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mum was very worried and had been thinking treat Doug you could see that he was beginning
that it might be best to consider putting him to to relax. He laid on his back which his mummy
sleep as she could not bear seeing him like this. told me that he would never do for a stranger.
He would make a bit of noise when he moved
She reached out to her fellow vet herbalist
but he would settle very quickly.
asking for help as we all have different
backgrounds and experiences. She had already Towards the end of the treatment he fell sleep.
tried different anti-inflammatory herbs without His dad said that he had not seen him so
much success. She couldn’t use acupuncture relaxed for a long time!
because any slight touch was very painful all
That night Doug woke up a couple of times
over.
but didn’t scream, he wasn’t distressed and he
Someone suggested craniosacral therapy and I settled down quickly. By the following day he
offered my services to my friend and colleague. had a couple of cramps but they were shorter
I went to their home that same day, they live in a and he didn’t have panic in his eyes. He was
different part of the country to me but I could not taken out to the garden and was wagging his
try and help. tail, was moving better, sniffing around in the
garden and eating grass. He was a lot happier
When I first saw Doug, he was very happy to
and his mummy had hope again that we
see me and he sat up but doing that was painful
could get him through this difficult, painful and
for him. He would scream every time he tried to
distressing time.
move and you could see the pain and panic in
his face. His mummy put him in his bed, and he I went to treat him again 6 day later. His mummy
managed to get himself comfortable. and I could not believe how much better he was.
He was walking about, going up steps to his
After asking the normal questions to get a
food, which he hadn’t done for a very long time,
better picture of what was going on I started the
and he was even sitting up on his hind legs,
treatment.
meerkat style, which he had never done before!
He was very sensitive to touch so I used and standing up from there. It was amazing!
craniosacral therapy and emotional release
Again, he fell asleep during his treatment.
therapies which apply a very gentle touch. I
spent about an hour with him. As I started to A few days later his mummy sent me a video
of him on his walk moving about pretty fast and
very freely without any pain. He looked very
happy, he was enjoying life again and it was
wonderful to see.
Doug’s symptoms after the surgery were due to
stress in his fascial tissue. The Fascia is a thin
casing, a thin membrane, of connective tissue
that surrounds and holds every organ, blood
vessel, bone, nerve fibre and muscle in place. It
is a tissue that connects the rest of the tissues in
the body from top to bottom, or in Doug’s case
from front to back.
The fascia does more than provide internal
structure; the fascia has nerves that make it
almost as sensitive as skin. When stressed, it
tightens up restricting the other organs function
and movement and it also becomes painful.
Because of this every time you move or are
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