vibes from the city dwellers. I have noted similar occurrences during stays in other cities. The outdoors is a great source of energy especially around trees and water.
I had a favorite spot along side of the river which I was lucky to have lived alongside for 23 years. Two trees made a wonderful place for my hammock, which hung slightly over the water. The trees had a very heavy, dense growth of leaves and provided great shade. One winter one of the trees was swept downstream and I was left with only one tree. The next summer I hung up a swinging chair on a branch of the remaining tree. The first time I sat in the chair I placed my hand against the trunk of the tree and offered my thanks for it surviving and allowing me to further enjoy its presence. Suddenly - the chair started swinging from side to side. As I removed my hand from the tree, the swinging stopped. However, when I placed my hand back near to, but not on the trunk, once again the chair started to swing. I continued to play with this for an hour or so, and again the following weekend. The chair swung every time my hand was in proximity to the tree trunk. Maybe that's the reason for feeling better when walking in the woods versus in the city! Energy is flowing from the plants and trees!
Walking outdoors accomplishes many things all at the same time:
1. Exercise.
2. Fresh air.
3. Sunlight, if done during daylight.
4. Meditation, if you can learn to turn your mind loose while walking.
5. Burn off calories.
6. Build up collateral circulation.
7. Work up a thirst so you desire more water.
That’s over ½ of the Dr. W. Safe program right there.
My Dr. W.P.Safe =
Meditation
Yoga
Diet / Nutrition
Rest
Water
Prayer
Sunlight
Attitude
Fresh Air
Exercise
Research has shown that walking provides just enough compression on the joints to keep the cartilage and underlying bone nourished. A great prevention for arthritis, and osteoporosis, along with the Perfect Water for proper hydration.
I have a number of old buddies who ran many, many marathons. Recently, they report that they've had to have hip and knee replacements. Maybe that ultra distance running is a little too much on the joints? I only ran five marathons and now, my knees and hips are great!
Another good thing to practice is myofascial unwinding as demonstrated by John F. Barnes, PT. There is a YouTube video on it. This makes the connective tissues more pliable, hydrated, piezoelectric, and thixatropic - Chapter 8 - Fascia.
To begin your walking program:
· Go to bed ten minutes earlier than usual.
· Get up ten minutes earlier than usual.
· Drink a glass of juice.
· Walk out the front door and walk down the street. Check your watch and note the time.
· After five minutes - turn and return home.
· Tomorrow - Do the same thing.
· Next day - Do the same thing.
· Saturday - Walk ten minutes out and ten minutes back. Remember, you don't have to be to work today.
· Sunday - same.
Next week add a few minutes each day.
Next week add a few more.
Work up to an hour a day.
Or, walk 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at lunchtime.
Purchase a rain suit for the winter along with gloves and warm clothing. Get shorts and tee shirts for summer. And, a good pair of running shoes.
I have a small fold-up umbrella that fits in my back pocket for when the weather is “iffy”.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 6
NUTRITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
Step 6: Nutritional Therapy. Oh Boy. This is a real biggie. How many diet books have you read? How many diet plans have you tried? How many weight loss products have you tried? If someone had the answer, and it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and succeeding too. We are all created equal with regard to our operational systems. We don't all end up equal due to the; 1. traumas we sustain, 2. the physical, mental, and emotional stresses we endure , 3. the substances we use and abuse, and 4. the chemicals that Corporate America exposes us to. And, how about the, "EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR BLOOD TYPE?" There’s probably some merit to that concept. In other words, "What's good for one person, isn’t necessarily good for all of us." And, there's a lot of bad out there we need to stay away from.
You need to find the system that works best for you. Once again, it's the four "E's".; Exploration, Experience, Education, and Enlightenment. As I see it, most of us should follow an, 80% - 20% plan. Eat wisely most of the time, but have some fun some of the time. Find the plan that best works for you, and stick to it. Two meals out of the day, Five days out of the week, Three bites of the deserts and comfort foods per "Weight Watchers". Eat small portions frequently.
Following is the outline for my healthy eating, which might help you.
#1. HAVE A MASTER PLAN - The 5 P's
Proper - Planning - Prevents - Poor - Performance
#2. SET YOUR MIND - SET
A. For the whole - eating food process.
Review how I quit smoking in the Introduction of this book.
B. The end result - How are you going to be
when you've made the changes, and used
those changes for a month or two. Get an
emotional involvement about the new you. If
you have emotional involvements with the
foods you desire and consume, get Body-
Mind Resets - Chapter 3.
C. Make up action steps for each part of your
nutritional changes.
D. Learn how to plan and handle those Special
Occasions and Holidays.
E. Learn the art of change. Many people who
drink the Perfect Water report, that one of the
reasons they lose weight is, that they
intuitively start making better food choices.
Changing water is a very minor lifestyle change. We're all uncomfortable with change, especially radical change. So you might want to consider doing some very minor changes at first in order to get change under your skin, so to speak. Then keep adding good foods, substituting, and subtracting bad foods a little at a time so you aren't put into shock
#3. SUBSTITUTIONS
A. Substitutions that you can make that won’t rock your boat too much:
· Baked chips - On occasion
· Mustards & Dijonnaise 80% - Homemade Mayo 20%.
· Organic grown Bison. Ground Bison instead of ground beef.
· Grilled, baked, or broiled wild caught fish and organic poultry.
· Roll-ups 90% - sandwiches 10%.
· Canadian bacon 95% - other, home cooked 5%.
· Tadziki for spreads 90% - regular spreads 10%.
· Sweet potatoes 80% - Red or white potatoes 20%.
· Sprouted grain Ezekiel tortillas 90% - flour tortillas 10%.
· Sprouted grain Ezekiel low fat-high fiber muffins 100%.
· Sprouted grain Ezekiel bread 100%.
· Organic egg whites 80% - Organic whole eggs 20%.
· Remove one of the slices of breads with restaurant burgers and sandwiches.
· Naan flatbread is great for pizza 80% - Thin crust pizza 20%.
· Costco's Frozen Baguettes – for special occasions.
· Brown rice pasta 90% - flour pasta 10%.
· Low fat Laughing Cow and Baby Bella cheeses for snacks and sandwiches.
· Homemade Salsa 70% - Hummus 20% - dip 10%.
· Hummus or avocado for spread instead of mayonnaise.
B. Fast food possibilities that are okay:
· Salads with grilled chicken – best to bring your own chicken if possible. Low fat dressing – Best to have your own.
· Grilled chicken sandwich with 1/2 of the bread tossed, no cheese or mayonnaise.
# 4. GOOD FOODS LIST
Organic Bison.
Complex carbohydrates. Brown Rice, Wild Rice, Quinoa, Millet, Brown Rice pasta, Yams.
Raw and lightly cooked vegetables all kinds.
Fruits, all kinds.
Cold water, wild caught fish.
#5. PLANNING - I like Saturday, early morning.
A. Each day's meals and snacks for the
upcoming week.
1. Before Breakfast -
2. Breakfast -
3. Mid Morning Snack -
4. Lunch -
5. Mid Afternoon Snack -
6. Mail Call - aka adult beverage hour.
7. Dinner -
8. Desert -
B. Week's Dinner Menus
2 vegetarian - 2 fish - 1 poultry - 1 meat -
1 comfort.
Plan around special events. Office lunch
party on Friday have veggies for dinner.
C. Make a shopping list – this helps to keep you
from buying on impulse.
D. Foods for his week.
E. Foods for tomorrow.
F. Foods for today
1. Fruit 1st - a must. This plus breakfast
starts your metabolism into gear.
2. Breakfast - another must.
3. Pack a cooler - This keeps you on track
all day long.
a. AM snack.
b. Lunch.
c. PM snack.
4. Organize dinner before dinner - Now,
there are no surprises.
G. For Special Occasions / Events
1. Family.
2. Holiday.
3. Work.
4. Event.
5. Celebration.
a. Mind set.
b. Visuals .
c. Oral & written.
#6. SHOPPING - Saturday late AM or early PM.
A. Farms & Farmer's Markets.
B. Perimeter of the store.
C. Maintain staples.
#7. FOOD PREPARATION
A. Soak produce in the Perfect Water pH 11.5,
and store. The Perfect Water removes the oil
based pesticides which; reduces your risks of
PAPA problems, enhances the flavor, and
extends the shelf life, and restores the anti-
oxidant properties of the produce.
B. Recipe modifications - For Example:
EASY CHILE RELENOS
6 Fresh Pablano Chiles (learn how to remove skin on-line) or, [2] - 7 Oz cans Ortega Whole Chiles - drained.
8 Oz. Monterey Jack Shredded. - Low fat
8 Oz. Cheddar grated. - Low fat
1/2 block Queso cheese crumbled. - Ricotta
3 Eggs beaten. - Whites only
1 [5 Oz] can condensed low fat milk - unsweetened
3 Tablespoons flour. - Plus 2 to thicken
3/4 Cup milk. - Low fat
1 [8 Oz] can of tomato sauce.
Preheat oven 350 degrees. Spray a 9 X 13 baking dish with pam.
Lay 1/2 the Chiles on the bottom of the pan. Cover with1/2 of the jack, cheddar, & ricotta cheeses. Cover cheeses with other 1/2 of the Chiles.
In a bowl, mix the egg whites, milk, condensed milk, flour, and pour the mixture over the Chiles.
Bake in oven uncovered for 25 minutes. Remove and pour the tomato sauce evenly over the top and continue to bake for another 15 minutes. Remove from oven and spread the remaining cheeses over the top. Let stand 10 minutes to cool, then serve.
C. Make as much as possible from Scratch.
D. Make extra and freeze.
E. Recipes - (Fast - Easy - Tasty - Filling - Low
Weight Watchers Points Value.
1. Soups.
2. Salads.
3. Vegetarian.
4. Poultry.
5. Fish.
6. Meat.
7. Comfort Foods.
8. Link to website recipes.
9. Tuna - Chicken - Salmon salads. Made
with Greek yogurt, Lite sour cream, a
little mayo, Celery, and lightly sautéed
chopped onion.
10. Deserts - Have the real thing, but
remember the 3 bite rule.
F. Set aside a morning - I do Sunday.
1. Sauté toppings - Store.
2. Put recipes together and cook - Store /
freeze.
3. Arrange dinners for the week.
4. Make a batch of hard cooked eggs.
5. Grill some chicken breasts or bake a
whole chicken.
6. Make a one pot meal for dinner and
left-over's.
7. Cut up veggies and store in zip locks.
8. Make up some fresh home made
hummus, salsa, mayonnaise.
9. Cook a pot of Quinoa, rice, or millet.
10. Cook some bison taco meat.
#8. STORAGE
A. Tape & Date on containers - day of week for
consumption.
B. Herbs - soak / spin dry / Zip loc / freeze.
C. Casseroles / freeze.
SEALING
Two glass 8 x 8 dishes are a good size for single meals.
1. Line with wax paper and plastic wrap.
2. Layer the casserole inside.
3. Cover with more plastic wrap. Freeze until solid.
4. Remove from wrappings when frozen. Seal a meal
and date with a sharpie for long term storage, or zip
lock if it's for this week.
#9. EATING
Eat fruits 20 minutes before meals per Dr, Shinya, the Author of the Enzyme Factor and the inventor of the colonoscope. This enhances digestion from the enzymes. He's also a medical advisor for the Perfect Water. Or, drink a quart of Perfect Water 20 to 30 minutes before a meal to tell your brain that you are sated . A great trick before dining out, or before attending a special event.
A. Serving portions. Proteins and Carbs the size
of a deck of cards.
B. Plate portions. 1/2 plate filled with veggies,
1/4 carbs, and 1/4 meat.
#10. RULES TO FOLLOW
A. 80 : 20 Rule - day off / meal off. Enjoy a
comfort food or two once or twice a week.
B. 3 Bite Rule. First bite is ecstasy. Second
bite is wonderful. Third bite is good. All
others are just putting food in your mouth,
like a backhoe shoveling dirt, and putting it in
another hole.
C. Some comfort food during the week. Weight
Watchers allows 49 extra points per week.
For example; I get 35 points per day. A
Subway veggie sandwich is 6 points. So, 49
is quite a bit. If you plan on going off the
norm for a meal or two, you don't feel as if
you "Blew the diet" and now, "Oh what the
heck. I'll just go back to my old ways".
D. Rule of 5. Is it fast, easy, tasty, filling, and
low Weight Watchers point value.
E. Rules for dining out.
1. Go on line and check the menu for
friendly foods. Know what you’re
going to order before you get there.
2. Order foods prepared without butter,
grilled, steamed, baked whenever
possible.
3. When meal is served get a to-go box
and put 1/2 of the meat and
carbohydrates in it for tomorrow’s
lunch.
4. Remember the 3 bite rule if sampling a
desert.
F. Avoid all sodas. They're all bad, and some
are worse (Diet)
#11. SUBSTANCES TO MINIMIZE.
Items that might be best to minimize - for lots of reasons which are all well documented: Be sure to check the labels even though they may have misleading information and omissions.
· Sugar.
· Fructose corn syrup.
· Canned & Bottled Foods.
· Fast Foods - Soft core.
· Plastic bottles - BPA bisphenol A = estrogen & androgen mimicker.
· Fast Foods - Hard core.
· Microwaving.
· Pesticides.
· Food Colorings.
· Artificial Sweeteners.
· Prepared Foods.
· Packaged Foods.
· Processed Foods.
· Genetically Engineered Foods.
· Aluminum cans.
· Commercial Farm raised fish. Fed by pellets that you don't want the contents of it in you.
· Commercial Farm raised meats and poultry. Ditto.
#14. On Hand In Fridge for Grab & Go.
A. Toppings made from sautéed onions,
mushrooms, peppers.
B. Carrot & Celery sticks.
C. Apples & Grapes.
D. Avocado.
E. Beans.
F. Refried beans.
G. Baby Bella and Laughing Cow low fat
cheeses.
H. Brown rice, millet, quinoa.
I. Salsa - Home made.
J. Tuna - Chicken - Salmon salads.
K. Ezekiel tortillas.
L. Lettuce & spinach.
M. Hummus.
#15. Breakfasts.
A. Low fat, high fiber Muffin.
1. Egg.
2. Egg and Canadian bacon
3. Canadian bacon and cheese.
B. Cereal & fruit.
C. Greek Yogurt & fruit, or Fruit spread .
D. Hard Boiled Egg & Fresh Salsa.
E. Cottage Cheese & Fresh Salsa.
#16. Lunches.
A. Veggie soup.
B. Slice of bread, turkey, Dijonnaise, dill stackers,
peppers.
C. Left over dinner.
D. Wrap with veggies & Cow cheese
#17. Dinners.
ROMAN CHICKEN - This is Really Good
Ingredients
4 skinless chicken breasts halves with ribs & 4 thighs with bones.
1 Tsp salt.
1 Tsp black pepper.
1/4 cup olive oil.
1 each red and yellow pepper sliced.
1/4 lb. prosciutto rolled and chopped.
2 cloves garlic chopped.
1 (15 oz) diced or crushed tomatoes plus juice.
1/2 cup white wine.
1/2 cup chicken broth low sodium.
1 can whole pitted black olives.
1 Tbsp. Fresh thyme chopped.
1 Tsp. Fresh oregano.
1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves chopped.
2 Tablespoons of capers.
Season the chicken with 1/2 tsp each, salt and pepper.
Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat and brown chicken on both sides. Remove from pan and set aside.
Keep the pan over medium heat, add peppers and prosciutto and cook until prosciutto is crisp and peppers are softened, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for a minute. Add tomatoes, wine and herbs. Scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen the browned bits. Return the chicken to the pan and add broth. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Cover and simmer until chicken is cooked - about 20 to 30 minutes.
Allow to cool to room temperature. Transfer to a storage container covered and refrigerate overnight.
Reheat to a simmer, add parsley and capers and mix together and serve.
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BAKED COD
1 lb Cod Filet.
1/4 Cup fresh parsley chopped.
Juice of 1 lemon.
2 Tablespoons all purpose flour.
2 Tablespoons oil.
1/2 Tsp dried oregano.
1/2 Tsp salt.
1/4 Tsp pepper.
Pinch of Cayenne Pepper.
450 oven temp.
Spray baking dish with Pam. Place fish in pan. Spoon mixture over fish. Bake 10 minutes, plus minus until fish is slightly flakey.
Weight Watchers 3 POINTS
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TOMATO SAUCE / MARINARA BASE
1 Tablspoons 0live oil.
2 Onions finely chopped.
4 Cloves garlic minced.
3 lbs - about 18 plum tomatoes, or [2] -28 oz cans Italian plum tomatoes, drained and chopped.
1/4 Cup dry red wine.
2 Tablspoons tomato paste.
1 Tablspoon finely chopped fresh oregano, or 1 teaspoon dried.
1 Teaspoon sugar.
1 1/2 Teaspoon salt.
1/4 Teaspoon pepper.
Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat, add onions and garlic. Cook until golden and softened, about 10 minutes.
Add tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano, salt, pepper, sugar, wine, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered until flavors are blended and the sauce is slightly thickened. About 25 minutes.
Weight Watchers 1 Point
Place in 1 cup containers and freeze for up to 3 months.
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SKIRT STEAK WITH GREEN ONIONS
1 ½ pound skirt steak cut into 4 pieces.
1 Teaspoon salt divided.
½ Teaspoon pepper divided.
1 Tablespoon oil.
2 Tablespoons unsalted butter divided.
¾ Cup water.
3 to 4 bunches of scallions (whites and ends trimmed).
1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice.
Lime wedges.
Heat oven to 200 degrees with rack in middle position.
Pat meat dry with paper towel and sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper.
Place 1 tablespoon of oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter in a 12 inch heavy skillet.
Over moderately high heat, when foam subsides, place steaks in pan and cook for 5 to 7 minutes total for medium rare turning only once. Transfer to a plate and place in oven to keep warm.
Discard fat from pan and add the water and bring to a boil and scrape the fond left on the bottom of the skillet. Add scallions, butter, salt, and pepper and cook tightly covered over moderate heat until scallions are tender, about 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer scallions to a platter and put steaks on top. Pour steak juices from plate into the skillet and boil until reduced and thickened. Add lime juice and pour over steaks and scallions.
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TOSS IT IN THE PAN LASAGNE
1 1/2 Pounds ground bison or turkey or beef.
¾ Cup chopped onion.
2 Cloves minced garlic.
1 32 oz can of marinara sauce.
1 12 oz can tomato sauce.
1 Small can sliced olives.
8 oz Shredded low fat Mozzarella cheese.
4 to 6 oz. Low fat Ricotta cheese.
Oregano.
Thyme.
Salt.
Pepper.
1 Tablespoon olive oil.
1 Package of brown rice noodles.
Bring salted water to a boil. Add noodles and cook until tender & drain. Sauté onions in oil until soft. Add garlic and meat. Stir and cook until meat is browned. Spray the bottom and sides of a large baking dish with Pam. Pour and spread a layer of the marinara and tomato sauce mixed together in the bottom of the dish. Layer ½ of the noodles over the sauce. Place ½ of the meat and onions over the noodles and top with ½ of the cheeses. Pour ½ of the remaining marinara mixture on top and spread. Repeat with another layer of the remainders. Cover with foil. Bake 30 to 40 minutes until hot and cheeses are melted.
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TAMALE BEEF SQUARES
1 Package [about 6 Oz] corn muffin mix.
1/3 Cup fat-free (skim) milk.
1/4 Cup egg whites.
1 Tablespoon Olive oil.
1 Pound lean ground bison or turkey or beef.
3/4 Cup chopped onion.
1 Cup frozen corn.
1 Can [about 14 Oz] Mexican-style stewed tomatoes.
2 Teaspoons cornstarch.
3/4 cup [ 3 Oz] shredded sharp low fat cheddar cheese.
1. Preheat oven to 400 Deg. F. Spray a 12 X 8 baking dish with olive oil or pam. Stir together corn muffin mix, milk, egg whites, and oil. Spread out evenly in the bottom of the baking dish.
2. Cook ground meat and onion in a large skillet 6 to 8 minutes over medium-high heat, stirring to break up meat. Drain and stir in corn. Mix together tomatoes and cornstarch, breaking up large chunks of tomato. Stir into meat mixture in skillet. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
3. Spoon meat mixture over corn muffin mixture in the baking dish. Cover with foil; bake 15 minutes remove foil and bake 10 minutes more, Sprinkle with cheese; bake 2 -3 minutes or until cheese melts. Remove from oven; let stand 5 minutes. Cut into squares.
4. Serve plain - or use your imagination; Salsa, guacamole, sour cream, etc.
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FLATBREAD PIZZA - A GREAT TRADE-OFF
LEMON-THYME-ZUCCHINI - MUSHROOM - WHATEVER
This is a Weight Watcher's friendly - (3 points per serving) = 1/3 slice per.
3 Tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice.
2 - 3 Cloves garlic crushed.
1 1/2 Teaspoons olive oil.
1 1/2 Teaspoons fresh chopped Thyme, or 1/2 Teaspoon dried.
1/2 Teaspoon salt.
2 Medium Zucchini cut in 1/2 lengthwise, then into 1/4 " thick slices.
2-3 Oval Naan flatbreads.
1/2 Cup feta cheese with sun dried tomatoes, or goat cheese.
1/2 Container of fresh sliced mushrooms.
Combine the lemon, mushrooms, garlic, oil, thyme, and salt in a small mixing bowl. Place in a Zip-Loc bag with zucchini slices and mix. Let stand for 30 minutes. Turn 1/2 way through.
Grill, or stir fry zucchini - mushroom mix.
Heat grill and place flatbread on an oiled rack uncovered for 2 to 3 minutes and flip with tongs. Place cheese, and arrange the Zucchini and mushrooms over the top and press down lightly. Grill until the bottom of the flatbread is slightly brown, about 3 minutes. Cool & slice in sizes you want.
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PORTABELLA PIZZA
2 - 3 Portabella mushrooms.
Pizza sauce.
Mozarella cheese low fat.
Cheddar cheese low fat.
Chopped red onion.
Ground Bison or turkey or beef.
Preheat oven to 350 deg.
Clean mushrooms and remove stem and fins
Fill cavity with pizza sauce
Top with cheese
Cover with onions and meat
Bake 15 minutes until cheese melted and meat browned.
Cool for 5 minutes.
Cut into wedges & serve.
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STUFFED PEPPERS - SWEET SPICED MEAT
12 Oz. lean ground bison or turkey or beef.
1/2 Cup finely chopped onion.
8 Oz. Chopped tomatoes.
3/4 Cup beef broth.
2 Oz Fisher Chef's Naturals - slivered almonds. Not sliced.
1/4 Cup packed raisins.
1 packet sugar substitute - Truvia or Stevia.
1 Teaspoon ground cumin.
1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon.
3/4 Teaspoon salt.
2 Medium red bell peppers, halved lengthwise - seeds and stems removed.
1. Place a 10 inch non-stick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add meat and onion and cook until meat is browned, stirring frequently.
2. Add tomato, beef broth, almonds, raisins, sugar substitute, cumin, cinnamon, and salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Place pepper halves on top of the meat mixture, cut side down. Cover tightly and simmer for 15 minutes or until peppers are tender.
3. Transfer peppers to a serving platter, Cut side up and set aside.
4. Increase heat to medium-high, bring to a boil, and cook meat mixture, uncovered, 5 minutes or until thickened, stirring frequently. Spoon equal amounts of meat mixture into pepper halves.
Makes 4 servings - just right for a party of 2
#18. Snacks.
A. Mozzarella cheese sticks wrapped in egg roll
wrappers-browned in oil.
B. Baked chips and fresh salsa.
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FRESH SALSA
6 Medium - large ripe tomatoes.
1 large sweet onion.
Handful of fresh cilantro.
Juice of 1 fresh lime or 1/2 lemon.
1 - 3 fresh jalapeno peppers to taste.
Salt to taste.
Wash, core and dice tomatoes. Chop onion and cilantro.
Finely chop peppers-remove seeds and ribs for less heat.
Combine all together and let rest for 30 - 60 and minutes before serving. Add salt.
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C. Veggies & hummus ( be careful of too much
hummus).
HUMMUS
1 (12 oz.) can garbanzo beans.
2 - 4 Cloves garlic.
2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil.
3 Tbsp. Tahini sauce (sesame paste).
Juice of 1 lemon.
1/2 Tsp salt.
Drain 1/3 of the water from the beans and set aside.
In a blender, mix together the garbanzo beans with the remaining can of water (2/3) and the other ingredients.
Blend for 1 - 2 minutes until smooth and a slight paste is formed. Add small amount of saved water to thin if needed.
This is very good.
Try adding 1 cup of sautéed red pepper.
I used a little extra garlic - Mmmmmm
D. Veggie Straws occasionally.
E. Low fat Laughing Cow & Baby Bella
cheeses.
F. Mozzarella string cheese.
G. Baked tortilla 400 deg. 10 Min.- Olive oil on
the pan & topped with grated parmesan
cheese, or fresh salsa.
H. Dried veggie chips.
I. Fruit.
J. Dip - Greek yogurt, low fat sour cream, garlic
powder or other favorite seasonings, and
parsley / cilantro.
#20. LINKS TO SOME GOOD WEBSITES
Food Inc. www.foodinc.com
Food.com - www.food.com
Supersize me. - You Tube
Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. You Tube
Dr. Mark’s Minute on You Tube.
Dr. Andrew Weil - http://www.drweil.com
You Tube Sugar video 'Sugar is a toxin'
segment on 60 Minutes 4/1/2012
100 Quick and easy recipes Dr. Mercola http://whfoods.org/recipestoc.php#recipes
#21. OTHER TIPS
· Shop the perimeter of the grocery store 80%. The 20% in the middle should be for; frozen fruits and vegetables, condiments, staples such as flour, rice, cous cous, bulgur, quinoa, barley, beans, whole wheat pastas.
· Buy locally grown produce, meats, poultry, eggs, and dairy.
· Plan a weekly menu and purchase all ingredients in advance.
· Prepare as many ingredients needed for meals in advance. Make double/triple amounts, and freeze individual and meal portions.
· Pack a cooler in the morning with; breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, drive home snack and beverage, of course, your Perfect Water.
· Eat 5 - 6 small servings a day, rather than 3 large meals.
· Buy a juicer. I bought a Jack LaLanne machine as recommended by one of my patients. We know it's not rated high by the juicing gurus and authorities, but it's easy to assemble, easy to use, and easy to clean. I had one of the other machines, which is rated higher by the juice gurus, but I never used it due to its non-user friendly properties. We figured, it's better to drink an inferior juice regularly, than not drinking any! So, that's my logic. I soak my produce in the perfect water in order to remove the oil-based pesticides and to hydrate the items which extends the shelf life. The pulp goes in the compost pile, which fuels my vegetable garden. The digestive enzymes in fruit aid in the digestion of your meals, if eaten 20 minutes before meals.
I like a mixture of; lemon, grapes, apple, orange, carrots, celery, and sometimes beets added to the mix.
Here's another juice suggestion:
#1. bunch of kale - 6 leaves.
#2. 4 celery stalks.
#3. 1 cucumber peeled.
#4. 1 Apple.
#5. 1/2 lemon peeled.
#6. 1" piece of ginger root peeled.
Summary: Make your mind set adjustments first. Then, make plans for the long term commitment for the new eating program that you now have chosen. Think about it all day long and at bed-time. Make little changes at first, then more major ones after you experience the new little changes. Try giving up one problem food, make one substitution, and add one good food every week. Try to avoid, let's say packaged foods today. Cut out Fast food for a day. Substitute scrambled egg whites for whole eggs for breakfast. Try a Greek yogurt with fresh berries and a trickle of Agave or honey. Fruit spread works well also, but it does have some sugar. Get in the habit of looking at labels. Try and eat 20 -25 Grams of fiber female, and 30 for males. Keep fats and sugars low.
Lastly, don't let your family members interfere with your own program. Keep your foods separate from theirs if they are not on board with you. They can get what they want and need, but you keep your own sections in the pantry, freezer, and refrigerator.
Good luck and best wishes,
"Expect a Miracle Today"
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
PS: If I only knew then, what I know now-- my life may have been different. Chapter 7
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 4
CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT & GOOD VIBRATIONS
Step 7: Vibrational Therapy:
Some of you might have a hard time relating to this. Again, trust me. If I haven't led you astray so far, I'll not lead you astray here. This chapter has been my second hardest, and I'll break it down as follows.
Remember that cells are our basic units of life. Their health and wellness is paramount. Cells make tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make organ systems. And, the organ systems make us tick. So, we really need to make sure that our cells have everything that they need; oxygen, water, nutrients, and favorable environments in order to have healthy tissues, organs, and organ systems.
1st consideration:
Dr. Bruce Lipton's cell research shows that cells go into a growth mode when the environment is friendly. Cells go into retraction, a no growth mode, when the environment is unpleasant. Also, cell membranes are liquid crystal, semi-conductor, silicon chips that take in and process data, store, and send out information. Okay, so we have an "Inner-Net". So, the physical body, emotional body, mental thoughts, chemicals, heat, cold, touch, and all stimuli, including Tom Bowen's "Moves" are creating signals to the inner-net, and thus affecting the environment that surrounds the cells.
Formerly, it was believed that the nucleus of the cell was its brain. That a cell could not survive without a nucleus. Dr. Lipton discovered that it can. The only problem is that without a nucleus, the cell can't replicate itself, because the nucleus contains the DNA. Dr. Lipton discovered that the cell membrane is the "Brain of the cell". Not only does it selectively allow ingress of some substances, egress of others, and holding in other materials, he found that the cell membrane takes in data from the environment, processes it, and then puts out information to surrounding cells and many other biofeedback mechanisms. The cell membrane is a semiconductor, just like a silicon computer chip. It also is a liquid crystal structure which puts out electrical currents.
Could it be; that the subtle stimulus of the Bowen Moves described in Chapter 2, provides data to the internal environment, during the rest periods that data is processed, and then information is released to the homeostatic mechanisms, for the initiation and continuation of healing mechanisms. And, restarting the healing of old wounds which failed to heal completely.
2nd consideration:
Masuro Emoto is a Naturopathic Doctor in Japan. He wondered if no two water crystals were alike, just like no two snow flakes were alike. He proved this by; freezing different waters from different sources, thawing the ice under a controlled environment, and photographing the crystals at the precise moment where they were between a frozen and liquid state.
The waters from various geographical locations formed crystals shaped as follows; Tokyo = Ugly, Mexico City = Ugly, High Mountain Streams = Beautiful, Denver, Colorado = Beautiful. Distilled Water formed = no crystals.
Dr. Emoto then went on to study the formation of crystals under various conditions / vibrations. When he exposed water to; spoken words, written words, thoughts by a group of people, music, and pictures. He found:
· Heavy metal music = Ugly crystals.
· Mozart = beautiful crystals.
· "I love you" written on a piece of paper = beautiful crystals.
· "I hate you" written on a piece of paper = ugly crystals.
· Water from a polluted reservoir = ugly crystals.
· Same water from reservoir after prayer = beautiful crystals.
· Water which sat on a picture of a dolphin, formed crystals which had the general appearance of a dolphin.
· Water exposed to ugly and negative thoughts by a group of people standing over the water, formed ugly crystals.
· Water exposed to thoughts of love and peace by a group of people standing over the water, formed beautiful crystals.
· Adolph Hitler written on a piece of paper, formed ugly crystals.
· Mother Theresa written on a piece of paper, formed beautiful crystals
Go to:www.wellnessgoods.com and see for yourself.
So; the picture, music, thought, spoken word, written word all influence water.
3rd consideration:
An experiment was performed on rye grass. The researchers hooked up a stylus attached to a lever, which charted the growth rate of the plants on paper. The normal growth rate in all of the plants was 6.25 thousandths of an inch per hour. A psychic distance healer, who was 600 miles away, visualized the plants and applied prayer with love and light to the them. The growth rate increased to 52.5 thousandths of an inch per hour - an 840% increase!
4th consideration:
Putting 1 - 2 - 3 together:
1. Cells react to the environment.
2. Water reacts to; thoughts, written and spoken words, music, pictures, and environment. Remember, Tokyo = ugly crystals while Denver = beautiful crystals.
3. Plant growth can be influenced by prayer and emotion.
5th consideration:
Putting it together some more - Our physical bodies are composed of 65% to 70% water. Intracellular water, water inside your cells and extracellular water, water outside of your cells.
6th consideration:
It seems that a major player in our cellular environment is our water. So, vibrational water management and the drinking water management appear to be pretty large.
That management can all be done by; Thoughts, prayers, affirmations, written words, music, visuals, laughter, Bowen's Medical Bodywork, and the Perfect Water.
WHAT ELSE MIGHT CAUSE UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTS?
Acidity
Bad Music
Bad News
Negative thoughts
Negative words
Negative people
Free Radicals
Chemicals
WHAT ELSE MIGHT CAUSE FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTS
Good Music
Good People
Pets
Good Thoughts
Prayers / Affirmations
Alkaline restructured, micro-clustered, antioxidant, oxygen rich Perfect Water. Blessed with Love and Gratitude, per Dr. Emoto.
Nature
I was performing a Bowen session on a patient one afternoon. When I turned on the music she said, "Oh my, that's Medwyn Goodall. He saved my life!" I asked if she had traveled to the British Isles, as that's where he's from? She said, "No, I just listened to his music." She had stage four terminal ovarian cancer. The experts had told her that she had four to six weeks to live. She began listening to Medwyn Goodall's music 24/7/365. Six months later, she cut down to listening for just a few hours each day. She told me this two years after her death sentence!
Relaxing classical music is safe, cheap and easy way to beat insomnia. Many people who suffer from insomnia find that Bach music helps them. Researchers have shown that just 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a more restful night.
Relaxing music reduces sympathetic nervous system activity, decreases anxiety, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate and may have positive effects on sleep via muscle relaxation and distraction from thoughts.
When we are too hot, we turn on the air conditioning. If we are too cold, we turn up the heater and put on a sweater. If we don't like the news, we change the channel. If we don't like the music, we change the station. If we don't like the people, we leave the room. In other words, we adapt to the environment. Too bad it's so hard to do this with food!
So, the cells that are the microcosm of our being, react in a similar fashion to environmental changes.
It will also aid you to grasp all of this if you can learn more about the "Law of Attraction", and that thoughts can become things. Remember my pig story.
Napoleon Hill tells an interesting tale in his audio tape, "YOUR RIGHT TO BE RICH". A neighbor lady, in the country town where he grew up, used to tell stories to the neighborhood children on her front porch every evening. She always ended every story with, "Oh, I know that I'm going to die soon", while clutching her hands over her bosom. A year later, he read her obituary in the local newspaper, and that she had died from "breast" cancer.
It's your choice whether you buy into this stuff or not. It's your choice to try the new pathway, or just continue on the one you're on, and end up where you're heading.
Since cells respond to environmental influences, which we have considerable control over;
Thoughts - Guided Imagery.
Written Words.
Music.
Spoken Words
Stress
Pictures.
Emotions.
Laughter
Prayer
This means that we can be in better control of our optimal health destiny by our own efforts to manage our internal environment, by whatever it takes.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 8
MORE MISSING CHAPTERS
FROM THE WESTERN MEDICAL REPAIR MANUAL
INTRODUCTION
Let's pretend; your BMW isn't running quite right, it is hard to start in the morning when it is cold, it dies when you stop at the light, the gas consumption is up, and there is a little hesitation or bucking effect as you accelerate. You take it in to the BMW specialist and leave it for the day. They put it on their diagnostic analyzer and get a read-out. It does not show anything out of the normal ranges. So, they adjust the fuel injectors, since that seems to be one of the symptoms, and call you at work and tell you that they think they have it resolved and, to pick up your vehicle on your way home.
You drive your BMW home and it seems to run a little better, but the next morning it does the same old things. So, you take it back to the specialist and they do some more research and dig a little deeper. They adjust some more settings and fiddle a little more with the fuel injectors. You pick your car up and the next morning the same things happen again.
At this point, you become dissatisfied and go to another mechanic for a second opinion. One of your co-workers sings the praises of this other BMW Repair Shop. She has the hottest shop in town. She has all of the latest bells and whistles. She tells you that she can most certainly solve your car's problems. Only problem, Same ole-Same ole. You pay her and drive off to find your BMW runs about the same.
Here is the crux of your pretend dilemma. They, and their analyzers, are both missing two important sections of the BMW repair manual; timing systems and exhaust systems! No wonder they can't get your prized BMW running right.
Well, when the hallowed medical doctor says," We've performed all the tests, and examinations, but do not know what you have?" Or, "You have Fibromyalgia because you have 12 of the 21 points that are tender. We can't fix your problem, but we hope to be able to keep you comfortable. Let's try this or that." Or, "Oh, there's a Fibromyalgia Support Group that meets on Tuesdays at the YMCA ." This is analogous to the BMW scenario. The labs, x-rays, MRI's, CT scans, PET scans, Ultrasounds, Endoscopes, and Arthroscopes can't analyze these missing systems, and the doctors aren't trained in the assessment and treatment of them. Keep in mind that doctors couldn't believe in, or deal with bacteria, viruses, funguses, parasites, and spirochetes in the 1800's. They couldn't see them, so they wouldn't believe that there were such things! That is, until Leuwenhoek invented the microscope.
I once listened to an audio cassette tape titled, "Dead Doctors Don't Lie", by a Dr. Joel Wallach. As my enlightenments unfolded, I realized that, "Live Doctors Don't Always Tell the Truth!" I can say this because I've been there and done that. I didn't always tell the truth, just as other doctors don't always tell the truth. That's because we didn't learn it. I thought that I was most of the time, but not always. In defense of the Medical Profession, I will say, that the establishment via the university systems and professional organizations, such as the American Academy of Foot Surgeons, American College of Foot Surgeons, and the American Podiatric Medical Association, et. al teach doctors what they want to teach us. The teachings are about; surgical procedures, pharmaceuticals, and other technological devices. Doctors must follow the standard of care for fear of peer pressures, loss of licensure, and liability issues. So, we do what we're told to do and don't question authority. Acceptance and utilization of unorthodox methods can mean professional and financial ruin. In retrospect, I took a huge chance taking the journey that I did. But, I am glad that I did for those whom I helped and for my journey too. Although, I still have some dots to connect so that I can see the entire picture. So, I remain in quest of more information.
THE OTHER MISSING CHAPTERS ARE:
5. The Direct Current System - the 3rd dimension of the nervous system, aka electromagnetism. Your 9 volt battery.
6. The Fascial System - the largest organ, aka Connective Tissues. The fat and gristle on the roast beef.
7. The Meridian System - The most extensive system, aka Qi / Chi. Your Life Force.
8. Thinking outside of the box.
5th MISSING CHAPTER
THE DIRECT CURRENT SYSTEM
The 3rd Dimension Of The Nervous System
My interest in this chapter began when I started using TENS transcutaneous, electrical, neural stimulation units on my patients to relieve post operative pain. Later in my career, I started using MENS micro-current, electrical neural stimulation units to help patients' foot problems. My interest in how these trickles of electricity could have such amazing effects on my patients' foot problems led me to a lot of information in the archives.
I'll share the two experiences that led me down this trail. When I performed bunion surgery we placed sterile TENS electrodes on both sides the skin incision. The wires came through the gauze dressing for attachment to the TENS unit. Inside the units were dials to adjust the currents. We used two modulations, one for pain control as needed, and the other setting for healing was used at least three times a day for 20 minutes each. In most all cases, when we took post surgery X-Rays three to four weeks later, the line that shows where the bone was transected was non-apparent. Meaning, the bone had healed back together. In cases when we didn't use the TENS units, at this point in time post surgery, the radiolucent line was quite visible on radiographs.
My second experience was when the physiatrist doctor an M.D. who specializes in Physical Medicine came to my office to set up my new MENS machine, which was quite pricey. He opened the back of the machine and placed six "C" cell batteries in the unit much to my surprise. I asked, "Is that what powers this machine?" He said, "Yep. That's all it takes." I then questioned him on how often did they have to be replaced? He replied, "They'll last a year or two." This amazed me, especially in light of how much my patients benefited from the use of the loaner machine I used during a two week trial period. Pain was relieved by the end of a 20 minute session. Foot problems that usually took a month to resolve got better in a week or two.
This was pre internet, so I asked the hospital librarian to do a "Med-Line" search of the available literature on electrical current and wound healing. She called me later that day and asked, "How far back in time do you want me to search?" I thought for a moment and told her, "How about 20 years?". The next day my mail box at the hospital was crammed with a rolled up sheet of computer paper. There were summaries of over two hundred studies on electrical current and wound repair, most of which were favorable. I wonder why the medical education system ignores this data? I do have a guess?
In the mix was a number of studies done on laboratory animals which researchers implanted cancer cells. When the lesions grew to a certain size, electrical currents were placed over the tumors. In all cases where positive polarity was applied, the lesions either reduced in size, or were eliminated. Whereas, in the negative polarity groups the tumors continued to grow. The last study was in 1977. This was the date when chemotherapy was introduced to the medical profession by Dr. Bender.
I used to build my own electrical generators which I called "Little Black Boxes." I bought small plastic battery receptacles that held four "C" cell batteries. I lengthened the wires and added alligator clips to the ends of the black negative and red positive wires. We applied the currents to lesions on patients in my practice. I had removed a toenail and bone spur from the large toe of a teenage patient. About two weeks after surgery it appeared to be infected. Mother refused antibiotics, so I had them apply the positive currents three times a day for the bacteriostatic effect. A week later the infection had cleared, but the skin edges had not closed together. So, I had them apply the negative current to the wound site. Two weeks later, the toe was quite swollen, so we took x-rays. Lo and behold, there was a large square patch of calcium on the top of the toe bone where it was still healing from the surgery done four weeks prior. Bone takes six to eight weeks to heal. I didn't think of that when I instructed them to use the negative current for healing, and it caused the build up of calcium!
Our body electric is much like our homes; 110 Volt & 220 Volt systems operate many of our household appliances, computers, heaters, water pumps, lights and stereos. Direct Current D.C. with positive and negative polarities powers the smoke detectors, doorbells, intercoms, and stereo speakers. These electrical currents travel via wiring systems which are turned on and off with switches and breakers and are modulated by transformers, capacitors and resisters, and reducers.
Our body operates in a similar fashion. The 1st dimension is the central nervous system. The 2nd dimension is the peripheral nervous system consisting of the; Voluntary nervous system sensory and motor nerves and the involuntary/autonomic nervous system sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. There is a 3rd dimension which is the Direct Current D.C. system. The D.C system is probably conducted via the meridian ductule system, the nerve sheaths myelin sheath, intra-cellular and extra-cellular water, and the colloid gel matrix of the fascia. This colloid gel turns to a liquid form when heated and stretched, called "thixatropy". Some data has been gathered by Dr. Robert O. Becker and Bruce Lipton, PhD, which supports this probability.
The collagen within the fascia is made up from proteins which contain crystalline strands. These crystalline structures generate micro-currents called "piezoelectricity". This is one of the systems that creates micro-currents. Another generator is the cell membrane system. The cell membrane has a liquid crystal component. The micro-currents are instrumental in modulating wound and tissue repair, healing of fractures, bone and scar remodeling, and cellular regeneration by way of influencing cellular activities.
Our body electric has been measured and has shown a positive polarity through the central nervous system and the central part of the physical body. The extremities and peripheral tissues consist of negative polarity. An unfertile egg also is positive in the middle and negative on the perimeter.
The effects of positive and negative polarity on cellular and tissue activities have been studied extensively around the world during the past 50 years, or more.
POSITIVE / CATIONS = MOSTLY ANTIBIOLOGICAL / CATABOLIC
*1. Anticarcinogenic – reverses cancer.
2. Attracts macrophages – cells that clean up
debris / release endorphins.
3. Bacteriostatic – stops reproduction of
organisms.
4. Bactericidal if combined with silver ions –
kills organisms.
5. Causes bone to reabsorb. Wolf’s Law of
Bone.
6. Denatures protein.
7. Prevents post ischemic lipid per oxidation.
8. Promotes epithelial growth and
organization.
9. Reduces keloids and scars.
10. Reduces fibrosis.
11. Reduces tensile strength of wounds.
12. Repels mast cells – inflammation and
allergy cells.
13. Retards biological growth.
14. Stimulates osteoclastic activity- cells that
reabsorb bone.
15. Vasoconstrictive.
NEGATIVE / ANIONS = MOSTLY BIOLOGICAL / ANABOLIC
1. Attracts neutrophils – cells that fight infection.
2. Decreases edema – swelling.
3. Increases fibroblastic activity - cells that form
collagen.
4. Increases fibroblastic proliferation and
collagen formation.
5. Increases growth factor receptor sites on
fibroblasts.
6. Increases repair and regeneration.
7. Induces epidermal cell migration.
8. Lyses necrotic tissue – dead tissue.
9. Stimulates granulation tissue.
10. Stimulates osteocytes bone marrow cells to
migrate to a fracture site in order to form
crystalline hydroxy apatite for the formation
of calcium for fracture repair or bone
remodeling.
11. Stimulates osteoblastic activity-cells that
form bone matrix.
