Spinal Mechanics
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How the spine articulates and manipulation
By retired Osteopath John R Bayliss
By retired Osteopath John R Bayliss
What is: Synergetic spinal mechanics?
When any body movement takes place, such as raising an arm, it is not just one joint that articulates, a whole series of joints automatically articulate with them to accommodate. This series of movement is called a synergetic movement. When a joint becomes locked. This has a knock-on effect on other joints. General walking is a synergetic articulation of all the pelvic and spinal joints.
What is: PPT manipulation?
PPT (passive patient technique) is the most advance form of joint manipulation in the world. It was discovered and developed By JR Bayliss. Unlike classical techniques that use brute force to tighten and break the fixated joint with click. PPT manipulation works by reversing the way the joint became locked initially. With PPT’s there is no click, they are painless, and patients hardly know they have been safely manipulated. This new standard was only possible due the understanding of the forces that create synergetic spinal mechanics.
What is: A Pelvic lesion?
Research by Sturesson et al using highly accurate RSA imaging demonstrated that the sacral facets articulate a few millimetres off the iliac facets which is technically recognized as a subluxation movement. However, these small displacements, singularly do not account for the huge pelvic displacement commonly found in the pelvis. A pelvic lesion is the result of the subluxated sacroiliac an iliosacral joints destabilizing the pelvis. Gravitational and weight bearing forces act on the destabilized pelvis and reinforce and develop the pelvic lesion that becomes locked in, with the steps humans take.
Information on spinal mechanics
How the spine articulates had been the subject of
much speculation. John R Bayliss worked out how
every joint articulates in harmony with all the other
joints to produce human movement.
Knowing the forces that cause the spine and pelvic
joints to articulate synergistically, he was able to
corrupt the forces and show for the first time what
an Osteopathic lesion was on a bony level. He
went on to discover a way manipulating gently and
effectively without putting the patient in contorted
positions.
This lady seen at the side here has a
typical back as presented to Osteopaths
and Chiropractors daily.
You can see her pelvis has side shifted to
the right. And rotated to the left causing her
left buttock into a posterior position and tilt
anteriority and the right to lift. This is shown
for simplicity in Yellow to the side.
When gravity passes through this
misaligned pelvis it is reflected in the
shoulders.
You can see her left shoulder is wider than
her right shoulder which is narrow, higher,
and anterior.
Classical Osteopathy and Chiropractic
loosen spinal and sacroiliac joints and
improve the symmetry and mobility but only
to a point. They take away the pain in most
cases, but they fail to remove the rotation
and posterior buttock on the the left and
therefore the shoulders: The pelvic lesion.
Getting the pelvic lesion aligned and
mobile is what John’s latest book:
The pelvic Book for Osteopaths and
Chiropractors is all about.
John wrote his latest book which was
edited by Juraj Prvy a Slovakian practitioner
who had read his book: Advanced
Osteopathic Technique, and realized
how advanced the theories were
compared to classical thinking.
To the side are some photos Juraj sent to
John showing the patients he had treated.
Using the techniques from both books.
He tried to use a fixed position for the
camera and the level of the feet so there
can be no cheating.
As you can see there is significant change
and usually after just a couple of
sessions.
A lot of people reading this will kid
themselves and say that I can do this
already, and that ‘I do it this way’. If
you’re using classical techniques or
modifications off them and can truly can
achieve this level of symmetry you are
unique and truly exceptional.
