Resolution of epileptic symptoms in child
Upper Cervical Care in a Nine-Year-Old Female With Occipital Lobe Epilepsy: A Case Study
Objective: The reduction of an upper cervical subluxation through chiropractic care in the case of a child with occipital lobe epilepsy is described.
Clinical Features: A nine-year-old girl presented with uncontrollable blinking of the left eye and fainting spells, previously diagnosed by a neurologist as occipital lobe epilepsy.
Intervention and Outcomes: High velocity and light force adjustments (Blair technique) were applied to the first cervical vertebra on three separate occasions. Other low force adjustments (Activator) were administered to various levels of the spinal column where vertebral subluxations existed. The patient’s uncontrolled eye twitching decreased immediately following the first upper cervical adjustment and ceased completely 3 weeks following the final adjustment. The twitching has not resurfaced in approximately 2 years.
Conclusions: This case report demonstrated resolution of signs and symptoms associated with occipital lobe epilepsy in a child following the reduction of an upper cervical subluxation.
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When the brain is still
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains griefs and tears. Through it, in particular, we think, see, hear, and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant.
It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness, and acts that are contrary to habit.
These things that we suffer all come from the brain, when it is not healthy, but becomes abnormally hot, cold, moist, or dry, or suffers any other unnatural affection to which it is not accustomed. Madness comes from moistness. When the brain is abnormally moist, of necessity it moves, and when it moves neither sight nor hearing are still, but we see or hear now one thing and now another, and the tongue speaks in accordance with the things seen and heard on any occasion.
But when the brain is still, a man can think properly.
Hippocrates, Fifth Century, B.C.
Hippocrates, Vol.2, translated by W.H.S. Jones, London & New York: William Heinemann and Harvard University Press. 1923.
Torticollis in a newborn
Filed under: Case of the month, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms, Testimonials
“After four specific adjustments to Baby Brooke’s atlas, her head was on straight and she was happy as Larry. It’s good to start out looking life square in the eye.”
Super Cute Baby Brooke was born with acquired torticollis, which means twisted neck. Acquired because it was brought about through the birthing process – a completely “normal” birth. But normal births are quite traumatic in and of themselves and a lot of strain is placed on the fragile upper neck.
At 3 months of age in this photo, her head looked like this for weeks and weeks and the usual response to parents with paediatric problems is, “they’ll grow out of it.” This invariably means, we don’t know of an appropriate solution right now.
Two years ago I met a father whose child had the same problem, but they were convinced by doctors to go the surgical route – even though the parents instinctively felt this was wrong – and the child’s sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle was severed to release the head (this is the big muscle running from behind your ear down to the front of your chest, used for turning the head). Because everything is connected, and the SCM muscle has intimate connections with immune function and lymph glands, the child became repetitively ill for 2 or 3 years thereafter.
It’s important to get the child’s upper neck checked for a number of reasons. The top two cervical vertebrae (top two bones) are unique in their development to the rest of the spine. Read more