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Joel Haugeberg

OMT and longterm effects on hypertension

I have just been exposed to ideas of lowering the blood pressure with manual treatment. Many of them have been to approach the blood pressure in indirect ways, like cranial work to effect the pituitary gland etc. Do we believe that we can create longterm effects on hypertension? I belive that by working with the total lesion concept and offloading some of the demands on the body it will promote homeostasis. Then it´s up to the body. Any views on this topic?

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For me, the main reason for hypertension in our world today is diet. Even people who think eat healthy in fact eat food with loads of crap that's gonna eventually kill them. I found it takes an amazing about a time and education to understand the amount of poison out there and unhealthy eating. Its seems that the learning never ends...

The body will try to cope with this nutritional stress the best it can. So treating the whole body will eventually help it to cope with this stress. So if there is a SD affecting the pituitary gland, then treating it should enable a better co-ordination from that gland...

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I read an article by Northup from 1961 who very happily treated HBP with OMT, without a single reference to IMS or total lesions. He thinks much more literally - affecting the vagus nerve (CrN X) and looking at the lower ribs / kidney area as both of these directly affect BP. He presents 5 case studies, though he does say the first patient died. I haven't tried to lower someone's HBP with OMT myself but I think the truth might be somewhere in between.

The reference is:
Northup, TL (1961) “Manipulative management of hypertension”, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Vol. 60, August, pp. 973-978


Jon

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