12. Stimulates dendrite formation directionally.
13. Vasodilatation.
Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. found that when one cuts a finger, the negative polarity shifts to positive for about five days. Following that, the polarity shifts back to negative and increases in amperage until day 21, at which time the polarity gradually returns to its normal resting state. Wound repair takes place, generally as follows. At the time of the cut platelets clump together, we usually place a band aid and a little compression, and the cations constrict the capillaries all of which help to stop the bleeding. The cations also help to keep the wound from infection due to its bacteriostatic effects. A thrombin clot with aid of fibrinogen seals the wound and forms a scaffold for further healing by collagen. Cations stimulate macrophages which clean up the dead cells and debris at the wound site. Macrophages release endorphins which reduces pain. All of this transpires during the first 5 days. Next, negative anion micro-currents intensify during the next 14 to 16 days and attract the fibroblasts to come to the wound site, proliferate, open receptor sites on the fibroblasts for hormone peptide growth factors. The fibroblasts then form pro-collagen and collagen which is our very own supply of super-glue. All as a result of the anions. This intensification of micro-currents explains why wounds often tingle and itch around two weeks after the injury. I used to tell my patients, "Oh, that's the nerves reconnecting." That sounded good to me, and they always accepted my explanation, but it wasn't the truth. Usually at about day 21 the wound has its maximum tensile strength so the anions lower back down to the normal basal resting state. Then, for the next six months to one year the scar re-organizes remodeling phase (See Chapter 2 for cases). If you check the effects of the currents they pretty much correlate to the phases of wound repair. I speculate that if Dr. Becker had carried on his measurements at the wound site for months after the initial healing process, he probably would have charted intense positive charges which are responsible for the absorption of scar tissue. The following chart shows the process.
Doctor Becker wanted to know what structures or circuits these currents flowed through and performed the following experiment. He removed a section of the sciatic nerve from the leg in a rat and then confirmed the de-nerving by nerve conduction studies to the distal fibula. He then fractured the distal fibula - outer ankle bone. He noted that even though the nerve had not reconnected by the time the fractures had healed, the fracture healed in spite. Although the fracture healing time was delayed 2 to 4 weeks.
He then studied 3 groups of rats, where the 1st group he sectioned the nerve and waited 5 days to fracture the bone, the 2nd group he waited 10 days, and the 3rd group he waited 15 days. All 3 groups healed in the usual 4 weeks time. He concluded that something happened the 1st five days. He then severed the nerve in another rat, waited 5 days, and then took the wound apart. He visualized a thin film of tissue bridging the gap between the cut nerve ends. When he looked at the tissue with a microscope he observed Schwann cells, which are the main cells of the nerve sheath myelin sheath.
Therefore, the nerve sheath probably conducts the D.C. flow or, possibly the meridian that runs along the nerve as we will discover later. Or, possibly the fascia is the conductor, as the fascia surrounds every cell in the body, and the nerve sheath is really a brand of connective fascial tissue.
Doctor Becker made an interesting observation. Over all of the years that he performed experiments on animals, fracturing bones and observing them heal, they never had any non-unions of the fractures. He didn't immobilize the limbs either. No casts, no pins, plates, or screws. He let the animals run around the cages, and there were only mal-unions and delayed unions. He said, "Only people get non-unions." About 1 non-union per 1,000 fractures, even though they are immobilized internally, and or externally. He didn't pursue this notion, but I have pondered it and my theory is that animals; have less stress than people, follow a natural diet, and they do lots of stretching. The stretching maintains fascial integrity and resultant "piezoelectricity" & "thixatropy". How many times a day do you see the average person stretch? How many times a day do you stretch? Animals stretch every chance they get.
Following is an interesting case which corresponds with some of these findings:
16 YEARS POST ANKLE FRACTURE
Big John came to my office for his initial visit. He said, "I need one of those Bowen treatments you do. My friend Peter says they are a miracle. You fixed his back pain with one treatment and my back is killing me, so can you fix me too?" I replied, "First of all I am a Foot Doctor and I don't treat back pain. Secondly, who's Peter?" He said, "I can’t remember his last name, but he brought me here, he’s waiting in the car out front." He went on to say, "Now I remember, he came to you with a foot problem and when you treated him for that his back got better. I have a pain in my foot right here, as he pointed to a spot on the top of his arch, you could give me a treatment for that, right mate?" I then said, "All right, lay on the table with your feet on the pillow and your head in the face cradle", and I began a session. When I returned to the room after the customary three minute rest between the procedures to the muscles, he said, "I remember Peter’s last name mate, it’s Hubbard." After I completed the next series of movements, I went to the chart files and pulled Peter Hubbard’s chart. When I glanced at my chart notes I remembered the patient and the incident. Peter had been in a car-motorcycle accident at age sixteen. His right ankle had been badly fractured. He'd had many surgical procedures, two years of physical therapy, a set of custom foot orthotics, and done home therapy exercises over the years. He was told at age nineteen that what he can see is what he’s got and he was stuck with a permanent clubfoot deformity. He also had post-traumatic arthritis in the ankle and subtalar joints.
On the day of Peter’s first visit he told me his story, and was concerned about his orthotics not fitting properly as he had them for many years. His leg muscle was in spasm, and he was walking differently due to these problems. I don't remember, nor did I note in the chart anything about back pain. But, it's very frequent that when one favors a foot deformity or pain they will experience back pain. I gave Peter a Bowen treatment for the muscle spasm and the other postural pains he was experiencing. I kept his orthotics for a week in order to refurbish them, and he came for a second appointment a week later. I gave him a second Bowen treatment, placed the orthotics in his shoe and reappointed him for one week for a follow up visit which he failed to keep.
When I finished looking at his chart my curiosity got the best of me and I walked out of my office to the parking lot and saw him sitting in the passenger seat reading a book. I said, "Hi Peter. Thanks for bringing Big John for a treatment. What's going on?" He looked up and replied, "Oh, Dr. Mosher! I’m sorry I never came back to thank you for taking care of me. I know that you’re very busy and I didn’t want to bother you and I am lousy at writing letters." I inquired as to what had transpired and he told me the following. He didn't return for the follow up visit because he didn't notice any difference in the symptoms and pain he was experiencing after the two Bowen sessions. However, four weeks after the treatments, while retiring to bed one night his ankle started to itch quite badly. Not in the skin, but, "way down deep." It had kept him awake for a couple of hours, and then subsided enough for him to dose off. During the night the itching would wake him up, but then he would go back to a light sleep. When he got up the next morning his foot and ankle were noticeably more limber, and slightly less painful. The same thing happened four weeks later, and four weeks after that. He said that, "About every four weeks for about 14 months his foot would itch at bedtime for one night only, and each time he noticed better range of motion and lessened pain upon arising the next morning." Presently, he had no further foot deformity, no leg muscle spasms, and no more back pain. I have seen Peter off and on over the years for minor "tune-ups" and he remains just fine with regards to his ankle. He recalled on one occasion, that when he told me that afternoon at my office parking lot that he was all better, he really was only about 90% better. It took another year to a year and a half to get all the way well.
So, that shows he went through a three to four year unwinding process. Also, it is interesting that the majority of his recovery took 14 months, and he was 14 years post injury? That’s one month for every year, and on a monthly cycle? I grilled him on two occasions, one in the parking lot, and another on the visit when he told me it took another year and a half to get the rest of the way back to normal; did he do any other modalities, change diet, take supplements, or herbs. And, he responded with a definite, "No."
FOUR YEARS POST BUNIONECTOMY
Shortly after the previous case unfolded, a lady came to my practice with a postoperative bunionectomy performed by another foot surgeon. She had problems healing the surgery which resulted in sesamoiditis, inflammation of the small bone beneath the large toe joint. She was four years following surgery that she was not sure she should have undergone. She said that, "The surgery never healed right, and I have had stiffness in my joint, aching, swelling in my 2nd toe, and now this pain under the joint." She also complained of pain in her hip and lower back from favoring the painful foot problems. Examination revealed restricted joint motion, fibular sesamoid pain, and sub 2nd metatarsal capsulitis and swelling beneath the metatarsal head. Not wanting to do more than one thing at a time, otherwise I wouldn’t know which one was doing what, I gave her a Bowen session that 1st visit in order to relieve the back and hip pain. Guess what she told me when she came back the next week for follow-up? She noted off and on itching down in the joint all week long and most of the pain had resolved. The 2nd and 3rd weeks she did not experience any pruritis / itching, but the range of motion gradually improved, and the aching resolved, so she was discharged totally asymptomatic.
I conclude that the surgical repair site was stuck on a negative polarity and was not switching to positive for some unknown reason. Positive polarity is responsible for scar remodeling.
POSTOPERATIVE BUNIONECTOMY
I had an experience many years prior with a nurse who worked at the hospital, which I was on staff. She was one of the first Austin osteotomy- bunionectomy procedures that I performed. As the months went by postoperatively she had persistent swelling, pain in the interspace and sub sesamoidal area, and joint stiffness. X-rays showed normal healing and alignment. Physical therapy, home exercises, strappings, orthotics, immobilization, NSAIDS, and a steroid injection all were wasted time. Radiographs were normal with regard to alignments and osteotomy union. I felt really badly for her, and I saw her at the hospital frequently on my rounds. Whenever I inquired how she was doing she always relied, "Oh, about the same." Then one day, she came to my office without an appointment. My receptionist told me she wanted to tell me something interesting. She had a recent inner ear infection and went to the local ENT Doc., and he gave her a prescription for some kind of “cillin”. During the 1st 24 hours on antibiotics she had a pronounced tingling and itching in the 1st interspace and sesamoid area. Following which, the pain, swelling, and stiffness all resolved. Now her foot was perfect and she was happy.
I believe that she had a low-grade infection from the surgery, and the positive cations were holding the infection in check however, the healing process needs negative anions. It just couldn’t happen until the “cillin” took care of the infection and the body’s defense mechanism could shut down. I have witnessed many similar events following ingrown toenail surgeries. Patients came back four to six weeks following surgery with redness and swelling around the proximal nail fold (cuticle) area and non- healing and drainage along the nail margin where the edge of the nail was removed. I'd place them on an antibiotic and have them back in one week. Almost every time their comment is about the same. "I took those antibiotics and a couple of days later my toe began to itch. Now look at it. It’s almost healed." Sure enough, I would then note that the side of the nail margin was all closed over. Again, the D.C. must have been stuck on positive to keep the bacteria from multiplying and as soon as the bacteria were taken care of by the antibiotic, the currents shift to negative, perceived as itching, and then there is the subsequent healing. Therefore, when the integrity of the fascia is restored by the reflex arc causing the unwinding process, the liquid-crystal system is reestablished and healing can go on to completion.
6th MISSING CHAPTER
THE FASCIAL SYSTEM
Fascia is a loose connective tissue compared with bone which is dense connective tissue. There is a ditty that goes, "The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone - the leg bone’s connected to the thigh bone - the thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone - ya dee ya ya ya. The hip bone’s connected to the back bone-the back bone’s connected to the shoulder bone - the shoulder bone’s connected to the neck bone - the neck bone’s connected to the head bone - ya dee ya ya ya."
Besides a chain of connections between the skeletal parts of the musculoskeletal system, there is an even larger network of connective tissue which is interconnected amongst it called the fascial system. This system covers all structures, organs, and cells from head to toe, front to back, side to side and inside to outside. Think about piling thousands of full-body thermal suits on top of one another and connecting them together. That’s about how the fascia system is. There is a superficial fascia from the base of the skull to the tips of the fingers and toes. Fat, more connective tissue, is attached to the outer layer, Panniculus Adiposus which is adjacent to an inner elastic layer both of which makes up the superficial fascia. There is fascial surrounding the muscle compartments, muscle fascicles, muscle fibers, and myofibrils collectively called the myofascia, Paramysium, Epimysium, Endomysium. It has been estimated that the average human body contains approximately 65,000 linear miles of striated muscle fibers. Each fiber contains hundreds to thousands of myofibrils and myofilaments. Take an average of 1,000 and multiply X 65,000 = 65 million linear miles of myofascia in the average human body.
Fascia surrounds the brain, the brainstem, and spinal cord called the dural fascia. As the spinal nerves pass through the vertebral foramen the dural fascia is re-named the myelin sheath of nerve. The lungs are coated with pleural fascia, the heart with pericardial fascia, the abdominal organs peritoneal fascia, the uro-genital organs with perineal fascia, the bone with periosteal fascia. Then, there are transverse bands of fascia from front to back and side to side; 1. in the floor of the pelvis, 2. the respiratory diaphragm, 3. under the collarbone- the thoracic inlet, 4. under the chin with hyoid fascia, 5. at the base of the cranium with cranial base fascia, and 6. joint capsules. In addition there is a thin veil of fascia adjacent to the cytoskeleton of every non-circulating cell in the body as well as para tendons, and retinaculums. That’s a whole lot of tissue all connected to one another. These connective tissues allow the body to maintain shape, protect the structures from outside forces, and some scholars feel it aids in cellular functions such as respiration, digestion, reproduction, and excretion. I believe that the fascia is a component of the 3rd dimension of the nervous system which was described in the section on the direct currents.
HISTOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY OF FASCIA
The fascia is made up of three significant structures; collagen, elastin, and a ground substance consisting of a colloid gel matrix which contains hyaluronic acid and mucopolysaccharides. The collagen part provides the protective-supportive function. The colloid gel acts as a shock absorber. And, the elastin allows for stretch.
There are two other properties of the fascia which are of vital importance, neither of which are discussed in medical physiology books at my last search. First, the collagen has three protein strands, one of which is a crystalline band. All crystalline structures can generate piezoelectricity. "piezo" means push in Greek. When the fascia is stretched, direct currents positive cations are pushed out of the crystalline strand, and when the fascia is compressed negative anions are pushed out of the crystalline strands. Secondly, the colloid gel is "thixatropic". This means that the gel can convert to a liquid when heated or stretched, and then returns to a gel when cooled. Therefore, we have within us a liquid, conductor - crystal, generator system, which can generate and conduct D.C.’s, direct currents. These were discussed in the preceding chapter.
Orthodontia is based on this piezoelectric effect. When the bands are applied to the teeth and stress is transmitted through the tooth down into the boney socket, piezoelectricity is generated from two structures. One, is the periosteum, connective tissue/fascia, which has a crystalline strand in the protein part of the collagen. The second, is the hydroxy apetite crystalline part of the bone, also connective tissue. Dr. Becker applied stress to dead bones and found that they were capable of generating direct currents. Thus, the production of positive and negative electromagnetic charges stimulate the cellular activities which are instrumental in the remodeling of the bone. See section on Direct Currents for these effects.
MYOFASCIAL UNWINDING
Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? In the myofascial system, which comes first? The myo, or the fascia? During my surgical career, when dissecting the fascia, it was virtually impossible to separate the muscle tissue from the fascial tissue without sacrificing a little of one or the other. My grilling experiences have been the same. When I try to remove the gristle and fat from the steak, I always; leave a little steak on the gristle. Or, leave a little gristle on the steak. It's possible to strip the periosteum from the bone, but not the fascia from the muscle. It matters not which is which, but that they both unwind as a result of the Reflex Arcs caused during the Bowen Therapy. I witness this frequently on the Rhomboid Muscles after the "Boomerang Moves" in the upper back procedure. While doing the first movements to the muscles, nodules can often be palpated. When the movements are repeated a few minutes later, the nodules are usually gone completely, or at least significantly reduced in size.
I’ve also witnessed the unwinding to continue for many years after the patient's last session. I believe that two important things occur during and after the unwinding; 1. the muscles elongate and develop improved function, 2. the fascia becomes anatomically aligned. Multiple other changes follow these first two; A. there can be a release of lactic acid build up , B. the meridians that pass through the fascia can flow more freely, C. emotional memories can be released from the fascia, D. piezoelectric and thixatropic function is restored, E. endorphins are released and communication between the immune-central-endocrine systems are improved, and F. entrapped energies, energy cysts, are freed up.
For a visual of the fascia connective tissue, watch, STROLLING UNDER THE SKIN on You Tube. While you're there, watch John F. Barnes, MYOFASCIAL UNWINDING.
7th MISSING CHAPTER
THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM
MERIDIANS AND MERIDIAN POINTS
The meridians are; .5 to 1.5 micron (1/1,000 mm.) in diameter ducts which carry bioenergy; Qi - pronounced "Chee" in China, Ki - pronounces "Key" in Japan and Korea, Pranna - pronounced "Prah Na" in the Mid East, and Life force - in North America.
Qi consists of electrical currents, probably direct current, D.C., chemicals, and maybe more. There are 14 main meridians, 12 of which have peak cycles during 2 hour time spans during the course of the day. The meridians cycle as follows; Liver (1:00 A.M. to 3:00 A.M.), Lung (3:00 to 5:00), Large Intestine (5:00 to 7:00), Stomach (7:00 to 9:00), Spleen (9:00 to 11:00), Heart (11:00 to 1:00 P.M.), Small Intestine (1:00 to 3:00), Urinary Bladder (3:00 to 5:00), Kidney (5:00 to 7:00), Pericardium (7:00 to 9:00), Triple warmer (9:00 to 11:00), and Gallbladder (11:00 PM to 1:00 A.M.). The other 2 main meridians are the conception vessel in the front of the body and the governing vessel in the back. These meridians cycle continuously around the clock. There are numerous other collateral and distribution meridians throughout the body.
The meridians are anatomically laid out like our freeway, hi-way, by-way, street, alleyway, cull de sac systems. The meridians function like an irrigation canal system, a very slow flowing non-pressurized system. They've been measured to flow at a rate of approximately 12 inches in 4 to 8 minutes depending on which meridian is measured. This is very slow compared to the blood circulatory system, which circulates from ventricle to atrium in 14 seconds, in a normal person at rest. The meridians have been observed in chick embryos, with the aid of high-resolution microscopy and a gamma ray scanner following injection of a radioisotope. The entire system is laid out and is fully developed within 15 hours following conception. Dr. Gerber cites studies that suggest that the etheric energy field directs the formation of the meridian system. And, that the development of the body parts and organ arrangement is determined by the meridians. Otherwise, how would the heart know to develop here and the liver over there? These channels appear before any vessels, nerves, organs, or limb buds.
In another study performed in Korea, the researcher removed a portion of the liver meridian and followed up with fine needle biopsies of the liver tissues. He noted the beginning of degeneration of hepatocytes (liver cells), after 3 days. Therefore, the meridians are crucial for development and regeneration and repair.
The meridians have been isolated by a French researcher who injected a radioisotope (technetium 99) into humans at the meridian points and at random meridian points in the skin. He observed the ductile systems with a microscope connected to a gamma ray camera and notes that there is a superficial system under the skin and 4 deep systems; (1.along the vessels and lymph channels, 2. along the nerves, 3. inside the blood vessels, and 4.through the spaces around the internal organs) all of which are interconnected with each other and the superficial system by way of collaterals. Following is a photograph from this study in a 1982 edition of the National Inquirer, one of the other medical journals. Too bad it wasn't published in the Journal of the American Medical Association! The white (actually yellow-orange), is the radioisotope in the tissue space in the left frame. The right frame shows the technetium in the point and then diffusing into the ductule channel.
The meridian points have been biopsied by several researchers and the following is a summary of their findings:
1. The points are adjacent to a corpuscle diaphragm.
2. Beneath the corpuscle is a plexus of nerves and blood vessels.
3. Biochemical analysis of tissue fluids reveal;
10 times the amount of adrenalin than is in the blood.
Amino acids.
Cortisone.
DNA & RNA.
Hyaluronic acid.
16 different free nucleotides.
Estrogens, endorphins, and kinins.
Diagram of Meridian System
Additionally, Dr. Becker studied the meridians with respect to their electrical activity. There is a measurable direct current flowing throughout, at some points positive and others negative. The amperage dropped as the probe was moved along the meridian pathway and when the probe reached a meridian point the amperage increased. It is thought that the points are like transformers, which boost the flow of the currents, because electrical current loses velocity as it travels distance.
As the meridians and nerves pass through the fascial structures and while the fascial-periosteal structures conduct the liquid-crystal system, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that prolonged fascial / myofascial dysfunction may cause occlusions in the direct current bioelectrical system. Prolonged bioelectrical dysfunction will lead to cellular and biochemical dysfunction. Prolonged cellular and biochemical dysfunction may cause signs, symptoms, deformities, and disabilities. Additionally, fascial / myofascial dysfunction can lead to neuromuscular pain and skeletal misalignments. Therefore, removal of myofascial and fascial dysfunctions will improve the bioelectrical / biochemical functions which in turn will affect the cellular and biochemical functions, in addition to relieving neuromuscular pain, and deforming forces on the tissues. The reflex arcs from Bowen moves probably do all of this.
It makes you wonder how the Easterners knew all about the systems without any high- tech. They appeared to have mapped out the meridian and meridian point system about 4,000 years ago. However, when the frozen Eastern European hunter named “Itzy” sic, (discovered in a thawing glacier in Easter Europe), was carbon dated it was found that he was 5,500 years old. He had rheumatoid arthritis of the spine when they did the autopsy. Rheumatologists became very excited to learn that rheumatoid arthritis was not a modern age illness. They also found tattoos on his body placed over the meridian points which you would treat for pain in the areas where he had the arthritic processes. So, this was known about approximately 1,500 years before Qi Boy convinced the emperor of the Yellow Dynasty that acupuncture should be added to the Chinese Medicine formulary! A case that will reveal the re-establishment of meridian flow and subsequent healing of a chronic problem follows:
One Monday morning, a few months following my first Bowen class, a patient presented with a lump the size of an almond beneath the arch on the right foot. She told me that there was very little pain involved however, she was favoring it and this was causing pains in her hip and lower back. She was also concerned because we are all suspicious when a "lump" appears. I reassured her that the lump was a classical benign plantar fibroma. Only if it grew rapidly or became painful should she consider having it removed. I informed her about the therapy that I had recently discovered and that it could help her back and hip. She immediately took me up on my offer. When we were all finished, she arose from the table and said, "Oh my, I feel so good. Can I come back tomorrow for another treatment?" I told her that we should wait one week before another session and for her to make an appointment. When she returned the following week, the lump had reduced to the size of a pea and she said that she couldn't wait for another Bowen treatment. She scheduled another check on her foot and Bowen session one week later. I began the therapy prior to looking at her foot. During a point where the muscles are released on the inner thigh area she asked, "Is there any connection between that lump on my foot and my stomach?" I said, "I don't think so. Why?" She replied, "On the first visit when you released those muscles in the inner part of my thigh and left the room for me to rest, I immediately felt like a gush of worms crawling around in my stomach. All day long, I had a queasy feeling in my stomach. In addition, when I got home from work that night my stomach and gallbladder pain completely disappeared. I've not had to take any of my stomach medications for the past three weeks. I flushed $200 worth of prescriptions down the toilet this morning. When I get to work, I'm calling the gastroenterologist who has been taking care of me the past two years and canceling my appointment for the endoscope procedure at the surgery center next week." She had an endoscopy procedure done every six months to keep a check on her problem! She added, "I won’t need him any more." I begged her not to mention my connection with any of this, as I didn't want to be in any trouble with the medical community or lose any referrals due to my deviating from the main stream. She assured me that she wouldn't and then she said, "Look at my foot." As I looked for the lump, it was almost completely gone. Now, it was about the size of a grain of rice! I found an old foot reflexology book and opened to the foot chart. Sure enough, the lump was right in the middle of the stomach and liver zone. I told her about that and she laughed, left the office quite happy, and has never returned.
Two years later, I was studying Acupuncture and recalled the incident. When I looked at the meridian chart, I saw that two of the four meridians that pass through the inner thigh and groin are the Stomach and Liver meridians. I could chalk it all up to coincidence or spontaneous remission. Or, I could believe that there was some kind of obstruction in that muscle tissue of the adductor canal and inguinal ligament which was blocking the flow of energy. When the blockage was released due to the immediate unwinding as a result of the reflex arcs, she then felt the “Gush of worms into her stomach”. Then, she healed herself. I tend to believe in the later. What is most perplexing is that the pathology reports following biopsy of these fibrous lesions in the plantar foot area always state, "Benign fibroplasia. Multiple fibroblasts and swirls of collagen." I'm not sure as to how this scar-like tissue could recede in three weeks. But, it did.
8TH MISSING CHAPTER
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
LOOKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
One spring afternoon I was introduced to a new patient who had been to see my replacement doctor while I was on vacation in Tahiti. After I introduced myself she replied, "Nice to meet you, but I don’t know whether to jump for joy, cry, or sue somebody?" Sensing an emotional situation, I closed the door and asked, "Why would you want to sue somebody?" After all, my replacement doctor just trimmed off a callus beneath her big toe. Hardly enough to warrant a lawsuit? She went on to tell me that when she left the office her left leg immediately stopped hurting, and when she got up the next morning her back pain was all gone. She then said, "I’ve been through 5 years of hell", then she began to cry. When she regained her composure, she told me the following history. Low back pain began intermittently about five years ago. The pain progressed and became intense and permanent. She was admitted to the hospital on two occasions for traction and narcotic analgesia. On a third admission myelograms and a papaya enzyme injection into the bulging disk, were performed. Neither helped, so later she underwent a diskectomy and laminectomy. The pain continued, and she was taking frequent Demerol injections, and was placed on a heavy dose of Valium. Three months prior to her visit to my office, she'd gone through rehabilitation to get off the Valium addiction. Apparently, the withdrawal symptoms from Valium are second to none. She'd just been released from the hospital for venograms to rule out blood clots in the leg veins, which might be responsible for the newly acquired leg – calf pain. She said, "I’m just sick to think that all this time my back was caused by my foot. Why didn’t the neurosurgeon look at my foot?" I mentioned that it was probably just a coincidence that her pain went away following the callus removal, so we should wait and see what happens if the callus grows back.
Two months later she returned to have the callus removed again as it had grown back and the pain in the leg was beginning to return, as was pain in her low back. The callus was no thicker than a nickel or bigger than a dime in size. It didn't have a "root" or any pathological component. So, like clockwork, every two months the callus grew back, and the pains returned in the back and leg, until she could get in to the office to have the callus trimmed.
As I reflect on this case I too, wonder why the neurosurgeon never looked at her feet, nor anyone else's. Many people have chronic lower back pain because of foot problems. In fact, I've seen six different foot and ankle problems repeat themselves in many patients as the cause of their lower back pain. The following lists all of the causes of back pain that I've seen over the years both as a Podiatrist and Myofascial Therapist.
ADDUCTOR MAGNUS TIGHTNESS
*ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
AORTIC ANEURYSM
ARTHRITIS FIRST METATARSAL AND COMPENSATED GAIT
*BULGING DISK / HERNIATED DISK
C—SECTION EMOTIONAL HOLDING
CALLOUS 1ST TOE WITH COMPENSATED GAIT
CHILDHOOD MOLESTATION EMOTIONAL HOLDING
*COMPRESSION FRACTURE
DURAL FASCIA DYSFUNCTIONS
ILIACUS TIGHTNESS
FIBROMYALGIA
KIDNEY INFECTION
METASTATIC CARCINOMA
NEUROMA WITH COMPENSATED GAIT
ORTHODONTIA
OVARIAN CYST / GYN PROBLEMS
POST-OP SPINE SURGERY FOR ONE OF THE CAUSES THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE BOX
PSOAS TIGHTNESS
RESPIRATORY DIAPHRAGM CRUS LIGAMENTS ATTACHED TO TO L5
SPHENOID DYSFUNCTION
*SPINAL STENOSIS
TRAUMATIC ARTHRITIS ANKLE / CLUB FOOT WITH COMPENSATED GAIT
*ACTUAL BACK PROBLEM.
LOOK HOW MANY CAUSES ARE OUTSIDE OF THE BOX – 19 OUT OF 23!
ONLY four WERE WITHIN THE BOX!
MAY BE THIS IS THE REASON THE SPINE SURGEONS TELL THEIR PATIENTS PRE-OP THAT THERE IS ONLY A 25-30% CHANCE OF SUCCESS FROM SPINE SURGERY!
THE LACTIC ACID CONNECTION
As mentioned in an earlier chapter, I had lower back pain for a number of years.
On my birthday in August, 1980 I ran my first marathon. It was a "Happening". I invited a bunch of my running friends to take part in my celebration. The months before, I took one of those distance marking wheels and measured segments of the American River 50 mile run on a horse and hiking trail from Auburn, California down to Folsom Dam. On the morning of the marathon, we started at 6:00 AM and got to the destination between 10:00, supermen/woman, and 10:30-11:00 AM the rest of us. Around 20 miles down the trail, I suffered cramps from lactic acid build-up in the right inner thigh Adductor Magnus muscle. I massaged the cramp out and continued on to finish the run. My family, office staff, friends and neighbors greeted us at the finish line. We had great refreshments and food, and upon returning home, I took a four hour nap. The inner right thigh muscles burned and ached for a few days afterward, and then disappeared. In 1981, I ran my second annual marathon. The same thing occurred. The following months I noticed a very slight tightness and aching on the outer side of the knee, compensation for Adductor Magnus dysfunction. In 1982, I ran my third annual marathon and suffered the same cramps from the lactic acid build-up, followed by an aching in the knee for a few days (compensation for Adductor Magnus muscle dysfunction). A week later, I had the first episode of back spasms. I didn't make any connection between the marathon and the back pain. The day before the back pain occurred I was lifting a pick-up truck load of rocks to fill a culvert and figured it was the lifting that did the number on my back. During the fourth annual marathon, I had the same inner right thigh cramps and a week later had the second annual back spasms. Now I'm beginning to think that there's some connection between the marathon and the back problem. However, I discounted this because my back didn't hurt when I ran. A typical Western medical thought process. If your foot doesn't hurt when you climb the ladder, then the ladder isn't a part of the problem. Also, what was one doing on the days prior to the onset of the problem? Not, what happened 20 years ago? In addition, the pains both had come on the day after doing some heavy lifting and twisting. This time it was from doing some fence work on my property. The same thing occurred during and after my fifth and final marathon. Now I'm pretty convinced there's a connection between running and the back spasms, but not quite sure why, because running didn't cause any pain in the back. When my guru Milton mentioned the build-up of lactic acid in my inner thigh Adductor Magnus muscle after that first Bowen session, followed by tightening of the outer hip structures, which were then - just waiting to get injured, it now all makes sense. In addition, since I no longer run marathons, I've never had another twinge in my lower back.
THE TALES OF MANY KNEES
In my traditional podiatry career, I treated countless patients who had knee pain, by simply applying adhesive tape strappings to their arches to stop "over - pronation". Once their knee pain stopped, usually within a week or two, I made them Orthotics for long term maintenance and prevention.
In my non-traditional, holistic] podiatry journey, from 1995 to 2006, I successfully treated even more patients who had knee pain by using Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Technique. Sometimes as a stand-alone procedure, and sometimes with my strappings and orthotics combined.
My ongoing water drinkers survey shows, that people who regularly drink Perfect Water, have excellent results with knee pain. As a matter of fact, 100% have had reduction or resolution of their knee pains! I was amazed to find in my survey, that more people have knee pain than back pain.
So, after you have your knee checked to rule out any morbid pathology, but before you consent to cortisone or Synvisc ® injections, Arthroscopic ,or other invasive procedures, try the following:
Orthotics
Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork
A Solution that offers many solutions -Perfect Water ! Yep, Water.
Combinations of the above
All of the above
#1: Once upon a time, there was a patient who presented me with a club-foot deformity which had an ulceration beneath the 5th metatarsal head. His lower leg looked like it had been run over by a train. The ulcer penetrated down to the tendon which overlaid the bone. Fortunately, it wasn't infected.
He told me that he had arthroscopic knee surgery three years prior. The surgeon accidentally penetrated the joint capsule and nicked the Common Peroneal artery, on the outer side of the leg. A recovery room nurse discovered his cold, swollen, and purple left foot, about 15 minutes post operative, and promptly called the surgeon.
They found the bleeding artery and tied it off. Then, they opened his lower leg in the four compartments in order to drain the blood that had pooled within the muscle compartments.
Subsequently, over a two year time period, he went through a series of plastic surgeries, antibiotics for infections, and physical therapies to make him as good as he could be.
He was 32 years old, and stuck with this condition for the rest of his life! Too bad he didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or the Perfect Water!
#2: Just before I retired from my practice and was moving to North Carolina, a patient came by to say goodbye. He raised his tee shirt and showed me a long, red scar from his sternum to the naval. He'd worked overtime as an iron-worker a few weeks before. When he awakened on the following Saturday morning, his knee was sore, so he took three Advil tablets, not something that he customarily did. The next afternoon he began experiencing excruciating stomach pain and so he went to the emergency room.
His stomach lining had perforated, and he had an acute infection in the abdominal cavity. He had his belly opened and drained, I.V. antibiotics, and hospitalized for 10 days, while the infection subsided.
Too bad he didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or The Perfect Water!
#3: From 1999 until 2004, there were 50,000 people in the US, who died over that 5 year span, as a result of intestinal bleeding from taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Some of them must have had knee pain? Too bad they didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or The Perfect Water!
#4: An estimated 60,000 people died from cardiac complications from the drug Vioxx ® before it was taken off the market. Many of them must have had knee pain? Too bad they didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or The Perfect Water!
#5: My wife complained daily about her knee pain, even more so, after she did yard-work. She'd often say, "I think that I'm going to need arthroscopic knee surgery. Will you ask Dr. Johns who I should see?" I told her to start drinking the Perfect, Water. She replied, "Oh, what's that going to do?" I said, "It stopped my chronic shoulder pain-try it!" Reluctantly, she began drinking the water. After about a week, she stopped complaining about it. Until, she went back to California to visit her family. About four days later she called and reported that her knee pain had returned with a vengeance - she'd not drunk the water since leaving North Carolina. When she returned home, and began drinking the water, the pain was gone within 24 hours, and has remained gone since 2009. So, no surgery -- or anti-inflammatory drugs.
Glad she drank the Perfect Water !
#6: My associate's mother, who is 96 years young, had arthritic knees which were, "Bone on Bone!" Every step she took she said, "Ugh!"
All she did was make her coffee with 9.5 alkaline the perfect Water . 6 months later, her gray hair was turning red again, and he knee pains were gone.
You know what her doctor said? "Well. Whatever you're doing? Keep doing it!"
Glad she drank the Perfect Water !
#7: One of the first patients that I treated with Tom Bowens Medical Bodywork for a foot problem, didn't tell me about her knee problem at the time of the session. When she came back a week later for a follow up session she said, "Whatever you did in that treatment for my foot, my knee pain disappeared. Yesterday, I cancelled my arthroscopic knee surgery appointment that was scheduled for next Tuesday!"
Glad she found out about Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy. Even though, it was by accident.
Most of the time, the medical specialist is so honed in on the anatomical part that has the symptom, the other possibilities are left out of the equation. One of the most common symptoms where they do look outside the box is when a patient has chest pressure / pain / indigestion and tingling in the left arm. Immediately, an EKG is ordered, not an X-Ray.
During my Podiatry / Bowen practice, I saw countless patients who had foot pain which cleared up after I released the back, pelvis, and leg muscles. Here's a good one with Plantar Fasciitis (fash-ee-itis), often pronounced (face-y-itis).
One of my patients who I had treated off and on for about three years for plantar fasciitis, came in for her semi-annual cortisone injection. I had tried all of the other standards of care for her, except surgery. When I informed her about Bowen Therapy, and that there was a chance it could relieve her pain instead of the injection, she quickly agreed to it. This was about two months after I had taken my first Bowen workshop in January, 1995. At this point, I was still referring to my cheat sheets which helped me to do the sequences without omissions or errors.
Lorna was a very large lady, who weighed in at about 260 pounds. Muscle mass was very large and taut, beneath gobs of adipose fat tissue. She was wearing a dress, which inhibited my doing the pelvis and hamstrings procedures properly. So, I did the best as I could. I probably did my full body sequence for her; Low back, Upper back, Neck , Kidney area, Lower respiratory area, Hamstrings, Anterior pelvis, Knee, Ankle, Upper respiratory area, and TMJ. I don't remember if I did coccyx or sacral procedures, probably not on that first session. When I finished up with her, I said, "Rest for a couple minutes, the get up and walk around a minute or two before you put your shoes back on. I'll see you before you leave." While I was in Podiatry room # 2 seeing a patient, I heard a yell from the back of the office by Lorna, "Yahoo!" I got up and went back to the Bowen room and asked, "Is everything okay?" She said, "Yeah. I got up to walk over to your desk to get my glasses and the pain's completely gone. Wow!"
We hired Lorna shortly after to clean our offices once a week. When I said, "Goodbye", upon retiring in 2006, she was still pain free. I never treated her one time with any modality since that day in March, 1995.
Please re-read the cases in Chapter 3 which involved; chronic hip pain, Multiple Sclerosis, and Anger toward father. The causes of all of them had nothing to do with where the symptoms were located
Also, how many of the stories my patients told were outside the box?
Moral to the stories: By all means, have your problem checked by a competent medical professional. Make sure that there is not a serious medical issue involved. But, if your medical physician won't also look outside the box, look for one who will.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 9
OTHER THERAPIES YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
THE REAL H.M.O.'S FROM A TO Z
ACUPRESSURE
*ACUPUNCTURE
*ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
*ALLERGY CLEARING
AROMA THERAPY
AYRUVEDA
*BIOCRANIAL THERAPY
BIOIDENTICAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT
BIO-KINETICS
*BOOKS – SELF IMPROVEMENT
*BOWEN
*CD’S – SELF IMPROVEMENT – HEALING MUSIC
* CHIROPRATIC – TRADITIONAL
*CHIROPRACTIC – NON-TRADITIONAL
* CHIROPRACTIC - NETWORK
*CHIROPRACTIC- JOINT MOBILIZATION
*CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
*CRAVINGS ELIMINATION
*DVD’S - SELF IMPROVEMENT - TEACHING
*E.A.V.
EMMITT TECHNIQUE
*ENTERO
ESSALON
*ESSENTIAL OILS
FELDENKRAIS TECHNIQUE
FITNESS COUNSELLING
FLOWER ESSENCES
*FOOT REFLEXOLOGY
GEM ELIXERS
GLANDULARS
GUIDED IMAGERY
HAIR ANALYSIS
*HEALING TOUCH
HOLOGRAPHIC HEALTH
*HOMEOPATHY
IRIDOLOGY
JIN JU JITSU
*KINESIOLOGY –APPLIED
*KINESTHETIC HEALTH
*LOMI LOMI
*LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE
MEDICAL QI GONG
*MEDITATION LESSIONS
*MERIDIAN POINT MICROELECTRIC
STIMULATION / LASER
MUSIC THERAPY
*MYOFASCIAL RELEASE
*NAET
NEURAL RE-SET-NEURO STIM NEWSOME
*NEUROMUSCULAR MASSAGE
NST
NUCCA CHIROPRACTIC
*NUTRITIONAL COUNSELLING
ORTHOBIONICS
*ORTHOKINESTHETICS
* POLARITY
*QXCI
REIKI
ROLFING
SCAR THERAPY
*SENSITIVITIES REDUCTION–FOODS-
SUBSTANCES-PEOLPLE- COLORS-PLACES
*SHIATSU
* SOMATOEMOTIONAL RELEASE
* STRAIN COUNTERSTRAIN
* SUPPLEMENTS
*SWEDISH MASSAGE
TAI CHI
*TAWES TECHNIQUE
THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
TOUCH FOR HEALTH
TUINA
UPPER CERVICAL CHIROPRACTIC
URINE THERAPY
*VITAMINS
*WEIGHT LOSS TECHNIQUE
X ?
*YOGA
ZEN
* I’ve personally experienced and or, taken classes for.
For information on any of them just do a google search. Many practitioners of these disciplines have websites with information on what they entail. One of them might be just what you need in order to obtain relief.
COUNTER STRAIN
This technique was discovered by an osteopathic physician named Lawrence W. Jones. He discovered with a difficult back pain patient that when he moved him into a position of comfort on the treatment table his pain disappeared. He even went to sleep for about ½ hour. Dr. Jones let him sleep since he had not slept well in over a month. When Dr. Jones got him up from the table all of the pain had resolved and never did come back. This started Dr. Jones to find other body parts that he could do the same procedure for. He found that after placing the body part into a position of comfort, certain tender points in the muscles which were consistently present, would pulsate and lose their tenderness following only 90 or so seconds of maintaining the comfort position. He then went on to find which body parts connect to other body parts so he could systematically release all of the contributing factors causing pains. So, if someone has elbow pain, probe around the elbow and find a tender point. Keep your finger over the spot without any pressure. Move the elbow into flexion and re-probe the point. If tenderness persists, move the elbow into a slightly different position and re-probe the point. When the tender point disappears hold the position and your finger over the tender point. After 90 seconds move the part very, very, very, slowly back to its anatomical position. Re-probe the tender point. If the treatment released the muscle spindle the tender point should be gone. If not, repeat the treatment.
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
John Upledger, D.O., an osteopathic physician, developed a number of therapies, which release holding patterns in many of the fascial structures. The main emphasis is on the dural fascia within the cranial vault, and the dural tube, which attaches to the sacrum. Hence, Craniosacral.
While assisting in surgery on a patient who had a calcific plaque on the dural tube, Dr. John had a difficult time holding the tissue still so the neurosurgeon could remove the plaque without puncturing the dura, which if perforated would lead to paralysis. This movement pattern was the "Craniosacral rhythm", which is an expansion of the system as cerebrospinal fluid is pumped into the chamber, followed by a contraction of the system as the fluid is absorbed into the venous system in order to make space for replacement fluid. These expansions and contractions occur at a rate of 6 to 10 cycles per minute. With a little practice one can develop a feel for palpating these rhythms at the feet, knees, hips, ribs, shoulders, and three places on the head. Changes in quality, asymmetry, rate, and rhythm can be detected. This information along with other historical and physical findings allows the practitioner to gently apply very subtle pressure to the cranial bones and other strategic places over the fascia in order to remove the holding patterns in the dural fascia, dural tube, and other fascial structures. One of the procedures is creating a "Still Point", which is a method of stopping the rhythm for a brief period. This has been documented to reduce a fever by four to five degrees within minutes. It has also shown EEG changes when performed experimentally on subjects. Some circles think that this is all a bunch of blarney. However, I would wager that they would change their perception if they took the craniosacral class.
I signed up for the Cranio Sacral class at the recommendation of a practitioner friend. I was quite skeptical on how such a gentle technique could possibly create any change in the fascial tissue. However, the Bowen Technique is certainly gentle. So, I deduced that there was a chance that it might be of benefit to recipients. But, when I thought I felt what I felt in my hands as I practiced on my partner, and he told me what he felt, I know that something was going on inside those chambers, and my skepticism went away.
One day I was performing the sphenoid procedure on a patient and I noted that her left eye orbit was quite a bit lower than the right. There was also asymmetry in the soft tissue beneath the eyes. As the treatment progressed, I noted that the eyes became more symmetrical and that the left orbit was even with the right. I completed the rest of the session and double - checked to see if the changes held, and they did. I told her to go in the bathroom and look in the mirror, and when she came out she said, "Oh my God! My eye is straight." She suffered a fall down a cliff when she was 13 years old and her Ethmoid bone fractured and penetrated the dural fascia. Due to the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid she had emergency surgery to repair the fascia and fracture displacement. That had left her with the deformity of the eye socket. When I checked her on two subsequent visits a little of the displacement had returned, but there was noticeable improvement overall. Unfortunately, I have not seen her since, so I don't know the long-term outcome.
Craniosacral Therapy is effective many times for the following:
Headaches & migraines
Sinus problems
Dizziness
Tinnitus
Autism
ADHD
Tourettes’
TMJ problems
Back pains
Circulatory problems
Short of breathe during pregnancy
LOCK – STRETCH – UNLOCK - RELEASE
This is a remarkably simple and effective method to quickly lengthen muscles which have shortened. To lengthen the posterior calf muscles, the Gastrocnemius muscle, place the person on the table or bed in a prone position. Flex the knee about 20 degrees. Place one of your hands on the ball of the foot pad and your other hand in a pincer formation above the knee. With the pincers grasp the Gastronomius muscle and lock, while at the same time you plantar flex the foot to stretch the muscle. As soon as the stretch has occurred release the lock and slide your fingers down an inch or two and pinch again while at the same time you stretch the muscle. Continue down the calf into the Achilles tendon insertion at the retrocalcaneal point of insertion. Repeat on the opposite side. anterior, lateral, and medial compartment muscles can be released in the same manner.
MYOFASCIAL RELEASE
This technique was devised by John F. Barnes, P.T. It's based upon a slow, steady, long 3 to 10 minute stretch of the fascial tissues. Traction to legs, arms, neck, etc. is one method. Another is to place the palms of hands on the body part and apply slight pressure and begin spreading the hands apart from one another. Slowly, as the fascial resistance is broken down, there is a slight spreading of the tissue until the next barrier is encountered. As this next barrier softens after a minute or two there will be more stretching. Many times, following the process you can see a reddening which is termed reactive hyperemia. This can be visualized in remote areas, as the barriers break down and the capillaries dilate to allow more blood flow into the area that was previously deprived of it’s full share of blood.
Myofascial Release - MFR is a safe, effective, and extremely gentle form of stretching and balancing that can reduce or eliminate pain, increase flexibility and have a profound effect on the body's tissues at a very deep level. MFR is a holistic hands-on approach that produces consistently effective and lasting results by respecting the wisdom of the patient's mind-body complex and it's ability to self-correct.
