• Difficult birth - Induction - Forceps - Caesarian - Separation Anxiety
• Accidents
• Emotional Trauma - Difficult Childhood - Witnessing Violence
• Head Injuries
• Surgery
• Lumbar Puncture - Spinal Tap - Epidural
• The After Effects of Meningitis
• Lost Soul
• Misaligned Dental Fillings - Orthodontic Work
• Vaccination and Overuse of Antibiotics

BIRTH TRAUMA - INDUCTION - FORCEPS - CEASAREAN SECTION
Even with a natural, problem free labour, a baby can get stuck and distressed during delivery. If this happens, even briefly, it can put substantial restrictions into the baby's system that may not show up for years.

Modern birth is often mismanaged from the outset. Mothers are brought into hospital at the appointed time rather than when the baby is ready. Waters are broken. Babies are induced. Labour is hurried. Mother can't dilate fast enough. Babies get stuck.
   Suddenly labour becomes a frenzy of 'emergency procedures,' which never needed to happen in the first place. Violent extractions with forceps or ventouse (suction) are used and if they don't work it's off to surgery for an 'emergency' caesarian.

Because of the seriousness of the situation, and make no mistake by this stage it is serious, the baby is literally yanked out of the mother. Even with a planned caesarean the incision alone can often cause trauma because of the sudden change in pressure in the womb. This is a very different experience for the baby from the waters breaking naturally.
  Once the incision has been made the baby has to be extracted from the womb. This means the baby has to be grabbed . . .somewhere . . . usually by the back of the neck to get it out.

More trauma follows. . .
The first few minutes after birth is very important to the new born baby. The baby needs to bond with its mother, if it is deprived that contact it can cause lots of different conditions, from low immunity to behavioral problems to fearful disposition and crying.

  These symptoms may not show up for years. Having the umbilical cord cut too quickly can lead to umbilical shock which in turn can cause everything from digestive problems to anxiety to difficulty sleeping.

All the above leads to many patterns of restriction within the babies system which in turn can lead to symptoms.

Also I have found that a difficult birth can also leave patterns of restrictions in the MOTHERS body that can cause post natal depression.
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ACCIDENTS
In our day to day lives we bump into things, we trip, we have all manner of little accidents, most of which our bodies can repair. If we have a more serious accident the trauma to our bodies may be so great as to put a pattern of restriction in our bodies that it may not be able to release without assistance.

Let's say someone is in a car accident. The impact of the steering wheel puts a large pattern of trauma in their body. The broken bones and lacerations caused by the accident will heal within a matter of months, but the physical after-effects can go on for years - causing anything from headaches to depression or worse. Their body can release much of the pattern of restriction but it may not be able to release the entire pattern.

Also, if you have ever seen crash simulations using dummies you’ll know they move around a lot during the impact. So rather than one pattern of trauma there are many.

The other thing to consider is the depth the pattern is imprinted in the body. With patterns of restriction, the greater the force of the trauma, the deeper into the body the pattern is imprinted.

The effects of unreleased trauma from an accident may not show up for years. When the effects do begin to surface the symptoms may not be in the area of the accident. Damage to the lower spine, for example may show up as headaches or depression. This occurs because of the reciprocal nature of the system.

Just to give you an idea of how devastating accidents can be, here is a list of conditions that can all have their roots in unreleased trauma from accidents.

Attention Deficit Disorder, Aggression, Anxiety, Back pain, Behavior problems, Depression, Dyslexia, Frozen shoulder, Fibromyalgia, Headaches, Irritable bowel syndrome, Obessional behavior, Sciatica, Scoliosis, Insomnia, Sinusitis, Sleeping difficulties,Panic attacks, Spinal disc problems, Chronic fatigue, Joint problems, Torticollis, Meniere's disease, TMJ, Trigeminal neuralgia, Epilepsy, Migraines, Mood swings, Vertigo, Neck pain, Whiplash.

EMOTIONAL TRAUMA - WITTNESSING VIOLENCE
Emotional trauma can get lodged in our bodies and remain there unreleased causing just as much devastation as physical trauma.

In Peter Levine's 1997 article 'Trauma - vortex of violence', he draws a mental image of a scene from the Serengeti plains. A cheetah is stalking an impala. He describes the seventy mile an hour chase with the cheetah closing in. Just before the cheetah is about to bring the impala down, the impala does a strange thing.

It drops to the ground as if it's already dead. It has tried the 'fight or flight' response. Its flight was unsuccessful. So it then goes into the 'freezing response'. Even though the impala's body is still being flooded with adrenalin, it plays dead. All the blood leaves the impala’s extremities, this happens so that if the cheetah decides to drag it behind a bush for later consumption, the impala won't suffer from too much loss of blood and can make its escape.

The other thing that happens is the impala's brain releases huge amounts of endorphins into its system. Endorphins are nature’s little happy drugs. Many times more powerful than heroin they put the impala in a euphoric trance and so distanced from being gobbled up.

Let's say that doesn't happen and the cheetah goes off to find her cubs. Once it knows it is safe the impala does not run away immediately. Instead the impala gets to its feet and starts to shake violently. This has the effect of shaking off the endorphins and discharging the built-up energy of the chase. Then after a good shake it does this even weirder thing. It sort of runs on the spot, vigorously. What it is doing is enacting its escape from the cheetah, completing the chase but this time with a happy ending.

