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B O D Y
R E F L E X T H E R A P I E S
&
T E C H N I Q U E S
VOLUME 2
OF
THE REFLEX THERAPY SERIES
H. Sadowsky, ND, PhD
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1. Title.
BODY REFLEX THERAPIES & TECHNIQUES
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Preface from “The Description of Egypt” (15
th
century, Fr.):
Preface frøm "The Description of Egypt" (15th Century, Fr.):
“I pray to God that this book obtains the approval of
distinguished men and scientists; I ask that He
guarantees to me the hands of the envious and the
ignorant. That, in this circumstance as in all others,
He directs my words and my actions toward just
channels.”
AL MAKRISI
FOREWARD
Some readers will not believe what is to follow; others will be surprised with the facility of the methods described in
this book. There are those to whom it will seem illusory and benign, almost an innocent dream. I cannot prevent a
medical book from falling into novice hands, inexperienced and perhaps imprudent. Moreover, the role of the
physician is to track the sickness, whose pain is only a revelation. Although its manifestation is the source of multiple
specialized consultations, do not forget that it has no other purpose than to signal the biological breach of superior
centers. This commits the former to put into action an adequate therapeutic correction.
On the other hand, if all somatic structural alterations translated into the reflex cutaneous cellulalgias that the present
work defines, knowledge of this system will permit diagnosis of the lesion
but not the comprehension of the morbid
mechanism
. In this case, it will not always be the most appropriate for a peripheral treatment that will aim only at
relief from pain alone. Too often have we heard: “Operation successful; patient expired”, when it need not have
happened. To brighten the darkness or silence the alarm bell is not the most efficient struggle against a fire. Similarly,
to act locally on the epidermal abdominal arborization of the perforating anterior right branch of the twelfth thoracic
nerve brings, indeed, the cessation of the pain of an appendix but risks strongly the patient believing he is healed, with
the possibility of a complication such as a torpid visceral infection or a peritonitis. This work is directed to both the
physician
and
the therapist. Both should act with perception: if either eases the complaint, even momentarily, the
ultimate outcome will likely not be the desired outcome:
Symptomatic
Medicine
Is
Not GOOD
Medicine.
INTRODUCTION
Webster defines a therapist [Gr.
therapia
, treatment] as a specialist in a certain form of therapy; Taber defines a
therapist as a person skilled in giving therapy. Of prime importance in all my work is the meaning of the word
‘therapist’: whether that skilled person is a physician-therapist, a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, a
massage therapist, or a bodyworker. This book is written as a text for the physician and as a working manual for all
practitioners, using the vocabulary of the medically trained.
Because countries differ in legal requirements regarding the administration of health care, readers are cautioned to
fulfill their appropriate governmental requirements before providing health care. However,
no
one should consider
him/herself qualified to administer the therapies defined in this book based simply upon the knowledge provided here.
Training under one of our Certified Instructors in Body Reflex Therapies is obligatory to assure the patient’s proper
treatment, outcome, and well-being.
A. HOW THIS WORK BEGAN
We know that the primitive segmental organization of the embryo will be preserved at the level of the fetal trunk.
However, it will be notably stretched and deformed at the level of the head and the extremities. This explains a
transverse metamerization of the trunk region contrasting with extremity and cephalic zone upheavals. Thanks to the
cerebrospinal sensory and motor nerve system and the autonomic neurovegetative system, elements of the same
metamere thus retain a certain dependence that allows them interactions within myotomic, viscerotomic, angiotomic,
and sclerotomic units or, at the periphery, dermatomic. We choose to use characters defining the term “reflex-
dermalgia” (developed by Henri Jarricot, MD, in 1968, and who I had the pleasure of knowing personnally):
•
The
dermalgia
is not spontaneously painful: the special cutaneous palpation technique that is used releases a
type of pain termed ‘wincing’, that is localized within the clearly perceived contour of the dermo-epidermic
‘engorgement’ (a ‘cellular’ reflex). This technique is fully illustrated and described later in chapter two of this
section.
•
Close investigation reveals that this pain-center is the seat of thermoalgesic dissociation. This discloses two
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