MFR techniques provide gentle, sustained pressure into the fascial system to release restrictions which are often the cause of pain and limited motion. MFR is particularly helpful in the treatment of stubborn or chronic problems that have not been resolved by traditional methods.
The fascial system consists of tough connective tissue which spreads, uninterrupted, throughout the body in a 3-dimensional web. The fascia has an appearance similar to a spider's web or a sweater. Fascia surrounds, attaches to and infuses every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel and internal organ. You can begin to see that each part of the body is connected to every other part by fascia, like the yarn in a sweater.
Therefore, when the fascial system becomes tight or hardens in one area due to inflammation, disease, surgery, trauma, etc. it can create a drag distantly into seemingly unrelated areas of the body. The fascial system profoundly influenced all other structures and systems of the body. Fascia restrictions exert enormous pressure on pain sensitive structures causing discomfort and/or limiting motion. The restrictions can affect our flexibility and stability, and are the determining factor in our ability to withstand stress and strain. Since many of the standard tests, such as x-rays and MRI's do not show fascial 'drag', it is possible that many people suffering with pain and/or lack of motion may be experiencing undiagnosed myofascial restrictions.
This technique often elicits an unwinding process and emotional releasing. It's also one of the most beneficial therapies for fibromyalgia that I’ve encountered so far.
LOMI LOMI
Lomi is a method of conscious touch with unconditional love coming from the practitioner's heart. Breathing, movement, and entrainment are all a part of the process. This is probably another of the missing chapters from the western medical repair manuals. The mechanics or technique is secondary in the process. Every Lomi begins with Pule (prayer) and a connection to Akua (Divine Creator). It comes from Hawaii, and is a part of the Hawaiian culture. It has been carefully guarded over the eons, and there isn't a lot of public information about it. There are only a few of the original modern era native Hawaiian Kahus (keepers of wisdom) who are left.
In the two day class I took, which is merely an introduction to Lomi, there were five of us, and we were guided by our KUMU (instructor), Gloria Coppola, LMBT. She lived in Kauai for many years, and holds 10 day classes on the island of Kauai, twice a year. She’s and accepted practitioner and Kuma amongst the Kumu Lomilomi’s. It's rare for a Haole to be welcomed into the Hawaiian culture because the missionary takeover of Hawaii by Captain Cook and others, has left the Hawaiians very resentful of most white people. Gloria presently lives in North Carolina and also offers her Lomi Lomi classes in venues throughout the US.
By the end of the weekend class, the five of us became a very close knit group. All experienced releases of "Stuff", and most of us had some epiphany (Ah-Ha), or another. We learned to move, breathe, clear our thoughts, and transmit love to one another and, perform some massage technique at the same time. One of the students is Hawaiian, and she was quite guarded at the beginning of the class. But, by the end she was very caring, loving, and open to us all. She even taught us some basics of Hula. For those practicing any discipline within, "The Art Of Touch", this is a must take class for you if you genuinely want
to be a part of your patient’s / client’s process.
For more information visit: www.massageProCE.com.
"Expect a Miracle Today"
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 10
HOW'S YOUR HEALER?
IS YOUR HEALER IN GOOD CONDITION?
I must include this excerpt for whatever it's worth. How to learn about the condition of your practitioner can be dicey at best. But, you can use your intuition, and it will probably work when you want it to. Following are some of my own experiences, as well as a practitioner I’ve read and heard all about, "The Goat Doctor", and a former patient of mine who was a Healer.
After completing my first lessons on the Bowen Technique I returned to my office full of enthusiasm and optimism. As I performed the therapy on as many patients as I could get my hands on, results were surprisingly outstanding the first few months. As a matter of fact, many patients commented that I'd "changed their lives", and lots of others had resolution of many chronic aches, pains, and medical issues. I was totally excited about the outcomes. After six months of on the job experience a Bowen Practitioner becomes eligible to become certified by the Australian Bow Tech ®. I took the two day certification class and demonstrated my skills. Much to my surprise, according to the Aussie Bowen experts, I was performing a number of procedures incorrectly. This made me a little doubtful but, I changed my notes in the workbook, demonstrated my technique again correctly, and got my certification paper. However, during the next two or so months, I noticed a dramatic drop off in the favorable outcomes following my treatments. No more miracles were happening. Most of the time results were only so – so. I even thought about giving it up and converting the treatment rooms back to podiatry rooms. Then, one day I was having lunch with a friend who's a naturopathic practitioner. I observed a massage table off to the side of her office, and I asked, "What are you using a massage table for?" She told me that she'd learned a new technique she was going to incorporate into her practice. I then asked, "How are you going to work that into your schedule? You're already spending over an hour with your clients?" She replied, "I'm changing things around a little and modified the way from what I was taught. You know you can change the teacher’s rules and still get good results, as long as your intentions are good." All of a sudden I had this revelation. During the first six months I'd inadvertently changed the teacher’s rules or whatever. But, my intentions were very good. The next few months after the review class, I was in doubt of my ability to learn the technique properly, I began doubting the system, I was focusing much of the day on one of my children who was undergoing some personal issues, and I was fed up with H.M.O’S, Managed Care, and Medicare. All of these were altering my intentions. I immediately restored my enthusiasm, gave myself a little pep-talk on how good I was at performing Bowen treatments. Especially, thinking back on the first six months. At the outset of each session I cleared my head of any extraneous stuff and focused on doing the best I can for this patient on the table, and to heck with the rest of the world and all of their problems. I did some mental recalls of patients whom I’d helped so much during the first six months. Well, immediately the favorable outcomes started to return. A week or two into my new regime a patient came for a treatment that I'd given two to three treatments the first six months, and one or two treatments during my slump. I asked, "How are you doing? Is there any particular issue to address today or are you just in need of a tune up?" She replied, "I just need a new body." Or, something like that. As I began the treatment with the first two muscle movements she looked up and said, "Welcome back." I thought for a second and replied, "I haven't been on vacation or out of town." She said, "I know. Welcome back." She’d sensed my disconnection during the last couple of sessions, and now could tell that I was back to good condition. I've had a few mini-slumps since then, and I can usually catch myself before too long.
I previously mentioned a book titled, "The Goat Doctor of the Sierras". He was a healing legend in the foothills of the Sierras. Patients drove for miles and miles on one lane roads, and a narrow dirt road down a canyon wall in order to get to his ranch. He worked out of his house down in the American river canyon outside of Placerville, California. He was a "Miracle Healer". I had many patients who recalled being there with their parents. They observed his miracles while they watched him through the open front door to his front treatment room.
The Goat Doctor of the Sierras used a lot of touch technique. This healer was not a doctor, but was able to cure all kinds of problems for people during the 1930’s -1940’s. Cars would begin to line up in his driveway starting at 5:00 in the morning, behind the ones who had spent the night. He would open the gate at 7:00 AM and the first car in line had the first appointment. The second car would wait until the first car pulled out from in front of the house, and they would pull forward and were the next appointment. He quit seeing patients at 5:00 PM. So, anyone left that he had not seen that day could sleep overnight in their car, in a tent, or they could drive back another day. He had a tremendous following over the years. Because of the stories my patients told me about him over the years, I purchased and read the book, "The Goat Doctor of the Sierras". They called him the, "Goat Doctor" because he lived on grains, veggies, fruits, and Goat's Milk. And, he had goats running all over his yard.
One of my patients recalled a time when he was at the goat Doctor's with his mom. While she was a few cars back and was awaiting her turn, he was playing on the front porch with some other kids. A limousine pulled up to the front steps, which meant it was the next appointment. The driver got out and opened the trunk and got out a wheelchair upon which a distinguished man dressed in suit and tie, got out of the passenger seat. They helped a young lady out of the back seat into the wheelchair and wheeled her into the front room, which was the treatment area. The Goat Dr. asked about the nature of her problems. The man in the suit and tie said that they were from the East Coast, and that she'd had an auto accident two years before, which left her paralyzed from the waist down. They had heard of the Goat Doctor via the grapevine, and came to California for a session. My patient listened to the verbal exchange and the subsequent physical phenomenon. The Goat Doctor placed one hand on the girl's shoulder and touched a few places along her thoracic and lumbar spine. After a few minutes, he invited her to stand. She reluctantly let him help her to a standing position and then he prompted her to take a step. She placed one foot in-front, and then the other. And, while he held her hands, she walked for the first time in two years. The father broke down into tears and took out his checkbook. He asked, "How much do I owe you?" The Goat Doctor said, "Two dollars-you can leave it in the basket by the front door." The father said, "Oh no, I'm giving you a check for $10,000.00." The Goat doctor refused the check, as all the kids on the front porch were saying, "Take the Money- Take the Money!" Finally the father and daughter walked out, while the chauffer carried the wheelchair to the car, and they all drove off into the sunset. All he did was touch the right places!
One of his patients stayed on, and started doing housekeeping for the family, in the latter years of his practice. The Goat Doctor fell in love and married the young lady. A rift occurred between the mother-in-law and the bride. Also, the young lady was at odds with some of the neighbors. All of which caused the Goat Doctor to lose quite a bit of his effectiveness. Many of his patients when interviewed for the book commented that his treatments didn't work as well as they had in the past, before he got married.
One of my patients was a very intriguing man. He called himself, "Dr. Rani". He was born in Sri Lanka, and left there to go and see the world at the age of 13. His first stop was in India. He witnessed the yogis wading in the river, waste deep with their intestines floating in the water as a result of the deep meditative state they were in. For some reason, that prompted him to become a healer. He subsequently went to England, and then came to the US. He'd studied a number of touch and bodywork modalities over the years. Something drew him to a small town in Northern California, and when his car broke down at an intersection one afternoon, he said to himself, "This must be where God wants me to be." As fate would have it, there was a place for rent, right at the spot where his car had stopped running.
I'd driven past his office hundreds of times before I ever met him. I often wondered what took place behind closed doors in his mysterious office. His large sign on the sidewalk said, "Dr. Rani - Healing Mind-Body-Soul". "Ayruveda, Reflexology, Massage".
One day, he came to me as a new patient. He was dressed in a white shirt, white pants, and wore a red tie. There was a gold dove medal pinned on the lapel of his shirt, and he wore black socks and sandals. He greeted me first and said in a very soft smooth voice, "Oh, Dr. Mosher, I am so pleased to meet you. Your patients have very kind and loving things to say about you. I've been looking forward to meeting you for some time now." After that, when he came for his appointments, or sometimes he just stopped by out of the blue, he always brought a box of donuts or pastries. On the boxes he always wrote in pen, "My Dearest Dr. Mosher and beloved staff. May God bless you all. With love, kindness, and blessings, your friend, Dr. Rani - Healing Mind-Body-Spirit". I don't recall the reason, but I did make an appointment with him for a session. When I arrived at his office for my appointment, he greeted me with his usual soft spoken voice and said, "Oh Dr. Mosher, Welcome, welcome to my office. I have your special room ready for you. I got here early just so I could get it ready for you. But first let me show you around". He gave me a guided tour of his fairly large office. There were 3 large rooms, all in a different decor. One had a large twin bed high from the floor, another with a traditional massage table, the other had a vibrating recliner chair, and they all had a different feel. After my session, he handed me a bag filled with fresh fruit and said, "Oh Dr. Mosher. It’s my custom to bless clients with a gift to take home after their treatment. It’s the completion of the entire process." As I scanned all of the plaques, framed letters and newspaper articles, hanging on the walls, it was evident that he was known world-wide. He was even Knighted by the Queen of England! He had a huge following, and at times when I went to see him there would be one of his clients who had traveled all the way across the US, just to have a session.
On one occasion, I was very upset about some HMO issues that were going on. It felt like I had a big knot in the pit of my stomach. He had me sit in a recliner chair with the vibrator on the back-rest. He worked on my head-neck-arms and then let me rest. While asleep, I almost lurched off the chair, and then settled back down. He finished the session, and all was well thereafter.
He had a group of 20 plus clients in Oregon who flew him up and boarded him in a motel for three to four days, about six times a year so he could give them their treatments. Unfortunately, he fell in love with one of them who was an attractive 35 year old lady, very charming, but also very cunning. They got married, and shortly after, she took his car, title to the home, and his IRA. From then on, he lost his presence, and his health declined until he passed on due to complications from diabetes. It was very saddening to watch his demise.
Now, how about those three different acupuncturists I saw for my back pain, before I was fixed by Milton's Bowen session?
#1 was a miracle worker. He had a "Hole in the wall" office. He lived in a small house on a fruit orchard. He drove an old beat up 1968 Datsun something or another. His sole mission was to help people - I know that for a fact. He helped almost every patient that I referred to him. He even knew in advance, when he wouldn’t be able to help them. He was a miracle worker too.
#2 was an egotistical, self engendered man, who bragged about all of his accomplishments. He let me know where he lived, and that he drove a Cadillac. He couldn't touch my pain.
#3 was a nice man. He wasn't caught up in himself. He ran a busy practice in a multiple room office. He was pretty good.
Therefore, it appears that the state of mind that a practitioner is in makes a difference on how well you may respond to their treatments.
Intention is 90% of the result. That's how the Martial Arts people can break a brick with their hand. Their focus is so intense on the outcome and so de-focused from other data, that they can achieve super-human fetes.
So can you!
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
EPILOGUE
I've gone through a tremendous and incredulous journey the past few years. The personal explorations, experiences, education, enlightenment, and empowerment process has me in awe. I hope that this book inspires you to take your own journey.
Remember, that different tissues have different issues. So, there's a need for different strokes for different folks. What's good for one, isn't good for all. I have my own saying, "If it's going to be - it's up to me."
During the last two years that I was in podiatry practice I performed two clinical studies.
The first was on reduction of bunions and bunion pain. There were 66 patients who entered, complied, and completed the study, which was for a one year treatment period. These were mostly patients who'd come to me wanting surgery, and who thought that surgery was their only option. I only operated on three! All the rest were pain free from one to three weeks on average, and the longest was within three months. All I did for them was adhesive tape for temporary arch support and a Bowen session once a week for four weeks. Followed by, a set of orthotics and a Bowen session once a month. All remained pain free while coming once monthly for the remainder of the year. None returned after the study was completed, so I assume that no news is good news.
The second study was on postural pains and headaches which included; knee, hip, lower back, upper back, shoulder, neck, arm, and carpal tunnel. There were about 80 patients in this study which also lasted for a one year period, once a week for four weeks, then once a month. All patients graded their pains on a scale of 1 to 10; 1 = mild – 10 = severe. The results I report are approximate, because I retired before publishing the results, and my papers were lost in the move from California to North Carolina. Lower back pain reduced from 8’s and 9’s to 0’s and 2’s in about 85% of the patients. Upper back pain reduced from 8’s and 9’s to 0’s and 1’s in about 90% of the patients. Neck pains reduced from 8’s and 9’s to 0’s in almost all cases, if not all. The extremity pains reduced at random, but better than 50%. Headaches resolved in about 95% of the patients. It was interesting to see the numbers drop as the weeks went by. I regret to have lost the data, but as soon as I have some free time I will begin a new study.
PATIENT FEEDBACK
April 21, 2004
RE: Treatment from Dr. Mosher for bunion and corn
My initial visit to Dr. Mosher was prompted by a painful and persistent corn located between my little toe and it’s neighbor on my right foot. Dr. Mosher removed the corn and I got relief for a number of weeks. But it returned with a vengeance. This routine continued several times: comfortable for a short time but back to Dr. Mosher in weeks with the same complaint. Regardless of the treatment, the painful corn would return.
Walking was growing more and more painful and difficult for me. I had bunions on both feet, but the one on the right was growing more pronounced. I had developed a hard inflamed callused area under the bunion that raged with a burning sensation after walking a short while especially with shoes on. Thanks to the bunion and the displacement of my big toe, this area became my weight-bearing area while walking. This arrangement caused my knee to feel “twisted” and painful all the time, exacerbating my fibromyalgia pain.
I became quite discouraged one day with another corn and red inflamed foot. It was increasingly altering ability to function due to the pain and inflammation. Dr. Mosher removed the corn once again and then suggested I try regular Bowen treatments to treat the bunion that created the corn scenario. He made me an insert for my shoes and we started the treatments.
I am now walking properly on the ball of my foot [not on the side, “twisting” my knee] and I’m doing it comfortably. The callus is gone and so is the inflammation. Since starting the Bowen treatments, I’ve not had a recurrence of the corn either.
Life is just a whole lot more comfortable now!
Charlene W
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I came into the office at 9:00am on May 18, 2004 with a terrible sinus headache. I hurt from the top of my head down my neck and into my left shoulder. Plus I had been dizzy as well. I hadn’t taken anything for it because I knew I was going to get a Bowen treatment. My low back felt like it was out too. My left hip would hurt with certain movements.
After Dr. Mosher asked how I was feeling I told him “not too well”. I was looking forward to this treatment just to see if it would really help me.
I left the office at 10:00am and went to Sacramento to meet friends for lunch. During the lunch I still felt badly. My head hurt and I thought the treatment didn’t do anything for me. I stopped by Bel Air Market on my way home when I noticed that I didn’t have the headache or backache. I wasn’t sure though if it had really gone away. All evening I kept waiting for it to return and if it did then I would take a couple of aspirins. Just to be on the safe side I called for an appointment at the chiropractor’s office for the next day because I knew if my atlas was put back in then I wouldn’t have anymore problems. I have done this in the past. The next morning when I awoke I felt really good so I cancelled my appointment with the chiropractor and still today, May 29, 2004, I have not hurt all day. I am amazed at the results of this treatment. I began the treatments in March and had four treatments (one a week for the month). I left for the month of April and just began the treatments again in May. This is very surprising to me as I feel like nothing is really done to me but a little “strumming” on certain areas. I am impressed. I don’t hurt anywhere at this moment.
Arlene J.
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12-29-95
Last year, while doing floor exercises I injured the sciatic nerve. The pain went down my legs and into my feet. They became so painful, that I could not get my feet comfortable, worse at night. I didn’t sleep well at all.
I made an appointment with Dr. Mosher. He had helped me with a heel spur some years back. Frankly, I wondered what he could do. He talked to me about a method called Bowen he was learning. I was very willing to try it. I’m so glad I did, after only two treatments I was sleeping well!! And, my feet were comfortable again! I consider this treatment great!! A big heartfelt thanks to Dr. Mosher!!
Sincerely,
Myrlene F. S.
This was my very first Bowen patient !
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May 20, 2004
Dear Dr. Mosher
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful service you have provided me. I came to you in November of 2003 with an extremely painful bunion. The pain in my foot had gotten so bad that my foot hurt nearly all the time. I went to see you in hopes that you could help me without having to perform surgery. When you explained the “Bowen “ technique I have to admit that I was skeptical, but at that point, willing to try anything! After approximately two Bowen treatments, the pain in my foot had gotten much better and after the third visit I was almost completely pain free. I was not only relieved that I did not have to have surgery, but thrilled at the results and wanted to share them with friends and family. By my second month of seeing Dr. Mosher and receiving the Bowen therapy I was pain free. Not only did my foot feel better, but the areas of my body where I normally carry stress had to dissipate also.
I am so thankful to Dr. Mosher and believe full heartedly that this technique should be tried on all patients before they even think of surgery.
Sincerely,
Chiara M.
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To Whom It May Concern
12/05/2003
I have bunions on both of my feet that used to cause me great pain. I am not sure where these hideous things came from. I suspect they began forming for a number of reasons, one of which is directly my fault. I used to wear shoes to small for my feet during my pre-teen and teen years. As a result of this disregard for my feet (and other causes) I developed bunions and hammertoes. The left foot bunion was less severe causing my great toe to point toward my little toe by 20 degrees or more. The right foot bunion was much more troublesome causing my great toe to point to over 30 degrees toward my little toe. I went several years this way since I was unaware of any treatment besides surgery. I am very afraid of foot surgeries since I have heard so many negative outcomes from friends and family. By the end of most days my feet would just throb and nothing seemed to help. I tried foot bathes, massagers, warm packs, cold packs and so on. Nothing helped.
My mother was seeing Dr. Mosher since she has similar problems (did I mention inherited above?) with her feet. She also had problems with calluses and corns on various places on the feet and he was helping her by trimming her callused areas and helping her non-surgically to improve the overall alignment of her feet. She seemed to be benefiting from this therapy and encouraged me to go in for a consult.
I was quite skeptical, but agreed to give it a whirl. The doctor examined my feet and told me he felt he could help me. I agreed to try the treatment and he started immediately. He pared the calluses and placed splinting on my feet to help change my gait. Dr. Mosher also talked to me about doing some Bowen therapy, a treatment to help realign my muscles and other systems. I agreed to try this also feeling I needed all the help I could get.
His treatment plan began to provide me relief after only a few treatments. I began to feel better and really didn’t know why. One night after work it hit me; I was really able to relax! The old and ever present throbbing feet were missing! I now had feet that performed well but they no longer complained about it. What a great feeling!
I finished treatments 3 to 4 years ago and remain essentially pain free. I continue to have Bowen treatments whenever I start feeling uptight and know that something is out of balance. My left great toe is virtually straight and the right great toe is 10 degrees or less deviated. The hammertoes also disappeared during the treatment. I have thanked Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher many times over for his treatment of my foot problems and overall sense of well being. I am so happy for the freedom from pain that I now enjoy. I continue to recommend Dr. Mosher many times to friends and family for problems with their feet and for stress release with the Bowen therapy.
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Dear Dr. Mosher:
For most of my adult life (I am now 49), I have had the ugliest toes. They have always been an embarrassment to me.
Approximately 1 year ago I came to you with a foot injury. After you treated my foot you suggested Bowen.
A month or so after the Bowen, I happened to notice my toes. The fungus was gone, and my toenails were actually turning pink again.
For once in my life, I can wear open toed shoes !
Thanks,
Jan B
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Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher
9/29/97
“ Bowen Technique”
Dear friend,
You are totally generous and charitable in your outlook, in help for people needing this technique.
You do the muscles using this Bowen technique, and are so gentle, so negligible in its’ outward malfestation, that you wonder whether it is really doing any good.
But I really know, I now walk without a cane and have no pain.
Thank you Dr. Mosher
Cordially,
Maurice R.
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Mon. Dec 8 1997
To Whom It May Concern
My name is Robert W. H. In July of 1997 I was involved in a devastating motorcycle accident. The right tibia and fibula were compounded and considerable tissue was ground off in the resulting fall onto the asphalt. This resulted in a sizable gap between the bones and resulted in my leg being encased in various types of casts for a period of 22 months. After a delayed bone graft (I sat on an electronic bone growth stimulator 16 hours a day for 8 months with no success in healing), and eventual bone mending no physical therapy was prescribed. My right foot seemed to be destined to never recover enough for normal function to even allow me to stand or walk for eve as much as four hours a day without producing intense pain that would at times, depending on how much I used it, cripple me for days on end.
Dr. Steven W., an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist diagnosed plantar fasciitis, capsulitis, and tendonitis as I had orthotics made for my feet, which over the years were sometimes effective, allowing me to work on my feet 4 to 6 hours a day with tolerable pain levels. At other time periods the pain reduction from using orthotics was nil and crippling again became a life circumstance.
In April of 1995, I came to Dr. Mitchell Mosher, also an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist, to have my orthotics re-made. At this time he gave me a treatment (one) of the Bowen Technique, telling me I may need to have a second treatment in the near future. I never went back for the second treatment and, the nearly full and complete function ability I have today took around 15 months to develop, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the phenomenon of healing in my right foot is the direct result of the applied Bowen Technique. I wholly recommend its trial by anyone who suffers the crippling effects of pain as I did for so many years.
Sincerely,
Robert W. H.
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Sept. 28, 1996
Dear Dr. Mosher,
I just wanted to thank you for helping to make the quality of my life (and my daughter’s) better. When I thought I was facing surgery on my toe, I was pleasantly surprised to find Bowen Therapy straightening out my toe! Not to mention, my arm is better, and I’ve been known to get relief from a major sinus headache! My daughter, Kristy looks forward to the relax in stress reducing effects of this therapy, and so do I.
Dr. Mosher, you are a unique and caring physician and humanitarian, I am truly touched by your skill and compassionate ways.
Sincerely,
Liz H
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Dr. Mosher,
How can I express my gratitude for how much one treatment of Bowen has helped me. I can breathe thru my nasal passage when lying down. I have always had to breath thru my mouth. I have had to wear a brace on my arm from tentinus in my elbow. Which I no longer have to do. I had back surgery in 1977 the scar tissue from that has always bothered me, It doesn’t now! In the past year I have had constant pain from spraining my ankle, breaking my leg and spraining my ankle the second time I no longer have pain.
I am so grateful to you for your concern for people that you have mastered this therapy
GOD
Linda R.
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3-15-2000
Dear Doctor Mosher.
I can’t begin to thank you enough for your help. I am much better and hope to be able to again lay on my back for a nights rest in the next few days – I still am a bit gun shy to try it.
Sincerely
Bill
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On the subject of longevity, I observed the following. My practice was in a small community where the main employment was the railroad, and the outlaying area's employment was centered around a civilian military base, State employees, and an Aerospace plant. I saw patients from all of those areas. The common theme of many of my patients was that when they retired, everything was going to be just great. They often counted the days until the big event.
Well, many of them died from one thing or another a year or two later. They maybe lived until 65 or so years old. I saw many other patients who lived in the foothills and mountain areas. A lot of them were Seventh Day Adventists. They we're in their 80's, and could still walk and chew gum! I found out that they worked in their vegetable gardens in every morning, had a vegan diet, attended church services on Saturdays, and went for a three hour hike on Sunday mornings.
I met a farmer one day who had an antique tractor like mine for which I was looking for some parts. He was quite elderly, but very alert and active. His ranch seemed to be pretty large, and I asked, "How many acres do you have here?" He said, "I've got 60 acres to take care of." He went on to tell me that he used to work for the railroad. He had noticed that many of his friends who retired, passed on 18 months after retirement, on average. They had nothing to do but watch TV, drink beer, paint the house, and do some home repairs. So, he decided to get a lifetime project and bought the 60 acres for his post retirement past-time. I'm guessing, he was at least 80 years old!
Someone recently told me about a survey of people who had lived past 100 years old. The two common denominators were; keeping active, and drinking well water.
Let's go back to the perfect water. It's filtered and free from chlorine, flouride, heavy metals, lye which municipalities add in order to make the pH slightly alkaline, and other municipal additives. Pretty close to well water.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
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John F. Barnes, PT
“THE BODY ELECTRIC”
Robert O. Becker, M.D.
“CROSS CURRENTS”
Robert O. Becker, M.D.
“VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE”
Richard Gerber, M.D.
“CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY”
John Upledger, D.O.
“MOLECULES OF EMOTION”
Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
“ BIOLOGY OF BELIEF”
Bruce Lipton, Ph.D
“BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TOWARD TUMOR REGRESSION IN MICE”
Humphrey & Seal: Science, 1959 130: 388-
389
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Schauble, M.K.et al: Archives Pathol. Lab. Med.
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“ELECTRICAL STIMULATION FOR DERMAL WOUND HEALING”
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"THE HIDDEN MESSAGES IN WATER"
Masaru Emoto
STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
A Doctor's discoveries
7 Simple Steps To Optimal Health
That Your Doctor Wont Talk Much About
And
The Missing Chapters From The Western Medical Repair Manual
Drs. Discoveries.com
STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
A Doctor's Discoveries
©Copyright 2012 Mitchell R. Mosher
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STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
A DOCTORS DISCOVERIES
SIMPLE STEPS TO OPTIMAL HEALTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------------------- page 5
PROLOGUE --------------------------------------------- page 10
ABOUT THIS BOOK ----------------------------------- page 13
ABOUT THE AUTHOR -------------------------------- page 14
INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------- page 23
CHAPTER 1 - STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM -
Step 1 ----------------------------------- page 31
CHAPTER 2 - BOWEN THERAPY - MISSING CHAPTER
1 - Step 2 ------------------------------ page 38
CHAPTER 3 - BODY - MIND - BODY CONNECTION –
MISSING CHAPTER 2 - Step 3 - page 83
CHAPTER 4 - HYDROTHERAPY - MISSING CHAPTER 3
- Step 4 --------------------------------- page 104
CHAPTER 5 - EXERCISE THERAPY – INCOMPLETE
CHAPTER 1 - Step 5 --------------- page 112
CHAPTER 6 - NUTRITIONAL THERAPY – INCOMPLETE
CHAPTER 2 - Step 6 ---------------- page 118
CHAPTER 7 - VIBRATION THERAPY – MISSING
CHAPTER 4 - Step 7 -------------- page 145
CHAPTER 8 - MORE MISSING CHAPTERS FROM YOUR
DOCTOR'S REPAIR MANUAL ---- page 1
Direct Currents – Missing Chapter 5
Connective Tissues - Missing Chapter 6
Meridian System - Missing Chapter 7
Outside the box - Missing Chapter 8
Chapter 9 - OTHER THERAPIES THAT YOU SHOULD
KNOW ABOUT ---------------------------- page 196
Chapter 10 - HOW'S YOUR HEALER? ------------- page 207
EPILOGUE ------------------------------------------------- page 216
REFERENCES -------------------------------------------- page 2
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS
THE RIPPLE!
One afternoon a few years ago a patient was eagerly telling me all of the wonderful things she could do following the foot surgery I'd performed for her a few weeks before. She was so happy that she'd sought my expertise and all of that mushy stuff. She’d had surgery two years before by another doctor and had a terrible experience. She was reluctant to have the other foot operated on. A friend of hers referred her to me and all went very smoothly. I had a startling realization (Epiphany), at that very moment. It was – that I wouldn't have been able to perform her foot surgery, or any one else’s, if it hadn't been for my algebra teacher at Marin Junior College in 1961. It occurred to me that I'd helped to improve the quality of life for thousands of patients – and becoming a podiatrist and foot surgeon would never have been possible, had I not passed Algebra 1-A! In addition, I probably would never have become a myofascial therapist either. This has enabled me to help thousands of other patients with their trials and tribulations (Chapters 2 & 3).
When I decided to pursue a career in some type of health care profession, I mapped out all of the prerequisites and made up a plan for achievement. In order to get into any school of health, a student must pass, and get good grades in chemistry and physics. In order to take chemistry and physics one must pass algebra and trigonometry and it helps to have taken classes in calculus. Therefore, in the fall semester 1961, I enrolled in Algebra 1- A. The teacher was a pleasant, strong, attractive, 30'ish woman, named Mrs. Blair. Three weeks into the semester I came to Mrs. Blair with my drop class slip to have signed because I was totally lost right after we left decimals and began lessons on equations. Even my wife who claimed super powers in mathematics couldn't help me to get it. Mrs. Blair asked why I wanted to drop the class, and I told her. She said, "If you need to pass this class I will give you extra help until you can catch on." I said, "I don't think that I can catch on. I've never understood mathematics very well beyond the basics, and I have no aptitude for math." She said," Sure you can. Can you spend an extra half hour after classes Wednesday afternoons?" I answered, "Yes. I can." After two or three attempts, using different approaches, she finally succeeded in showing me how to conquer equations and word problems. Because of her dedication to teaching and the goodness in her heart - I am where I am today. I would've taken an entirely different career pathway and possibly could have ended up in an occupation that I despised. When I think about all the lives that I've been able to help as a health care giver; Podiatrist, Myofascial Therapist, Health Counselor, the RIPPLE from her good deed was gigantic.
As this sunk in that afternoon in 1997, I immediately called the College of Marin and asked for the math department. I got to the head of the department and told him the story. I couldn't remember the teachers name but when he told me, "That must have been Lorna Blair." I said, "That’s her." I'd like to write or call her and say thank you if I could." He said he would see if that could be arranged as, she had retired a couple of years ago. An hour later, he called back with her home telephone number. My heart was racing just a little as I dialed the number. When she answered, I announced who it was but of course she didn't remember the circumstances from 25 years earlier. Nevertheless, I thanked her for keeping me on course so I could pursue my career. She was quite honored to be held highly in my esteem and thanked me for my thoughtfulness. In addition to Mrs. Lorna Blair, I commend all of the other teachers who will go the extra mile with their struggling students. They may never know what the ripple effects of their good deed to a student might bring about, years down the road.
Thank you once again Mrs. Lorna Blair.
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Tom Bowen, developed his remarkable bodywork system and passed it down so I could find it via my healer and teacher, the late Milton Albrecht. Milt was a California Redneck of sorts. In his first calling he was a machinist and builder of racing engines and hot rods. He learned Bowen therapy and was anointed the teacher of the technique in the US in 1994. In our fireside chats he shared lots of tidbits of information with me, for which I am very thankful. He had a profound distrust of doctors but he trusted me, and only two or three other physicians. I guess our personalities must have meshed. He knew that I still did cortisone injections, prescribed drugs, and performed surgery, but he must have known that I only did those as a last resort, even though I never told him that.
When I spoke at his memorial services in 2003, I brought forth that, not only had he performed some 80,000 treatments since 1990 on his clients, but he had taught hundreds of practitioners worldwide to perform the technique. And, they were also having significant influences on their client's lives also. I alone have treated over 12,000 different people over the years, and I helped most of them. You will meet some of them in chapter 2.
Milton was very encouraging to me. I was one of his prized students and friend. I have total respect for him, his intuition, and insightful visions toward health and wellness.
At one of our fireside chats, he told me that ganglionic cysts were caused by an overload of caffeine. He told me that when he "popped" the cysts for his clients, many times they had sleepless nights following. I had a large one behind my ankle when he told me this. I thought, "Oh yeah." At the time, I drank eight to ten cups of coffee a day. I cut down to two cups and about three months later, the cyst was 80% reduced in size. After three more months, it was gone! He was right-on once again. He told me lots of other things that didn't add up. But, down the road they often came to fruition.
I am grateful for Tom Bowen's daughter, Heather Edmonds, who provided me with her first hand accounting about her father's journey as a healer.
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I appreciate my wife, Diane, who has put up with all my projects, disappearances from the scene, and aloofness due to my preoccupations. My Office Manager, Barbara Nemanic, and Medical Assistant, Miki Machetta, who for 20 plus years endured my continual new ideas and changes in the ways of doing things in our practice. Their support has enabled me to go on with my learning and teaching curves. My children, Stephanie (nutrition specialist), Greg (naturalist), and Amy (spiritualist), who have kept my interests in natural health alive.
My new friends in North Carolina, who have helped me learn about one of the missing chapters in the Western Medical Repair Manual; Billy Wease R.Ph. and Mike Pruitt. Editor, Kaiti Odonnell. And, Eugene Vickery who motivated me, guided, and helped me to finish this book.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
PROLOGUE
When I deliver my motivational programs, I bring up the fact that I wouldn’t be here today doing this presentation, if I knew then – what I know now! I probably wouldn’t be finishing this book, either. Because, I wouldn’t have met my friend Eugene, and he motivated me to complete and publish my book. He lives on the East Coast and I lived on the West Coast.
I loved my chosen profession, podiatry. I told my patients not to worry about me retiring on them, and that I planned to practice until it was physically impossible to do so. However, as my PAPA Premature Accelerated Physiological Aging problems mounted, I began having second thoughts about my vows. Then one day, an older patient was groaning about how "Getting old isn’t for sissies", and I couldn’t bear to hear that any more. Hearing that every day from my older patients just reinforced to me that I was getting old and feeling it. So, I quit.
I didn’t believe there was any such thing as anti-aging. We all have to age. But, as I later learned, we can do it gracefully. This book is about how you can prevent or reverse your PAPA problems. PAPA is an acronym for; Premature, Accelerated, Physiological Aging.
Millions of Americans are suffering from it, and they don’t have to. Some of the signs of PAPA are:
· Obesity
· Depression
· Acid Reflux
· Hypertension
· Type II Diabetes
· Skin Disorders
· Arthritis
· Aches and Pains
· Cancer
I was suffering with many of them until I moved to the East coast and learned about one of the chapters that are missing from the Western Medical Repair Manual. My book is about those Missing Chapters, and the Seven Steps on the Pathway To Optimal Health. My goal is to inspire people so that they can experience better quality of their lives.
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Another book that I'm writing is; PATHWAY TO OPTIMAL SUCCESS. Success also has to do with Optimal Health, but I decided to do just two medium books, rather than one big one.
This is the Prologue to it.
I recall sitting at my desk at my office one sunny afternoon in June, 1973. I pondered that, "I have good health, high energy, free time, BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY." There were lots of things I wanted, places I wanted to go, things I wanted to do, but no extra money to do them. I thanked God that I was able to support my family without my wife having to work, and I wondered how I could become rich.
As my practice grew, I noticed that many of my older and retired patients were wealthy, but now they DIDN'T HAVE THE HEALTH OR ENERGY to go places and do the things they wanted to do.
Then, in my mid-life, I made plenty of money, had good health and high energy, BUT DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME to go and do what I wanted. Wouldn't it be nice if Dad could take afternoons off, pick up the kids and go to a show, the park, or the zoo? We should be semi-retired when the children are young, and then make our fortune in our later life, instead of the other way around. Many wealthy people made their riches after the age of 55. The major problem is, we need cash flow to raise and maintain our growing families.
I finally arrived almost at the point where I wanted to be. But it took me until age 65. By then, my kids were raised, and I say almost, because my health was declining quickly. I am writing this book along with two others that will give you the tools for attaining; Health, Wealth, Abundance, and the Time to enjoy it all, and to have Physical and Emotional Peace and Freedom. In other words, to have all of the many, "RICHES OF LIFE", per Napoleon Hill in his classic book, THINK AND GROW RICH.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book is for educational and informational purposes only. It is based on my personal experiences, my patient's experiences, observations, studies, and my conclusions from all of these.
It provides information about medical conditions and the therapies which have anecdotally shown to be effective in the reversal of some medical issues. However, these concepts are not a substitute for professional medical evaluation, assessment, and care.
I do not make any recommendations to any reader, on what to do for their medical conditions. I only illustrate what I, and others have done for theirs.
To my knowledge, none of the contents of this book have been evaluated or approved by the Medical Community, or the FDA.
I make no assertions, guarantees, representations other than as a teacher of the Bowen Technique, and a recipient of some of the modalities mentioned in this book.
Readers of this book are encouraged to use the information for help in choosing the pathways they wish to take in their quest of optimal health, only after, proper medical evaluation and intervention.
Mitchell R. Mosher, DPM, LMBT, aka Dr. Mosher
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This is the only part of my books that I'm a little doubtful about writing. I don't want to be too much about me-me-me, on one hand. But, on the other hand, I want people to realize that they can be successful in the achievement of good; Physical Health, Financial Health, and Abundance - For Physical & Emotional Peace and Freedom, regardless of up-bringing, their past, or their present. Anyone can start from right here - right now- today - and go anywhere they choose.
I like the story that was told by a motivational speaker at a personal growth meeting I attended a few years ago. As the story goes, a driver pulled into a, "Service Station". Back then, gas stations were called "Service Stations", where an attendant pumped your gas, checked the oil in your car, washed the windshield, and filled the air in the tires. While the attendant was washing the windshield, the driver leaned out the window and said, "Hey Mister. Just where am I anyway?" The attendant replied, "Sir. You’re in GAINESVILLE, MISSOURRA, quite proudly." The driver said, "Well, then - tell me. Just what's Gainesville, Missoura known for?" The attendant thought for a moment and replied, "Sir. From Gainesville, Missoura - you can go just about anywhere in the world that you want to go!"
So, I'll give you some background information about me.
#1. I have a wild creative imagination. My mom's probably responsible for that. She was a single parent, who always cared for my needs, but if I had any "Wants", I had to find a way or make a way to earn the money so that I could obtain that, "Want".
I made fresh blackberry pies in the summer, Christmas wreathes in the winter, sold newspapers at the local commuter bus station, baby-sat, and cared for neighborhood yards. Whatever it took to earn the money to get what I wanted, I did what I had to do in order to get "it".
I was also a "Wanna-Be High School drop-out". Shortly after my 16th birthday, I went to the principle's office and picked up the forms to complete in order to drop out of high school. I carefully placed them at Mom's seat at the dinning table one evening, after I had set the table for dinner. After she read them over, she looked up at me and adamantly said, "I refuse to sign these papers, and you will finish high school!" (bless her heart). So, I reluctantly finished high school.
I volunteered to be drafted, into the US Army, shortly after I turned 18 years old, much to my Mom's dismay. But, under the military system in the 1950’s, I had to go sooner or later. So, I opted for a sooner option, rather than later.
Oh boy! If I hated high school, I really hated the Army! I was love-sick, home-sick, over-worked, under-paid, under-loved, and harassed beyond words. It took about 3 days in Boot Camp to finally, "Figure it out".
Trait #2 surfaced - I had my first behavioral analysis, (People Watcher) experience. I noticed that the commissioned officers (Captains, Majors, Colonels) had life better than the non-commissioned officers, (Sergeants, Corporals, Master Sergeants). The commissioned officers; lived in nicer homes, drove nicer cars, made more money, dressed in nicer uniforms and off duty clothing, and were treated with more respect than the non-com's. Most of the commissioned officers had graduated from college and had attended ROTC. Many of the non-com's were high school drop-outs, and a couple never even finished grade school! So, I re-thought the schooling process. Then, I recalled my friends back home. The ones whose fathers had gone to college had similar advantages as the Commissioned Officers comparatively speaking. They lived in big houses, had nice vacations, drove luxury cars, and belonged to the country clubs.
I was talking with one of my buddies one night over a couple of beers at the PX (ten cents a beer back then), and he told me about getting discharged early to go to college. If your discharge date was within 90 days of the beginning of a semester, they will let you out for enrollment. I told him I'd like to do that, but my grades weren't good enough to get into college. He said, "All you have to do is enroll in a Junior College. If you graduated from high school they have to accept you as long as you have a high school diploma". So, I immediately wrote the registrar at Marin Junior College, near where I grew up, to find out what it would involve for me to enroll. I wanted out of the Army in the worst way, and ASAP. I had the high school that I attended, forward my below average transcripts to the college. A couple of weeks later, I received a letter of acceptance to register at Marin Junior College for classes in September 1960.
I showed the letter to my commanding Sergeant at Fort Lewis Washington. He apparently had not finished high school and was unable to read beyond 5th grade level. He asked me what the letter meant, and I told him that the Rules and Regulations Manual, paragraph x, section y, line z, states that an early discharge must be given to any G.I. who has been accepted for college which term begins within 90 days of the their date of discharge and mine was Nov 11th. He about fell out of his chair. As I explained the concept to him, he must not have encountered it before, he finally "Got It". He tried his hardest to get me to "Re-Up" for another 4 years (which I'm sure he would have received a commission for). He offered me a large signing bonus to do so, but I graciously declined since I knew what I knew! He signed my release papers, and I was out of there August 31, 1960.
I was on my way to Kentfield, California to attend college, and to be back with some of my old high school friends.
On registration day, I got in line in the gymnasium behind the counselor at the card table registering students with last names between J to O. His name was Mr. Kinnard. He was dressed in a gray flannel coat that didn't match the shirt and tie, in any way shape or form! When I told him my name, he removed my high school transcript from a file box. After glancing at the paper, he looked up and said, "Son, you're not college material. Your high school grades are far sub-standard. I’d suggest that you go to a trade school and learn a good trade. I’ll give you the names of them." I said, "No, I have to take 9 units this semester. Here's my letter from the registrar. I was discharged from the Army to attend this semester, and I'm not going back to Fort Lewis, Washington." He said, "Okay. I suggest that you take English 10, Mathematics 10, and Business 44." These were remedial - bonehead classes which I needed to get through before I could take anything serious. Shame on him for his assumption that I was, "Not college material", but I’m glad he gave me easy classes, because my study habits were trace to none. And, I choked every time I took a test. That first semester, I got two - B's and a C. The next semester, I took Advanced Remedial English, Advanced Bonehead Math, and Business 44 B. I got through them alright and got all B's. From then on, I took transferable classes to university level in preparation for pre-med. My mission over the years, was to prove that Mr. Kinnard was wrong about me. Unfortunately, He died from cancer, about the time I graduated, Cum Laud in my class of 44 students, from Podiatry School. I had no intent to go and rub it in his face, but the thought had crossed my mind a few times over the years.
I met and studied with two Pre-Dental students at Marin J. C. Since my grandfather was a dentist, the thought crossed my mind to go into dentistry. They motivated me to keep up my pre-med studies. Mrs. Blair encouraged me to push on too. As did my wife, my family, and friends. But, I was an assistant manager of a pharmacy, and thought that I wanted to be pharmacist and own my own drug store. Although, my heart wasn't really in it. Hear my words- Always, listen to your heart !
My wife had foot problems. She put me through college and podiatry school as a grocery checker, (with a little help from my parents, and the G.I. Bill). I re- met my wife's foot surgeon. Actually, he had taken care of a callus under the ball of my foot when I worked in a drug store owned by his brother-in Law two years before. The lesion was killing me. I was petrified to have the growth worked on. But it was absolutely necessary since I couldn't stand or walk without pain. I’d had a Plantar's wart in the same location when I was 12 years old. Mom took me to the old Family Doc, and the injection and burning out of the wart process was so painful - I'd never want to go through that ever again. I was sure the wart had returned. The podiatrist's removal of the lesion was so painless, and when I walked out of his office pain free, I was amazed. A couple of years later, while he was taking care of my wife, I inquired as to, "What does a Podiatrist do all day long?" He invited me to spend a day in his office so that I could see what kinds of foot problems a podiatrist takes care of, which I did. When I observed all of the simple things that he did in order to relieve people's pain and suffering, and improve their lives, I thought, "This is my calling."