All the above actually happens quite quickly and once it's done, the impala trots off to rejoin the heard. From the impala point of view it's not such a big deal because it happens to them frequently. They haven't got time to dwell on it and they are experts at discharging the built-up energy as a result of it.

It is different for people. We are not so used to life or death situations and have adapted our responses in different ways. For example, it is very common for people who have experienced trauma to have continually cold hands and feet and be in a sort of dreamy other-world all the time. They can remain like this years after the trauma happened.

The cold hands are because the blood never fully returned to the extremities and the dreamy state is because the brain has continued to release an elevated level of endorphins.

One of the main reasons the trauma remains stuck in their body is because unlike the impalas, we have no culture of enacting or completing traumatic events.
Let's face it, intense shaking and acting out of happy endings to traumatic events are not something we generally encourage or support. If someone started to do it beside you at the local coffee shop, chances are it would be very disturbing to witness.

One of the things cranio sacral therapy does is assist the emotional trauma to release and dissipate gently.

To give you an idea of how subtle and long lasting emotional trauma can be let me morph a couple of patients together to illustrate the point.

Two men, Bill and Ben, come to see me for treatment. They are both 40yrs old and they both have frozen shoulder. Frozen shoulder is where you can't move your arm without it being really painful.
Here's what happened.

When the Bill was six years old, he was walking past a building site. A careless builder dropped a brick from the scaffold and it hit Bill on the shoulder, breaking his collar bone. The bone healed within a couple of weeks but the imprint of the trauma never fully released. Bill's body kept trying to release the pattern of restriction from the accident but it couldn't fully. Eventually his body was unable to compensate for the restriction anymore and this showed up as symptoms. The end result with Bill was that by the time he was 40 he had developed frozen shoulder.

Now let's talk about Ben. When he was six years old, he was taking a walk with his Father in the park. His Father was a little preoccupied because he was currently unemployed and unsure of his next job. Just before they reached the pond they met a friend of Ben's father who began to talk with him about the possibility of a job.
Ben really wanted to continue on to the pond but his Father wouldn't let him without his supervision.

His Dad asked Ben to be quiet and patient while he talked with his friend.
Ben was not impressed with this. He pulled on his Father's hand and carried on in general. Eventually his Father finished his conversation and the friend went on his way.
As soon as he was out of earshot Ben's Father rounded on Ben. He was livid. He told Ben he was very naughty and that he was a selfish little boy. As he said this he kept tapping Ben on the shoulder to reinforce his point. Not a very severe physical trauma but because his Father was angry and saying bad things about him, it penetrated Ben's system with the same level of imprint as a brick.

The moment passed. His Father found work soon after and life moved on but the imprint of the emotional trauma never released fully, with the result that by the time he was 40, Ben had developed frozen shoulder.

This idea of emotional trauma getting locked in our bodies is based on what is called 'Tissue Memory.' Tissue memory is the idea that the imprint of emotionally traumatic events is not exclusively stored in our conscious mind, but in the cells of our bodies.
If you find that that hard to believe, think about it in terms of DVD's.

A DVD is made of a sort of tin foil sandwiched between two layers of plastic. There is nothing too amazing about that, yet when the DVD is played through the DVD player and we watch the movie, we laugh and cry and become emotionally engaged.

The cells in our bodies are a lot more complex than a DVD. They store an incredible amount of information and perform a mind-boggling number of tasks every second. Isn’t it plausible that they can also store individual memory?
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HEAD INJURIES
Head injuries deserve a section to themselves because they can have such devastating long term repercussions. The initial effect of head injuries can be often severe and life threatening but once the danger is over, the ongoing symptoms can often be subtle and very debilitating.

Symptoms, like aggression, agitation, poor attention span, anxiety, poor memory, difficulty sleeping, temperature fluctuation and so on.

Head injuries leave patterns of restriction in the membranes in the head. In my experience a small amount of pressure in the wrong part of the brain can have widespread effects. When I say small I mean a few microns. A sheet of paper is 100 microns thick. Head injuries also often lead to restricted drainage in the head.

Not every trauma to the head causes sever symptoms. It depends where the restriction is putting pressure on the brain. I have treated people with patterns of restriction in their head who had no symptoms other than the physical appearance. Jill Orange is a good example of this.
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SURGERY
Every structure in the body is covered in a thin membrane called Fascia. From the smallest neuron to large structures like your lungs or your liver, they are all covered in fascia. Fascia forms a connective covering that encapsulates your whole body.

If you look at the back of your hand as you wiggle your fingers, what you are looking at is the outer layer of fascia of your hand. Below it many layers of fascia are gliding over each other as your fingers move.

"There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good."---Dr. J. Anthony Morris, former Chief Vaccine Control Officer and research virologist, US FDA

"There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza. The producers of these vaccines know that they are worthless, but they go on selling them, anyway."------Dr. J. Anthony Morris (formerly Chief Vaccine Control Officer at the FDA)

"The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization…There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease… There are significant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contraindications that make it dangerous for the shots to be given to your child… While the myriad short-term hazards of most immunizations are known (but rarely explained), no one knows the long-term consequences of injecting foreign proteins into the body of your child. Even more shocking is the fact that no one is making any structured effort to find out."
Robert Mendelsohn, MD.