Dr. Norm told me where the Podiatry College was in San Francisco, California, and it was not in one of the better parts of town. I drove to where the school was located. I parked in front of a high-rise, low rent, apartment building across the street from the Podiatry School. After I entered the front door, I found the entrance to the registrar's office. I asked the lady at the front desk for an application for enrollment. As she handed me an application, she said, "Would you like to meet the Dean?" I said, "Yes. That would be great!" She escorted me down the hall to the Dean's office. Dr Norbert was a large, statuesque man. His handshake was firm, but had a slight tremor. He inquired about my college classes and grades. I told him that I had taken Chemistry 1- A & 1- B, Organic Chemistry, Zoology, Spanish, Algebra, etc, and that I had a "B plus grade point average." He said, "Okay. If you take physics or trigonometry this summer, you can start the fall semester." I agreed to that, and promptly enrolled at the University of California, Berkley for trigonometry in the Summer Sessions. I had done my Basic and Organic chemistry there a year before. I chose Trigonometry because I knew how hard physics was.
My best friend's father was a G.P. "General Practitioner". One Saturday afternoon, I went over to his house and told the good doctor my dilemma. I was in Pre-Pharmacy, thought about Dentistry, and now had learned about Podiatry, and that I was confused about how to proceed? He encouraged me to go into medicine or dentistry as they were the accepted professions. And that, Podiatry, Chiropractic, and all the others were a bunch of "Quacks." I listened to my gut feeling and went ahead and enrolled in podiatry school anyway. I'm sure glad that I didn't take his advice.
Podiatry school was easy. I met 2 study partners. I learned how to take notes in the lectures, and then later in the day re-write my notes. We (my study partners) shared notes and information if we missed something, or a class. I also learned how to study and the art of how to take tests. I got straight A’s except for a couple classes, and graduated 2nd in my class of 44 students. Even though the only "A" grade I got in high school was speech class, an omen that something was on the horizon. I was glad that I didn't have to do the Valedictorian Speech at my Podiatry School Graduation.
I was awarded with a Residency in Foot Surgery for two years. There were only 12 slots at that time in the US for 300 applicants, and I got one of them!
My residency included; foot surgery, internal medicine, general and vascular surgery, pathology, anesthesiology, radiology, dermatology, and my favorite - Emergency & Trauma for two months. I wouldn't trade those sleepless nights in the hospital for any of the ones that I had while I was in the US Army.
I'll never forget the afternoon that I made the incision on my first surgical patient's toe. As I directed the scalpel through the skin and dissected the tissues down to the joint, I thought, "Wow! What a trip. From a "Borderline Juvenile Delinquent & Wannabe High School Drop - Out, to an aspiring foot surgeon." I did that surgery without a flaw, and thousands more thereafter. If I could do that, then why can't you accomplish something you dream to do?
During my podiatry practice building program, I got my #3 personality trait, divine discontent. I was always on the vigil for a faster, easier and better way to get the job done (creative imagination). Also, how could I be of better service to my patients. The good ones stuck, the not so good ones were replaced, and I was always tuned into finding a better way - never satisfied with the "Status Quo", as so many people are willing to accept. The constant changes that I made drove my office staff crazy. People and animals are not comfortable with change.
This enabled me to experiment with some Natural Health Options (Alternative Medicine) in my personal life and my podiatry practice, which is what this book is about.
So, if I could overcome all the challenges that I had, why can't you?
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
INTRODUCTION
Health and Wellness are the opposite of Disease and Sickness.
Diseases and Sicknesses are a result of many factors; genetics, environment, toxins & pollutants, traumas & accidents and all the perils that follow them, life style choices, stress, and even thoughts - yes, thoughts.
Sound Physical, Mental, and Emotional states can result in Optimal Health and Wellness. Therefore as I see it, if we can tend to these 3 wheels in action, we stand the best chance of living healthy, happy, and productive lives. They engage with one another like gear wheels, all interlocked, rotating, and continuously moving at varying speeds at all times.
(PHYSICAL) (EMOTIONAL) (MENTAL)
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Optimal Health and Wellness means to me; to be able to arise every morning feeling better than I did the night before - day after day - after day, with a sense of purpose and excitement for the upcoming day. To be pain free, medication free, doctor and hospital free, feeling and looking good, and have a sense of well being.
Taking the steps and following the pathway they take you on, will help you to attain Optimal Health too. These steps trickle down to the cellular level which will aid in providing them with their basic needs; Oxygen, Water, Nutrients, and a Good Environment.
HEALTH AWARENESS
In 1990, the medical director of a leading pharmaceutical company stated that his mission was to see that every American was taking at least one pharmaceutical agent. Presently, the average American who is suffering from problems caused by PAPA Premature - Accelerated - Physiological - Aging is taking 11.6 medications. Some signs of PAPA are; Obesity, Depression, Acid Reflux, Arthritis, Type II Diabetes, Hypertension, Skin problems, Cancer, and many other chronic signs-symptoms-disabilities.
During the 1960's, when I worked my way through college in pharmacies, we filled about one to two prescriptions per customer. There was only one small shelve - counter which stocked all of the over the counter non-prescription medications. In the 1970's, my patients took on average, about 3 to 4 medications. In the 1980's they were taking five to six prescriptions. And when I retired in 2006, many of my patients were taking 12 to 16 different medications. Now, there are 4 to 5 large shelve - counters in Walmart which stock the OTC, (over the counter) medications. Also, in many parts of North Carolina, there's a pharmacy or two on many of the major intersections. Plus, there may be an independent pharmacy on the boulevard in between. They're all selling drugs to control the signs and symptoms of PAPA.
There are 3 main reasons why medical professionals can't fix many of your PAPA health issues.
First, cures of disease such as arthritis, cancer heart disease, are not options in our medical system. Control and maintenance of your problems are the goals, and thus the control of you.
Secondly, prevention, and wellness are way down on the medical doctors' list of priorities.
Thirdly, because your doctors are missing some crucial information about how to lead you toward better health as follows:
Bowen Therapy - Medical Bodywork
The Irrigation System
Body-Mind-Body System
The Cell Environment System
The Direct Current System
The Connective Tissue System
The Meridian System
Thinking Outside Of The Box
THE SEVEN STEPS TO OPTIMAL HEALTH
1. Straying From The Mainstream
2. Bowen Therapy and Bodywork
3. Body - Mind Reset
4. Nutrition Re-Set
5. Exercise Your Body
6. Hydration - Use The Perfect Water
7. Vibration Management
Step 1 gets you started.
Steps 2 - 7 aid in cellular integrity by affecting; hydration, oxygenation, nutrition, and the maintenance of your cellular environment. Cells make tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make systems. Organ systems make us go. So, it's imperative that our 75 trillion cells are as healthy as possible. Cells; retract when the environment is unfavorable, and they go into the growth stage when the environment is favorable.
The following chapters will show you my health and wellness journey. They will tell you how and why following these same simple steps, might lead you to a better quality of life. They include some missing chapters from the Western Medical Repair Manual, and why your doctors can't get you to run right.
I will explain these and give examples, as I take you through the chronological experiences I've had in my Natural Health Journey, plus my Allopathic career doing Podiatric Medicine and Foot Surgery.
If you want to prevent or reverse any PAPA problems and you want better health, your first step needs to be a commitment to yourself that you will take the appropriate actions for your personal growth process. You’ll need to commit to; spending the money, and the time that it takes to get you where you want to go. And, spend a portion of each day, working on the integration of most, if not all of your health and wellness steps. You will have to remain open minded and be willing to explore and experiment with the H.M.O'S from A to Z. Experience and become educated on the myriad of Health Maintenance Options listed in Chapter 9. Remember, your medical doctors don’t have all the answers to all of your problems.
If you are sick and want to stay sick, don't read any further.
If you are sick and want to be under control by your doctors, medicines and surgery, please don't read any further.
If you want to get healthy, stay healthy, and have control of your health destiny, I hope you enjoy my books.
Here's how I've made changes in my life. First, I decide on what's the necessary change that needs to be? Next, I visualize myself in the new mode. After that, I feel how I'll feel in the new mode. If there are any substitutes available, I commit to use these as much as possible.
For example, when I quit smoking in my mid 30's, I made an advanced mind-set acknowledgement that this was a necessary change that I had to make. I knew from past experience that it was hard to do. First, there's the physical withdrawal. Then there's the psychological withdrawal. And then, there's an emotional void. At bed-time every night, I visualized myself in one of the activities during which, I loved my cigarette. I felt the sense of accomplishment and how good it felt to be doing this activity smoke free. Each night I rehearsed a different activity; Coffee, 1st thing in the AM, talking on the phone, having a beer with the guys, at the party, driving home from the office, after dinner, etc. One by one, I imagined and felt how good it was not smoking a cigarette whilst doing these things. When the day arrived, I knew when that was, and the cigarettes went into the fire-pit. Sure, the first two days were a little rough from the nicotine withdrawal. But, when doing those activities where I really liked to smoke, I was not much bothered by the psychological dependence. Because, I'd so deeply ingrained into my sub-conscious the activity could be done without the smoke. It worked quite well. One other trick I used, was to note the time on my watch whenever I had a craving for a cigarette. I would make a mental commitment to wait for at least 20 minutes before blowing my project. Every time I did this, it would be hours later that I would recall that urge. I never encountered the 20 minute deadline. As the months went by, the nicotine and dependency issues came less and less frequently. And, after a year or so they never returned.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 1
STRAYING FROM THE MAINSTREAM
I must confess that I didn't go totally astray. I merely deviated from the flock. And, that was only off and on. I still spent two thirds of my day communicating with doctors and patients about, "Modern, Mainstream, Conventional, Interventional, Western, Establishment Medicine". My activities in this arena included injection therapy, prescription drugs, physical therapy and good old-fashioned foot surgery (cut it out, implant it, straighten it if it's crooked, make crooked if it's too straight, make it longer if it's too short, make it shorter if it's too long, tighten if it's too loose, loosen it if it's too tight). You get the idea don’t you? The only foot surgeries I didn't perform were; preventive surgery, cosmetic surgery, nor did I ever correct a Normal Foot Surgically. There are doctors out there who can do those procedures! The remainder of the day’s work (it really should be called play) was focused on being an H.M.A. This stood for a, "HEALTH MAINTENANCE ADVOCATE." I promoted H.M.A. This stood for, "HEALTH MAINTENANCE AWARENESS." And lastly, I worked with an H.M.A. That is a "HEALTH MAINTENANCE ALLIANCE." I refer to all of this, as dealing with the “REAL H.M.O’S”, (Health Maintenance Options), AKA "Alternative Medicine." Now that I've left my podiatry practice, I can devote more time to help people with; Health Awareness, Health Solutions, the name of my business, and Health Reform.
I'm not in favor of the terms "Alternative Medicine", or "Complimentary Practitioner." Alternative means that you are going to this instead of that. What if, "That" is what you need? Or, you are going to that instead of this. What if, "this" is what you need? Why not do both? I noted that my patients who did both did far better with their issues than the ones who just did one or the other. As a behavioral analyst, I often noted patients who sought the services of a, "Complimentary Practitioner", often had spontaneous remissions of their chronic medical enigmas after sessions with these practitioners. That doesn't sound very complimentary to me. Especially when, the hallowed medical people couldn't do much other than run tests, prescribe drugs, and offer surgery. However, since the public uses and understands the term "Alternative Medicine", I often refer to it.
My first experience with, "Alternative Medicine" was a story told to me by my wife shortly after we married. She'd experienced a Chiropractic treatment at age five. Having been plagued with chronic ear infections during early childhood, she had seen many different Medical Doctors, plus taken countless antibiotics. Apparently this took place prior to implanting tubes in the ears otherwise, and she probably would have had surgery too. Her mother took her to, “Doc Jones” who in a matter of 10 minutes removed an impingement in her neck, after which, copious amounts of a puss-like drainage came out of her ear. She never had another infection after that. I'm sure that the Medical People call this a "spontaneous remission", and only a "quack, or charlatan would do such a thing".
My next Alternative medicine experience was with my mother. Mom came to visit shortly after I opened my Podiatry practice in Roseville, California. She promptly showed me her fingers and then said, "Look at my legs." My mother had always had a bad case of arthritis in her fingers and varicosities in her leg veins. The nodules and swellings in her fingers and most of the varicosities had somehow been eradicated. She went on to tell me that she'd been having weekly acupuncture treatments by a Chinese Doctor of Acupuncture down in Palo Alto, California. She was traveling from Mill Valley, which is over an hour’s drive. All of her pain had resolved and she never experienced any reoccurrence of either during the last 20 plus years of her life.
One of the scrub nurses at our local surgery center asked me one day, if I knew anything about arthritis. She showed me the gnarled finger joints in her hands, and now I knew why she was so doggone slow at passing instruments. I only saw her with gowns and gloves on and had no idea about the shape that her hands were in. After I told her what I knew about degenerative arthritis but, that I did not make any diagnosis or recommendations for the hands. She asked me, "What treatment would you have if these were your fingers?" I immediately replied, "Acupuncture." I then gave her the name of a good Acupuncturist. Two weeks later she came to me in the doctor’s lounge and showed me her hands and thanked me for the referral. As with my mother, her fingers were hardly swollen and they had a full range of motion when she demonstrated them to me.
Therefore, when I was getting dressed for work one Monday morning and my back went into spasms, I called my favorite Chiropractor. He was kind enough to see me prior to normal office hours and give me a 15 second adjustment. He informed me that a rib had slipped a little and the one treatment should take care of it. My pain was instantly resolved.
Over the years, I referred countless patients to Chiropractors, Naturopaths, and Acupuncturists, and many of them experienced favorable results, according to their feedback to me.
OH MY ACHING BACK
When I awakened one Monday morning (it always seems to be a Monday morning) I could barely get out of bed. It was about one week after my third annual marathon. I knew that something serious was going on, although I didn't know the half of it at the time. The pain was more intense than anything I'd ever endured before in my life. I called my favorite Chiropractor again and once more he was able to see me before patient appointments that day. After two or three adjustments the pain remained the same. So, I did what most rational people would do, I went to see my family doctor. Since I worked closely with him, plus he was my landlord, he worked me into his busy Monday morning schedule. Following an examination and a full set of lab tests and X-Rays I was diagnosed with "muscle spasms". He gave me prescriptions for a muscle relaxant, narcotic pain medication, and a referral to Physical Therapy.
I attended the therapist’s office for approximately an hour each day for ultrasound with cortisone cream, cross frictional massage, and inversion (hanging upside down on a teeter totter for 20 minutes) until Friday of the same week. By then, I may have been 10% better than the beginning of the week. I already had discarded the prescriptions, as I’m not into drugs.
Leaving my office that Friday afternoon, I spotted the Acupuncturist’s car in the empty parking lot across the street. Why hadn’t I thought of this before? I know that Acupuncture is supposed to relieve all kinds of different pains and, is even used in China as an anesthetic in surgery. When I limped into Peter’s waiting room he was reading the morning paper, he looked up and said, "Hello. You look like you're in pain." I replied, "Yes, and lots of it due to muscle spasms." I asked, "Is there anything you might be able to do for me this afternoon to relieve the pain?" His 5:00 patient hadn't shown up and it was 5:15 so, he took me into the treatment room. After 30 minutes of tiny needles in my back and some moxibustion, which smelled like a 1960s rock concert, I got off the table 80% pain free. By the next morning I was 100% pain free until a year later.
I experienced the second annual episode of spasms two weeks after my fourth annual marathon. Now I'm starting to think that the marathon was causing my back problems. But, my back didn't hurt when I ran, so I discounted the notion. Since I learn fairly quickly, I called Peter first thing Monday morning (there you go again – Monday morning), to see if he had any openings that day. He told me to come at 9:30. This time he placed two needles in my right hand and one needle in my leg below the knee on the outer side. The leg needle got extremely hot when he twirled it. After five or so minutes when he twirled it again it was not as hot. Another five minutes later he pulled the needles out and I was 95% pain free. By the end of the day, I was 100% pain free. I then declared, "Acupuncture is a Miracle."
The next year, a week after my fifth and final marathon, almost to the day, I experienced the third annual back pain incident. Now, I'm pretty sure there is a connection between the marathon and the back pain. But, I didn't learn the connection until 12 years later. Peter was on vacation at the time, and so I called the other Acupuncturist in town. He was gracious enough to get me into his office for a treatment that very day, however, it didn't work. I'll explain why in Chapter 10, How's Your Healer? So, I went to another Acupuncturist in Sacramento who performed an effective treatment. Sadly, my friend Peter, died as a result of a motor vehicle accident shortly after that, so I went to the Doctor in Sacramento from then on.
What's In It For You?
Straying from the mainstream means that; you'll need to form the mind-set that you are going to take charge of your health care destiny. That you will make different choices about the solutions you choose for better health, and that you are no longer totally reliant on your doctor for all of your health care needs.
When you stray from the mainstream, you never know where you'll end up. But, unless you go astray, you'll end up where you're heading. This is your first step. Don't completely distrust your doctors, but understand that they're missing eight important chapters in their repair manual to get you well, sort of well- just better.
These missing chapters are explained in the following chapters on the steps to better health. It's possible, that there are some other options out there that might get you through your issues. But you'll have to look, listen, and try some of them. Stick with your doctor so that you don't have any serious complications from your PAPA Problems, Premature-Accelerated-Physiological-Aging. But you may want to Explore - Experience - Get Educated - Have Enlightenments with; Teachers, Healers, and methods of self help, so that you can get past the PAPA stuff and Become Empowered with Optimal Health.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 2
Bowen Therapy
WHEN THE PATIENT IS READY TO HEAL
A HEALER WILL APPEAR
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 1
After 12 years of intermittent spasms of my lower back muscles and daily aching in by back, groin, legs, and feet, I thought that I'd used up all of my options, (six acupuncturists, six chiropractors, physical therapy on two occasions plus exercises, massage therapy twice, and stretching exercises). I thought that I'd soon have to see the Neurosurgeon, and this made me very depressed. My patient's feedback on back surgery and neurosurgeons wasn’t very good. I also found out what my patients meant when they said, "When your feet hurt, you hurt all over." You could also say that, "when your back hurts you hurt all over." You can't sit, stand, walk, or lie down. At this point, I awakened in the mornings with aching in my right foot and groin, stiffness in the lower back, and fatigue from a poor night’s sleep. Also, my right shoulder and TMJ were out. When first going to sleep at night I'd awaken with twitching and restlessness in my leg an hour or so later, and around 2:00 AM, cramps would occur in the calf muscle in my right leg.
One afternoon a patient was telling me about her foot pain, which sounded like an atypical sciatic nerve problem that was just showing up in her foot. I mentioned this and asked if she’d had any lower back problems? She said, "Oh no, it’s not my sciatic nerve. I’ve had that before. This is different. I got that fixed two years ago." I inquired as to how she, "Got it fixed?" She told me that she'd had Bowen Therapy. I said, "I've never heard of that therapy. What's it about?" She replied, "It's kind of new here and most people don't know about it. The man who does it learned from the Australian people about two years ago, so that's why most people haven't heard of it." She told me about a practitioner in Auburn, California who'd been trained to do the treatments by the "Australian People." I asked if he was a chiropractor? She informed me that he was a Massage Therapist, but that he didn't do massage, only this Bowen technique. I volunteered to her that I was suffering from lower back pain and sciatic nerve problems. She said, "Oh, you must go and see my friend. Not only has he helped me, but I’ve referred my boss, and my sister, and two of my neighbors, and he’s helped us all with our back pains." I asked how to spell the gentleman’s name so I could get his number from the phone-book to make an appointment. She said, “Oh no, you won’t find him in the phone-book. He's got an unlisted number. I've got his card out in the glove box in my car; I’ll go get it for you.” After I finished my business with her foot she went out to her car and got the card. My receptionist copied it and gave me the copy and gave the patient back her card. Then she said, "Oh yeah. By the way, you must call him Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. That's the only time of the day he answers the phone to make and change appointments, and if you call any other time and leave a message on his answering machine, he doesn't return calls." I thought. "That's a little odd?" This took place on a Friday afternoon. So on Monday morning, I saw the note on my desk and glanced at the clock. It was 8:10 and I thought, " Good. I'm within the window of opportunity", so I dialed the number. It was busy, so, a few minutes later I tried again. Still busy, so I handed the task over to my receptionist with instructions to get me an appointment as soon as possible. About 5 minutes past 9:00 my receptionist informed me that he had a cancellation that afternoon at 5:00, which I could have, otherwise the next available time was 3 weeks out. I took the cancellation, as I didn't want to wait for 3 weeks to see him. That was the 3rd clue something was up (unlisted phone number), (doesn't return calls), (booked up 3 weeks out).
When I arrived in his driveway that afternoon, there was an elderly lady sitting in one of those plastic $9.99 lawn chairs, missing a front tooth, and smoking a Camel cigarette. She said with a slight lisp, "If you’re here to see Milton, you ring the bell he answers it himself." I thought to myself, "She’s quite a receptionist, but I guess he doesn't let her do the phones?" The front door was open, while the screen door was shut. About a minute after I rang the chime, a man shuffled to the door to greet me. He was bare footed, wearing a pair of khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, which was unbuttoned to the breastbone. He had a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket. He'd not shaved yet that day, and his hair was all mussed up. All in all, he made quite a first impression on me. He said, "Are you Dr. Mosher?" I replied, "Yes, I am." He said, "How do you do? I’m Milton Albrecht. Come on in." He led me through his house to a back bedroom which was adorned with a map of Australia, a couple of boomerangs on the wall, an ammo belt on the chair, and a rifle standing in the corner. Now I’m thinking, "what did I just get myself into?" He asked me where I was hurting. I told him that my lower back on the right side around the lumbo-sacral area was the problem. He said, "Cool. I’ll fix ya. Just lay on the table with your feet on the pillow, your butt in the air, and your face down in the cradle." I apprehensively complied.
As I received the treatment, many thoughts were racing through my mind. What was I doing here? How was a simple plucking of my muscles here and there going to relieve my back pain? Why'd he pluck a couple of muscles and leave the room for 3 to 5 minutes? Oh well, Ann my patient had relief, as well as all of the others she'd referred to this mystical man. After 10 to 15 minutes I began to get very relaxed and almost fell asleep. One time he put his hand close to my low back and I could feel lots of heat radiating from me. After he turned me over onto my back, he moved a muscle in my inner thigh and I thought I was going to hit the ceiling it hurt so much. I asked him if this was Rolfing, and he assured me that it wasn't. After he left the room for me to rest following the procedure, my palms started to sweat. It wasn't the usual watery kind of sweat, but a sticky - syrupy kind of discharge. When he came back in the room and saw that I was patting my palms together, he touched my hand with his fingers and commented, "Ah Ha. That’s toxins working their way out." I said, "Oh yeah. What kind of toxins?" a little facetiously. He sniffed his fingers and said, "Probably lactic acid cause it don't smell." I left it at that. Then he had me open my jaw and close it and said, "Your TMJ'S out." I recalled that I'd been nipping the inner side of my right cheek when chewing food the past few weeks. He had me make a knuckle with my index finger and place it between my teeth. He then tweaked a number of muscles around the jaw and temple area. When I opened my jaw afterward, I could sense that my jaw was completely realigned. He then instructed me to sit up. When I got up, and I was a little light - headed. I slowly arose when my senses came back. As I stood up, I couldn’t believe how good I felt. I sensed more energy; my muscles all over the body were loose. My back didn't ache. Wow! My patient was right about the therapy. She'd referred her boss, sister and three friends to the therapist and he'd helped all of them, and now, me too. I commented that while he did nothing major to my back, but the pain was gone. He said, "There’s nothing wrong with your back. Your Adductor Magnus muscle was all locked up." That’s the muscle in the inner thigh that hurt when he released it. I said, "What’s that got to do with my back?" He said, "Everything. When that Adductor tightens the Iliotibial band, Tensor Fascia Lata, and Gluteus Medius muscles all tighten on the outer side of the hip in order to compensate. When you lift something and twist those tissues get strained, and then your back muscles go into spasm." I said, "that’s exactly what's been happening. What ever made that Adductor muscle lock up?" He said, "Dunnow. Must have built up lactic acid in them some time ago." I was so amazed at how good I felt and was so relieved to be rid of the pain, I didn't figure out the lactic acid issue till a few days later. I asked how much I owed him for the treatment. He said, "Oh, just give me twenty bucks." As I handed him a $20 dollar bill, I asked, "How much do you usually charge? I'll be sending you some clients, as I grabbed a hand full of his business cards." He told me that his usual charge was $35.00, but he gave seniors a discount. I asked if he was always booked three weeks out, and he said, "Yeah, except in the flu season and during the bad weather when the older folks don't like to drive, it slows down a little." Then I sprung the main question that was on my mind, "How many people do you treat every day?" He replied, "25 or 30!" I thought,
"That’s pretty good considering his business practices." While walking out to my car on my way to go home, I noticed that I was walking differently than before the treatment and the arch supports in my shoes were pressing up into my arch. So, I removed them and walked better without anything inside the shoe. The night of the treatment I had such a good night’s sleep I didn't move my head on the pillow at all. In the morning when I got out of bed my back wasn't stiff, the feet, legs and groin didn't ache, and I felt like a new person. I recalled that I didn't have jumpy-restless legs awaken me shortly after falling to sleep, and I didn't wake up with cramps in my calf muscles at 2:00 to 3:00 AM as I usually do.
A week later as I was dressing one morning, I saw that the hammertoes on my left foot had vanished, sometime between the morning of discovery and the day of the treatment! I had to do a second take in order to believe my eyes. Mind you, I do complicated surgical procedures on hammertoes and sometimes they don't stay straight following surgery. Traditional stretching and physical therapy never helps them so, I realized that this might be the missing piece to the puzzle. I couldn't wait to get to the telephone and call Milton in order to tell him about these miracles, plus to find out how I might learn how to perform some of the technique. After I told him all about what had happened since his treatment, he laughed and said, "That happens all the time". I jokingly told him, "I won’t turn you in for practicing podiatry without a license if you'll show me how to do this for my patients." He asked me for my fax number so he could send me a brochure on a Bowen workshop he was teaching in January 1995, and so I could sign up for it. After I sent him my application and deposit for the class, I couldn't wait for January to come.
WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY TO LEARN
A TEACHER WILL APPEAR
Before the Bowen class began about 20 people were milling around the room as I entered to register for the class. I later discovered, most of them were massage therapists. I overheard them talking in excited voices about things such as "Ethereal Energy", "Chakras", "Grounding", "Aroma Therapy", and all kinds of "Woogy-like stuff." I thought that I was in a different world. I felt quite out of my comfort zone, but as the weekend wore on I found them to be very dedicated therapists who all had a passion for their work. At the very beginning of the class Milton said, "I'm not really a teacher, but I’m going to show you all how to do this therapy, and it will probably change the course of some of your lives." How little did I know that my life was about to change, for the better? As we practiced on each other that first morning, a twinge of apprehension passed through me as I realized that I was touching someone’s body, and that I was outside of my Podiatry license boundaries. I was licensed to treat the muscles of the leg that affect the function of the foot. But, I wasn't licensed to treat the Pectorals, Trapeziuses, Para spinals and all of those upper body muscles. I decided to learn all that I could, and that I'd figure out how I might incorporate some of it into my podiatry practice. Anyway, I was really waiting for Saturday afternoon and Sunday, during which we were going to cover the leg and foot muscles. This is the part of the program that would apply to my skills enhancement as a podiatrist. When we finished the class on Sunday afternoon, I was fairly exhausted from the rigors of learning so much new information. However, I couldn’t wait to go to work Monday morning and begin my new journey. Little did I know where that journey was going to take me?
MY NEW BEGINNING
Day in and day out, favorable outcomes for the treatments that I provided by way of, Injections, Surgery, Physical Therapy, Orthotics, and Prescriptions for foot pains and foot deformities was around 80%. This was slightly higher than my peers, because I used some non-conventional methods that they wouldn't stoop to. In other words, my patients suffered a 20% failure rate. I also saw, (as a behavioral analyst - people watcher), thousands of patients over the years who had experienced the same or worse success: failure ratios with their medical care. I will tell you why in later Chapters.
After I took the four day workshop on the Bowen Technique in January, 1995, I began incorporating it into my podiatry practice. The first week I treated 12 patients with it. Six of them returned the following week for a second session. One of them said, "Dr. Mosher, I don't know what you did? But, you've changed my life!" Then, he explained how. Another said, "Dr. Mosher, you won't believe what happened after that treatment!". Then, she told me what happened. One other said, "I had a runner's high all day after the treatment. And, now I feel a sense of well being and balance." (I'll explain this in chapter 8 - The Meridian System). Another one said, ''If only the medical doctors would take this holistic and natural approach to our health care issues." As the months passed by, many would say, the same things or, "I sure wish that I had met you sooner so that my life could've been better. I've been through years of hell."
My practice took on a new persona. I had my traditional mainstream patients. I had my holistic podiatry patients, meaning I was taking care of them with both traditional modalities plus the Bowen and other natural health therapies. This latter group many times had other pains that haunted them, and my holistic approach often resolved these other issues as well as their foot problems. The patients, with resolved headaches, would often refer someone else with headaches, someone with shoulder pain referred a friend with suffered shoulder pain. I had one patient who suffered with "Tennis Elbow" refer thirty six new patients at last count, and hardly a one had a foot problem. I was, and still am, very careful, in that I don't treat headaches, "Tennis Elbow", or any other sign-symptom-disability. I do the therapy for stress reduction, relaxation, and postural realignment. I can't help it if their headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel, TMJ problems resolve.
Beginning my Bowen Practice
When I got to the office on the first Monday morning after my Bowen class, the very first patient needed the treatment. She had a sciatic nerve problem in the past and she was certain that it had reoccurred because she had been performing floor exercises for long periods of time and now her left foot had a tingling sensation like the previous bout with sciatica.
I informed her about the new therapy I'd just learned and offered it to her. It took less than a nanosecond for her to say yes. I escorted her into my operating room which I had transformed into a temporary therapy room and placed her on the surgical gurney which I'd converted into a temporary massage table. I quickly checked my notes from the seminar and began the treatment. I only performed the treatment in the waist, legs, and feet to stay within the boundaries of my Podiatry license. When the session ended, she got up and stood on her feet she said, "It sure feels better. Not all the way. But at least 50%."
The next morning she called me to report, "That by noon Monday all of the symptoms had disappeared, and the next time she got the sciatica back she would call me for treatment." I said, "To be sure she had a foot problem. And, thank you."
During the next month or so, I performed whole body treatments on a few patients, when they asked me to, and when I felt comfortable doing so. I quickly learned that these patients did remarkably better than those that I treated from the waist down, within my scope of practice. "When in Rome do as the Romans do." Therefore, I enrolled in a school of massage therapy and received a certificate so that I could give people a full treatment without fear of reprisals from the establishments.
I must confess that the first two or so years that I was performing the Bowen treatment for my patients and their referrals I was a little, or maybe a lot on edge. On one hand, I was very enthusiastic and excited to be able to do the therapy that was so beneficial to my patients and their loved ones. However, the other side of me was very apprehensive about what my peers might think about me doing the seemingly far out stuff. In addition, some of my patients experienced complete resolution of signs, symptoms and disabilities, which were way outside of my "Podiatry Box". This made me a little nervous about how the medical community would react to my helping their patient’s medical problems. So far, I've not encountered any direct negative comments or actions from either group.
I guess this made me a kind of "Holistic Podiatrist ." Patients started asking me all kinds of questions about the "Woogy." Most of which I didn't know anything about. Therefore, I started reading books and literature on Alternative Medicine, Acupuncture, Vitamins, and such. As I learned about these other types of therapies, I began meeting practitioners who performed these modalities and from this, some very nice friendships and relations have followed, and still exist. I currently have a network of practitioners that I work with, which I refer to as an H.M.A. (Health Maintenance Alliance). We all provide H.M.A. (Health Maintenance Awareness), and most of us are H.M.A’S (Health Maintenance Advocates). Some very remarkable results have been experienced by our patient / clients.
STORIES PATIENTS HAVE TOLD
ARTHRITIS
One of my more interesting experiences occurred with a patient and his responses, which took place the very first week I started doing Bowen. Another Podiatrist down the road who was not able to help him referred Bernard to me. Bernard had an arthritic large toe joint, which he did not want to have surgery on. He told me that he was favoring the toe and this was making his hip and back painful. He was hopeful that some type of shoe modification would suffice to relieve his problems. His joint was red, swollen, tender, and with movement grated like sand paper crepitus. I informed him that I could accommodate his shoe and for him to leave it over the weekend and I would get it done. Then I also told him about the Bowen treatment, which might relieve the pains in his hip and back. He begged me to also perform the upper back and neck moves and promised he wouldn't tell anyone. This was before I obtained a massage certificate; remember, my podiatry license only covered the leg muscles. I felt comfortable with him, so I did a complete treatment from head to toe. When I had finished the procedures that I had learned in class, I examined his Extensor Hallucis Longus muscles, the muscle that draws the big toe upward. The one on the right side was like a rope. So, I figured that if they had taught a procedure on this in class, it would be slack to the table and make an anterior move, good side first. So, I worked on the left side 1st, and then did the right side muscle, and he immediately let out a moan. I asked if he was all right, and he said, "I'm alright. It kind of hurt and tickled at the same time."
I left the room for a few minutes in order to let him rest and for the release to take place. When I returned, he was curled up in a fetal position and was quite pale and cold. My first thought was that he'd fainted and was going into shock. I checked his pulse and was going to take his blood pressure when he said, "I’m okay. I’m a little cold. May I have a blanket?" I covered him up and left him alone to settle down for a few minutes. The rest of his story is in Chapter 3. I gave him his post-treatment instructions and told him to pick up his shoe on Monday.
When I saw him on seated in the waiting room Monday morning prior to appointment times I said, "Hi Bernard. I’ve got your shoe ready." He said very emphatically, "I don’t care about the shoe. I want to know when I can get another treatment?" I said, "That’s right, I gave you a Bowen Treatment last week. How'd it work?" He said, "How'd it work? It changed my life! The past 3 nights have been the only full night’s sleep I have had in years. My back doesn't hurt. The pain in my hip is all but gone and look at my toe!" He commenced to remove his shoe and sock and bent the toe up and down and said, "See. Look at this." I couldn't help but walk out into the waiting room and look at his toe up close. The swelling, redness and crepitus were completely resolved. There remained a little stiffness, but the toe flexed at least 50% more than it did on Friday. I told him that he could make an appointment for Friday.
POST TRAUMA
Ethyl was referred to me by her chiropractor. She was hit by a car nine years before we met, and suffered major trauma to her right leg and foot. Following multiple surgeries and rehabilitation, she was stuck on morphine and other narcotics, until one day she decided to get off the drugs. Then, her back and foot became more painful, so her chiropractor wanted me to make orthotics for her feet with hopes that her back would stay in longer following adjustment. She walked with a noticeable limp, she was unable to rise up on her toes and she had a mass of scarring in the lower leg. She spoke very rapidly with a slight stammer, and seemed quite hyper. On her initial visit I gave her an abbreviated Bowen session due to time constraints, and taped her arch for temporary support. She noted immediate improvement in her foot as well as her back pain.
The following week she was a lot better and was looking forward to a full Bowen treatment, which I did.
When she returned the following week, I saw her standing in the waiting room near the hall door, and I asked her, "How are you doing?" She smiled and motioned with her index finger to come here. As I crossed the threshold, she put out her arms and gave me one of those 'Warm fuzzy hugs' and whispered in my ear, "Thank you. I'm a brand new person. I can get up on my toes, my foot doesn’t hurt, and my back is 80% better. I worked in my vegetable garden for hours without getting tired and sore. And, everyone at work noticed that I’m walking normally now." Later on during her treatment she told me that on the day of her last treatment, when she got home afterward, she went into the bathroom and threw – up for a half hour. Immediately afterward she felt much better. This happens frequently following the initial session when narcotic users have Bowen Therapy. I believe that the excess narcotic residues are either stored in the fascial and myofascial tissues, or in the receptor sites for endorphins in the cell's membranes. This therapy quite often will cause this type of reaction in present , and former heavy narcotics users and abusers. This doesn't seem to occur in the other methods of fascial / myofascial bodywork that I've learned, practiced, studied, and discussed - and it doesn't occur after follow up Bowen sessions.
POST CANCER TREATMENT
My receptionist informed me that a patient was on the phone who needed an appointment for Bowen Therapy. She was referred by her neurologist, whom I'd never heard of. Since her only problem was neck pain, my receptionist wanted to know if I could see her or not. I said absolutely not, especially since I didn't know the patient nor the referral source. At that point, I didn't possess a massage certificate, so I really couldn't wander outside the scope of my Podiatry practice. The next day the lady called back and said, she'd spoken to her neurologist and that he insisted that she have Bowen treatments. And, that I was the only person he wanted to touch her. I gave in, and had my receptionist make her an appointment.
When she came for her appointment we had her sign a waiver that she was fully aware that I was not working as a Podiatrist, but only as a Bowen therapist. As it turned out, she had been going through radiation therapy for breast cancer. She'd had a radical mastectomy with lymph node removal. This had left her with a stiff and painful neck. She was scheduled for a C.T. scan in four weeks to monitor some palpable lymph nodes, so she could only have three weekly treatments. Following which, she would return about a month later for the fourth Bowen treatment after the scan and results were determined, to see if she may need additional surgery for the palpable nodes. After her 1st treatment her range of motion improved about 50%. Following the 2nd treatment her range of motion was about 80 %. After the 3rd session her neck moved pain free in all directions.
When she returned four weeks later she was beaming from ear to ear. Her C.T. scan for the lymph nodes was completely normal. I can't make any conjecture on what transpired other than a spontaneous remission must have occurred. She thought otherwise.
CIRCULATORY
One December morning a lady came in to get relief for a painful corn on the inner side of her little toe. Her toe was a purplish color with a hard corn on the inner side adjacent to the toenail. She informed me that her toe wasn't always purple. It always got pink when the weather warmed up. She had a condition called Raynaud’s disease. Not really a disease, but a spasticity of the blood vessels, which is aggravated by cold temperatures. I trimmed the corn and informed her about a minor surgical procedure, which could relieve the corn permanently. However, we'd have to wait until the weather warmed for me to check the circulation in order to determine that she could heal the surgery. The corn removal relieved her pain for about a month.
She returned in January for another treatment. At this visit she complained about pain in her hip and back due to favoring the pain in her toe. I immediately offered a Bowen session in addition to trimming and padding the corn.
When she returned the following week her toe was a little less purple and almost pink. I gave her another Bowen treatment, re-padded the corn and advised to come back when necessary.
On a cold, blustery day in February she returned with the painful corn and said, "I think that you can go ahead with the operation because the toe has remained pink since the last Bowen treatment." I listened to the pulses with my Doppler Ultrasound and sure enough, her circulation was totally normal. Her toe was nice and pink, and after I blanched the tip of her toe with finger pressure, it pinked up in one second. The following week I operated on the toe and it healed very quickly.
Another patient complained about her cold feet, especially in bed at night. She had to sleep with her socks on most of the time, and if she didn’t her husband complained about her cold feet waking him up all night long. Following three treatments her feet warmed up, as well as her hands, and have remained so ever since.
CORNS AND HAMMERTOES
Carol had an extremely painful corn on the inner side of her little toe along the toenail groove. Removal of it only relieved her pain for a week at best. She was ready to schedule surgery at about the same time she entered my bunion study group. As she had her Bowen treatments and foot taping once a week and a set of orthotics, we realized about two months later that her corn had disappeared. It has never returned.
Libby has a hammertoe on her fourth toe left foot. It's one of those that are a little flexed at the first knuckle but, also twisted (adducto-varus). Following Bowen sessions the toe un-twists and is totally straight for about four to five weeks. Then, all of a sudden it contracts again. I had hammertoes on my right second and third toes when I first had a Bowen treatment. To this day over 16 years later, my toes are still straight.
CHRONIC NEUROMUSCULAR PAIN
Jenny came to my office with a sprained ankle. She'd been to one of those "Doc in a Box" places, and was placed in a removable cast boot. Because it was lifting her up about one inch on the left side, her back and hip was painful. She wanted to know if there were any other options. I splinted her ankle with adhesive tape and gave her a Bowen session. I later found out that she'd had a standing appointment at her chiropractor’s office every Friday at 4:00 PM to treat her upper back and shoulder pain. She was in the janitorial business and apparently was straining these muscles over and over again. However, following just two Bowen sessions she no longer had to go to the chiropractor. After four weeks absence, he called her to see if she was all right. When she told him had happened, he hung up on her.
She came back to my office for another problem a few years later, and I asked her about her shoulder/back problem. She'd not had a pain in over nine years! Even though she still does the same kind of work.
COLDS – FLU – SINUSES
Early in my career as a Bowen Therapist, a patient was undergoing a session. When I came back into the room following the basic relaxation procedure for the neck, she told me that when she got to the office she was experiencing a severe sore throat. Following the neck muscle releases, the sore throat disappeared. When she returned for another session two weeks later she said, "Do you remember that sore throat that I had last time which you cleared?" I replied, "yes, what happened?" She told me that when she got home from work that evening her son and husband both had the exact same sore throat and they'd been sick for the past two weeks. She didn't get whatever the virus was. I figured that this was some sort of coincidence and went about my business. But, other patients told me about similar occurrences. Then, one day I felt the familiar scratchy throat and punky feeling one gets when the cold first comes on. So, I performed the neck moves on myself, and within minutes the symptoms cleared. I've been doing this ever since on myself whenever I feel a cold coming on. I also take a dropper full of Echinacea in a glass of water. It works almost every time. I would only guess that the moves to the neck muscles open up the lymphatic drainage system and this reduces the accumulation of viral bodies in the oral pharynx.
One Friday afternoon after I'd completed the same neck moves on a patient she commented that the sinus infection that she was experiencing cleared up while I was out of the room. I commented something or another, and then she asked, "If my husband can get here before closing time, could you give him a treatment too? He has the same sinus infection that I had."
Approximately one year following my early Bowen experiences it dawned on me that I no longer get those fever blisters on my lip (herpes simplex). I used to get them if the weather changed, allergies flared, got stressed, or if I thought I was catching a cold. I've now not had but two of them during the past 16 years.
SAVING LIVES - IS IT POSSIBLE?
My first experience with a patient who told me that the treatments I did had saved his life. It really took me quite by surprise. At first I thought he was kidding, until tears came to his eyes. Jeff was a Police Chaplin from a near by town. His main problem was a pain in his heel. He told me that he was favoring it and this made his back and hip hurt (seems to be a common theme). I treated both his foot and the muscles, which were involved with the back and hip with Bowen Therapy. During the third session we got into a discussion on the release of emotional holding patterns during bodywork therapies. Jeff then asked, "Is that why I’ve been so emotional the past few weeks?" I said, "Quite possibly." He then dropped the bomb, "You know my friend, that you've saved my life!" As tears rolled from his eyes he told me about how he had become suicidal for a number of reasons, with the final straw being about a friend of his who'd had a drug problem. He was trying to help his friend get through the drug addiction. One day, he found his friend dead in his living room from an apparent overdose, and this was about all Jeff could take. I'm not claiming to have had anything to do with Jeff’s desire to continue living. He just told me that's what happened.
I was beginning the third weekly session with Rod. When I asked how he was doing with the treatments he said, "I don’t think that they're helping. I may even be a little worse. It's starting to bother me in bed when I sleep on my stomach." Rod was experiencing low back pain. His hairdresser had relief of low back pain with one of my Bowen sessions, so she'd referred him to me for Bowen treatments. I asked Rod if he'd been examined and worked up by a physician who's qualified to evaluate back symptoms. He said, "No." I then asked, "When was your last physical?" He said, "A couple of years ago. I'm overdue for one." I encouraged him to make an appointment with his primary care physician to get evaluated because there are many pathologies, which can cause low back pain. I've seen patients who were diagnosed with kidney infections, pelvic disorders, cancer, and digestive problems as well as disk and vertebrae pathology. Rod’s wife came into the office to have a treatment just two weeks following our discussion that day, and she thanked me for saving Rod’s life!
Fortunately, he was able to get an appointment the next day for a physical. His regular physician was on vacation, but his wife's doctor had an opening. He was fortunate that his regular doctor was away because in the past, any complaints he had , she always brushed him off and told him, "Oh Rod. You know your just getting old." His wife's doctor found a 12-centimeter aneurysm on his abdominal aorta, and it was about ready to rupture. By 2:00 PM that same day following the diagnosis, Rod had the aneurysm repaired. Within just two days post op, his back pain was completely gone!
A former Bowen patient who mentioned that the treatments had saved her life referred one other patient. I am not sure what that statement meant.
Bowen didn't save Chuck’s life, but it certainly enhanced his nursing career. Chuck’s mother, who was a regular patient, asked me if I would see if I could help Chuck’s foot problems? She said, "Chuck is studying nursing and he has feet just like mine, and I'm afraid he won't be able to stand and walk on concrete floors as required during the normal work shift." When I first saw Chuck he had all of the foot problems his mother had informed me about. He also had the familiar hip and low back pain that many times follows after the unstable feet. I introduced him to my foot and Bowen combination and after the first week he noted marked improvement. After the second week he returned with improved skin color and a sparkle in his eyes which were not there before. He informed me that he had gotten his first "A" in a test after two years of nursing school. He told me how he'd "Crammed for exams, and on the day of the test would choke, and thus "B’s" were about the best he could do." Also he said, "While I was at my internship last night I was charting patient notes and all of a sudden I seemed to get everything together." He went on to say, "I was afraid that I wasn't going to be a very good nurse because even though I could memorize the material to pass the tests, it all didn't make a lot of sense to me. Now it's all come together." I finished his treatments, made him orthotics, and told him to come back once in awhile for a tune-up.
A few weeks later Mildred brought her mother for an appointment. Mother didn't speak very fluent English so Mildred told me, "My mother isn't eating very well and she has no energy. I know that you're a Foot Doctor, and mom doesn't have any foot problems. But, I'd appreciate it if you could give her one of those treatments that you do. I go to school with Chuck!" She went on to tell me that about a month ago, she'd noticed a change in Chuck’s demeanor. His entire persona had a new character, and she had to ask him what was going on. When he told her that he was having Bowen Therapy and that is all that was different in his life, Mildred concluded that this was responsible in the change in Chuck’s life. I did two sessions for the mother, and her life perked up immediately. I saw her about six months later for a tune-up and she was fine ever and after. Mildred kept me posted, since she became a patient too.
Following his graduation, I heard via the grapevine that Chuck got 100% on his State Board of Nursing exam. He also got a very good job and received promotions very quickly. Over the next two years Chuck’s mother came in every two to three months for treatment of her corns and calluses. I often asked how Chuck was doing, and she always said that he was, "Doing real fine and he was planning to come by for a tune up."
One day, he was with his mother during her treatment and we got to talking. I asked, "How are your feet doing?" He replied, "Great. My feet have zero pain, and my toes are all straight on my left foot. My right big toe was deviated about 30 degrees at the first of the year. Now it's about 20 degrees. I think by the end of the year it'll be all straight." I looked at his mom’s feet, which were deformed with hammertoes and bunions. She'd had "Corrective foot surgery" by an orthopedist four years before, and her toes were straight for maybe a year or so and then began to re-deform. Something is wrong with this picture. She'd had surgery and her feet remain deformed. He had no surgery, and his feet are straight. What else is striking is that he was still unwinding from the Bowen Therapy I'd done two years prior. Now, I can say without any reservation that you can obtain an 80% good result with foot surgery, or you can obtain an 80% or better good results with conservative treatment. This is my conclusion following many similar cases included in my bunion study.
CREATING LIVES
INFERTILITY TO FERTILITY
When this subject was brought forth in my basic Bowen class, I just rolled my eyes, smiled, and thought, "Yeah-sure!" When I questioned my guru, Milton about, it he casually remarked, "That Bowen Therapy straightened the fallopian tubes so the eggs can drop, and thus become impregnated when the timing is right. When the tube is bent because the posture alignment is bent, the eggs can't drop." I took this with a grain of salt, so to speak, and went on with my business. Then, about two years later, three of my patients miraculously became pregnant following Bowen Therapy. All came in a bunch, about one month apart. The first patient came specifically for that purpose as she had read in a magazine publication that Bowen Therapy was successful with infertility issues. The other two had mentioned their infertility problems, but I never said anything to them about Bowen Therapy helping infertility. I found out later that they'd all recently gotten pregnant.
Marcy, one of my podiatry patients, really got me thinking. She'd been favoring her foot pain during the past few weeks, which made her back painful. In addition to caring for her foot pain, I gave her two Bowen sessions a week apart. When she returned the third week she was grinning from ear to ear. She said, "Thank you." I said, "Thank me for what? You don't have to thank me for fixing your foot." She replied, "I've been going to the infertility clinic during the past eight months. Every month, I only produce one or two eggs, if that. And, none have been satisfactory for insemination. Last week, I had twenty eight eggs! They harvested three and put twelve in my egg bank."
Eight months later she had twins. She's convinced that the Bowen Therapy was responsible for this. I guess, I am too. I met up with the acupuncturist, who practiced next door to me, out in the parking lot one morning. I asked, "How exactly, does acupuncture help infertility?" He replied. "Studies have shown that the stimulation of the meridians and meridian points causes stimulation of the pituitary gland which causes the hypothalamus to increase the production of gonadotropic hormones, which then stimulates increased sperm and egg production." Then he said, "I'm pretty much specializing in infertility right now. The clinic up the street sends me six to eight new patients per week for acupuncture." Then I commented to him, "That's why I've noticed that almost every patient coming and going from your office is a woman between twenty-something and thirty-something."
This acupuncturist was one of my first people to practice Bowen on right after I learned it. After his first session for a knee problem, he said, "Wow! That's as close to acupuncture as I've ever experienced, only without the needles!" Considering that many Bowen moves are over significant meridian points, and over the meridian ductules, it is distinctly possible that a similar effect as acupuncture takes place, which results in increased egg production.
KID'S CORNER
A young woman came to my office four months after giving birth to a son. She’d gained a lot of weight, and along with the Elastin hormone to give flexibility during the birthing process, her feet collapsed and had become increasingly painful. As I was adhesive taping her feet to lift the arches back up, her 4-month-old baby began to fuss. Her 12-year-old daughter was holding him and trying to give him some comfort. Mom said that he'd had a continuous bout of colic ever since birth and it was quite a strain on everyone. I recalled a couple of Bowen moves that my guru, Milton told me about a few years back. When one of my granddaughters was experiencing colic I did it and it fixed her. I asked mother if it would be okay for me to do a couple gentle movements which might help her son. Mom said, "Okay with me." I reached over and moved two muscles across the shoulders twice, and he began to settle a little. I then moved the lower back muscles over the kidneys. And then, did a little arc – like move over the lower abdominal area over the ileum. I showed mom how to do the moves in case she needed to later on if he began to fuss again. He immediately settled down, and his sister fed him a bottle as I performed a Bowen session on the mother. The next week the mother thanked me for giving her son relief. She didn't need to do any of the moves, as what I did in the office took care of the problem for good. As it turns out, he'd only slept for two hours at a stretch and therefore, so did mom and dad. He also was on medication for projectile vomiting, and didn't any longer require any more medication. He was like a completely new child. He also was unable to nap until the mini treatment session, it was really a mini, and now he naps for two hours at a time. He goes to bed now at around nine o’clock and sleeps straight through until eight AM. Three weeks later, all was still well. As I recall, it only took one session with my granddaughter also.
As I performed a Bowen session on a woman one afternoon, we got talking and I told her the story about Chuck, the nursing student, and how his personality blossomed after two therapy sessions. She asked, "Would you please give my 13 year old son some treatments? He's been very angry and withdrawn ever since my divorce." I told her I could, and to go ahead, and make an appointment for him. On his first visit, he didn't say three words. He barely answered the couple of questions I asked him. I didn't pay any mind to the fact that he was wearing entirely black clothing. Following the session I said goodbye to him and his mother, as they made his next appointment. The following week he seemed a little more talkative as I made some small talk with him. During one of the rest periods, I went out to the waiting room and asked mom how the week went. She said, "Allen has really perked up. His anger is less, and he's wearing other colored clothing besides all black." When I went back into the treatment room I saw that he was wearing a bright, yellow T-shirt with black shorts. As the weeks passed, he became more and more outgoing, friendly, and became socially active again according to his mother. His next appointment he had made for himself. And, he looked forward to more follow up sessions in the months to follow.
The mother of an 11-year-old child with cerebral palsy asked me to make a new set of foot orthotics for her daughter. I encouraged three Bowen sessions along with taping of the arches in order to relax the tightened Achilles tendon and raise the arches prior to making the plaster impressions for new orthotics. On the first visit, Tami’s heels were well over an inch from touching the floor when she walked. On the second week, her heels almost touched the floor, and by the third visit when we took her plaster impressions, her heel could fully come to the floor. To my knowledge, she has done fine ever since.
A grandmother brought her 13-year-old granddaughter who was extremely pigeon toed. I did a Bowen session on that first visit. A week later, on the follow up visit, she was walking a bit better. On the next visit, she was walking almost straight, and her grandmother said with a huge grin, "not only is she walking better but, she's not crabby any more. She's all mellowed out." By the third visit her angle and base of gait was 100% normal and, grandma noted that she was still mellow.
I attended an advanced Bowen workshop one weekend and talked with a classmate about our experiences during the previous months performing the therapy. He told me that he'd treated a number of football players at the University of California, Berkeley with acute ankle sprains with the, "Ankle Procedure." He was doing this immediately after the injury. I was amazed that he could do this in spite of pain and swelling that follows an ankle sprain. On Monday morning, a father brought his 14-year-old daughter in who'd sprained her ankle playing soccer on Saturday. Her ankle was extremely swollen, ecchymosed (bruised), and painful. She was using crutches for ambulation and had an ace bandage wrapped around the ankle. Following my examination, which only confirmed the obvious,
I explained to father that the muscles enter a state of spasm following the trauma to guard the tissues from further injury, and this can perpetuate pain and swelling. And, that a Bowen session could help release the tightened muscles. I began a Bowen session. When it came time to do the "ankle procedure", following relaxation of all of the leg and thigh muscles, I thought to myself, "Here goes nothing." I noticed butterflies in my stomach as I moved the anterior tibial tendon medially. Then I slid my fingers over the lateral malleolus and posterior over the lateral collateral and my thumb over the deltoid ligament. As I dorsiflexed and plantar flexed the first metatarsal my thoughts turned to the last part of the procedure which strikes the ball of the foot to, "Set" the ankle." Much to my surprise, she didn't flinch as I struck the M-P joints with my closed fist. I invited her to stand up on her feet. Following, which she walked out of the room quite normally and said, "Oh Dad. You grab the crutches." I gulped, and thought, "Hooray, it worked!"
I recently volunteered my services at a Hematology and Oncology Clinic in Gastonia, N.C. I treated the employees, patients who are undergoing chemotherapy, and their caregivers. One patient brought her eight year old foster-child for me to treat. She was suffering from extreme emotional disorders, tantrums, and attention deficit disorder. The girl was so hyperactive, I couldn't even think about doing Bowen on her. So, I held her head in my hands and began a little Cranio Sacral therapy. Within a minute she was breathing differently, smiling, and was very relaxed. I treated a few of the cranial points and then got her up. Altogether, I spent about five minutes with her. When the foster-mother brought her back the following week she told me that, "Sara had only one temper tantrum all week which lasted for only 10 minutes. She used to have one a day which usually lasted two hours or more!" Sara was amenable to lie on the table so I could do Bowen procedures 1-2-3, in addition to some more Cranio Sacral. When we finished Sara said, "Okay. Dollies’ turn next", as she placed her doll on the table top. So, I had to treat Dollie too. When she returned the third week mother reported that there were no tantrums, and that Sara had sat still for two hours to watch a movie. Unfortunately, Sara was transferred to another home because of declining health of the foster mother that I was caring for, so I lost track of her.
I received a call recently from a distraught mother of a 15 year old daughter. She'd had a very painful coccyx for the past 11 months. She had no injury, it just occurred one day. Medications, injections, chiropractic, and physical therapy were all no help. The medical doctor recommended that she have her tailbone surgically removed.
This was quite disturbing to her mom, who is an R.N. at a local Medical Center. A massage classmate of mine recommended that she call me about Bowen Therapy. The pain was constant, aggravated by arising from a sitting position, and made sleep difficult. She'd been depressed, and had just a plain lousy life the past 11 months as a result.
For those who do Bowen Therapy; I did low back, upper back, neck, lower respiratory, thoraco-lumbar triangle, hamstrings, knee, ankle, pelvis, sacrum, anterior pelvis, coccyx (right to left-right side tender), upper respiratory, TMJ, and my version of cervical release. Her pain began to subside after the coccyx lock on the right side, over the ilio-psoas. When she got off the table, she was pretty much pain-free for the first time in 11 months, and had a big smile on her face. After some tears and hugs, I gave mom a session too. Her mom said when I called her two days later, that about 50% of the pain was gone, but anti-inflammatory medication got her pain free. Previously it did not. The next week mom told me that the pain had returned a little as the day of treatment wore on, but she did get a good night's sleep. Following her 2nd and 3rd visits she remains pain free.
FIBROMYALGIA
I was invited to do a presentation and demonstration at a local fibromyalgia support group in Gastonia, NC. My massage therapist friend, (Bowen student and instigator of this trip), told me to just do a chair demonstration, rather than bring a massage table.
After I told the fibromyalgia people all about Bowen and how it can help F.M., plus some case histories, an overweight man in his early 50’s volunteered to be the victim. I sat him on a chair backwards, and did Milton Albrecht’s "Optional procedure", plus BRP'S 1-2-3 with rests in between. During the rests, he commented, "I can feel heat coming out of my back." I told him that wasn't too unusual. Then he said, "I feel tingling in my toes and I am getting really relaxed." I did a total of four sequences to his lower and upper back and neck areas which altogether took about five minutes.
When we were through, he arose from the chair and said, "Wow! My ankle and back pains are gone. My feet have full sensation-I can feel my socks with my toes. Wow. I don't believe this. How could this be?" He made an appointment to have a full table top session at my office the following week.
When he came for his appointment the next week, he was totally pain free and really didn't need a full table top Bowen session. But, I did one anyway. During the session, he told me the rest of his story.
His feet had been numb since early adulthood. He developed muscle pains throughout the body around seven years prior. Sometime after that, he began experiencing severe ankle pain, stiffness in the feet, wrists, and hands. He also had intermittent low back pain. His family doctor did a preliminary work-up and then sent him to a neurologist who performed many other tests, which were all negative. He then, referred him to a leading neurologist in Chapel Hill, NC. His findings were the same and he referred him back to his doctor in Gastonia. Some time later, his doctor referred him to a third neurologist in Wake Forest, NC, which provided no information or relief other than a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. During all of this, my patient took high doses of narcotics and consumed alcohol in order to cope with the pain. Three years ago he lost his job due to his dysfunction from addictions. He also attended fibromyalgia support group meetings once a month. A year ago, he successfully went through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and since has been taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication by the hand full (which only partially relieved some of the pain, and upset his stomach). So, he was, "Just living with the pain." His sleep patterns were dysfunctional and he could’t work full time during the past four years.
There's something wrong with this picture. Rodney went through 10 years of misery which was eliminated with five minutes of Bowen Therapy. He should've had this treatment at the beginning of the trip, not at the end.
FLARES - RETRACING - REMAPPING
Quite often patients will experience a flare of present symptoms. Kind of, like when one has a fever, the fever spikes just before it subsides for good. Other times old, pains come out of the closet. There can be a reoccurrence of an old problem, which has seemingly been resolved for a number of months or years? These unpleasant reactions usually don't last more than a few hours or a day. This is called a, "Herxheimer's reaction".
One of my patients experienced the following incredible sequence. At the completion of Traci's first therapy session, I explained the above to her. When she returned the following week she said, "You won’t believe what happened. When I got home the day of the treatment, my T.M.J. flared up for about six hours. That night I got a throbbing headache, which was gone by morning. Then my neck tightened up until noontime. Then my shoulder froze up until dinner, and then everything's been fine ever since. I've been totally pain free all week." I replied, "That isn't too unusual." She said, "You don’t understand. That's the exact sequence that these problems began to surface five years ago. I had a bout with my T.M.J. for about a year. Then I began experiencing headaches two to three times a week. A year later, my neck tightened and would spasm once or twice a month. Then, a year ago my shoulder froze up and has been painful to lift my arm much higher than my waist." As the weeks went by during her postural and foot realignment process these symptoms didn't return. Traci moved to the East Coast shortly after. Her mother in law came to me on occasion for Bowen sessions, so I always asked her how Traci was doing with regard to all of her aches and pains? She said, "Traci says thanks. She's not had any pain at all this past year since she moved."
I once talked to a physician who practiced the Bowen technique back in Florida. She was a retired Hematologist – Oncologist (cancer doctor). After a few months of Bowen practice, she decided to look at blood from her patients before and after treatment. She thought to do this because when we perform Bowen therapy on heavy users of narcotics, they'll quite often vomit that night following the treatment. The Hematologist noted normal blood cells and constituents in the blood sample prior to therapy. She was amazed at the amounts of viral bodies, bacterium, and crystalline structures present at the 20-minute post treatment specimens. Some time after, she performed the blood studies on patients with multiple sclerosis. following Bowen treatments, all of the subjects displayed spirochetes in their blood post treatment. Spirochetes cause Syphilis and Lyme’s Disease. Are these releases what are responsible for the re-tracing and flare problems?
It's surmised that the narcotic residues and overloads are stored in the myofascial tissues. Another theory is that the narcotics are stored in the receptor sites in the cell membrane. When endorphins are released during Bowen Therapy, they rapidly displace the narcotics as they are the better fit in the receptor sites. Interestingly, pain management specialists use dextromethorpine (a cough suppressant) in patients who need increasing dosages of narcotics for their pain. The dextromethorpin displaces the narcotics so doses can be lowered. It must be a slower release than in Bowen Therapy, because these patients don't get sick after taking it.
Or, does Dr. Bruce Lipton explain the re-tracing and flare occurrences post treatment in his book, the BIOLOGY OF BELIEF? Dr. Lipton found in his research that blood circulating histamines find localized traumas, and they accumulate at the site of the injury. This initiates an inflammatory response, which begins the healing process. However, if adrenalin is being released from the central nervous system's response to stress, it over-rides the histamines at the wound site. Bowen Therapy releases endorphins, which relaxes the person, and reduces the adrenalin overload. Now, the histamines can go to the wound and begin to heal it with an inflammatory response.
During an inquiry of Tom Bowen in 1974, it was revealed that he was treating between fifty to sixty people per day. All word of mouth referrals. He did no advertising whatsoever. So, it must be good, or all those people were stupid. You make the choice for you.
As a behavioral analyst, I noted that when doing Bowen for my patients I didn't have need to inject as much cortisone or collagen. I didn't prescribe as many drugs or physical therapy. And, my surgical case load dropped by at least 50%! One of the anesthesiologists at the local hospital where I did my surgeries noticed that too. He said one day, "Hey Mitch. Haven't seen you around here very much the past couple of months. Are you taking your cases down to Mercy San Juan?" I explained that my patients were getting better with the Bowen Therapy, and didn't need surgery as often. He had a hard time understanding why a surgeon would do something that would take the place of surgery! I also noted, that the favorable outcomes of my treatments went from 80%, up to at least 95%, and maybe as high as 98%! Whenever I mentioned this to my peers, they would say something like, "That's nice", and leave it at that. One other thing that I took note of was, that when I performed a regional or lower extremity session patients got better with respect to their symptoms. But, those patients whom I performed a full body sequence on, experienced the life altering, favorable systemic reactions, and spontaneous remissions of their chronic medical enigmas.
My curiosity got the best of me. In most of the classes that I took, the instructor would often have no scientific explanations for the physiological changes taking place, that would explain how these therapies cause spontaneous remissions in patient's signs-symptoms-disabilities. Most of the teachers in those classes didn't cover what the mechanism of action is, with regard to their therapy method. They often said, "Oh, this helps you to re-set your client's body so that it can heal itself." Due to my Western Medicine background, and need for scientific validation, I began researching the literature. I read medical texts that seemed related. I read books written by Medical researchers and PhD's. Also, I attended other workshops, and I surfed the internet.
As I correlated the scientific information obtained in my research, with the stories my patients told me, and began connecting the dots, I began to see a picture. Then, one day I had an epiphany. It occurred to me that Western Mainstream Establishment Medicine is missing a few chapters from its Medical Texts and that is why we can't always diagnose and successfully treat many of our patient's signs, symptoms and disabilities! See Chapter 8.
How Bowen Therapy Is Done
& My Theory On How It Works.
Bowen therapy is a gentle plucking - rolling movement over the muscles through the clothing, and usually covers the entire body. The movements create Mini, Knee Jerk - like reactions. The results are; an unwinding or untwisting of the muscles and connective tissues around the muscles, re-patterning of the nervous system, improved networking between the central - immune - endocrine systems, improved flow of Qi / Chi = (Life Force), which is made up of bio-chemicals and direct currents. The loosening of the connective tissues causes greater separation between the cellular structures which allows for improved flow of blood, lymph, ingested water, and extracellular water. And, the endorphins create stress reduction. Stress reduction relieves adrenalin overload which suppresses Histamines. The Histamines circulating in the blood are now able to form around an old or new wound and begin the inflammation phase of wound repair. All of these are good events.
Look in the Addendum for a link to a directory that will point you to a Bowen Therapist. Like all dentists, medical doctors, and podiatrists are not the same, not all Bowen Therapists are the same. Ask around and get a referral from someone who has found a good practitioner. You may need a series of three to four sessions, a week apart. Then, follow-up sessions spaced apart as comfortably as you feel fit. The total physical, mental, emotional transformation can take a couple of years. So, be patient and persist. Develop a trust in your practitioners. If you can't, then move on till you find one you can trust and bond with. In all my years of Natural Health Experimentation, Bowen Therapy is without a doubt the #1 modality for reduction of medical issues. It covers the most ground (physiological systems down to the cellular level), takes the least effort by practitioner and receiver, is one of the most non-invasive techniques, and has the most profound effects on people of all age groups and animals than any other form of bodywork therapy I have ever come across.
Tom Bowen was an Australian who was a self-taught practitioner who had no formal training or credentialing. There have been discrepancies throughout the saga of Bowen Therapy all through the years. Tom studied anatomy, physiology, and Eastern Medicine and, he figured out methods for removing restrictions in the myofascial planes and along the meridian pathways so that the body could release the existing holding patterns and reset itself so it could start afresh. He only taught six people over the years how to perform his technique. They were referred to as, "Tom’s Boys." He either showed the moves and sequences differently to all of them, or they interpreted them differently. So, the teachings of the technique by all of the various teachers around the world, the moves and sequences may be different.
Following are some paragraphs from an article written by Tom’s daughters.
A Little Bit Of The Tom Bowen Story
The Tom Bowen Story - a short biography by Heather Edmonds and Pam Trigg, daughters of Tom Bowen.
Tom left school at an early age, possibly at 15 years of age, and became a carpenter like his father.
It was during the 1950’s that Tom began an association with a man named Ernie Saunders, often referred to as a ‘legend in the 40’s and 50’s as a physical manipulator’. Tom would visit him and they would share many hours together and it was through talking with Ernie that he began to learn what was later to become Tom’s technique.
In the late 1950’s Tom worked for the Geelong Cement Works and it was during this time that there were obvious signs of an interest in healing. What he did and how this came about is a mystery. During this time he became friends with a man, Stan Horwood, who believed Tom had a unique gift. Tom started helping people with ‘bad backs’ and other ailments and so his life of helping others began. Stan Horwood invited Tom to set up a practice at his home every evening after completing a days work at the Cement Works.
The business grew and grew through word of mouth. There was no advertising. People would wait outside the Horwood residence for hours to see Tom. Cars would line the pavement. It became obvious that the practice could not continue this way and so it moved to Geelong, on a full time basis where he moved between two rooms. At this time he used single beds with a mat at the bottom of the bed. It was many years later before he moved to electric massage tables.
At all of Tom’s clinics there were collection boxes for all kinds of charities. At times there were novelty items available for sale. Anything to help those less fortunate than others.
Tom did not have appointments as such. A patient would ring his clinic and told the opening hours of the clinic were between 9am – 11am and 1pm – 4pm. On arrival at the clinic patients were given a number from 1 to 33 in order of presentation. They would wait in the waiting room until their number was called.
During the evening he would do house calls returning home at approximately 9:30pm.
Tom had a Saturday morning clinic for disabled children where they were treated free. Parents would bring their children to him from many miles away, sometimes traveling 3 – 4 hours. Results were not immediate with these children but over a number of years results were amazing.
He held a clinic every Saturday evening for those who had injured themselves playing sport during the day. This was also a free clinic and people once again, came from near and far. If Tom had people attend his clinic who were in desperate circumstances or with disabled children needing extra care, he was a most generous person. At this stage of his career he could have made a great deal of money, but this was definitely not his priority. What Tom could do for people was his greatest reward and this continued to be his cause throughout his life. He did not always immediately have the answer to a problem that was presented to him but he would analyze the problem and have a solution in a few days.
Today Tom’s work has been taught world-wide and is taught at university level in Australia. Each person who has been taught Tom’s technique has their own unique way of interpreting it. Each persons’ interpretation is different. The only original Bowen therapist was Tom Bowen himself. He continually developed and adapted his technique to whatever situation presented itself to him – perhaps sticking to the same basics but always a different interpretation. He had a favorite saying by which he lived his life: “I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.”
Around 1988 Milton Albrecht of Auburn, California learned of the technique, and studied under Ossie, one of Tom's Boys. In 1990 Milton received his massage certificate, quit his job as a mechanic, and began a practice in his home. His practice grew extremely fast and he thereafter taught his cousin, Albert La Shell the technique. They both got requests from massage therapists and clients to teach the technique, and about 1994 or so, he teamed up with Ossie and his wife, Elaine Renche to teach a class. Over the years, class sizes grew from two to three students upward to 30 as the years passed.
About 1997, Milton and Ossie/Elaine parted ways, and Milton started his own Bowen organization and continued to teach the basic class as well as advanced classes. Ossie and Elaine trained other teachers around the U.S. and they offer classes presently. Other students who developed successful practices began teaching the technique also.
In January of 2003, Milton passed on.
He had taught hundreds of people worldwide to perform Tom Bowen's technique. So, between the two of them the quality of many, many peoples lives have been improved
As I spoke at Milton’s memorial services, I realized that I might have to become the messenger for the Bowen technique. I was one of only two or three doctors that Milton trusted. And, through the grapevine, I’ve heard that he was proud of my accomplishments as a Bowen practitioner as I incorporated the technique into a Western Medicine type of practice.
One of my favorite stories, pretty much sums up Milton. An elderly lady client of his was under medical treatment for a cardiac arrhythmia. After a couple of sessions she discontinued her heart medication, and seemed to do just fine. When she went to her cardiologist at the University of California Medical Center for her follow-up appointment, she informed him of what she had done. He immediately performed an EKG, which was totally normal, and couldn't believe his eyes. He compared the present strip with the last one, and asked her more about what she had done. She told him that she'd had some Bowen treatments. Then she gave him Milton’s name and phone number, and specific instructions to call him Monday through Friday between 8:00 and 9:00 AM. The cardiologist called Milton the next morning to learn more about Bowen, and asked if Milton could possibly come to the Medical Center and show and tell about the process. Milton replied, "Hell no", and, hung up on him!
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 3
BODY MIND RESET - The Emotional Trail
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 2
This subject may be as extensive, or maybe even more than the physical involvement of the fascia / myofascia. I've not yet learned even a possible explanation for the storage of emotional information in the muscles and fascia. I've had numerous patients undergo emotional release while performing Bowen Therapy, and also in the days, weeks, and months following a session. In addition, I learned of a technique taught by John F. Barnes, PT., which he's titled, "Myofascial Unwinding", and I've facilitated a number of emotional clearings using his techniques. John Upledger, D.O., titles it, "Somato-emotional Release." I'll pass on some of the more interesting cases for you to ponder.
My Indoctrination.
An interesting experience occurred with a patient and his response, which took place the very first week I started doing Bowen Therapy. Bernard was the patient who had the arthritic large toe joint in Chapter 2.
When I returned to the room after I released his lower leg muscle, he was curled up in a fetal position and was quite pale and cold. My first thought was that he had fainted and was going into shock. I checked his pulse and was going to take his blood pressure when he said, "I’m okay. I’m a little cold. May I have a blanket?" I covered him up and left him alone to settle down for a few minutes. When I returned to the room, his color was a little better, but he was still chilled. I left him to lie on the table for a few more minutes. The next time I returned to check on him, he was sitting on the edge of the table looking a little haggard, but much better. I gave him his post-treatment instructions.
When he returned the following Friday, I asked how he was doing and he said, "I'm doing fantastic. I don’t have any more stress, I'm more focused, and I feel like I’ve been liberated from something that had a hold of me." He went on to tell me that the day before he had given notice at the job he had loathed, and was moving to Costa Rica within the next month to open a restaurant. This was something that he had wanted to do for quite some time but something was holding him back. He said, "Whatever you did that treatment last week released whatever it was that was holding me down." At the time, I wasn't quite sure about what had just transpired because they didn't teach us at the Bowen Workshop I took, anything about this emotional release stuff. After a couple of more experiences, and conversations with other therapists, I finally got a clue about it all. When I checked his right EHL (Extensor Hallucis Longus) Muscle, the rope was gone.
Learning a Little More.
Another somato-emotional release experience was with a young lady who was referred to me by a foot surgeon a few miles away. He knew that I did Bowen Therapy, and his patient was suffering with chronic back pain. She'd been examined and treated by competent doctors, and nothing had relieved her pain. So, she wanted to try a Bowen treatment. She had heard about Bowen Therapy, since she was a Massage Therapist. Her first session was uneventful. She felt only minimal relief of the pain.
She returned two weeks later for another session. I began with the basic relaxation moves, then did the kidney and lower respiratory moves. Then, when I returned to the room following the four minute rest after releasing the abdominal muscles, she was quietly weeping. I asked if she was all right and if she needed a blanket. She said that she was little cold and a blanket would be nice. I said, "It looks like you are releasing something. Do you want to talk about it or keep it to yourself?" She said, "I’ll tell you what it was. I had a caesarian section two years ago and it was against my will. My mother and the doctors pretty much forced me to have it, and I’ve been angry ever since. I felt like I was invaded by aliens."
After the session she was completely pain free, relaxed and has been fine ever since. This illustrates how the abdominal area is the "Front of the Back". And, how that all of the fascia is interrelated.
For those of us who are involved with bodywork, we all need to keep in mind that all of the musculoskeletal structures, including the fascia and myofascia are all connected to one another. The position and motions taking place in the feet; affect the legs, hips, pelvis, back, shoulder, neck, and head. And, twists, tilts, angulations of the pelvis; affect the feet and ankles, as well as proximal structures. Therefore, when a practitioner stimulates a release in the front, it results in a change in the back. When a release takes place at the bottom, a change takes place at the top. Lastly, when there are releases to superficial structures, changes take place in the deeper parts. This also explains why the Bowen Coccyx locks and Kidney moves, help digestive disorders in adults and colic in babies. I do these along with other abdominal and torso moves for patients undergoing chemotherapy. As long as I do them once a week, they have zero nausea symptoms. If we skip a week, they experience severe nausea, and they can't wait for their next session.
Marcia – My very own first hand experience with emotional release.
I suppose that it would be best to tell you just how I became aware, experienced, and enlightened on the subject of Body-Mind emotional release. By a synchronous series of events, a massage therapist came to me to have Bowen Therapy for her foot problem. At the conclusion of her first session I asked, "What types of massage therapy do you do?" She replied, "I do Myofascial Release and Myofascial Unwinding." I told her that I was familiar with Myofascial Release. I wasn't really, I just thought I was however; I wasn't acquainted with Myofascial Unwinding. When she told me about this therapy and how it helps release emotional holding patterns I felt a strong desire to have a session or two. My mother had passed a year ago, and although I was feeling over the grief and all, there was something unfinished. We arranged a trade of services at her office beginning the following week.
After I performed a Bowen treatment on her she had me sit on the edge of the massage table. Then she turned on some kind of tribal chant music on the stereo, placed the palm of one hand on the top of my hair without touching, and the other palm toward the right side of my neck. Within a minute or two I began a series of strange gyrations throughout my entire body, and, before long I was rocking back and forth from side to side. I'm not at all aware how long a time I was moving back and forth, but at some point I started to laugh. I continued laughing for quite some time, and as a few tears came to my eyes, I let out a sigh and said, "Rock a bye baby." I continued with two other series of weird movements and each time I laughed uncontrollably and let out a sigh afterward. As I was driving home I tried to figure out what had just happened. By the way, the entire session lasted 50 minutes, and it seemed like just a few. The only thing I could think of at the moment was, during my childhood we used to swing back and forth in the small, slender Bay trees to see how far we could come to touching and transferring to an adjacent tree. I was never really very good at it and my friends always kidded me about my ineptitude. A few months later as I was telling a patient about the experience, it dawned on me that I no longer have a fear of heights nor have I had any bad dreams about perilous high places. I had about 6 dreams that had repeated themselves over my entire adult life. These would occur at least twice to three times a week. I've not had one since, and this has been going on 15 years after the session. I then recalled that my mother often would sing the "Rock a Bye Baby" Nursery rhyme to me at bed- time. I can't tell you that there was any scientific explanation for this occurrence, but it sure made an impression on me.
John F. Barnes – My first Class.
One day I received a flyer announcing a new book titled, "Healing Ancient Wounds", by John F. Barnes. John was my therapist Marcia’s teacher/guru and she always sang his praise. I immediately ordered the book, and after reading the first two chapters, I dropped everything and signed up for one of his classes in Sedona, Arizona. During the weekend of the class, I had a strong desire to experience a session at John’s clinic, so I scheduled an hour session one afternoon after the meeting. I won’t go into the details of the session, only to say that it was one of the most profound experiences I've ever had, and with a total stranger (Therapist).
My first intentional clearing.
When I returned to my office the week after the seminar, I met with my office staff and told them all about the new therapies I'd learned, and of my experience. After the meeting, one of the young ladies who worked for me asked if she could try a session or two to try and release some emotional childhood sexual abuse issues. She had chronic right hip pain. She'd had acupuncture, cortisone injections, and chiropractic none of which helped. Bowen therapy only relieved her pain for a day or two. We scheduled a late afternoon session for a week later. At that time there were no apparent releases so, we scheduled another session the following week. Right away, as I was holding her feet slightly elevating her legs off the table, her feet started pointing toward each other and then her legs started swinging back and forth. After a minute she felt a pop-like sensation in her left hip (her good hip), then she started to cry. As she wept her skin got very sweaty and slimy. I had a hard time holding on to her feet as my hands kept slipping as her legs swung back and forth. After a few minutes she stopped crying and let out a sigh, that's the "Still Point" which signals the end of the release. When I approached her head and neck, they too were all sweaty and slimy. I asked, "How do you feel?" She looked up and replied with a big smile, "Great!" I sensed that this was enough for this day, so we went home.
The next morning when she came to work she told me what had transpired that night. When she got home, her entire body was sweaty and sticky so, she took a shower to wash it off. Almost immediately her right knee became quite swollen and painful (her bad hip side) and she was very tired, and so retired early. When she got up in the morning the knee was sore but not swollen and her right hip pain had gone away. She didn't experience her usual early morning, "bitchies", and she felt a tremendous burden of weight off of her. Her chronic hip pain has never returned and her life has been quite a bit better since this dramatic release. She told me that her father had molested her until the age of thirteen and she's sure that she was holding the emotional trauma in her hip and pelvic region. She relocated a few months later. A little over a year later, she came by our office proudly holding her newborn baby. She told me that she'd been trying for the past 2 years to have children, and she had 3 miscarriages prior to her "Great Release."
My intuition works.
One morning I was performing Bowen on a patient whom I'd treated two to three times, and we got on the subject of emotional holdings and how they affected our lives. She said, "I think that I need to release something." My schedule was light, as fate would have it, and I said, "I can do something for you now if you'd like." She took me up on my offer. I intuitively placed one hand below her rib cage, solar plexus = 3rd chakra, and the other hand behind her back in the same area. Wow! I felt turbulence under my hand which was over her solar plexus. I would best describe it as if you could palpate the ocean waves coming in and going out, while at the same time swirling around in eddies, clockwise and then counterclockwise. After a minute or two she began to sob and cry. As she did, my hand felt like a suction cup on her skin. As my hand became more and more cupped, she started moving back and forth in a rocking-like motion. My hand felt even more “Stuck”, to her skin. As she let out a sigh, the still point at the end of the release, my hand released from her skin. I detected a definite calm and peace in her demeanor. I said, or asked, "All done?" She said, "Yeah. All done." When she stood up, she placed her hands on the table and leaned over, rocking back and she said, "I see lights - I see feathers - I see a face." After a few of these comments, she stood erect and said, "Thank you. Fifty years of anger and fear are gone from my life. Wow!"
When she returned the following week for a follow-up, she said, "I recall what that was about last week. When I was five years old, I was at a Catechism class and I hadn't memorized my part. When the Nun found out, she slapped my wrist with a ruler and said, “If you don't please God he'll punish you, and you'll burn in hell". She then drew a picture on the blackboard with "Heaven" above-"God" in the middle – "Fire and Hell" down below." My patient had remembered this for her entire life up until now.
Can you imagine what you might have stored in your emotional system, (the 4th dimension of the nervous system)?
More experience
Bev came to see me with a foot problem. During her diatribe, it seemed that she needed a Bowen release. I did my podiatry gig and a Bowen session, which she enjoyed. On her follow-up visit, it was apparent that she liked the Bowen, but would prefer a female therapist. So, I gladly referred her to a lady that I knew who could take care of her other needs besides the foot stuff which I could take care of.
A few years later she returned with one of her daughters, who had a planter’s wart. We talked about how things were going, and she said, "My Bowen Therapist's gone, and I don't know what to do?" Then, I told her about and all the things I had learned since our last encounter, which included somato-emotional release. This sparked her interest, and so she made an appointment for an emotional clearing the following week. Somehow, she was all of a sudden okay with me working with her? Bev then told me that she'd been fondled by a college professor when she was eighteen. He'd sworn her to secrecy, and threatened her with a failing grade should she tell anyone about the incident. This had affected her entire adult life and marriage. I did my thing which intuition led me to, and she did a release.
The following week, I did another clearing, and she released some more. The next week, she revealed that she'd had sexual relations with her husband like never before. After that, life has never been so good for Bev. Then, she referred her clinical psychologist, as he needed a clearing too.
Healing the healer.
Bev's therapist had struck his head on a flight departure / arrival board at the airport during a moment of haste and carelessness. I'm not sure what emotional grief he had stored in him. Immediately after I began some of Upledger's Cranio Sacral holds, he began to violently shake his head from side to side. As he moved back and forth he began to sob, and did some deep exhales as if to remove something from his lungs. He gave a little sigh, indicating the still point and that we were through for this visit.
When he returned the following week, the same sequence occurred only more so. After the sigh indicating he had reached the still point, he smiled and said, "Thank you. It's gone!" Whatever "It" was?
Now, for the rest of the story
In January of 1999, I received a phone call from a hospital in Marin County. A suburb of San Francisco, California. I was told that my mother had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage, and it was "iffy" at best that she would ever survive. I immediately left the office and drove 100 miles to the hospital to see her. Doctors told me of the pathology, the prognosis, and their treatment plan for the next few weeks.
I went to the hospital every other day for two weeks to see my mom. Her only audible spoken words were, "No & Don't." She didn't improve. So, I moved her to an extended care facility a block away from my office in Roseville, California. This way I could see her twice a day, plus I knew the track record of the facilities' quality of care. Every time I saw her, she did some really weird gyrations, and some nonsensical jibber-jabber plus she'd say, "No and Don't", followed by a sigh (still point).
The night before she passed, she went on a real "rant." It lasted about ten minutes. Her body twisted and turned in all kinds of directions. Following which, she said after a very long pronounced sigh (still point) - very clearly - while staring into my eyes - "I want my mama. I want my mama."
I know my mom wants me to share this story with you.
Jean (My Mom) wanted to attend Stanford University since grammar school. She studied and received top grades throughout grammar and high school. My grandfather was a successful dentist in Monterey, California, until his divorce from my grandmother. My grandmother was a flapper girl during prohibition , and subsequently spent my mother's college money on her personal indulgences. On the day my mom was to depart for Stanford University, her mother informed her that there was no money left for her tuition.
This resulted in depression and anger, which lasted my mother's entire life. My mom and step-dad spent well over six figures in counseling, psychiatric, psychology, and hypnotherapy fees. Not to mention, the gas money, parking charges, and time to go to these supposed therapies. Isn't it amazing that my mother went through a myofascial unwinding and emotional release the night before her death. Too bad, she couldn't have released all this 50 years earlier in her life.
Introduction to the Body – Mind – Body stuff.
A Naturopathic practitioner named Gene, who was a Bowen classmate, told me of a technique to remove allergies. He told me that if you know what you are allergic to, you can hold that substance in your left hand and shine a red laser light on the allergy point at the apex of the right ear for 30 seconds. Then, continue holding the substance for 20 minutes, and then discard it, but don't come in contact with it for 25 hours. I asked. "Why 25 hours?" My friend told me that there are 12 main meridians which have 2 hour cycles during the 24 hour day. You don't know which meridian is affected by the allergen, and if you come in contact with the substance while the affected meridian is processing it will make you sick in some way or another. You'll see when you come to the Rosemary part.
My first experience with the technique proceeded as follows. Monday mornings I always sneezed and got a runny nose upon arriving at my office. I guessed that I was allergic to the toenail dust that is ever present in a podiatry office, even though we have vacuums attached to our nail drills. So, one Friday afternoon I caught some nail dust on a piece of adhesive tape. After patients I did the treatment with the helium beam on my CO2 laser and drove home holding the tape, which took exactly 20 minutes. When I went to the office Monday and Tuesday I was unaware of anything different. Then on Wednesday, it occurred to me that I had done the allergy treatment the previous Friday and, that I had no runny nose or sneezing so far that week. As I write this, I no longer have any toenail dust symptoms.
Eggs - My Introduction to N.A.E.T.
A friend of mine who practices Naturopathy - natural healing with supplements, herbs, homeopathics, aroma therapy, essential oils, and other natural methods, told me of a technique she uses to remove allergic responses by the mind – body. Dr. Devi Nambudripad is an RN., Chiropractor & Acupuncturist. Dr. Devi accidentally discovered that by holding an allergen in the left hand and stimulating some acupoints along the bladder and governing vessel meridians, up the back and along the spine, the mind-body association can be repaired or replaced. Her book is titled, "SAY GOODBYE TO ILLNESS". N.A.E.T. is an acronym for, "Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique".
My Naturopathic friend Jean, determined that I was allergic to eggs, plus some other things. When she told me so, I recalled that whenever I ate eggs, which I really enjoyed, I felt very sluggish and spaced out the rest of the day until around 4:00 PM. After she did the N.A.E.T. clearing on me, I've had no further symptoms after eating eggs.
Rosemary – A lesson in the body processing process.
My third significant experience came from a self-treatment which turned out to be rather bizarre. I learned that I was allergic to sillymarin and rosemary, both of which were in my multiple vitamins. One afternoon I used the laser light on the ear point technique, held on to the vitamin tablet for 20 minutes, then discarded it. The following morning I made sure not to take the multiple vitamins which had not passed the 25 hour mark, so I took all of my other morning supplements. I was in a bit of a hurry so I didn’t fix anything for breakfast but grabbed a piece of leftover fish from the fridge, and was on my way. When I arrived at my office, all of a sudden I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. I got achy, my head pounded, I got chilled, and my nose bled. We had to cancel my morning appointments. I laid down for a rest on one of my massage tables and covered with a blanket. When I awoke at 11:00 AM, I felt better. And, as I got up, I detected a strange taste in my mouth. ROSEMARY! The fish had been breaded with seasoned bread crumbs and I ingested them as the stomach meridian was cycling from 7:00 – 9:00 AM.
Another visit with N.A.E.T.
Another unusually interesting case occurred with a patient of mine. She was diagnosed with Morton’s neuroma, which is an enlarged nerve between the 3rd and 4th metatarsals. This is a fairly common foot condition, and I felt quite proficient in its diagnosis and treatment options. She had the usual numbness, tingling, and occasional burning in her 2nd, 3rd, & 4th toes in both feet. I performed my usual and customary non-surgical treatments and she seemed to improve. I then made her orthotics to keep pressure from the nerves and instructed her to return in two months if any problems still occurred and we would discuss surgical treatment. About two years hence a friend of her's was seeing me for a foot problem, and she told me the rest of the story. Apparently my patient with the neuromas experienced progression of symptoms up the ankles and legs. Her family doctor referred her to a neurologist who diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis and prescribed drugs for this. She went to Stanford University for a second opinion, and was again diagnosed with M.S. She tried other medications which did not help. Then, a year or so later it began affecting her hands. At this point she went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and again she was diagnosed with M.S., and was given some other medications. About the time she lost the use of her thumbs, she went to my naturopath friend, Jean. After Jean completed her work-up she was surprised that the lady did not show any of the usual findings that go along with neuropathies. She then asked our patient about what was happening in her life when all of this began. As it turns out she was building her dream home at the time of a real estate slump, and she was the not so proud owner of two houses built on speculation, which were not selling. All kinds of stress were abundant in her life at the time. She recalled the first sign of the tingling in her toes when she walked bare footed across the Mexican pavers tiles in the hallway of the new home. Jean then tested her for allergy to the tile, and sure enough, she was. Within days following a clearing her symptoms began to reverse, and within a month she was totally symptom free. However, as soon as she went back to walking on the tile floor the tingling in the toes returned so, she ended up selling the house.
My version of N.A.E.T.
I got thinking one day about the N.A.E.T. technique. It occurred to me that many of the Bowen Therapy moves are over the same meridian points along the spine.
I discussed my allergy theory with a patient whom I was doing some Bowen sessions on. Her 12 year old son had multiple allergies and was seeing the local allergist for allergy shots. One of his main allergens was shellfish. If he ate any shellfish whatsoever, he suffered laryngospasms and hives. He also often craved shellfish. The allergist was afraid to give him allergy shots for shellfish for fear of a serious reaction. I had mother bring him for a Bowen session during which I had him hold a shrimp in his left hand during the treatment. When mother came back the following week she told me that his allergy skin test for shellfish had reduced by 80%. Unfortunately, they moved to Texas shortly after, so I did not get to follow up with them.
Emotional clearing with Bowen / N.A.E.T.
Although this experience did not involve a substance, I include It because it seems to be relevant. My naturopath friend Jean, referred me a patient that she was having trouble keeping cleared of the issues which were causing her headaches. Jean suspected that there might be an emotional block that was keeping her from attaining lasting relief. The patient had an anger issue with her father. It came from an incident when she was five years old. Her father and his friend went duck hunting and locked her in the car at the hunting spot for about four hours. She recalls the fright and feeling of abandonment which resulted in a long and deep anger toward her father. Although she had forgiven him and was at peace on a conscious level, she knew that there was some inner resentment that lingered. The first Bowen session, my intent was for me to initiate a somato-emotional release if that was what she needed. Nothing happened. The next visit, on a hunch, I had her write her desire to be rid of the anger toward father on a piece of paper. She held it in her left hand while I performed a full Bowen session on her. She returned a week later and was over it. She had experienced two days of extreme anger, especially with her two children. She was a single mom who doted over her kids, and hardly ever got upset with them. But, for the two days just about everything they did or said upset her. The last I heard, she was still pain free, and her life was good.
Other Cases of interest.
Another of my patients mentioned that whenever she drank a glass of red wine she developed a panic attack right after. This didn't happen to her with white wine. However, she didn't like white wine. She only liked red. So, we wrote red wine on a post-it note. She held this in her left hand while I did an abbreviated Bowen session using procedures 1-2-3. When she returned a month later for her Bowen “Tune-up”, she was no longer sensitive to red wine.
A friend of mine began experiencing headaches after drinking only a sip of red wine. I performed the same clearing for him, and he has been fine ever since.
My naturopath friend, Jean had a client who she was treating. She suffered headaches during the week. But, not on the weekends. After it was all said and done, Jean found that her client was sensitive to the color orange. She worked for Cal Trans and they had to wear orange vests while at work on the freeways and roads in California. She had the option to wear purple instead, and as soon as she switched colors, her chronic headaches cleared.
Another interesting case occurred recently at the cancer clinic where I used to do therapy. Mandy had sugar cravings, and I cleared her of those. Then she told me that she was unable to tolerate fried eggs. She could eat eggs in any other form, but she vomited after eating fried eggs. I did the clearing, and she now can eat fried eggs with no problem.
Cravings.
I was moderately addicted to potato chips. I always ate a small bag on my way home from work. I went to the pantry soon after arriving home and got more chips, and then some more. This went on most every day. After a hypnotherapy session, I was okay with it for a couple of years, but the cravings came back. I wrote potato chips on a small piece of paper and had a Bowen session with a practitioner whom I traded with. The same day I drove home empty handed. When I got home I did not feel even slightly inclined to go to the pantry and get some chips! To this day, some 15 years hence, I don't crave potato chips at all.
One of my Bowen patients confessed to craving diet sodas. She drank upward to 12 a day. We wrote "diet soda pop" on a piece of paper and did her Bowen session as she held the paper in her left hand. When she returned the following week, she had not had but three diet sodas all week. The next week she had none!
I also eliminated my cravings for crackers and cheese a couple of years ago.
Other cravings eliminated in patients.
Marijuana
Cookies
Cake
Chocolates
Coffee
Doesn't work for nicotine
THE SUGAR CONNECTION
After breast milk, one of the first substances we come into contact with is SUGAR! If there is a moderate amount of stress and turmoil during infancy, there is a possibility that sugar may turn out to be a stressing substance for that individual throughout the years. I have released the craving for sugar in a number of my adult patients. I am looking forward to doing a study on children for the release of the sugar connection. My theory is, that this disconnection process to sugar may be responsible to ADD and ADHD. I surmise that we all might be afflicted by the sugar connection to some degree. It may be possible, that the more the stress was at first contact, the greater the subsequence reactions
How can any of this be possible?
I'm guessing that the process works like this. First, let’s assume that you have never been in contact with root beer. Then during a time of stress and duress you eat your first dose of root beer. From now on your mind associates root beer with stress. And, even though you now are stress free, whenever you come in contact with root beer the body goes into a stress reaction pattern. Depending on which meridian was initially affected symptoms will be the same each time of exposure to root beer. I may be sensitive to root beer and experience headaches from it. You may be sensitive to root beer and you experience diarrhea when you come in contact with it. This is a different type of allergy than the poison oak type, whereby the substance causes the formation of antibodies which attack the allergen and thus cause an inflammatory reaction.
Secondly, my problem with eggs came from my stint in the U.S. Army. I ate eggs for breakfast at least five days a week. I was under stress for most of the two years I served. I was home-sick, love-sick, overworked, underpaid, harassed by the "Officers." I remember eating eggs while in high school without any problems. But, they affected me my entire adult life, until Jean did the clearing for me. So, it was a repeated exposure over a long time frame under stress in this instance.
For patients, I have performed this for all kinds of actual food allergies as well as emotional holdings, and it almost always works. How it really works is beside me, but I remember that my patients really only care if it works, not how. For those of us who must have an explanation, I propose one. I stumbled on to a book titled, "The Molecules of Emotion:", by Candace Pert, Ph.D. She points out that endorphins which are our very own narcotic/tranquilizer substance, are in part, contained in the nodal points along the spine. These are the precise locations for many of the Bowen moves. My patients tell me quite often that during the Bowen session and the day following their treatment, they felt a kind of "Runner’s High", and for the remainder of the week a sense of well-being. Dr. Pert further discovered that the endorphins are one of the mechanisms by which the immune, central, and endocrine systems network with each other. In other words, the mind-body connection, maybe. So, if you have a negative mind- body connection to a food, chemical, substance, or color that becomes a stressor and the meridian system will react to the stimulus of it. If you hold that same substance in your left hand in the presence of endorphin release that substance is now equated with a sense of well being and the old negative program is cancelled out, or over-ridden. In some circles it is accepted that one craves what one is allergic to, i.e. sugar / alcohol.
Why would any changes take place from merely holding something written on a piece of paper? If the ice crystal experiments by Masuro Emoto responded to the vibratory rate of the written word in his experiments, see Chapter 7 - so, that's why this has had some influence on patients while having a Bowen Medical Bodywork session. In the future, I might suggest to all my patients that we do a F.A.S.T. reset - Fear - Anger - Sugar - Trauma.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 4
HYDROTHERAPY
The irrigation System
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 3
“THE GOLDEN YEARS AREN’T FOR SISSIES”
I was very fortunate to fall into a profession that I loved dearly. I had no idea what podiatry was really about until I finished my third year and began seeing patients in clinic. As the years went by, on Sundays I always eagerly anticipated Monday and the following week. I truly had a labor of love, one of Napoleons Hill’s 12 riches. My never ending dream was to "Have an office full of happy and enthusiastic patients, all getting well, coming to me from miles around, for procedures I enjoyed doing". One afternoon, I took a chart to the reception counter and looked out into the waiting room. Every seat was occupied, and there was a man standing in the corner drinking a cup of our gourmet coffee. They were all chit-chatting and laughing. A lady was chatting with my transcriptionist over the front counter. I turned and looked down the hallway and saw charts in all of the chart holders at the treatment room doors. I looked at the schedule on the wall in the hallway, and saw that I had seen seven new patients and performed five minor surgeries including three of my favorite laser procedures. One of the patients had come from Elko, Nevada; a 150 mile drive from the middle of Nevada over the Sierras and down into the valley to my office. She had driven past at least 12 competent podiatry offices to get to me. "Hooray", I thought. I've arrived!" My plan was to practice until I couldn’t hold a scalpel, or see what I was doing, whichever came first.
There were some patient comments that I heard on a frequent basis. The most common one was, "Oh Doctor, when your feet hurt, you hurt all over!" The next was, "Getting old isn’t for sissies!" Another one was, "Oh the golden years, they aren't so special after all." Over the years, I always empathized with my patients, when they made these comments, but they always went in one ear and out the other.
That is until, I began feeling the added years on me. As my blood pressure, weight and blood sugars rose, as my joints ached, my sleeping was dysfunctional, and acid reflux had set in. I didn't enjoy hearing about how getting old wasn't for sissies because I was starting down that pathway.
One afternoon, an elderly lady was telling me all about her health and aging issues, and how the "Golden years were not so golden!" I suddenly decided to give up my podiatry practice, which I loved very much. Hearing this every day was making me dwell on my own aging process, which was not helping me emotionally or psychologically.
That afternoon, I went home that evening and figured out my financial status. Voila! I would make more income in retirement than I was in practice. Besides the aging stuff, there were Medicare, Managed Care, and HMO issues that were also getting me down.
I arranged for the sale of my residence and practice, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. My plan was to live on Lake Wylie and relax. It only took two months to realize that retiring was a big mistake. I missed my patients, staff, and being busy helping people and helping patients solve their health problems.
Having been trained to perform Bowen Medical Bodywork, I obtained a massage license so that I could practice and teach it. So, I flunked out of retirement; or, maybe I just took a lengthy sabbatical before transitioning into my new career: HEALTH AWARENESS - HEALTH SOLUTIONS - FOR HEALTH REFORM.
By 2009, I required two medications to control my blood pressure. I was up to 235 pounds, acid reflux struck at least once a week, my blood sugar was approaching Type II diabetes, my fingers and knees ached, and my 25 year old shoulder injury was getting worse. Now, it really sank in, "Getting old isn’t for sissies, and the golden years aren’t anything to look forward to!" Were my patient’s right? Stay tuned to find out that they were wrong.
What is "Perfect Water" all about?
MY WATER JOURNEY Began in March of 2009, and I passed through a number of significant experiences, which will follow in detail.
I joined up with a Naturopathic - Holistic Pharmacist, named Billy Wease, in Gastonia NC. He practices "Healthy Aging & Wellness". He introduced me to the Perfect Water shortly after we met.
PHASE I
I picked up my water at Billies' pharmacy every two to three days. I experienced some mild detoxification symptoms for the 1st few days. On the positive side, I noted improved sleep, my right shoulder of 25 years duration, which was painful when I slept on it, disappeared right away. As the days passed by I had less aches, increased energy, acid reflux disappeared, and I lost four pounds the first two weeks. After about two months, I failed to refill my blood pressure medication # 2, Tekturna. As I monitored my blood pressure over the following weeks, I found that I didn't need it any longer. Whew! It worked on the kidneys and I was glad to be off of it. I continued to lose weight. In no particular order I no longer had; occasional acid reflux, anxiety, dry skin, fissuring and callusing of my heels, splitting of the skin in my fingertips & nosebleeds in the winter months, and loose smelly stools.
My wife got a MRSA infection following foot surgery. We applied Perfect pH Water to the lesions, and they were gone in two days. So, I began using the water to rinse my mouth twice a day. Within a couple of days the infected bleeding gums stopped. Over time, the bone loss in a tooth socket filled in enough that it saved me from a $2,500,00 periodontal surgery procedure with cadaver bone grafting. By this point, I'd lost about 30 pounds.
PHASE II
I purchased my own machine, now that I was convinced that the value of the water was easily worth the price of a machine. I installed it in the garage due to my wife's insistence. She didn't want it cluttering up the kitchen countertop. We filled two one gallon jugs each morning for the day's use. Within the first few days, I experienced a few more mild detoxification symptoms due to the fact that the water was fresher than before, when I was filling my bottles every three to four days at the pharmacy! The water loses some of it’s quality as it sits for a few days. Over the next two months, I lost more weight, watched eight fungal nails return to normal, and only had to take blood pressure medication # 1 every 3 to 4 days. At this point, I stopped losing weight, but had lost a total of 40 pounds. I did have a little help from a watered down Weight Watchers regimen, which I still follow. My fasting blood sugar had dropped from 132 fasting to 93 random.
PHASE III
At a Perfect Water conference that I attended, it was recommended to drink the water as soon as it comes out of the tap for optimal results because after 20 minutes, it begins to lose its anti-oxidant properties. When I began this practice, I mildly detoxified again, and after a few days I only needed blood pressure medicine # 1 every 10 to 14 days. Shortly after, I moved the Fountain of Youth Machine to the kitchen sink for easier access.
PHASE IV
I started doing Bowen Therapy on patients at a wellness center in a nearby town. All of them had been drinking the Perfect Water for varying periods of time. Many of their previous symptoms had resolved, but they all had some lingering pain here or there. After my 6th week of practicing Bowen Therapy, it dawned on me one evening while driving home, that I had helped 17 out of 18 patients that I'd treated! And then I then remembered that I'd helped about 58 out of 60 people that my pharmacist friend had referred over the past nine months! I only helped about 8 out of 10 people back when I was in the Bowen practice in Roseville, CA.
My conclusion is; that when tissues are tight, the spaces between the cells are narrowed, which blocks or slows the flow of plasma / water between the cells. Therefore, when the tissues are decompressed, the water can flow more freely and then diffuse through the cell membrane and into the cell. Remember, it's not about your intake of water and nutrients. It's about the uptake and utilization (not my saying), of them. This has to do with water, oxygen, and nutrients.
PHASE V:
Recalling a class that I took which was about long, slow, steady stretching for five to seven minutes per part. After stretching, one could see a blushing reactive hyperemia take place, especially around the collar area, neck and face. This was a result of opening the tissue spaces which allows the blood vessels to dilate. In other words, more blood = more plasma = more water, antioxidants, oxygen, alkalinity available for the cells to drink. I borrowed a neighbor's inversion table and for a few days I experimented with drinking a quart of Perfect Water and then inverting at 45 degrees for 5 to 10 minutes. Inversion will stretch the tissues without the need for someone to do it for you. The results were fantastic. My energy increased even more than before, my moods got even better, and I no longer had to take any of blood pressure medication #1. It also eliminated a stiff achy lower back for which I needed monthly Bowen treatments.
Needless to say, I purchased my own table and used it three to four times a day immediately after drinking a quart of water each time. The bad news is that I developed an inguinal hernia shortly after doing this regimen because I over did it. So, I no longer do the inversion at all, but just drink the water, get Bowen tune-ups once a month, and take the other blood pressure medication.
WATER SURVEY
MY survey of 70 people so far, who have been drinking this water for over 30 days, and have had no other lifestyle changes, shows the following:
Those 70 people have been able to discontinue 138 medications of which, 72 were prescriptions and 76 over the counter.
· 34 had improvement or resolution of dry skin and eczema. 95%
· 31 had improvement of blood pressure. 93%
· 28 have had significant weight loss. 94%
· 28 had resolution or reduction of acid reflux and heartburn. 95%
· 25 arthritis improved or resolved. 100%
· 21 had knee pain improve or resolve. 100%
· 24 high cholesterol was lowered. 96%
· 19 headaches improved or resolved. 95%
· 21 low back pain improved or resolved. 100%
· 14 foot pain improved or resolved. 100%
· 14 diabetes improved or resolved. 92%
· 12 Constipation improved or resolved.
· 4 have resolution of fibromyalgia.
· 66 HAVE NOTABLE INCREASED ENERGY.
· 64 HAVE IMPROVED MOODS.
I stopped surveying people at 70 because the same numbers came up at 10 people, 20 people, 40, and 60.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 5
Exercise Therapy
Step 5: Oh Boy, this is a biggie. What's good for one isn't good for all. You’ve got to find the right protocol for you. I've found the right protocol for me. I'll tell you my exercise story, for whatever it's worth.
After I quit smoking, I gained the usual amount of weight that everyone obtains after quitting. Most of us who quit smoking cigarettes, substitute food for the oral gratification of the cigarette. When the dust settled, I took up a running program around age 34. This took my mind off of food, but in reality, it was just another substitute. I lost weight like gangbusters, and maintained 180 pounds, as long as I ran 6 miles a day.
Observation showed me, that this amount of trauma to the hips and knees, might be detrimental to long term joint health. So, I began cutting back in my late forties.
Now, I do my Zen walk every day for 60 minutes, first thing in the morning. It starts me out right every day. After re-joining my Life-Time Weight Watchers, because I found 18 of the 40 pounds I had lost 3 years ago, I’ve begun to work out with Kettlebells for 20 minutes a day for extra caloric burning, cardio, plus upper body resistance training. You do what works for you. But, just do it. There's a great YouTube Video by Art Williams - "Just Do It". Please watch it. Join a gym, buy a treadmill, get a Nordic Track, walk in the woods, "JUST DO IT!"
I go for a morning walk. Every morning, rain or shine, hail, sleet or snow, away from home, in the heat, every morning. I only miss if I'm down for the count with the flu. If I have an early airplane flight, I walk in the airport concourse for one hour, or as long as possible before my flight. I review my affirmations, mission statement, goals and aspirations, etc. I give thanks with love and gratitude for all of my blessings. I review my presentations & demos. I make notes on a folded sheet of paper, which I later transfer to my files in the PC. I’ve written a good portion of this book while on my walks. I check out the scenery and take it all in. Afterward I am always energized, as long as I walk in nature. In the city and at the airport, not so much so. I guess that Mother - Nature is emitting energy which I absorb.
I made an interesting discovery while attending one of my annual Podiatry post graduate seminars in San Francisco, California. One morning following my hour run on the streets of San Francisco, I showered and got ready for the meetings. I didn't feel quite "right". Something was off center. As the day progressed, I felt more and more sluggish. The afternoon classes didn’t interest me too much, so I drove over to my old stomping grounds across the "Golden Gate", in Marin County. I took a jog up Mount Tamalpais. I couldn't believe the rejuvenation which transpired afterward. I felt energized, alert, exhilarated, and back to normal. The next morning I arose early so I could take my morning run in Muir Woods before the classes began. There was a noticeable energy level difference that day. Then, on Sunday I overslept, and went for a morning run in downtown San Francisco. Guess what? Yep, I felt sluggish that day too. From then on, I always booked a room in Marin County so I could take my morning run, and years following my walk, with nature rather than with concrete and left over vibes from the city dwellers. I have noted similar occurrences during stays in other cities. The outdoors is a great source of energy especially around trees and water.
I had a favorite spot along side of the river which I was lucky to have lived alongside for 23 years. Two trees made a wonderful place for my hammock, which hung slightly over the water. The trees had a very heavy, dense growth of leaves and provided great shade. One winter one of the trees was swept downstream and I was left with only one tree. The next summer I hung up a swinging chair on a branch of the remaining tree. The first time I sat in the chair I placed my hand against the trunk of the tree and offered my thanks for it surviving and allowing me to further enjoy its presence. Suddenly - the chair started swinging from side to side. As I removed my hand from the tree, the swinging stopped. However, when I placed my hand back near to, but not on the trunk, once again the chair started to swing. I continued to play with this for an hour or so, and again the following weekend. The chair swung every time my hand was in proximity to the tree trunk. Maybe that's the reason for feeling better when walking in the woods versus in the city! Energy is flowing from the plants and trees!
Walking outdoors accomplishes many things all at the same time:
1. Exercise.
2. Fresh air.
3. Sunlight, if done during daylight.
4. Meditation, if you can learn to turn your mind loose while walking.
5. Burn off calories.
6. Build up collateral circulation.
7. Work up a thirst so you desire more water.
That’s over ½ of the Dr. W. Safe program right there.
My Dr. W.P.Safe =
Meditation
Yoga
Diet / Nutrition
Rest
Water
Prayer
Sunlight
Attitude
Fresh Air
Exercise
Research has shown that walking provides just enough compression on the joints to keep the cartilage and underlying bone nourished. A great prevention for arthritis, and osteoporosis, along with the Perfect Water for proper hydration.
I have a number of old buddies who ran many, many marathons. Recently, they report that they've had to have hip and knee replacements. Maybe that ultra distance running is a little too much on the joints? I only ran five marathons and now, my knees and hips are great!
Another good thing to practice is myofascial unwinding as demonstrated by John F. Barnes, PT. There is a YouTube video on it. This makes the connective tissues more pliable, hydrated, piezoelectric, and thixatropic - Chapter 8 - Fascia.
To begin your walking program:
· Go to bed ten minutes earlier than usual.
· Get up ten minutes earlier than usual.
· Drink a glass of juice.
· Walk out the front door and walk down the street. Check your watch and note the time.
· After five minutes - turn and return home.
· Tomorrow - Do the same thing.
· Next day - Do the same thing.
· Saturday - Walk ten minutes out and ten minutes back. Remember, you don't have to be to work today.
· Sunday - same.
Next week add a few minutes each day.
Next week add a few more.
Work up to an hour a day.
Or, walk 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at lunchtime.
Purchase a rain suit for the winter along with gloves and warm clothing. Get shorts and tee shirts for summer. And, a good pair of running shoes.
I have a small fold-up umbrella that fits in my back pocket for when the weather is “iffy”.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 6
NUTRITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
Step 6: Nutritional Therapy. Oh Boy. This is a real biggie. How many diet books have you read? How many diet plans have you tried? How many weight loss products have you tried? If someone had the answer, and it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and succeeding too. We are all created equal with regard to our operational systems. We don't all end up equal due to the; 1. traumas we sustain, 2. the physical, mental, and emotional stresses we endure , 3. the substances we use and abuse, and 4. the chemicals that Corporate America exposes us to. And, how about the, "EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR BLOOD TYPE?" There’s probably some merit to that concept. In other words, "What's good for one person, isn’t necessarily good for all of us." And, there's a lot of bad out there we need to stay away from.
You need to find the system that works best for you. Once again, it's the four "E's".; Exploration, Experience, Education, and Enlightenment. As I see it, most of us should follow an, 80% - 20% plan. Eat wisely most of the time, but have some fun some of the time. Find the plan that best works for you, and stick to it. Two meals out of the day, Five days out of the week, Three bites of the deserts and comfort foods per "Weight Watchers". Eat small portions frequently.
Following is the outline for my healthy eating, which might help you.
#1. HAVE A MASTER PLAN - The 5 P's
Proper - Planning - Prevents - Poor - Performance
#2. SET YOUR MIND - SET
A. For the whole - eating food process.
Review how I quit smoking in the Introduction of this book.
B. The end result - How are you going to be
when you've made the changes, and used
those changes for a month or two. Get an
emotional involvement about the new you. If
you have emotional involvements with the
foods you desire and consume, get Body-
Mind Resets - Chapter 3.
C. Make up action steps for each part of your
nutritional changes.
D. Learn how to plan and handle those Special
Occasions and Holidays.
E. Learn the art of change. Many people who
drink the Perfect Water report, that one of the
reasons they lose weight is, that they
intuitively start making better food choices.
Changing water is a very minor lifestyle change. We're all uncomfortable with change, especially radical change. So you might want to consider doing some very minor changes at first in order to get change under your skin, so to speak. Then keep adding good foods, substituting, and subtracting bad foods a little at a time so you aren't put into shock
#3. SUBSTITUTIONS
A. Substitutions that you can make that won’t rock your boat too much:
· Baked chips - On occasion
· Mustards & Dijonnaise 80% - Homemade Mayo 20%.
· Organic grown Bison. Ground Bison instead of ground beef.
· Grilled, baked, or broiled wild caught fish and organic poultry.
· Roll-ups 90% - sandwiches 10%.
· Canadian bacon 95% - other, home cooked 5%.
· Tadziki for spreads 90% - regular spreads 10%.
· Sweet potatoes 80% - Red or white potatoes 20%.
· Sprouted grain Ezekiel tortillas 90% - flour tortillas 10%.
· Sprouted grain Ezekiel low fat-high fiber muffins 100%.
· Sprouted grain Ezekiel bread 100%.
· Organic egg whites 80% - Organic whole eggs 20%.
· Remove one of the slices of breads with restaurant burgers and sandwiches.
· Naan flatbread is great for pizza 80% - Thin crust pizza 20%.
· Costco's Frozen Baguettes – for special occasions.
· Brown rice pasta 90% - flour pasta 10%.
· Low fat Laughing Cow and Baby Bella cheeses for snacks and sandwiches.
· Homemade Salsa 70% - Hummus 20% - dip 10%.
· Hummus or avocado for spread instead of mayonnaise.
B. Fast food possibilities that are okay:
· Salads with grilled chicken – best to bring your own chicken if possible. Low fat dressing – Best to have your own.
· Grilled chicken sandwich with 1/2 of the bread tossed, no cheese or mayonnaise.
# 4. GOOD FOODS LIST
Organic Bison.
Complex carbohydrates. Brown Rice, Wild Rice, Quinoa, Millet, Brown Rice pasta, Yams.
Raw and lightly cooked vegetables all kinds.
Fruits, all kinds.
Cold water, wild caught fish.
#5. PLANNING - I like Saturday, early morning.
A. Each day's meals and snacks for the
upcoming week.
1. Before Breakfast -
2. Breakfast -
3. Mid Morning Snack -
4. Lunch -
5. Mid Afternoon Snack -
6. Mail Call - aka adult beverage hour.
7. Dinner -
8. Desert -
B. Week's Dinner Menus
2 vegetarian - 2 fish - 1 poultry - 1 meat -
1 comfort.
Plan around special events. Office lunch
party on Friday have veggies for dinner.
C. Make a shopping list – this helps to keep you
from buying on impulse.
D. Foods for his week.
E. Foods for tomorrow.
F. Foods for today
1. Fruit 1st - a must. This plus breakfast
starts your metabolism into gear.
2. Breakfast - another must.
3. Pack a cooler - This keeps you on track
all day long.
a. AM snack.
b. Lunch.
c. PM snack.
4. Organize dinner before dinner - Now,
there are no surprises.
G. For Special Occasions / Events
1. Family.
2. Holiday.
3. Work.
4. Event.
5. Celebration.
a. Mind set.
b. Visuals .
c. Oral & written.
#6. SHOPPING - Saturday late AM or early PM.
A. Farms & Farmer's Markets.
B. Perimeter of the store.
C. Maintain staples.
#7. FOOD PREPARATION
A. Soak produce in the Perfect Water pH 11.5,
and store. The Perfect Water removes the oil
based pesticides which; reduces your risks of
PAPA problems, enhances the flavor, and
extends the shelf life, and restores the anti-
oxidant properties of the produce.
B. Recipe modifications - For Example:
EASY CHILE RELENOS
6 Fresh Pablano Chiles (learn how to remove skin on-line) or, [2] - 7 Oz cans Ortega Whole Chiles - drained.
8 Oz. Monterey Jack Shredded. - Low fat
8 Oz. Cheddar grated. - Low fat
1/2 block Queso cheese crumbled. - Ricotta
3 Eggs beaten. - Whites only
1 [5 Oz] can condensed low fat milk - unsweetened
3 Tablespoons flour. - Plus 2 to thicken
3/4 Cup milk. - Low fat
1 [8 Oz] can of tomato sauce.
Preheat oven 350 degrees. Spray a 9 X 13 baking dish with pam.
Lay 1/2 the Chiles on the bottom of the pan. Cover with1/2 of the jack, cheddar, & ricotta cheeses. Cover cheeses with other 1/2 of the Chiles.
In a bowl, mix the egg whites, milk, condensed milk, flour, and pour the mixture over the Chiles.
Bake in oven uncovered for 25 minutes. Remove and pour the tomato sauce evenly over the top and continue to bake for another 15 minutes. Remove from oven and spread the remaining cheeses over the top. Let stand 10 minutes to cool, then serve.
C. Make as much as possible from Scratch.
D. Make extra and freeze.
E. Recipes - (Fast - Easy - Tasty - Filling - Low
Weight Watchers Points Value.
1. Soups.
2. Salads.
3. Vegetarian.
4. Poultry.
5. Fish.
6. Meat.
7. Comfort Foods.
8. Link to website recipes.
9. Tuna - Chicken - Salmon salads. Made
with Greek yogurt, Lite sour cream, a
little mayo, Celery, and lightly sautéed
chopped onion.
10. Deserts - Have the real thing, but
remember the 3 bite rule.
F. Set aside a morning - I do Sunday.
1. Sauté toppings - Store.
2. Put recipes together and cook - Store /
freeze.
3. Arrange dinners for the week.
4. Make a batch of hard cooked eggs.
5. Grill some chicken breasts or bake a
whole chicken.
6. Make a one pot meal for dinner and
left-over's.
7. Cut up veggies and store in zip locks.
8. Make up some fresh home made
hummus, salsa, mayonnaise.
9. Cook a pot of Quinoa, rice, or millet.
10. Cook some bison taco meat.
#8. STORAGE
A. Tape & Date on containers - day of week for
consumption.
B. Herbs - soak / spin dry / Zip loc / freeze.
C. Casseroles / freeze.
SEALING
Two glass 8 x 8 dishes are a good size for single meals.
1. Line with wax paper and plastic wrap.
2. Layer the casserole inside.
3. Cover with more plastic wrap. Freeze until solid.
4. Remove from wrappings when frozen. Seal a meal
and date with a sharpie for long term storage, or zip
lock if it's for this week.
#9. EATING
Eat fruits 20 minutes before meals per Dr, Shinya, the Author of the Enzyme Factor and the inventor of the colonoscope. This enhances digestion from the enzymes. He's also a medical advisor for the Perfect Water. Or, drink a quart of Perfect Water 20 to 30 minutes before a meal to tell your brain that you are sated . A great trick before dining out, or before attending a special event.
A. Serving portions. Proteins and Carbs the size
of a deck of cards.
B. Plate portions. 1/2 plate filled with veggies,
1/4 carbs, and 1/4 meat.
#10. RULES TO FOLLOW
A. 80 : 20 Rule - day off / meal off. Enjoy a
comfort food or two once or twice a week.
B. 3 Bite Rule. First bite is ecstasy. Second
bite is wonderful. Third bite is good. All
others are just putting food in your mouth,
like a backhoe shoveling dirt, and putting it in
another hole.
C. Some comfort food during the week. Weight
Watchers allows 49 extra points per week.
For example; I get 35 points per day. A
Subway veggie sandwich is 6 points. So, 49
is quite a bit. If you plan on going off the
norm for a meal or two, you don't feel as if
you "Blew the diet" and now, "Oh what the
heck. I'll just go back to my old ways".
D. Rule of 5. Is it fast, easy, tasty, filling, and
low Weight Watchers point value.
E. Rules for dining out.
1. Go on line and check the menu for
friendly foods. Know what you’re
going to order before you get there.
2. Order foods prepared without butter,
grilled, steamed, baked whenever
possible.
3. When meal is served get a to-go box
and put 1/2 of the meat and
carbohydrates in it for tomorrow’s
lunch.
4. Remember the 3 bite rule if sampling a
desert.
F. Avoid all sodas. They're all bad, and some
are worse (Diet)
#11. SUBSTANCES TO MINIMIZE.
Items that might be best to minimize - for lots of reasons which are all well documented: Be sure to check the labels even though they may have misleading information and omissions.
· Sugar.
· Fructose corn syrup.
· Canned & Bottled Foods.
· Fast Foods - Soft core.
· Plastic bottles - BPA bisphenol A = estrogen & androgen mimicker.
· Fast Foods - Hard core.
· Microwaving.
· Pesticides.
· Food Colorings.
· Artificial Sweeteners.
· Prepared Foods.
· Packaged Foods.
· Processed Foods.
· Genetically Engineered Foods.
· Aluminum cans.
· Commercial Farm raised fish. Fed by pellets that you don't want the contents of it in you.
· Commercial Farm raised meats and poultry. Ditto.
#14. On Hand In Fridge for Grab & Go.
A. Toppings made from sautéed onions,
mushrooms, peppers.
B. Carrot & Celery sticks.
C. Apples & Grapes.
D. Avocado.
E. Beans.
F. Refried beans.
G. Baby Bella and Laughing Cow low fat
cheeses.
H. Brown rice, millet, quinoa.
I. Salsa - Home made.
J. Tuna - Chicken - Salmon salads.
K. Ezekiel tortillas.
L. Lettuce & spinach.
M. Hummus.
#15. Breakfasts.
A. Low fat, high fiber Muffin.
1. Egg.
2. Egg and Canadian bacon
3. Canadian bacon and cheese.
B. Cereal & fruit.
C. Greek Yogurt & fruit, or Fruit spread .
D. Hard Boiled Egg & Fresh Salsa.
E. Cottage Cheese & Fresh Salsa.
#16. Lunches.
A. Veggie soup.
B. Slice of bread, turkey, Dijonnaise, dill stackers,
peppers.
C. Left over dinner.
D. Wrap with veggies & Cow cheese
#17. Dinners.
ROMAN CHICKEN - This is Really Good
Ingredients
4 skinless chicken breasts halves with ribs & 4 thighs with bones.
1 Tsp salt.
1 Tsp black pepper.
1/4 cup olive oil.
1 each red and yellow pepper sliced.
1/4 lb. prosciutto rolled and chopped.
2 cloves garlic chopped.
1 (15 oz) diced or crushed tomatoes plus juice.
1/2 cup white wine.
1/2 cup chicken broth low sodium.
1 can whole pitted black olives.
1 Tbsp. Fresh thyme chopped.
1 Tsp. Fresh oregano.
1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves chopped.
2 Tablespoons of capers.
Season the chicken with 1/2 tsp each, salt and pepper.
Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat and brown chicken on both sides. Remove from pan and set aside.
Keep the pan over medium heat, add peppers and prosciutto and cook until prosciutto is crisp and peppers are softened, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for a minute. Add tomatoes, wine and herbs. Scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen the browned bits. Return the chicken to the pan and add broth. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Cover and simmer until chicken is cooked - about 20 to 30 minutes.
Allow to cool to room temperature. Transfer to a storage container covered and refrigerate overnight.
Reheat to a simmer, add parsley and capers and mix together and serve.
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BAKED COD
1 lb Cod Filet.
1/4 Cup fresh parsley chopped.
Juice of 1 lemon.
2 Tablespoons all purpose flour.
2 Tablespoons oil.
1/2 Tsp dried oregano.
1/2 Tsp salt.
1/4 Tsp pepper.
Pinch of Cayenne Pepper.
450 oven temp.
Spray baking dish with Pam. Place fish in pan. Spoon mixture over fish. Bake 10 minutes, plus minus until fish is slightly flakey.
Weight Watchers 3 POINTS
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TOMATO SAUCE / MARINARA BASE
1 Tablspoons 0live oil.
2 Onions finely chopped.
4 Cloves garlic minced.
3 lbs - about 18 plum tomatoes, or [2] -28 oz cans Italian plum tomatoes, drained and chopped.
1/4 Cup dry red wine.
2 Tablspoons tomato paste.
1 Tablspoon finely chopped fresh oregano, or 1 teaspoon dried.
1 Teaspoon sugar.
1 1/2 Teaspoon salt.
1/4 Teaspoon pepper.
Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat, add onions and garlic. Cook until golden and softened, about 10 minutes.
Add tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano, salt, pepper, sugar, wine, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered until flavors are blended and the sauce is slightly thickened. About 25 minutes.
Weight Watchers 1 Point
Place in 1 cup containers and freeze for up to 3 months.
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SKIRT STEAK WITH GREEN ONIONS
1 ½ pound skirt steak cut into 4 pieces.
1 Teaspoon salt divided.
½ Teaspoon pepper divided.
1 Tablespoon oil.
2 Tablespoons unsalted butter divided.
¾ Cup water.
3 to 4 bunches of scallions (whites and ends trimmed).
1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice.
Lime wedges.
Heat oven to 200 degrees with rack in middle position.
Pat meat dry with paper towel and sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper.
Place 1 tablespoon of oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter in a 12 inch heavy skillet.
Over moderately high heat, when foam subsides, place steaks in pan and cook for 5 to 7 minutes total for medium rare turning only once. Transfer to a plate and place in oven to keep warm.
Discard fat from pan and add the water and bring to a boil and scrape the fond left on the bottom of the skillet. Add scallions, butter, salt, and pepper and cook tightly covered over moderate heat until scallions are tender, about 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer scallions to a platter and put steaks on top. Pour steak juices from plate into the skillet and boil until reduced and thickened. Add lime juice and pour over steaks and scallions.
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TOSS IT IN THE PAN LASAGNE
1 1/2 Pounds ground bison or turkey or beef.
¾ Cup chopped onion.
2 Cloves minced garlic.
1 32 oz can of marinara sauce.
1 12 oz can tomato sauce.
1 Small can sliced olives.
8 oz Shredded low fat Mozzarella cheese.
4 to 6 oz. Low fat Ricotta cheese.
Oregano.
Thyme.
Salt.
Pepper.
1 Tablespoon olive oil.
1 Package of brown rice noodles.
Bring salted water to a boil. Add noodles and cook until tender & drain. Sauté onions in oil until soft. Add garlic and meat. Stir and cook until meat is browned. Spray the bottom and sides of a large baking dish with Pam. Pour and spread a layer of the marinara and tomato sauce mixed together in the bottom of the dish. Layer ½ of the noodles over the sauce. Place ½ of the meat and onions over the noodles and top with ½ of the cheeses. Pour ½ of the remaining marinara mixture on top and spread. Repeat with another layer of the remainders. Cover with foil. Bake 30 to 40 minutes until hot and cheeses are melted.
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TAMALE BEEF SQUARES
1 Package [about 6 Oz] corn muffin mix.
1/3 Cup fat-free (skim) milk.
1/4 Cup egg whites.
1 Tablespoon Olive oil.
1 Pound lean ground bison or turkey or beef.
3/4 Cup chopped onion.
1 Cup frozen corn.
1 Can [about 14 Oz] Mexican-style stewed tomatoes.
2 Teaspoons cornstarch.
3/4 cup [ 3 Oz] shredded sharp low fat cheddar cheese.
1. Preheat oven to 400 Deg. F. Spray a 12 X 8 baking dish with olive oil or pam. Stir together corn muffin mix, milk, egg whites, and oil. Spread out evenly in the bottom of the baking dish.
2. Cook ground meat and onion in a large skillet 6 to 8 minutes over medium-high heat, stirring to break up meat. Drain and stir in corn. Mix together tomatoes and cornstarch, breaking up large chunks of tomato. Stir into meat mixture in skillet. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
3. Spoon meat mixture over corn muffin mixture in the baking dish. Cover with foil; bake 15 minutes remove foil and bake 10 minutes more, Sprinkle with cheese; bake 2 -3 minutes or until cheese melts. Remove from oven; let stand 5 minutes. Cut into squares.
4. Serve plain - or use your imagination; Salsa, guacamole, sour cream, etc.
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FLATBREAD PIZZA - A GREAT TRADE-OFF
LEMON-THYME-ZUCCHINI - MUSHROOM - WHATEVER
This is a Weight Watcher's friendly - (3 points per serving) = 1/3 slice per.
3 Tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice.
2 - 3 Cloves garlic crushed.
1 1/2 Teaspoons olive oil.
1 1/2 Teaspoons fresh chopped Thyme, or 1/2 Teaspoon dried.
1/2 Teaspoon salt.
2 Medium Zucchini cut in 1/2 lengthwise, then into 1/4 " thick slices.
2-3 Oval Naan flatbreads.
1/2 Cup feta cheese with sun dried tomatoes, or goat cheese.
1/2 Container of fresh sliced mushrooms.
Combine the lemon, mushrooms, garlic, oil, thyme, and salt in a small mixing bowl. Place in a Zip-Loc bag with zucchini slices and mix. Let stand for 30 minutes. Turn 1/2 way through.
Grill, or stir fry zucchini - mushroom mix.
Heat grill and place flatbread on an oiled rack uncovered for 2 to 3 minutes and flip with tongs. Place cheese, and arrange the Zucchini and mushrooms over the top and press down lightly. Grill until the bottom of the flatbread is slightly brown, about 3 minutes. Cool & slice in sizes you want.
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PORTABELLA PIZZA
2 - 3 Portabella mushrooms.
Pizza sauce.
Mozarella cheese low fat.
Cheddar cheese low fat.
Chopped red onion.
Ground Bison or turkey or beef.
Preheat oven to 350 deg.
Clean mushrooms and remove stem and fins
Fill cavity with pizza sauce
Top with cheese
Cover with onions and meat
Bake 15 minutes until cheese melted and meat browned.
Cool for 5 minutes.
Cut into wedges & serve.
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STUFFED PEPPERS - SWEET SPICED MEAT
12 Oz. lean ground bison or turkey or beef.
1/2 Cup finely chopped onion.
8 Oz. Chopped tomatoes.
3/4 Cup beef broth.
2 Oz Fisher Chef's Naturals - slivered almonds. Not sliced.
1/4 Cup packed raisins.
1 packet sugar substitute - Truvia or Stevia.
1 Teaspoon ground cumin.
1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon.
3/4 Teaspoon salt.
2 Medium red bell peppers, halved lengthwise - seeds and stems removed.
1. Place a 10 inch non-stick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add meat and onion and cook until meat is browned, stirring frequently.
2. Add tomato, beef broth, almonds, raisins, sugar substitute, cumin, cinnamon, and salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Place pepper halves on top of the meat mixture, cut side down. Cover tightly and simmer for 15 minutes or until peppers are tender.
3. Transfer peppers to a serving platter, Cut side up and set aside.
4. Increase heat to medium-high, bring to a boil, and cook meat mixture, uncovered, 5 minutes or until thickened, stirring frequently. Spoon equal amounts of meat mixture into pepper halves.
Makes 4 servings - just right for a party of 2
#18. Snacks.
A. Mozzarella cheese sticks wrapped in egg roll
wrappers-browned in oil.
B. Baked chips and fresh salsa.
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FRESH SALSA
6 Medium - large ripe tomatoes.
1 large sweet onion.
Handful of fresh cilantro.
Juice of 1 fresh lime or 1/2 lemon.
1 - 3 fresh jalapeno peppers to taste.
Salt to taste.
Wash, core and dice tomatoes. Chop onion and cilantro.
Finely chop peppers-remove seeds and ribs for less heat.
Combine all together and let rest for 30 - 60 and minutes before serving. Add salt.
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C. Veggies & hummus ( be careful of too much
hummus).
HUMMUS
1 (12 oz.) can garbanzo beans.
2 - 4 Cloves garlic.
2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil.
3 Tbsp. Tahini sauce (sesame paste).
Juice of 1 lemon.
1/2 Tsp salt.
Drain 1/3 of the water from the beans and set aside.
In a blender, mix together the garbanzo beans with the remaining can of water (2/3) and the other ingredients.
Blend for 1 - 2 minutes until smooth and a slight paste is formed. Add small amount of saved water to thin if needed.
This is very good.
Try adding 1 cup of sautéed red pepper.
I used a little extra garlic - Mmmmmm
D. Veggie Straws occasionally.
E. Low fat Laughing Cow & Baby Bella
cheeses.
F. Mozzarella string cheese.
G. Baked tortilla 400 deg. 10 Min.- Olive oil on
the pan & topped with grated parmesan
cheese, or fresh salsa.
H. Dried veggie chips.
I. Fruit.
J. Dip - Greek yogurt, low fat sour cream, garlic
powder or other favorite seasonings, and
parsley / cilantro.
#20. LINKS TO SOME GOOD WEBSITES
Food Inc. www.foodinc.com
Food.com - www.food.com
Supersize me. - You Tube
Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. You Tube
Dr. Mark’s Minute on You Tube.
Dr. Andrew Weil - http://www.drweil.com
You Tube Sugar video 'Sugar is a toxin'
segment on 60 Minutes 4/1/2012
100 Quick and easy recipes Dr. Mercola http://whfoods.org/recipestoc.php#recipes
#21. OTHER TIPS
· Shop the perimeter of the grocery store 80%. The 20% in the middle should be for; frozen fruits and vegetables, condiments, staples such as flour, rice, cous cous, bulgur, quinoa, barley, beans, whole wheat pastas.
· Buy locally grown produce, meats, poultry, eggs, and dairy.
· Plan a weekly menu and purchase all ingredients in advance.
· Prepare as many ingredients needed for meals in advance. Make double/triple amounts, and freeze individual and meal portions.
· Pack a cooler in the morning with; breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, drive home snack and beverage, of course, your Perfect Water.
· Eat 5 - 6 small servings a day, rather than 3 large meals.
· Buy a juicer. I bought a Jack LaLanne machine as recommended by one of my patients. We know it's not rated high by the juicing gurus and authorities, but it's easy to assemble, easy to use, and easy to clean. I had one of the other machines, which is rated higher by the juice gurus, but I never used it due to its non-user friendly properties. We figured, it's better to drink an inferior juice regularly, than not drinking any! So, that's my logic. I soak my produce in the perfect water in order to remove the oil-based pesticides and to hydrate the items which extends the shelf life. The pulp goes in the compost pile, which fuels my vegetable garden. The digestive enzymes in fruit aid in the digestion of your meals, if eaten 20 minutes before meals.
I like a mixture of; lemon, grapes, apple, orange, carrots, celery, and sometimes beets added to the mix.
Here's another juice suggestion:
#1. bunch of kale - 6 leaves.
#2. 4 celery stalks.
#3. 1 cucumber peeled.
#4. 1 Apple.
#5. 1/2 lemon peeled.
#6. 1" piece of ginger root peeled.
Summary: Make your mind set adjustments first. Then, make plans for the long term commitment for the new eating program that you now have chosen. Think about it all day long and at bed-time. Make little changes at first, then more major ones after you experience the new little changes. Try giving up one problem food, make one substitution, and add one good food every week. Try to avoid, let's say packaged foods today. Cut out Fast food for a day. Substitute scrambled egg whites for whole eggs for breakfast. Try a Greek yogurt with fresh berries and a trickle of Agave or honey. Fruit spread works well also, but it does have some sugar. Get in the habit of looking at labels. Try and eat 20 -25 Grams of fiber female, and 30 for males. Keep fats and sugars low.
Lastly, don't let your family members interfere with your own program. Keep your foods separate from theirs if they are not on board with you. They can get what they want and need, but you keep your own sections in the pantry, freezer, and refrigerator.
Good luck and best wishes,
"Expect a Miracle Today"
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
PS: If I only knew then, what I know now-- my life may have been different. Chapter 7
MISSING MEDICAL CHAPTER 4
CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT & GOOD VIBRATIONS
Step 7: Vibrational Therapy:
Some of you might have a hard time relating to this. Again, trust me. If I haven't led you astray so far, I'll not lead you astray here. This chapter has been my second hardest, and I'll break it down as follows.
Remember that cells are our basic units of life. Their health and wellness is paramount. Cells make tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make organ systems. And, the organ systems make us tick. So, we really need to make sure that our cells have everything that they need; oxygen, water, nutrients, and favorable environments in order to have healthy tissues, organs, and organ systems.
1st consideration:
Dr. Bruce Lipton's cell research shows that cells go into a growth mode when the environment is friendly. Cells go into retraction, a no growth mode, when the environment is unpleasant. Also, cell membranes are liquid crystal, semi-conductor, silicon chips that take in and process data, store, and send out information. Okay, so we have an "Inner-Net". So, the physical body, emotional body, mental thoughts, chemicals, heat, cold, touch, and all stimuli, including Tom Bowen's "Moves" are creating signals to the inner-net, and thus affecting the environment that surrounds the cells.
Formerly, it was believed that the nucleus of the cell was its brain. That a cell could not survive without a nucleus. Dr. Lipton discovered that it can. The only problem is that without a nucleus, the cell can't replicate itself, because the nucleus contains the DNA. Dr. Lipton discovered that the cell membrane is the "Brain of the cell". Not only does it selectively allow ingress of some substances, egress of others, and holding in other materials, he found that the cell membrane takes in data from the environment, processes it, and then puts out information to surrounding cells and many other biofeedback mechanisms. The cell membrane is a semiconductor, just like a silicon computer chip. It also is a liquid crystal structure which puts out electrical currents.
Could it be; that the subtle stimulus of the Bowen Moves described in Chapter 2, provides data to the internal environment, during the rest periods that data is processed, and then information is released to the homeostatic mechanisms, for the initiation and continuation of healing mechanisms. And, restarting the healing of old wounds which failed to heal completely.
2nd consideration:
Masuro Emoto is a Naturopathic Doctor in Japan. He wondered if no two water crystals were alike, just like no two snow flakes were alike. He proved this by; freezing different waters from different sources, thawing the ice under a controlled environment, and photographing the crystals at the precise moment where they were between a frozen and liquid state.
The waters from various geographical locations formed crystals shaped as follows; Tokyo = Ugly, Mexico City = Ugly, High Mountain Streams = Beautiful, Denver, Colorado = Beautiful. Distilled Water formed = no crystals.
Dr. Emoto then went on to study the formation of crystals under various conditions / vibrations. When he exposed water to; spoken words, written words, thoughts by a group of people, music, and pictures. He found:
· Heavy metal music = Ugly crystals.
· Mozart = beautiful crystals.
· "I love you" written on a piece of paper = beautiful crystals.
· "I hate you" written on a piece of paper = ugly crystals.
· Water from a polluted reservoir = ugly crystals.
· Same water from reservoir after prayer = beautiful crystals.
· Water which sat on a picture of a dolphin, formed crystals which had the general appearance of a dolphin.
· Water exposed to ugly and negative thoughts by a group of people standing over the water, formed ugly crystals.
· Water exposed to thoughts of love and peace by a group of people standing over the water, formed beautiful crystals.
· Adolph Hitler written on a piece of paper, formed ugly crystals.
· Mother Theresa written on a piece of paper, formed beautiful crystals
Go to:www.wellnessgoods.com and see for yourself.
So; the picture, music, thought, spoken word, written word all influence water.
3rd consideration:
An experiment was performed on rye grass. The researchers hooked up a stylus attached to a lever, which charted the growth rate of the plants on paper. The normal growth rate in all of the plants was 6.25 thousandths of an inch per hour. A psychic distance healer, who was 600 miles away, visualized the plants and applied prayer with love and light to the them. The growth rate increased to 52.5 thousandths of an inch per hour - an 840% increase!
4th consideration:
Putting 1 - 2 - 3 together:
1. Cells react to the environment.
2. Water reacts to; thoughts, written and spoken words, music, pictures, and environment. Remember, Tokyo = ugly crystals while Denver = beautiful crystals.
3. Plant growth can be influenced by prayer and emotion.
5th consideration:
Putting it together some more - Our physical bodies are composed of 65% to 70% water. Intracellular water, water inside your cells and extracellular water, water outside of your cells.
6th consideration:
It seems that a major player in our cellular environment is our water. So, vibrational water management and the drinking water management appear to be pretty large.
That management can all be done by; Thoughts, prayers, affirmations, written words, music, visuals, laughter, Bowen's Medical Bodywork, and the Perfect Water.
WHAT ELSE MIGHT CAUSE UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTS?
Acidity
Bad Music
Bad News
Negative thoughts
Negative words
Negative people
Free Radicals
Chemicals
WHAT ELSE MIGHT CAUSE FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTS
Good Music
Good People
Pets
Good Thoughts
Prayers / Affirmations
Alkaline restructured, micro-clustered, antioxidant, oxygen rich Perfect Water. Blessed with Love and Gratitude, per Dr. Emoto.
Nature
I was performing a Bowen session on a patient one afternoon. When I turned on the music she said, "Oh my, that's Medwyn Goodall. He saved my life!" I asked if she had traveled to the British Isles, as that's where he's from? She said, "No, I just listened to his music." She had stage four terminal ovarian cancer. The experts had told her that she had four to six weeks to live. She began listening to Medwyn Goodall's music 24/7/365. Six months later, she cut down to listening for just a few hours each day. She told me this two years after her death sentence!
Relaxing classical music is safe, cheap and easy way to beat insomnia. Many people who suffer from insomnia find that Bach music helps them. Researchers have shown that just 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a more restful night.
Relaxing music reduces sympathetic nervous system activity, decreases anxiety, blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate and may have positive effects on sleep via muscle relaxation and distraction from thoughts.
When we are too hot, we turn on the air conditioning. If we are too cold, we turn up the heater and put on a sweater. If we don't like the news, we change the channel. If we don't like the music, we change the station. If we don't like the people, we leave the room. In other words, we adapt to the environment. Too bad it's so hard to do this with food!
So, the cells that are the microcosm of our being, react in a similar fashion to environmental changes.
It will also aid you to grasp all of this if you can learn more about the "Law of Attraction", and that thoughts can become things. Remember my pig story.
Napoleon Hill tells an interesting tale in his audio tape, "YOUR RIGHT TO BE RICH". A neighbor lady, in the country town where he grew up, used to tell stories to the neighborhood children on her front porch every evening. She always ended every story with, "Oh, I know that I'm going to die soon", while clutching her hands over her bosom. A year later, he read her obituary in the local newspaper, and that she had died from "breast" cancer.
It's your choice whether you buy into this stuff or not. It's your choice to try the new pathway, or just continue on the one you're on, and end up where you're heading.
Since cells respond to environmental influences, which we have considerable control over;
Thoughts - Guided Imagery.
Written Words.
Music.
Spoken Words
Stress
Pictures.
Emotions.
Laughter
Prayer
This means that we can be in better control of our optimal health destiny by our own efforts to manage our internal environment, by whatever it takes.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 8
MORE MISSING CHAPTERS
FROM THE WESTERN MEDICAL REPAIR MANUAL
INTRODUCTION
Let's pretend; your BMW isn't running quite right, it is hard to start in the morning when it is cold, it dies when you stop at the light, the gas consumption is up, and there is a little hesitation or bucking effect as you accelerate. You take it in to the BMW specialist and leave it for the day. They put it on their diagnostic analyzer and get a read-out. It does not show anything out of the normal ranges. So, they adjust the fuel injectors, since that seems to be one of the symptoms, and call you at work and tell you that they think they have it resolved and, to pick up your vehicle on your way home.
You drive your BMW home and it seems to run a little better, but the next morning it does the same old things. So, you take it back to the specialist and they do some more research and dig a little deeper. They adjust some more settings and fiddle a little more with the fuel injectors. You pick your car up and the next morning the same things happen again.
At this point, you become dissatisfied and go to another mechanic for a second opinion. One of your co-workers sings the praises of this other BMW Repair Shop. She has the hottest shop in town. She has all of the latest bells and whistles. She tells you that she can most certainly solve your car's problems. Only problem, Same ole-Same ole. You pay her and drive off to find your BMW runs about the same.
Here is the crux of your pretend dilemma. They, and their analyzers, are both missing two important sections of the BMW repair manual; timing systems and exhaust systems! No wonder they can't get your prized BMW running right.
Well, when the hallowed medical doctor says," We've performed all the tests, and examinations, but do not know what you have?" Or, "You have Fibromyalgia because you have 12 of the 21 points that are tender. We can't fix your problem, but we hope to be able to keep you comfortable. Let's try this or that." Or, "Oh, there's a Fibromyalgia Support Group that meets on Tuesdays at the YMCA ." This is analogous to the BMW scenario. The labs, x-rays, MRI's, CT scans, PET scans, Ultrasounds, Endoscopes, and Arthroscopes can't analyze these missing systems, and the doctors aren't trained in the assessment and treatment of them. Keep in mind that doctors couldn't believe in, or deal with bacteria, viruses, funguses, parasites, and spirochetes in the 1800's. They couldn't see them, so they wouldn't believe that there were such things! That is, until Leuwenhoek invented the microscope.
I once listened to an audio cassette tape titled, "Dead Doctors Don't Lie", by a Dr. Joel Wallach. As my enlightenments unfolded, I realized that, "Live Doctors Don't Always Tell the Truth!" I can say this because I've been there and done that. I didn't always tell the truth, just as other doctors don't always tell the truth. That's because we didn't learn it. I thought that I was most of the time, but not always. In defense of the Medical Profession, I will say, that the establishment via the university systems and professional organizations, such as the American Academy of Foot Surgeons, American College of Foot Surgeons, and the American Podiatric Medical Association, et. al teach doctors what they want to teach us. The teachings are about; surgical procedures, pharmaceuticals, and other technological devices. Doctors must follow the standard of care for fear of peer pressures, loss of licensure, and liability issues. So, we do what we're told to do and don't question authority. Acceptance and utilization of unorthodox methods can mean professional and financial ruin. In retrospect, I took a huge chance taking the journey that I did. But, I am glad that I did for those whom I helped and for my journey too. Although, I still have some dots to connect so that I can see the entire picture. So, I remain in quest of more information.
THE OTHER MISSING CHAPTERS ARE:
5. The Direct Current System - the 3rd dimension of the nervous system, aka electromagnetism. Your 9 volt battery.
6. The Fascial System - the largest organ, aka Connective Tissues. The fat and gristle on the roast beef.
7. The Meridian System - The most extensive system, aka Qi / Chi. Your Life Force.
8. Thinking outside of the box.
5th MISSING CHAPTER
THE DIRECT CURRENT SYSTEM
The 3rd Dimension Of The Nervous System
My interest in this chapter began when I started using TENS transcutaneous, electrical, neural stimulation units on my patients to relieve post operative pain. Later in my career, I started using MENS micro-current, electrical neural stimulation units to help patients' foot problems. My interest in how these trickles of electricity could have such amazing effects on my patients' foot problems led me to a lot of information in the archives.
I'll share the two experiences that led me down this trail. When I performed bunion surgery we placed sterile TENS electrodes on both sides the skin incision. The wires came through the gauze dressing for attachment to the TENS unit. Inside the units were dials to adjust the currents. We used two modulations, one for pain control as needed, and the other setting for healing was used at least three times a day for 20 minutes each. In most all cases, when we took post surgery X-Rays three to four weeks later, the line that shows where the bone was transected was non-apparent. Meaning, the bone had healed back together. In cases when we didn't use the TENS units, at this point in time post surgery, the radiolucent line was quite visible on radiographs.
My second experience was when the physiatrist doctor an M.D. who specializes in Physical Medicine came to my office to set up my new MENS machine, which was quite pricey. He opened the back of the machine and placed six "C" cell batteries in the unit much to my surprise. I asked, "Is that what powers this machine?" He said, "Yep. That's all it takes." I then questioned him on how often did they have to be replaced? He replied, "They'll last a year or two." This amazed me, especially in light of how much my patients benefited from the use of the loaner machine I used during a two week trial period. Pain was relieved by the end of a 20 minute session. Foot problems that usually took a month to resolve got better in a week or two.
This was pre internet, so I asked the hospital librarian to do a "Med-Line" search of the available literature on electrical current and wound healing. She called me later that day and asked, "How far back in time do you want me to search?" I thought for a moment and told her, "How about 20 years?". The next day my mail box at the hospital was crammed with a rolled up sheet of computer paper. There were summaries of over two hundred studies on electrical current and wound repair, most of which were favorable. I wonder why the medical education system ignores this data? I do have a guess?
In the mix was a number of studies done on laboratory animals which researchers implanted cancer cells. When the lesions grew to a certain size, electrical currents were placed over the tumors. In all cases where positive polarity was applied, the lesions either reduced in size, or were eliminated. Whereas, in the negative polarity groups the tumors continued to grow. The last study was in 1977. This was the date when chemotherapy was introduced to the medical profession by Dr. Bender.
I used to build my own electrical generators which I called "Little Black Boxes." I bought small plastic battery receptacles that held four "C" cell batteries. I lengthened the wires and added alligator clips to the ends of the black negative and red positive wires. We applied the currents to lesions on patients in my practice. I had removed a toenail and bone spur from the large toe of a teenage patient. About two weeks after surgery it appeared to be infected. Mother refused antibiotics, so I had them apply the positive currents three times a day for the bacteriostatic effect. A week later the infection had cleared, but the skin edges had not closed together. So, I had them apply the negative current to the wound site. Two weeks later, the toe was quite swollen, so we took x-rays. Lo and behold, there was a large square patch of calcium on the top of the toe bone where it was still healing from the surgery done four weeks prior. Bone takes six to eight weeks to heal. I didn't think of that when I instructed them to use the negative current for healing, and it caused the build up of calcium!
Our body electric is much like our homes; 110 Volt & 220 Volt systems operate many of our household appliances, computers, heaters, water pumps, lights and stereos. Direct Current D.C. with positive and negative polarities powers the smoke detectors, doorbells, intercoms, and stereo speakers. These electrical currents travel via wiring systems which are turned on and off with switches and breakers and are modulated by transformers, capacitors and resisters, and reducers.
Our body operates in a similar fashion. The 1st dimension is the central nervous system. The 2nd dimension is the peripheral nervous system consisting of the; Voluntary nervous system sensory and motor nerves and the involuntary/autonomic nervous system sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. There is a 3rd dimension which is the Direct Current D.C. system. The D.C system is probably conducted via the meridian ductule system, the nerve sheaths myelin sheath, intra-cellular and extra-cellular water, and the colloid gel matrix of the fascia. This colloid gel turns to a liquid form when heated and stretched, called "thixatropy". Some data has been gathered by Dr. Robert O. Becker and Bruce Lipton, PhD, which supports this probability.
The collagen within the fascia is made up from proteins which contain crystalline strands. These crystalline structures generate micro-currents called "piezoelectricity". This is one of the systems that creates micro-currents. Another generator is the cell membrane system. The cell membrane has a liquid crystal component. The micro-currents are instrumental in modulating wound and tissue repair, healing of fractures, bone and scar remodeling, and cellular regeneration by way of influencing cellular activities.
Our body electric has been measured and has shown a positive polarity through the central nervous system and the central part of the physical body. The extremities and peripheral tissues consist of negative polarity. An unfertile egg also is positive in the middle and negative on the perimeter.
The effects of positive and negative polarity on cellular and tissue activities have been studied extensively around the world during the past 50 years, or more.
POSITIVE / CATIONS = MOSTLY ANTIBIOLOGICAL / CATABOLIC
*1. Anticarcinogenic – reverses cancer.
2. Attracts macrophages – cells that clean up
debris / release endorphins.
3. Bacteriostatic – stops reproduction of
organisms.
4. Bactericidal if combined with silver ions –
kills organisms.
5. Causes bone to reabsorb. Wolf’s Law of
Bone.
6. Denatures protein.
7. Prevents post ischemic lipid per oxidation.
8. Promotes epithelial growth and
organization.
9. Reduces keloids and scars.
10. Reduces fibrosis.
11. Reduces tensile strength of wounds.
12. Repels mast cells – inflammation and
allergy cells.
13. Retards biological growth.
14. Stimulates osteoclastic activity- cells that
reabsorb bone.
15. Vasoconstrictive.
NEGATIVE / ANIONS = MOSTLY BIOLOGICAL / ANABOLIC
1. Attracts neutrophils – cells that fight infection.
2. Decreases edema – swelling.
3. Increases fibroblastic activity - cells that form
collagen.
4. Increases fibroblastic proliferation and
collagen formation.
5. Increases growth factor receptor sites on
fibroblasts.
6. Increases repair and regeneration.
7. Induces epidermal cell migration.
8. Lyses necrotic tissue – dead tissue.
9. Stimulates granulation tissue.
10. Stimulates osteocytes bone marrow cells to
migrate to a fracture site in order to form
crystalline hydroxy apatite for the formation
of calcium for fracture repair or bone
remodeling.
11. Stimulates osteoblastic activity-cells that
form bone matrix.
12. Stimulates dendrite formation directionally.
13. Vasodilatation.
Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. found that when one cuts a finger, the negative polarity shifts to positive for about five days. Following that, the polarity shifts back to negative and increases in amperage until day 21, at which time the polarity gradually returns to its normal resting state. Wound repair takes place, generally as follows. At the time of the cut platelets clump together, we usually place a band aid and a little compression, and the cations constrict the capillaries all of which help to stop the bleeding. The cations also help to keep the wound from infection due to its bacteriostatic effects. A thrombin clot with aid of fibrinogen seals the wound and forms a scaffold for further healing by collagen. Cations stimulate macrophages which clean up the dead cells and debris at the wound site. Macrophages release endorphins which reduces pain. All of this transpires during the first 5 days. Next, negative anion micro-currents intensify during the next 14 to 16 days and attract the fibroblasts to come to the wound site, proliferate, open receptor sites on the fibroblasts for hormone peptide growth factors. The fibroblasts then form pro-collagen and collagen which is our very own supply of super-glue. All as a result of the anions. This intensification of micro-currents explains why wounds often tingle and itch around two weeks after the injury. I used to tell my patients, "Oh, that's the nerves reconnecting." That sounded good to me, and they always accepted my explanation, but it wasn't the truth. Usually at about day 21 the wound has its maximum tensile strength so the anions lower back down to the normal basal resting state. Then, for the next six months to one year the scar re-organizes remodeling phase (See Chapter 2 for cases). If you check the effects of the currents they pretty much correlate to the phases of wound repair. I speculate that if Dr. Becker had carried on his measurements at the wound site for months after the initial healing process, he probably would have charted intense positive charges which are responsible for the absorption of scar tissue. The following chart shows the process.
Doctor Becker wanted to know what structures or circuits these currents flowed through and performed the following experiment. He removed a section of the sciatic nerve from the leg in a rat and then confirmed the de-nerving by nerve conduction studies to the distal fibula. He then fractured the distal fibula - outer ankle bone. He noted that even though the nerve had not reconnected by the time the fractures had healed, the fracture healed in spite. Although the fracture healing time was delayed 2 to 4 weeks.
He then studied 3 groups of rats, where the 1st group he sectioned the nerve and waited 5 days to fracture the bone, the 2nd group he waited 10 days, and the 3rd group he waited 15 days. All 3 groups healed in the usual 4 weeks time. He concluded that something happened the 1st five days. He then severed the nerve in another rat, waited 5 days, and then took the wound apart. He visualized a thin film of tissue bridging the gap between the cut nerve ends. When he looked at the tissue with a microscope he observed Schwann cells, which are the main cells of the nerve sheath myelin sheath.
Therefore, the nerve sheath probably conducts the D.C. flow or, possibly the meridian that runs along the nerve as we will discover later. Or, possibly the fascia is the conductor, as the fascia surrounds every cell in the body, and the nerve sheath is really a brand of connective fascial tissue.
Doctor Becker made an interesting observation. Over all of the years that he performed experiments on animals, fracturing bones and observing them heal, they never had any non-unions of the fractures. He didn't immobilize the limbs either. No casts, no pins, plates, or screws. He let the animals run around the cages, and there were only mal-unions and delayed unions. He said, "Only people get non-unions." About 1 non-union per 1,000 fractures, even though they are immobilized internally, and or externally. He didn't pursue this notion, but I have pondered it and my theory is that animals; have less stress than people, follow a natural diet, and they do lots of stretching. The stretching maintains fascial integrity and resultant "piezoelectricity" & "thixatropy". How many times a day do you see the average person stretch? How many times a day do you stretch? Animals stretch every chance they get.
Following is an interesting case which corresponds with some of these findings:
16 YEARS POST ANKLE FRACTURE
Big John came to my office for his initial visit. He said, "I need one of those Bowen treatments you do. My friend Peter says they are a miracle. You fixed his back pain with one treatment and my back is killing me, so can you fix me too?" I replied, "First of all I am a Foot Doctor and I don't treat back pain. Secondly, who's Peter?" He said, "I can’t remember his last name, but he brought me here, he’s waiting in the car out front." He went on to say, "Now I remember, he came to you with a foot problem and when you treated him for that his back got better. I have a pain in my foot right here, as he pointed to a spot on the top of his arch, you could give me a treatment for that, right mate?" I then said, "All right, lay on the table with your feet on the pillow and your head in the face cradle", and I began a session. When I returned to the room after the customary three minute rest between the procedures to the muscles, he said, "I remember Peter’s last name mate, it’s Hubbard." After I completed the next series of movements, I went to the chart files and pulled Peter Hubbard’s chart. When I glanced at my chart notes I remembered the patient and the incident. Peter had been in a car-motorcycle accident at age sixteen. His right ankle had been badly fractured. He'd had many surgical procedures, two years of physical therapy, a set of custom foot orthotics, and done home therapy exercises over the years. He was told at age nineteen that what he can see is what he’s got and he was stuck with a permanent clubfoot deformity. He also had post-traumatic arthritis in the ankle and subtalar joints.
On the day of Peter’s first visit he told me his story, and was concerned about his orthotics not fitting properly as he had them for many years. His leg muscle was in spasm, and he was walking differently due to these problems. I don't remember, nor did I note in the chart anything about back pain. But, it's very frequent that when one favors a foot deformity or pain they will experience back pain. I gave Peter a Bowen treatment for the muscle spasm and the other postural pains he was experiencing. I kept his orthotics for a week in order to refurbish them, and he came for a second appointment a week later. I gave him a second Bowen treatment, placed the orthotics in his shoe and reappointed him for one week for a follow up visit which he failed to keep.
When I finished looking at his chart my curiosity got the best of me and I walked out of my office to the parking lot and saw him sitting in the passenger seat reading a book. I said, "Hi Peter. Thanks for bringing Big John for a treatment. What's going on?" He looked up and replied, "Oh, Dr. Mosher! I’m sorry I never came back to thank you for taking care of me. I know that you’re very busy and I didn’t want to bother you and I am lousy at writing letters." I inquired as to what had transpired and he told me the following. He didn't return for the follow up visit because he didn't notice any difference in the symptoms and pain he was experiencing after the two Bowen sessions. However, four weeks after the treatments, while retiring to bed one night his ankle started to itch quite badly. Not in the skin, but, "way down deep." It had kept him awake for a couple of hours, and then subsided enough for him to dose off. During the night the itching would wake him up, but then he would go back to a light sleep. When he got up the next morning his foot and ankle were noticeably more limber, and slightly less painful. The same thing happened four weeks later, and four weeks after that. He said that, "About every four weeks for about 14 months his foot would itch at bedtime for one night only, and each time he noticed better range of motion and lessened pain upon arising the next morning." Presently, he had no further foot deformity, no leg muscle spasms, and no more back pain. I have seen Peter off and on over the years for minor "tune-ups" and he remains just fine with regards to his ankle. He recalled on one occasion, that when he told me that afternoon at my office parking lot that he was all better, he really was only about 90% better. It took another year to a year and a half to get all the way well.
So, that shows he went through a three to four year unwinding process. Also, it is interesting that the majority of his recovery took 14 months, and he was 14 years post injury? That’s one month for every year, and on a monthly cycle? I grilled him on two occasions, one in the parking lot, and another on the visit when he told me it took another year and a half to get the rest of the way back to normal; did he do any other modalities, change diet, take supplements, or herbs. And, he responded with a definite, "No."
FOUR YEARS POST BUNIONECTOMY
Shortly after the previous case unfolded, a lady came to my practice with a postoperative bunionectomy performed by another foot surgeon. She had problems healing the surgery which resulted in sesamoiditis, inflammation of the small bone beneath the large toe joint. She was four years following surgery that she was not sure she should have undergone. She said that, "The surgery never healed right, and I have had stiffness in my joint, aching, swelling in my 2nd toe, and now this pain under the joint." She also complained of pain in her hip and lower back from favoring the painful foot problems. Examination revealed restricted joint motion, fibular sesamoid pain, and sub 2nd metatarsal capsulitis and swelling beneath the metatarsal head. Not wanting to do more than one thing at a time, otherwise I wouldn’t know which one was doing what, I gave her a Bowen session that 1st visit in order to relieve the back and hip pain. Guess what she told me when she came back the next week for follow-up? She noted off and on itching down in the joint all week long and most of the pain had resolved. The 2nd and 3rd weeks she did not experience any pruritis / itching, but the range of motion gradually improved, and the aching resolved, so she was discharged totally asymptomatic.
I conclude that the surgical repair site was stuck on a negative polarity and was not switching to positive for some unknown reason. Positive polarity is responsible for scar remodeling.
POSTOPERATIVE BUNIONECTOMY
I had an experience many years prior with a nurse who worked at the hospital, which I was on staff. She was one of the first Austin osteotomy- bunionectomy procedures that I performed. As the months went by postoperatively she had persistent swelling, pain in the interspace and sub sesamoidal area, and joint stiffness. X-rays showed normal healing and alignment. Physical therapy, home exercises, strappings, orthotics, immobilization, NSAIDS, and a steroid injection all were wasted time. Radiographs were normal with regard to alignments and osteotomy union. I felt really badly for her, and I saw her at the hospital frequently on my rounds. Whenever I inquired how she was doing she always relied, "Oh, about the same." Then one day, she came to my office without an appointment. My receptionist told me she wanted to tell me something interesting. She had a recent inner ear infection and went to the local ENT Doc., and he gave her a prescription for some kind of “cillin”. During the 1st 24 hours on antibiotics she had a pronounced tingling and itching in the 1st interspace and sesamoid area. Following which, the pain, swelling, and stiffness all resolved. Now her foot was perfect and she was happy.
I believe that she had a low-grade infection from the surgery, and the positive cations were holding the infection in check however, the healing process needs negative anions. It just couldn’t happen until the “cillin” took care of the infection and the body’s defense mechanism could shut down. I have witnessed many similar events following ingrown toenail surgeries. Patients came back four to six weeks following surgery with redness and swelling around the proximal nail fold (cuticle) area and non- healing and drainage along the nail margin where the edge of the nail was removed. I'd place them on an antibiotic and have them back in one week. Almost every time their comment is about the same. "I took those antibiotics and a couple of days later my toe began to itch. Now look at it. It’s almost healed." Sure enough, I would then note that the side of the nail margin was all closed over. Again, the D.C. must have been stuck on positive to keep the bacteria from multiplying and as soon as the bacteria were taken care of by the antibiotic, the currents shift to negative, perceived as itching, and then there is the subsequent healing. Therefore, when the integrity of the fascia is restored by the reflex arc causing the unwinding process, the liquid-crystal system is reestablished and healing can go on to completion.
6th MISSING CHAPTER
THE FASCIAL SYSTEM
Fascia is a loose connective tissue compared with bone which is dense connective tissue. There is a ditty that goes, "The foot bone’s connected to the leg bone - the leg bone’s connected to the thigh bone - the thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone - ya dee ya ya ya. The hip bone’s connected to the back bone-the back bone’s connected to the shoulder bone - the shoulder bone’s connected to the neck bone - the neck bone’s connected to the head bone - ya dee ya ya ya."
Besides a chain of connections between the skeletal parts of the musculoskeletal system, there is an even larger network of connective tissue which is interconnected amongst it called the fascial system. This system covers all structures, organs, and cells from head to toe, front to back, side to side and inside to outside. Think about piling thousands of full-body thermal suits on top of one another and connecting them together. That’s about how the fascia system is. There is a superficial fascia from the base of the skull to the tips of the fingers and toes. Fat, more connective tissue, is attached to the outer layer, Panniculus Adiposus which is adjacent to an inner elastic layer both of which makes up the superficial fascia. There is fascial surrounding the muscle compartments, muscle fascicles, muscle fibers, and myofibrils collectively called the myofascia, Paramysium, Epimysium, Endomysium. It has been estimated that the average human body contains approximately 65,000 linear miles of striated muscle fibers. Each fiber contains hundreds to thousands of myofibrils and myofilaments. Take an average of 1,000 and multiply X 65,000 = 65 million linear miles of myofascia in the average human body.
Fascia surrounds the brain, the brainstem, and spinal cord called the dural fascia. As the spinal nerves pass through the vertebral foramen the dural fascia is re-named the myelin sheath of nerve. The lungs are coated with pleural fascia, the heart with pericardial fascia, the abdominal organs peritoneal fascia, the uro-genital organs with perineal fascia, the bone with periosteal fascia. Then, there are transverse bands of fascia from front to back and side to side; 1. in the floor of the pelvis, 2. the respiratory diaphragm, 3. under the collarbone- the thoracic inlet, 4. under the chin with hyoid fascia, 5. at the base of the cranium with cranial base fascia, and 6. joint capsules. In addition there is a thin veil of fascia adjacent to the cytoskeleton of every non-circulating cell in the body as well as para tendons, and retinaculums. That’s a whole lot of tissue all connected to one another. These connective tissues allow the body to maintain shape, protect the structures from outside forces, and some scholars feel it aids in cellular functions such as respiration, digestion, reproduction, and excretion. I believe that the fascia is a component of the 3rd dimension of the nervous system which was described in the section on the direct currents.
HISTOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY OF FASCIA
The fascia is made up of three significant structures; collagen, elastin, and a ground substance consisting of a colloid gel matrix which contains hyaluronic acid and mucopolysaccharides. The collagen part provides the protective-supportive function. The colloid gel acts as a shock absorber. And, the elastin allows for stretch.
There are two other properties of the fascia which are of vital importance, neither of which are discussed in medical physiology books at my last search. First, the collagen has three protein strands, one of which is a crystalline band. All crystalline structures can generate piezoelectricity. "piezo" means push in Greek. When the fascia is stretched, direct currents positive cations are pushed out of the crystalline strand, and when the fascia is compressed negative anions are pushed out of the crystalline strands. Secondly, the colloid gel is "thixatropic". This means that the gel can convert to a liquid when heated or stretched, and then returns to a gel when cooled. Therefore, we have within us a liquid, conductor - crystal, generator system, which can generate and conduct D.C.’s, direct currents. These were discussed in the preceding chapter.
Orthodontia is based on this piezoelectric effect. When the bands are applied to the teeth and stress is transmitted through the tooth down into the boney socket, piezoelectricity is generated from two structures. One, is the periosteum, connective tissue/fascia, which has a crystalline strand in the protein part of the collagen. The second, is the hydroxy apetite crystalline part of the bone, also connective tissue. Dr. Becker applied stress to dead bones and found that they were capable of generating direct currents. Thus, the production of positive and negative electromagnetic charges stimulate the cellular activities which are instrumental in the remodeling of the bone. See section on Direct Currents for these effects.
MYOFASCIAL UNWINDING
Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? In the myofascial system, which comes first? The myo, or the fascia? During my surgical career, when dissecting the fascia, it was virtually impossible to separate the muscle tissue from the fascial tissue without sacrificing a little of one or the other. My grilling experiences have been the same. When I try to remove the gristle and fat from the steak, I always; leave a little steak on the gristle. Or, leave a little gristle on the steak. It's possible to strip the periosteum from the bone, but not the fascia from the muscle. It matters not which is which, but that they both unwind as a result of the Reflex Arcs caused during the Bowen Therapy. I witness this frequently on the Rhomboid Muscles after the "Boomerang Moves" in the upper back procedure. While doing the first movements to the muscles, nodules can often be palpated. When the movements are repeated a few minutes later, the nodules are usually gone completely, or at least significantly reduced in size.
I’ve also witnessed the unwinding to continue for many years after the patient's last session. I believe that two important things occur during and after the unwinding; 1. the muscles elongate and develop improved function, 2. the fascia becomes anatomically aligned. Multiple other changes follow these first two; A. there can be a release of lactic acid build up , B. the meridians that pass through the fascia can flow more freely, C. emotional memories can be released from the fascia, D. piezoelectric and thixatropic function is restored, E. endorphins are released and communication between the immune-central-endocrine systems are improved, and F. entrapped energies, energy cysts, are freed up.
For a visual of the fascia connective tissue, watch, STROLLING UNDER THE SKIN on You Tube. While you're there, watch John F. Barnes, MYOFASCIAL UNWINDING.
7th MISSING CHAPTER
THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM
MERIDIANS AND MERIDIAN POINTS
The meridians are; .5 to 1.5 micron (1/1,000 mm.) in diameter ducts which carry bioenergy; Qi - pronounced "Chee" in China, Ki - pronounces "Key" in Japan and Korea, Pranna - pronounced "Prah Na" in the Mid East, and Life force - in North America.
Qi consists of electrical currents, probably direct current, D.C., chemicals, and maybe more. There are 14 main meridians, 12 of which have peak cycles during 2 hour time spans during the course of the day. The meridians cycle as follows; Liver (1:00 A.M. to 3:00 A.M.), Lung (3:00 to 5:00), Large Intestine (5:00 to 7:00), Stomach (7:00 to 9:00), Spleen (9:00 to 11:00), Heart (11:00 to 1:00 P.M.), Small Intestine (1:00 to 3:00), Urinary Bladder (3:00 to 5:00), Kidney (5:00 to 7:00), Pericardium (7:00 to 9:00), Triple warmer (9:00 to 11:00), and Gallbladder (11:00 PM to 1:00 A.M.). The other 2 main meridians are the conception vessel in the front of the body and the governing vessel in the back. These meridians cycle continuously around the clock. There are numerous other collateral and distribution meridians throughout the body.
The meridians are anatomically laid out like our freeway, hi-way, by-way, street, alleyway, cull de sac systems. The meridians function like an irrigation canal system, a very slow flowing non-pressurized system. They've been measured to flow at a rate of approximately 12 inches in 4 to 8 minutes depending on which meridian is measured. This is very slow compared to the blood circulatory system, which circulates from ventricle to atrium in 14 seconds, in a normal person at rest. The meridians have been observed in chick embryos, with the aid of high-resolution microscopy and a gamma ray scanner following injection of a radioisotope. The entire system is laid out and is fully developed within 15 hours following conception. Dr. Gerber cites studies that suggest that the etheric energy field directs the formation of the meridian system. And, that the development of the body parts and organ arrangement is determined by the meridians. Otherwise, how would the heart know to develop here and the liver over there? These channels appear before any vessels, nerves, organs, or limb buds.
In another study performed in Korea, the researcher removed a portion of the liver meridian and followed up with fine needle biopsies of the liver tissues. He noted the beginning of degeneration of hepatocytes (liver cells), after 3 days. Therefore, the meridians are crucial for development and regeneration and repair.
The meridians have been isolated by a French researcher who injected a radioisotope (technetium 99) into humans at the meridian points and at random meridian points in the skin. He observed the ductile systems with a microscope connected to a gamma ray camera and notes that there is a superficial system under the skin and 4 deep systems; (1.along the vessels and lymph channels, 2. along the nerves, 3. inside the blood vessels, and 4.through the spaces around the internal organs) all of which are interconnected with each other and the superficial system by way of collaterals. Following is a photograph from this study in a 1982 edition of the National Inquirer, one of the other medical journals. Too bad it wasn't published in the Journal of the American Medical Association! The white (actually yellow-orange), is the radioisotope in the tissue space in the left frame. The right frame shows the technetium in the point and then diffusing into the ductule channel.
The meridian points have been biopsied by several researchers and the following is a summary of their findings:
1. The points are adjacent to a corpuscle diaphragm.
2. Beneath the corpuscle is a plexus of nerves and blood vessels.
3. Biochemical analysis of tissue fluids reveal;
10 times the amount of adrenalin than is in the blood.
Amino acids.
Cortisone.
DNA & RNA.
Hyaluronic acid.
16 different free nucleotides.
Estrogens, endorphins, and kinins.
Diagram of Meridian System
Additionally, Dr. Becker studied the meridians with respect to their electrical activity. There is a measurable direct current flowing throughout, at some points positive and others negative. The amperage dropped as the probe was moved along the meridian pathway and when the probe reached a meridian point the amperage increased. It is thought that the points are like transformers, which boost the flow of the currents, because electrical current loses velocity as it travels distance.
As the meridians and nerves pass through the fascial structures and while the fascial-periosteal structures conduct the liquid-crystal system, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that prolonged fascial / myofascial dysfunction may cause occlusions in the direct current bioelectrical system. Prolonged bioelectrical dysfunction will lead to cellular and biochemical dysfunction. Prolonged cellular and biochemical dysfunction may cause signs, symptoms, deformities, and disabilities. Additionally, fascial / myofascial dysfunction can lead to neuromuscular pain and skeletal misalignments. Therefore, removal of myofascial and fascial dysfunctions will improve the bioelectrical / biochemical functions which in turn will affect the cellular and biochemical functions, in addition to relieving neuromuscular pain, and deforming forces on the tissues. The reflex arcs from Bowen moves probably do all of this.
It makes you wonder how the Easterners knew all about the systems without any high- tech. They appeared to have mapped out the meridian and meridian point system about 4,000 years ago. However, when the frozen Eastern European hunter named “Itzy” sic, (discovered in a thawing glacier in Easter Europe), was carbon dated it was found that he was 5,500 years old. He had rheumatoid arthritis of the spine when they did the autopsy. Rheumatologists became very excited to learn that rheumatoid arthritis was not a modern age illness. They also found tattoos on his body placed over the meridian points which you would treat for pain in the areas where he had the arthritic processes. So, this was known about approximately 1,500 years before Qi Boy convinced the emperor of the Yellow Dynasty that acupuncture should be added to the Chinese Medicine formulary! A case that will reveal the re-establishment of meridian flow and subsequent healing of a chronic problem follows:
One Monday morning, a few months following my first Bowen class, a patient presented with a lump the size of an almond beneath the arch on the right foot. She told me that there was very little pain involved however, she was favoring it and this was causing pains in her hip and lower back. She was also concerned because we are all suspicious when a "lump" appears. I reassured her that the lump was a classical benign plantar fibroma. Only if it grew rapidly or became painful should she consider having it removed. I informed her about the therapy that I had recently discovered and that it could help her back and hip. She immediately took me up on my offer. When we were all finished, she arose from the table and said, "Oh my, I feel so good. Can I come back tomorrow for another treatment?" I told her that we should wait one week before another session and for her to make an appointment. When she returned the following week, the lump had reduced to the size of a pea and she said that she couldn't wait for another Bowen treatment. She scheduled another check on her foot and Bowen session one week later. I began the therapy prior to looking at her foot. During a point where the muscles are released on the inner thigh area she asked, "Is there any connection between that lump on my foot and my stomach?" I said, "I don't think so. Why?" She replied, "On the first visit when you released those muscles in the inner part of my thigh and left the room for me to rest, I immediately felt like a gush of worms crawling around in my stomach. All day long, I had a queasy feeling in my stomach. In addition, when I got home from work that night my stomach and gallbladder pain completely disappeared. I've not had to take any of my stomach medications for the past three weeks. I flushed $200 worth of prescriptions down the toilet this morning. When I get to work, I'm calling the gastroenterologist who has been taking care of me the past two years and canceling my appointment for the endoscope procedure at the surgery center next week." She had an endoscopy procedure done every six months to keep a check on her problem! She added, "I won’t need him any more." I begged her not to mention my connection with any of this, as I didn't want to be in any trouble with the medical community or lose any referrals due to my deviating from the main stream. She assured me that she wouldn't and then she said, "Look at my foot." As I looked for the lump, it was almost completely gone. Now, it was about the size of a grain of rice! I found an old foot reflexology book and opened to the foot chart. Sure enough, the lump was right in the middle of the stomach and liver zone. I told her about that and she laughed, left the office quite happy, and has never returned.
Two years later, I was studying Acupuncture and recalled the incident. When I looked at the meridian chart, I saw that two of the four meridians that pass through the inner thigh and groin are the Stomach and Liver meridians. I could chalk it all up to coincidence or spontaneous remission. Or, I could believe that there was some kind of obstruction in that muscle tissue of the adductor canal and inguinal ligament which was blocking the flow of energy. When the blockage was released due to the immediate unwinding as a result of the reflex arcs, she then felt the “Gush of worms into her stomach”. Then, she healed herself. I tend to believe in the later. What is most perplexing is that the pathology reports following biopsy of these fibrous lesions in the plantar foot area always state, "Benign fibroplasia. Multiple fibroblasts and swirls of collagen." I'm not sure as to how this scar-like tissue could recede in three weeks. But, it did.
8TH MISSING CHAPTER
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
LOOKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX
One spring afternoon I was introduced to a new patient who had been to see my replacement doctor while I was on vacation in Tahiti. After I introduced myself she replied, "Nice to meet you, but I don’t know whether to jump for joy, cry, or sue somebody?" Sensing an emotional situation, I closed the door and asked, "Why would you want to sue somebody?" After all, my replacement doctor just trimmed off a callus beneath her big toe. Hardly enough to warrant a lawsuit? She went on to tell me that when she left the office her left leg immediately stopped hurting, and when she got up the next morning her back pain was all gone. She then said, "I’ve been through 5 years of hell", then she began to cry. When she regained her composure, she told me the following history. Low back pain began intermittently about five years ago. The pain progressed and became intense and permanent. She was admitted to the hospital on two occasions for traction and narcotic analgesia. On a third admission myelograms and a papaya enzyme injection into the bulging disk, were performed. Neither helped, so later she underwent a diskectomy and laminectomy. The pain continued, and she was taking frequent Demerol injections, and was placed on a heavy dose of Valium. Three months prior to her visit to my office, she'd gone through rehabilitation to get off the Valium addiction. Apparently, the withdrawal symptoms from Valium are second to none. She'd just been released from the hospital for venograms to rule out blood clots in the leg veins, which might be responsible for the newly acquired leg – calf pain. She said, "I’m just sick to think that all this time my back was caused by my foot. Why didn’t the neurosurgeon look at my foot?" I mentioned that it was probably just a coincidence that her pain went away following the callus removal, so we should wait and see what happens if the callus grows back.
Two months later she returned to have the callus removed again as it had grown back and the pain in the leg was beginning to return, as was pain in her low back. The callus was no thicker than a nickel or bigger than a dime in size. It didn't have a "root" or any pathological component. So, like clockwork, every two months the callus grew back, and the pains returned in the back and leg, until she could get in to the office to have the callus trimmed.
As I reflect on this case I too, wonder why the neurosurgeon never looked at her feet, nor anyone else's. Many people have chronic lower back pain because of foot problems. In fact, I've seen six different foot and ankle problems repeat themselves in many patients as the cause of their lower back pain. The following lists all of the causes of back pain that I've seen over the years both as a Podiatrist and Myofascial Therapist.
ADDUCTOR MAGNUS TIGHTNESS
*ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
AORTIC ANEURYSM
ARTHRITIS FIRST METATARSAL AND COMPENSATED GAIT
*BULGING DISK / HERNIATED DISK
C—SECTION EMOTIONAL HOLDING
CALLOUS 1ST TOE WITH COMPENSATED GAIT
CHILDHOOD MOLESTATION EMOTIONAL HOLDING
*COMPRESSION FRACTURE
DURAL FASCIA DYSFUNCTIONS
ILIACUS TIGHTNESS
FIBROMYALGIA
KIDNEY INFECTION
METASTATIC CARCINOMA
NEUROMA WITH COMPENSATED GAIT
ORTHODONTIA
OVARIAN CYST / GYN PROBLEMS
POST-OP SPINE SURGERY FOR ONE OF THE CAUSES THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE BOX
PSOAS TIGHTNESS
RESPIRATORY DIAPHRAGM CRUS LIGAMENTS ATTACHED TO TO L5
SPHENOID DYSFUNCTION
*SPINAL STENOSIS
TRAUMATIC ARTHRITIS ANKLE / CLUB FOOT WITH COMPENSATED GAIT
*ACTUAL BACK PROBLEM.
LOOK HOW MANY CAUSES ARE OUTSIDE OF THE BOX – 19 OUT OF 23!
ONLY four WERE WITHIN THE BOX!
MAY BE THIS IS THE REASON THE SPINE SURGEONS TELL THEIR PATIENTS PRE-OP THAT THERE IS ONLY A 25-30% CHANCE OF SUCCESS FROM SPINE SURGERY!
THE LACTIC ACID CONNECTION
As mentioned in an earlier chapter, I had lower back pain for a number of years.
On my birthday in August, 1980 I ran my first marathon. It was a "Happening". I invited a bunch of my running friends to take part in my celebration. The months before, I took one of those distance marking wheels and measured segments of the American River 50 mile run on a horse and hiking trail from Auburn, California down to Folsom Dam. On the morning of the marathon, we started at 6:00 AM and got to the destination between 10:00, supermen/woman, and 10:30-11:00 AM the rest of us. Around 20 miles down the trail, I suffered cramps from lactic acid build-up in the right inner thigh Adductor Magnus muscle. I massaged the cramp out and continued on to finish the run. My family, office staff, friends and neighbors greeted us at the finish line. We had great refreshments and food, and upon returning home, I took a four hour nap. The inner right thigh muscles burned and ached for a few days afterward, and then disappeared. In 1981, I ran my second annual marathon. The same thing occurred. The following months I noticed a very slight tightness and aching on the outer side of the knee, compensation for Adductor Magnus dysfunction. In 1982, I ran my third annual marathon and suffered the same cramps from the lactic acid build-up, followed by an aching in the knee for a few days (compensation for Adductor Magnus muscle dysfunction). A week later, I had the first episode of back spasms. I didn't make any connection between the marathon and the back pain. The day before the back pain occurred I was lifting a pick-up truck load of rocks to fill a culvert and figured it was the lifting that did the number on my back. During the fourth annual marathon, I had the same inner right thigh cramps and a week later had the second annual back spasms. Now I'm beginning to think that there's some connection between the marathon and the back problem. However, I discounted this because my back didn't hurt when I ran. A typical Western medical thought process. If your foot doesn't hurt when you climb the ladder, then the ladder isn't a part of the problem. Also, what was one doing on the days prior to the onset of the problem? Not, what happened 20 years ago? In addition, the pains both had come on the day after doing some heavy lifting and twisting. This time it was from doing some fence work on my property. The same thing occurred during and after my fifth and final marathon. Now I'm pretty convinced there's a connection between running and the back spasms, but not quite sure why, because running didn't cause any pain in the back. When my guru Milton mentioned the build-up of lactic acid in my inner thigh Adductor Magnus muscle after that first Bowen session, followed by tightening of the outer hip structures, which were then - just waiting to get injured, it now all makes sense. In addition, since I no longer run marathons, I've never had another twinge in my lower back.
THE TALES OF MANY KNEES
In my traditional podiatry career, I treated countless patients who had knee pain, by simply applying adhesive tape strappings to their arches to stop "over - pronation". Once their knee pain stopped, usually within a week or two, I made them Orthotics for long term maintenance and prevention.
In my non-traditional, holistic] podiatry journey, from 1995 to 2006, I successfully treated even more patients who had knee pain by using Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Technique. Sometimes as a stand-alone procedure, and sometimes with my strappings and orthotics combined.
My ongoing water drinkers survey shows, that people who regularly drink Perfect Water, have excellent results with knee pain. As a matter of fact, 100% have had reduction or resolution of their knee pains! I was amazed to find in my survey, that more people have knee pain than back pain.
So, after you have your knee checked to rule out any morbid pathology, but before you consent to cortisone or Synvisc ® injections, Arthroscopic ,or other invasive procedures, try the following:
Orthotics
Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork
A Solution that offers many solutions -Perfect Water ! Yep, Water.
Combinations of the above
All of the above
#1: Once upon a time, there was a patient who presented me with a club-foot deformity which had an ulceration beneath the 5th metatarsal head. His lower leg looked like it had been run over by a train. The ulcer penetrated down to the tendon which overlaid the bone. Fortunately, it wasn't infected.
He told me that he had arthroscopic knee surgery three years prior. The surgeon accidentally penetrated the joint capsule and nicked the Common Peroneal artery, on the outer side of the leg. A recovery room nurse discovered his cold, swollen, and purple left foot, about 15 minutes post operative, and promptly called the surgeon.
They found the bleeding artery and tied it off. Then, they opened his lower leg in the four compartments in order to drain the blood that had pooled within the muscle compartments.
Subsequently, over a two year time period, he went through a series of plastic surgeries, antibiotics for infections, and physical therapies to make him as good as he could be.
He was 32 years old, and stuck with this condition for the rest of his life! Too bad he didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or the Perfect Water!
#2: Just before I retired from my practice and was moving to North Carolina, a patient came by to say goodbye. He raised his tee shirt and showed me a long, red scar from his sternum to the naval. He'd worked overtime as an iron-worker a few weeks before. When he awakened on the following Saturday morning, his knee was sore, so he took three Advil tablets, not something that he customarily did. The next afternoon he began experiencing excruciating stomach pain and so he went to the emergency room.
His stomach lining had perforated, and he had an acute infection in the abdominal cavity. He had his belly opened and drained, I.V. antibiotics, and hospitalized for 10 days, while the infection subsided.
Too bad he didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or The Perfect Water!
#3: From 1999 until 2004, there were 50,000 people in the US, who died over that 5 year span, as a result of intestinal bleeding from taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Some of them must have had knee pain? Too bad they didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or The Perfect Water!
#4: An estimated 60,000 people died from cardiac complications from the drug Vioxx ® before it was taken off the market. Many of them must have had knee pain? Too bad they didn't know about, Orthotics, Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy, or The Perfect Water!
#5: My wife complained daily about her knee pain, even more so, after she did yard-work. She'd often say, "I think that I'm going to need arthroscopic knee surgery. Will you ask Dr. Johns who I should see?" I told her to start drinking the Perfect, Water. She replied, "Oh, what's that going to do?" I said, "It stopped my chronic shoulder pain-try it!" Reluctantly, she began drinking the water. After about a week, she stopped complaining about it. Until, she went back to California to visit her family. About four days later she called and reported that her knee pain had returned with a vengeance - she'd not drunk the water since leaving North Carolina. When she returned home, and began drinking the water, the pain was gone within 24 hours, and has remained gone since 2009. So, no surgery -- or anti-inflammatory drugs.
Glad she drank the Perfect Water !
#6: My associate's mother, who is 96 years young, had arthritic knees which were, "Bone on Bone!" Every step she took she said, "Ugh!"
All she did was make her coffee with 9.5 alkaline the perfect Water . 6 months later, her gray hair was turning red again, and he knee pains were gone.
You know what her doctor said? "Well. Whatever you're doing? Keep doing it!"
Glad she drank the Perfect Water !
#7: One of the first patients that I treated with Tom Bowens Medical Bodywork for a foot problem, didn't tell me about her knee problem at the time of the session. When she came back a week later for a follow up session she said, "Whatever you did in that treatment for my foot, my knee pain disappeared. Yesterday, I cancelled my arthroscopic knee surgery appointment that was scheduled for next Tuesday!"
Glad she found out about Tom Bowen's Medical Bodywork Therapy. Even though, it was by accident.
Most of the time, the medical specialist is so honed in on the anatomical part that has the symptom, the other possibilities are left out of the equation. One of the most common symptoms where they do look outside the box is when a patient has chest pressure / pain / indigestion and tingling in the left arm. Immediately, an EKG is ordered, not an X-Ray.
During my Podiatry / Bowen practice, I saw countless patients who had foot pain which cleared up after I released the back, pelvis, and leg muscles. Here's a good one with Plantar Fasciitis (fash-ee-itis), often pronounced (face-y-itis).
One of my patients who I had treated off and on for about three years for plantar fasciitis, came in for her semi-annual cortisone injection. I had tried all of the other standards of care for her, except surgery. When I informed her about Bowen Therapy, and that there was a chance it could relieve her pain instead of the injection, she quickly agreed to it. This was about two months after I had taken my first Bowen workshop in January, 1995. At this point, I was still referring to my cheat sheets which helped me to do the sequences without omissions or errors.
Lorna was a very large lady, who weighed in at about 260 pounds. Muscle mass was very large and taut, beneath gobs of adipose fat tissue. She was wearing a dress, which inhibited my doing the pelvis and hamstrings procedures properly. So, I did the best as I could. I probably did my full body sequence for her; Low back, Upper back, Neck , Kidney area, Lower respiratory area, Hamstrings, Anterior pelvis, Knee, Ankle, Upper respiratory area, and TMJ. I don't remember if I did coccyx or sacral procedures, probably not on that first session. When I finished up with her, I said, "Rest for a couple minutes, the get up and walk around a minute or two before you put your shoes back on. I'll see you before you leave." While I was in Podiatry room # 2 seeing a patient, I heard a yell from the back of the office by Lorna, "Yahoo!" I got up and went back to the Bowen room and asked, "Is everything okay?" She said, "Yeah. I got up to walk over to your desk to get my glasses and the pain's completely gone. Wow!"
We hired Lorna shortly after to clean our offices once a week. When I said, "Goodbye", upon retiring in 2006, she was still pain free. I never treated her one time with any modality since that day in March, 1995.
Please re-read the cases in Chapter 3 which involved; chronic hip pain, Multiple Sclerosis, and Anger toward father. The causes of all of them had nothing to do with where the symptoms were located
Also, how many of the stories my patients told were outside the box?
Moral to the stories: By all means, have your problem checked by a competent medical professional. Make sure that there is not a serious medical issue involved. But, if your medical physician won't also look outside the box, look for one who will.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 9
OTHER THERAPIES YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
THE REAL H.M.O.'S FROM A TO Z
ACUPRESSURE
*ACUPUNCTURE
*ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
*ALLERGY CLEARING
AROMA THERAPY
AYRUVEDA
*BIOCRANIAL THERAPY
BIOIDENTICAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT
BIO-KINETICS
*BOOKS – SELF IMPROVEMENT
*BOWEN
*CD’S – SELF IMPROVEMENT – HEALING MUSIC
* CHIROPRATIC – TRADITIONAL
*CHIROPRACTIC – NON-TRADITIONAL
* CHIROPRACTIC - NETWORK
*CHIROPRACTIC- JOINT MOBILIZATION
*CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
*CRAVINGS ELIMINATION
*DVD’S - SELF IMPROVEMENT - TEACHING
*E.A.V.
EMMITT TECHNIQUE
*ENTERO
ESSALON
*ESSENTIAL OILS
FELDENKRAIS TECHNIQUE
FITNESS COUNSELLING
FLOWER ESSENCES
*FOOT REFLEXOLOGY
GEM ELIXERS
GLANDULARS
GUIDED IMAGERY
HAIR ANALYSIS
*HEALING TOUCH
HOLOGRAPHIC HEALTH
*HOMEOPATHY
IRIDOLOGY
JIN JU JITSU
*KINESIOLOGY –APPLIED
*KINESTHETIC HEALTH
*LOMI LOMI
*LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE
MEDICAL QI GONG
*MEDITATION LESSIONS
*MERIDIAN POINT MICROELECTRIC
STIMULATION / LASER
MUSIC THERAPY
*MYOFASCIAL RELEASE
*NAET
NEURAL RE-SET-NEURO STIM NEWSOME
*NEUROMUSCULAR MASSAGE
NST
NUCCA CHIROPRACTIC
*NUTRITIONAL COUNSELLING
ORTHOBIONICS
*ORTHOKINESTHETICS
* POLARITY
*QXCI
REIKI
ROLFING
SCAR THERAPY
*SENSITIVITIES REDUCTION–FOODS-
SUBSTANCES-PEOLPLE- COLORS-PLACES
*SHIATSU
* SOMATOEMOTIONAL RELEASE
* STRAIN COUNTERSTRAIN
* SUPPLEMENTS
*SWEDISH MASSAGE
TAI CHI
*TAWES TECHNIQUE
THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
TOUCH FOR HEALTH
TUINA
UPPER CERVICAL CHIROPRACTIC
URINE THERAPY
*VITAMINS
*WEIGHT LOSS TECHNIQUE
X ?
*YOGA
ZEN
* I’ve personally experienced and or, taken classes for.
For information on any of them just do a google search. Many practitioners of these disciplines have websites with information on what they entail. One of them might be just what you need in order to obtain relief.
COUNTER STRAIN
This technique was discovered by an osteopathic physician named Lawrence W. Jones. He discovered with a difficult back pain patient that when he moved him into a position of comfort on the treatment table his pain disappeared. He even went to sleep for about ½ hour. Dr. Jones let him sleep since he had not slept well in over a month. When Dr. Jones got him up from the table all of the pain had resolved and never did come back. This started Dr. Jones to find other body parts that he could do the same procedure for. He found that after placing the body part into a position of comfort, certain tender points in the muscles which were consistently present, would pulsate and lose their tenderness following only 90 or so seconds of maintaining the comfort position. He then went on to find which body parts connect to other body parts so he could systematically release all of the contributing factors causing pains. So, if someone has elbow pain, probe around the elbow and find a tender point. Keep your finger over the spot without any pressure. Move the elbow into flexion and re-probe the point. If tenderness persists, move the elbow into a slightly different position and re-probe the point. When the tender point disappears hold the position and your finger over the tender point. After 90 seconds move the part very, very, very, slowly back to its anatomical position. Re-probe the tender point. If the treatment released the muscle spindle the tender point should be gone. If not, repeat the treatment.
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
John Upledger, D.O., an osteopathic physician, developed a number of therapies, which release holding patterns in many of the fascial structures. The main emphasis is on the dural fascia within the cranial vault, and the dural tube, which attaches to the sacrum. Hence, Craniosacral.
While assisting in surgery on a patient who had a calcific plaque on the dural tube, Dr. John had a difficult time holding the tissue still so the neurosurgeon could remove the plaque without puncturing the dura, which if perforated would lead to paralysis. This movement pattern was the "Craniosacral rhythm", which is an expansion of the system as cerebrospinal fluid is pumped into the chamber, followed by a contraction of the system as the fluid is absorbed into the venous system in order to make space for replacement fluid. These expansions and contractions occur at a rate of 6 to 10 cycles per minute. With a little practice one can develop a feel for palpating these rhythms at the feet, knees, hips, ribs, shoulders, and three places on the head. Changes in quality, asymmetry, rate, and rhythm can be detected. This information along with other historical and physical findings allows the practitioner to gently apply very subtle pressure to the cranial bones and other strategic places over the fascia in order to remove the holding patterns in the dural fascia, dural tube, and other fascial structures. One of the procedures is creating a "Still Point", which is a method of stopping the rhythm for a brief period. This has been documented to reduce a fever by four to five degrees within minutes. It has also shown EEG changes when performed experimentally on subjects. Some circles think that this is all a bunch of blarney. However, I would wager that they would change their perception if they took the craniosacral class.
I signed up for the Cranio Sacral class at the recommendation of a practitioner friend. I was quite skeptical on how such a gentle technique could possibly create any change in the fascial tissue. However, the Bowen Technique is certainly gentle. So, I deduced that there was a chance that it might be of benefit to recipients. But, when I thought I felt what I felt in my hands as I practiced on my partner, and he told me what he felt, I know that something was going on inside those chambers, and my skepticism went away.
One day I was performing the sphenoid procedure on a patient and I noted that her left eye orbit was quite a bit lower than the right. There was also asymmetry in the soft tissue beneath the eyes. As the treatment progressed, I noted that the eyes became more symmetrical and that the left orbit was even with the right. I completed the rest of the session and double - checked to see if the changes held, and they did. I told her to go in the bathroom and look in the mirror, and when she came out she said, "Oh my God! My eye is straight." She suffered a fall down a cliff when she was 13 years old and her Ethmoid bone fractured and penetrated the dural fascia. Due to the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid she had emergency surgery to repair the fascia and fracture displacement. That had left her with the deformity of the eye socket. When I checked her on two subsequent visits a little of the displacement had returned, but there was noticeable improvement overall. Unfortunately, I have not seen her since, so I don't know the long-term outcome.
Craniosacral Therapy is effective many times for the following:
Headaches & migraines
Sinus problems
Dizziness
Tinnitus
Autism
ADHD
Tourettes’
TMJ problems
Back pains
Circulatory problems
Short of breathe during pregnancy
LOCK – STRETCH – UNLOCK - RELEASE
This is a remarkably simple and effective method to quickly lengthen muscles which have shortened. To lengthen the posterior calf muscles, the Gastrocnemius muscle, place the person on the table or bed in a prone position. Flex the knee about 20 degrees. Place one of your hands on the ball of the foot pad and your other hand in a pincer formation above the knee. With the pincers grasp the Gastronomius muscle and lock, while at the same time you plantar flex the foot to stretch the muscle. As soon as the stretch has occurred release the lock and slide your fingers down an inch or two and pinch again while at the same time you stretch the muscle. Continue down the calf into the Achilles tendon insertion at the retrocalcaneal point of insertion. Repeat on the opposite side. anterior, lateral, and medial compartment muscles can be released in the same manner.
MYOFASCIAL RELEASE
This technique was devised by John F. Barnes, P.T. It's based upon a slow, steady, long 3 to 10 minute stretch of the fascial tissues. Traction to legs, arms, neck, etc. is one method. Another is to place the palms of hands on the body part and apply slight pressure and begin spreading the hands apart from one another. Slowly, as the fascial resistance is broken down, there is a slight spreading of the tissue until the next barrier is encountered. As this next barrier softens after a minute or two there will be more stretching. Many times, following the process you can see a reddening which is termed reactive hyperemia. This can be visualized in remote areas, as the barriers break down and the capillaries dilate to allow more blood flow into the area that was previously deprived of it’s full share of blood.
Myofascial Release - MFR is a safe, effective, and extremely gentle form of stretching and balancing that can reduce or eliminate pain, increase flexibility and have a profound effect on the body's tissues at a very deep level. MFR is a holistic hands-on approach that produces consistently effective and lasting results by respecting the wisdom of the patient's mind-body complex and it's ability to self-correct.
MFR techniques provide gentle, sustained pressure into the fascial system to release restrictions which are often the cause of pain and limited motion. MFR is particularly helpful in the treatment of stubborn or chronic problems that have not been resolved by traditional methods.
The fascial system consists of tough connective tissue which spreads, uninterrupted, throughout the body in a 3-dimensional web. The fascia has an appearance similar to a spider's web or a sweater. Fascia surrounds, attaches to and infuses every muscle, bone, nerve, blood vessel and internal organ. You can begin to see that each part of the body is connected to every other part by fascia, like the yarn in a sweater.
Therefore, when the fascial system becomes tight or hardens in one area due to inflammation, disease, surgery, trauma, etc. it can create a drag distantly into seemingly unrelated areas of the body. The fascial system profoundly influenced all other structures and systems of the body. Fascia restrictions exert enormous pressure on pain sensitive structures causing discomfort and/or limiting motion. The restrictions can affect our flexibility and stability, and are the determining factor in our ability to withstand stress and strain. Since many of the standard tests, such as x-rays and MRI's do not show fascial 'drag', it is possible that many people suffering with pain and/or lack of motion may be experiencing undiagnosed myofascial restrictions.
This technique often elicits an unwinding process and emotional releasing. It's also one of the most beneficial therapies for fibromyalgia that I’ve encountered so far.
LOMI LOMI
Lomi is a method of conscious touch with unconditional love coming from the practitioner's heart. Breathing, movement, and entrainment are all a part of the process. This is probably another of the missing chapters from the western medical repair manuals. The mechanics or technique is secondary in the process. Every Lomi begins with Pule (prayer) and a connection to Akua (Divine Creator). It comes from Hawaii, and is a part of the Hawaiian culture. It has been carefully guarded over the eons, and there isn't a lot of public information about it. There are only a few of the original modern era native Hawaiian Kahus (keepers of wisdom) who are left.
In the two day class I took, which is merely an introduction to Lomi, there were five of us, and we were guided by our KUMU (instructor), Gloria Coppola, LMBT. She lived in Kauai for many years, and holds 10 day classes on the island of Kauai, twice a year. She’s and accepted practitioner and Kuma amongst the Kumu Lomilomi’s. It's rare for a Haole to be welcomed into the Hawaiian culture because the missionary takeover of Hawaii by Captain Cook and others, has left the Hawaiians very resentful of most white people. Gloria presently lives in North Carolina and also offers her Lomi Lomi classes in venues throughout the US.
By the end of the weekend class, the five of us became a very close knit group. All experienced releases of "Stuff", and most of us had some epiphany (Ah-Ha), or another. We learned to move, breathe, clear our thoughts, and transmit love to one another and, perform some massage technique at the same time. One of the students is Hawaiian, and she was quite guarded at the beginning of the class. But, by the end she was very caring, loving, and open to us all. She even taught us some basics of Hula. For those practicing any discipline within, "The Art Of Touch", this is a must take class for you if you genuinely want
to be a part of your patient’s / client’s process.
For more information visit: www.massageProCE.com.
"Expect a Miracle Today"
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
Chapter 10
HOW'S YOUR HEALER?
IS YOUR HEALER IN GOOD CONDITION?
I must include this excerpt for whatever it's worth. How to learn about the condition of your practitioner can be dicey at best. But, you can use your intuition, and it will probably work when you want it to. Following are some of my own experiences, as well as a practitioner I’ve read and heard all about, "The Goat Doctor", and a former patient of mine who was a Healer.
After completing my first lessons on the Bowen Technique I returned to my office full of enthusiasm and optimism. As I performed the therapy on as many patients as I could get my hands on, results were surprisingly outstanding the first few months. As a matter of fact, many patients commented that I'd "changed their lives", and lots of others had resolution of many chronic aches, pains, and medical issues. I was totally excited about the outcomes. After six months of on the job experience a Bowen Practitioner becomes eligible to become certified by the Australian Bow Tech ®. I took the two day certification class and demonstrated my skills. Much to my surprise, according to the Aussie Bowen experts, I was performing a number of procedures incorrectly. This made me a little doubtful but, I changed my notes in the workbook, demonstrated my technique again correctly, and got my certification paper. However, during the next two or so months, I noticed a dramatic drop off in the favorable outcomes following my treatments. No more miracles were happening. Most of the time results were only so – so. I even thought about giving it up and converting the treatment rooms back to podiatry rooms. Then, one day I was having lunch with a friend who's a naturopathic practitioner. I observed a massage table off to the side of her office, and I asked, "What are you using a massage table for?" She told me that she'd learned a new technique she was going to incorporate into her practice. I then asked, "How are you going to work that into your schedule? You're already spending over an hour with your clients?" She replied, "I'm changing things around a little and modified the way from what I was taught. You know you can change the teacher’s rules and still get good results, as long as your intentions are good." All of a sudden I had this revelation. During the first six months I'd inadvertently changed the teacher’s rules or whatever. But, my intentions were very good. The next few months after the review class, I was in doubt of my ability to learn the technique properly, I began doubting the system, I was focusing much of the day on one of my children who was undergoing some personal issues, and I was fed up with H.M.O’S, Managed Care, and Medicare. All of these were altering my intentions. I immediately restored my enthusiasm, gave myself a little pep-talk on how good I was at performing Bowen treatments. Especially, thinking back on the first six months. At the outset of each session I cleared my head of any extraneous stuff and focused on doing the best I can for this patient on the table, and to heck with the rest of the world and all of their problems. I did some mental recalls of patients whom I’d helped so much during the first six months. Well, immediately the favorable outcomes started to return. A week or two into my new regime a patient came for a treatment that I'd given two to three treatments the first six months, and one or two treatments during my slump. I asked, "How are you doing? Is there any particular issue to address today or are you just in need of a tune up?" She replied, "I just need a new body." Or, something like that. As I began the treatment with the first two muscle movements she looked up and said, "Welcome back." I thought for a second and replied, "I haven't been on vacation or out of town." She said, "I know. Welcome back." She’d sensed my disconnection during the last couple of sessions, and now could tell that I was back to good condition. I've had a few mini-slumps since then, and I can usually catch myself before too long.
I previously mentioned a book titled, "The Goat Doctor of the Sierras". He was a healing legend in the foothills of the Sierras. Patients drove for miles and miles on one lane roads, and a narrow dirt road down a canyon wall in order to get to his ranch. He worked out of his house down in the American river canyon outside of Placerville, California. He was a "Miracle Healer". I had many patients who recalled being there with their parents. They observed his miracles while they watched him through the open front door to his front treatment room.
The Goat Doctor of the Sierras used a lot of touch technique. This healer was not a doctor, but was able to cure all kinds of problems for people during the 1930’s -1940’s. Cars would begin to line up in his driveway starting at 5:00 in the morning, behind the ones who had spent the night. He would open the gate at 7:00 AM and the first car in line had the first appointment. The second car would wait until the first car pulled out from in front of the house, and they would pull forward and were the next appointment. He quit seeing patients at 5:00 PM. So, anyone left that he had not seen that day could sleep overnight in their car, in a tent, or they could drive back another day. He had a tremendous following over the years. Because of the stories my patients told me about him over the years, I purchased and read the book, "The Goat Doctor of the Sierras". They called him the, "Goat Doctor" because he lived on grains, veggies, fruits, and Goat's Milk. And, he had goats running all over his yard.
One of my patients recalled a time when he was at the goat Doctor's with his mom. While she was a few cars back and was awaiting her turn, he was playing on the front porch with some other kids. A limousine pulled up to the front steps, which meant it was the next appointment. The driver got out and opened the trunk and got out a wheelchair upon which a distinguished man dressed in suit and tie, got out of the passenger seat. They helped a young lady out of the back seat into the wheelchair and wheeled her into the front room, which was the treatment area. The Goat Dr. asked about the nature of her problems. The man in the suit and tie said that they were from the East Coast, and that she'd had an auto accident two years before, which left her paralyzed from the waist down. They had heard of the Goat Doctor via the grapevine, and came to California for a session. My patient listened to the verbal exchange and the subsequent physical phenomenon. The Goat Doctor placed one hand on the girl's shoulder and touched a few places along her thoracic and lumbar spine. After a few minutes, he invited her to stand. She reluctantly let him help her to a standing position and then he prompted her to take a step. She placed one foot in-front, and then the other. And, while he held her hands, she walked for the first time in two years. The father broke down into tears and took out his checkbook. He asked, "How much do I owe you?" The Goat Doctor said, "Two dollars-you can leave it in the basket by the front door." The father said, "Oh no, I'm giving you a check for $10,000.00." The Goat doctor refused the check, as all the kids on the front porch were saying, "Take the Money- Take the Money!" Finally the father and daughter walked out, while the chauffer carried the wheelchair to the car, and they all drove off into the sunset. All he did was touch the right places!
One of his patients stayed on, and started doing housekeeping for the family, in the latter years of his practice. The Goat Doctor fell in love and married the young lady. A rift occurred between the mother-in-law and the bride. Also, the young lady was at odds with some of the neighbors. All of which caused the Goat Doctor to lose quite a bit of his effectiveness. Many of his patients when interviewed for the book commented that his treatments didn't work as well as they had in the past, before he got married.
One of my patients was a very intriguing man. He called himself, "Dr. Rani". He was born in Sri Lanka, and left there to go and see the world at the age of 13. His first stop was in India. He witnessed the yogis wading in the river, waste deep with their intestines floating in the water as a result of the deep meditative state they were in. For some reason, that prompted him to become a healer. He subsequently went to England, and then came to the US. He'd studied a number of touch and bodywork modalities over the years. Something drew him to a small town in Northern California, and when his car broke down at an intersection one afternoon, he said to himself, "This must be where God wants me to be." As fate would have it, there was a place for rent, right at the spot where his car had stopped running.
I'd driven past his office hundreds of times before I ever met him. I often wondered what took place behind closed doors in his mysterious office. His large sign on the sidewalk said, "Dr. Rani - Healing Mind-Body-Soul". "Ayruveda, Reflexology, Massage".
One day, he came to me as a new patient. He was dressed in a white shirt, white pants, and wore a red tie. There was a gold dove medal pinned on the lapel of his shirt, and he wore black socks and sandals. He greeted me first and said in a very soft smooth voice, "Oh, Dr. Mosher, I am so pleased to meet you. Your patients have very kind and loving things to say about you. I've been looking forward to meeting you for some time now." After that, when he came for his appointments, or sometimes he just stopped by out of the blue, he always brought a box of donuts or pastries. On the boxes he always wrote in pen, "My Dearest Dr. Mosher and beloved staff. May God bless you all. With love, kindness, and blessings, your friend, Dr. Rani - Healing Mind-Body-Spirit". I don't recall the reason, but I did make an appointment with him for a session. When I arrived at his office for my appointment, he greeted me with his usual soft spoken voice and said, "Oh Dr. Mosher, Welcome, welcome to my office. I have your special room ready for you. I got here early just so I could get it ready for you. But first let me show you around". He gave me a guided tour of his fairly large office. There were 3 large rooms, all in a different decor. One had a large twin bed high from the floor, another with a traditional massage table, the other had a vibrating recliner chair, and they all had a different feel. After my session, he handed me a bag filled with fresh fruit and said, "Oh Dr. Mosher. It’s my custom to bless clients with a gift to take home after their treatment. It’s the completion of the entire process." As I scanned all of the plaques, framed letters and newspaper articles, hanging on the walls, it was evident that he was known world-wide. He was even Knighted by the Queen of England! He had a huge following, and at times when I went to see him there would be one of his clients who had traveled all the way across the US, just to have a session.
On one occasion, I was very upset about some HMO issues that were going on. It felt like I had a big knot in the pit of my stomach. He had me sit in a recliner chair with the vibrator on the back-rest. He worked on my head-neck-arms and then let me rest. While asleep, I almost lurched off the chair, and then settled back down. He finished the session, and all was well thereafter.
He had a group of 20 plus clients in Oregon who flew him up and boarded him in a motel for three to four days, about six times a year so he could give them their treatments. Unfortunately, he fell in love with one of them who was an attractive 35 year old lady, very charming, but also very cunning. They got married, and shortly after, she took his car, title to the home, and his IRA. From then on, he lost his presence, and his health declined until he passed on due to complications from diabetes. It was very saddening to watch his demise.
Now, how about those three different acupuncturists I saw for my back pain, before I was fixed by Milton's Bowen session?
#1 was a miracle worker. He had a "Hole in the wall" office. He lived in a small house on a fruit orchard. He drove an old beat up 1968 Datsun something or another. His sole mission was to help people - I know that for a fact. He helped almost every patient that I referred to him. He even knew in advance, when he wouldn’t be able to help them. He was a miracle worker too.
#2 was an egotistical, self engendered man, who bragged about all of his accomplishments. He let me know where he lived, and that he drove a Cadillac. He couldn't touch my pain.
#3 was a nice man. He wasn't caught up in himself. He ran a busy practice in a multiple room office. He was pretty good.
Therefore, it appears that the state of mind that a practitioner is in makes a difference on how well you may respond to their treatments.
Intention is 90% of the result. That's how the Martial Arts people can break a brick with their hand. Their focus is so intense on the outcome and so de-focused from other data, that they can achieve super-human fetes.
So can you!
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
EPILOGUE
I've gone through a tremendous and incredulous journey the past few years. The personal explorations, experiences, education, enlightenment, and empowerment process has me in awe. I hope that this book inspires you to take your own journey.
Remember, that different tissues have different issues. So, there's a need for different strokes for different folks. What's good for one, isn't good for all. I have my own saying, "If it's going to be - it's up to me."
During the last two years that I was in podiatry practice I performed two clinical studies.
The first was on reduction of bunions and bunion pain. There were 66 patients who entered, complied, and completed the study, which was for a one year treatment period. These were mostly patients who'd come to me wanting surgery, and who thought that surgery was their only option. I only operated on three! All the rest were pain free from one to three weeks on average, and the longest was within three months. All I did for them was adhesive tape for temporary arch support and a Bowen session once a week for four weeks. Followed by, a set of orthotics and a Bowen session once a month. All remained pain free while coming once monthly for the remainder of the year. None returned after the study was completed, so I assume that no news is good news.
The second study was on postural pains and headaches which included; knee, hip, lower back, upper back, shoulder, neck, arm, and carpal tunnel. There were about 80 patients in this study which also lasted for a one year period, once a week for four weeks, then once a month. All patients graded their pains on a scale of 1 to 10; 1 = mild – 10 = severe. The results I report are approximate, because I retired before publishing the results, and my papers were lost in the move from California to North Carolina. Lower back pain reduced from 8’s and 9’s to 0’s and 2’s in about 85% of the patients. Upper back pain reduced from 8’s and 9’s to 0’s and 1’s in about 90% of the patients. Neck pains reduced from 8’s and 9’s to 0’s in almost all cases, if not all. The extremity pains reduced at random, but better than 50%. Headaches resolved in about 95% of the patients. It was interesting to see the numbers drop as the weeks went by. I regret to have lost the data, but as soon as I have some free time I will begin a new study.
PATIENT FEEDBACK
April 21, 2004
RE: Treatment from Dr. Mosher for bunion and corn
My initial visit to Dr. Mosher was prompted by a painful and persistent corn located between my little toe and it’s neighbor on my right foot. Dr. Mosher removed the corn and I got relief for a number of weeks. But it returned with a vengeance. This routine continued several times: comfortable for a short time but back to Dr. Mosher in weeks with the same complaint. Regardless of the treatment, the painful corn would return.
Walking was growing more and more painful and difficult for me. I had bunions on both feet, but the one on the right was growing more pronounced. I had developed a hard inflamed callused area under the bunion that raged with a burning sensation after walking a short while especially with shoes on. Thanks to the bunion and the displacement of my big toe, this area became my weight-bearing area while walking. This arrangement caused my knee to feel “twisted” and painful all the time, exacerbating my fibromyalgia pain.
I became quite discouraged one day with another corn and red inflamed foot. It was increasingly altering ability to function due to the pain and inflammation. Dr. Mosher removed the corn once again and then suggested I try regular Bowen treatments to treat the bunion that created the corn scenario. He made me an insert for my shoes and we started the treatments.
I am now walking properly on the ball of my foot [not on the side, “twisting” my knee] and I’m doing it comfortably. The callus is gone and so is the inflammation. Since starting the Bowen treatments, I’ve not had a recurrence of the corn either.
Life is just a whole lot more comfortable now!
Charlene W
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I came into the office at 9:00am on May 18, 2004 with a terrible sinus headache. I hurt from the top of my head down my neck and into my left shoulder. Plus I had been dizzy as well. I hadn’t taken anything for it because I knew I was going to get a Bowen treatment. My low back felt like it was out too. My left hip would hurt with certain movements.
After Dr. Mosher asked how I was feeling I told him “not too well”. I was looking forward to this treatment just to see if it would really help me.
I left the office at 10:00am and went to Sacramento to meet friends for lunch. During the lunch I still felt badly. My head hurt and I thought the treatment didn’t do anything for me. I stopped by Bel Air Market on my way home when I noticed that I didn’t have the headache or backache. I wasn’t sure though if it had really gone away. All evening I kept waiting for it to return and if it did then I would take a couple of aspirins. Just to be on the safe side I called for an appointment at the chiropractor’s office for the next day because I knew if my atlas was put back in then I wouldn’t have anymore problems. I have done this in the past. The next morning when I awoke I felt really good so I cancelled my appointment with the chiropractor and still today, May 29, 2004, I have not hurt all day. I am amazed at the results of this treatment. I began the treatments in March and had four treatments (one a week for the month). I left for the month of April and just began the treatments again in May. This is very surprising to me as I feel like nothing is really done to me but a little “strumming” on certain areas. I am impressed. I don’t hurt anywhere at this moment.
Arlene J.
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12-29-95
Last year, while doing floor exercises I injured the sciatic nerve. The pain went down my legs and into my feet. They became so painful, that I could not get my feet comfortable, worse at night. I didn’t sleep well at all.
I made an appointment with Dr. Mosher. He had helped me with a heel spur some years back. Frankly, I wondered what he could do. He talked to me about a method called Bowen he was learning. I was very willing to try it. I’m so glad I did, after only two treatments I was sleeping well!! And, my feet were comfortable again! I consider this treatment great!! A big heartfelt thanks to Dr. Mosher!!
Sincerely,
Myrlene F. S.
This was my very first Bowen patient !
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May 20, 2004
Dear Dr. Mosher
I wanted to thank you for the wonderful service you have provided me. I came to you in November of 2003 with an extremely painful bunion. The pain in my foot had gotten so bad that my foot hurt nearly all the time. I went to see you in hopes that you could help me without having to perform surgery. When you explained the “Bowen “ technique I have to admit that I was skeptical, but at that point, willing to try anything! After approximately two Bowen treatments, the pain in my foot had gotten much better and after the third visit I was almost completely pain free. I was not only relieved that I did not have to have surgery, but thrilled at the results and wanted to share them with friends and family. By my second month of seeing Dr. Mosher and receiving the Bowen therapy I was pain free. Not only did my foot feel better, but the areas of my body where I normally carry stress had to dissipate also.
I am so thankful to Dr. Mosher and believe full heartedly that this technique should be tried on all patients before they even think of surgery.
Sincerely,
Chiara M.
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To Whom It May Concern
12/05/2003
I have bunions on both of my feet that used to cause me great pain. I am not sure where these hideous things came from. I suspect they began forming for a number of reasons, one of which is directly my fault. I used to wear shoes to small for my feet during my pre-teen and teen years. As a result of this disregard for my feet (and other causes) I developed bunions and hammertoes. The left foot bunion was less severe causing my great toe to point toward my little toe by 20 degrees or more. The right foot bunion was much more troublesome causing my great toe to point to over 30 degrees toward my little toe. I went several years this way since I was unaware of any treatment besides surgery. I am very afraid of foot surgeries since I have heard so many negative outcomes from friends and family. By the end of most days my feet would just throb and nothing seemed to help. I tried foot bathes, massagers, warm packs, cold packs and so on. Nothing helped.
My mother was seeing Dr. Mosher since she has similar problems (did I mention inherited above?) with her feet. She also had problems with calluses and corns on various places on the feet and he was helping her by trimming her callused areas and helping her non-surgically to improve the overall alignment of her feet. She seemed to be benefiting from this therapy and encouraged me to go in for a consult.
I was quite skeptical, but agreed to give it a whirl. The doctor examined my feet and told me he felt he could help me. I agreed to try the treatment and he started immediately. He pared the calluses and placed splinting on my feet to help change my gait. Dr. Mosher also talked to me about doing some Bowen therapy, a treatment to help realign my muscles and other systems. I agreed to try this also feeling I needed all the help I could get.
His treatment plan began to provide me relief after only a few treatments. I began to feel better and really didn’t know why. One night after work it hit me; I was really able to relax! The old and ever present throbbing feet were missing! I now had feet that performed well but they no longer complained about it. What a great feeling!
I finished treatments 3 to 4 years ago and remain essentially pain free. I continue to have Bowen treatments whenever I start feeling uptight and know that something is out of balance. My left great toe is virtually straight and the right great toe is 10 degrees or less deviated. The hammertoes also disappeared during the treatment. I have thanked Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher many times over for his treatment of my foot problems and overall sense of well being. I am so happy for the freedom from pain that I now enjoy. I continue to recommend Dr. Mosher many times to friends and family for problems with their feet and for stress release with the Bowen therapy.
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Dear Dr. Mosher:
For most of my adult life (I am now 49), I have had the ugliest toes. They have always been an embarrassment to me.
Approximately 1 year ago I came to you with a foot injury. After you treated my foot you suggested Bowen.
A month or so after the Bowen, I happened to notice my toes. The fungus was gone, and my toenails were actually turning pink again.
For once in my life, I can wear open toed shoes !
Thanks,
Jan B
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Dr. Mitchell R. Mosher
9/29/97
“ Bowen Technique”
Dear friend,
You are totally generous and charitable in your outlook, in help for people needing this technique.
You do the muscles using this Bowen technique, and are so gentle, so negligible in its’ outward malfestation, that you wonder whether it is really doing any good.
But I really know, I now walk without a cane and have no pain.
Thank you Dr. Mosher
Cordially,
Maurice R.
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Mon. Dec 8 1997
To Whom It May Concern
My name is Robert W. H. In July of 1997 I was involved in a devastating motorcycle accident. The right tibia and fibula were compounded and considerable tissue was ground off in the resulting fall onto the asphalt. This resulted in a sizable gap between the bones and resulted in my leg being encased in various types of casts for a period of 22 months. After a delayed bone graft (I sat on an electronic bone growth stimulator 16 hours a day for 8 months with no success in healing), and eventual bone mending no physical therapy was prescribed. My right foot seemed to be destined to never recover enough for normal function to even allow me to stand or walk for eve as much as four hours a day without producing intense pain that would at times, depending on how much I used it, cripple me for days on end.
Dr. Steven W., an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist diagnosed plantar fasciitis, capsulitis, and tendonitis as I had orthotics made for my feet, which over the years were sometimes effective, allowing me to work on my feet 4 to 6 hours a day with tolerable pain levels. At other time periods the pain reduction from using orthotics was nil and crippling again became a life circumstance.
In April of 1995, I came to Dr. Mitchell Mosher, also an Auburn, Ca. Podiatrist, to have my orthotics re-made. At this time he gave me a treatment (one) of the Bowen Technique, telling me I may need to have a second treatment in the near future. I never went back for the second treatment and, the nearly full and complete function ability I have today took around 15 months to develop, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the phenomenon of healing in my right foot is the direct result of the applied Bowen Technique. I wholly recommend its trial by anyone who suffers the crippling effects of pain as I did for so many years.
Sincerely,
Robert W. H.
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Sept. 28, 1996
Dear Dr. Mosher,
I just wanted to thank you for helping to make the quality of my life (and my daughter’s) better. When I thought I was facing surgery on my toe, I was pleasantly surprised to find Bowen Therapy straightening out my toe! Not to mention, my arm is better, and I’ve been known to get relief from a major sinus headache! My daughter, Kristy looks forward to the relax in stress reducing effects of this therapy, and so do I.
Dr. Mosher, you are a unique and caring physician and humanitarian, I am truly touched by your skill and compassionate ways.
Sincerely,
Liz H
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Dr. Mosher,
How can I express my gratitude for how much one treatment of Bowen has helped me. I can breathe thru my nasal passage when lying down. I have always had to breath thru my mouth. I have had to wear a brace on my arm from tentinus in my elbow. Which I no longer have to do. I had back surgery in 1977 the scar tissue from that has always bothered me, It doesn’t now! In the past year I have had constant pain from spraining my ankle, breaking my leg and spraining my ankle the second time I no longer have pain.
I am so grateful to you for your concern for people that you have mastered this therapy
GOD
Linda R.
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3-15-2000
Dear Doctor Mosher.
I can’t begin to thank you enough for your help. I am much better and hope to be able to again lay on my back for a nights rest in the next few days – I still am a bit gun shy to try it.
Sincerely
Bill
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On the subject of longevity, I observed the following. My practice was in a small community where the main employment was the railroad, and the outlaying area's employment was centered around a civilian military base, State employees, and an Aerospace plant. I saw patients from all of those areas. The common theme of many of my patients was that when they retired, everything was going to be just great. They often counted the days until the big event.
Well, many of them died from one thing or another a year or two later. They maybe lived until 65 or so years old. I saw many other patients who lived in the foothills and mountain areas. A lot of them were Seventh Day Adventists. They we're in their 80's, and could still walk and chew gum! I found out that they worked in their vegetable gardens in every morning, had a vegan diet, attended church services on Saturdays, and went for a three hour hike on Sunday mornings.
I met a farmer one day who had an antique tractor like mine for which I was looking for some parts. He was quite elderly, but very alert and active. His ranch seemed to be pretty large, and I asked, "How many acres do you have here?" He said, "I've got 60 acres to take care of." He went on to tell me that he used to work for the railroad. He had noticed that many of his friends who retired, passed on 18 months after retirement, on average. They had nothing to do but watch TV, drink beer, paint the house, and do some home repairs. So, he decided to get a lifetime project and bought the 60 acres for his post retirement past-time. I'm guessing, he was at least 80 years old!
Someone recently told me about a survey of people who had lived past 100 years old. The two common denominators were; keeping active, and drinking well water.
Let's go back to the perfect water. It's filtered and free from chlorine, flouride, heavy metals, lye which municipalities add in order to make the pH slightly alkaline, and other municipal additives. Pretty close to well water.
"Expect a Miracle Today",
Dr. Mosher, aka Mitchell
www.DrsDiscoveries.com
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