SPONSORED CONTENT symptoms for two and a half months, and his mother was taking him everywhere: medical treatment, alternative treatments, hands-on treatments – nothing was helping him. He ap-peared to be a perfect fit for Matrix Repatterning, so I told his mother that I thought I could help him in a relatively short time with this new tech-nique. Initially, she was hesitant because I didn’t take insurance. She said she couldn’t afford to bring him in, which I certainly understood. About two months later, I bumped into them, and he was still suffering. It had now been five months of ongoing pain: he couldn’t go to school, play sports, or even see his friends. They decided to come in again and agreed to start treatment, assuming this was yet another treatment that wouldn’t work for him. The result? After five treatments, he was ulti-mately better. He was able to go back to school and go on to university. He told me how thank-ful he was for the treatment and have his brain back. This is the same child that didn’t even want to be sitting in my office, with a moth-er who said they couldn’t afford it. The results were clear. I had finally found a technique that didn’t involve continuous treatment. And not only that, but this technique had changed that young man’s life, along with his mother’s life, his father’s life, and the rest of his family. Six months later, his little brother fell off a skateboard and came to see me. He was the first teenage concussion case to happily come to me because he had seen the success of his older brother. I applied the same techniques and saw the same results. This was the answer I had been looking for. same injuries within the bones of the skull. As he began to apply these techniques, he noticed that those with chronic concussion symptoms were improving in a few visits, in ways they hadn’t for months or years. Dr. Norman Doidge, MD, who is on faculty at Columbia University and the University of To-ronto, is a world-renowned expert in the field of brain injury and neuroplasticity. After hear-r ing about Matrix Repatterning, he conducted an in-depth investigation, which included many long hours of discussions with Dr. Roth, clinical observations of treatments, patient interviews with numerous concussion and post-concus-sion patients whose lives had been transformed by this form of therapy, as well as participating in the training program himself. In his recent best-selling book, The Brain’s Way of Healing , he comments: “I view it as prudent to have a Matrix assessment after a blow to the head…observ-ing such cases has led me to hope that one day, Matrix Repatterning will be routinely applied in hospital emergency departments 6 .” The basic premise of Matrix Repatterning appears to fill the gap between physical in-jury and neurological symptoms, which may explain what happens three-dimensionally to the bones of the skull and resulting mechan-ical stress on the deeper tissues of the brain. Research at the University of Pennsylvania supports this theory, by confirming that neu-rons exposed to repetitive trauma-like forces become brittle at the cellular level 7 . In re-cent years, Matrix Repatterning has also been verified to measurably improve neurological function in cases of post-concussion, by Dr. Mark Tommerdahl, a biomedical engineer at the University of North Carolina 8 . (and many other conditions) from Minnesota and surrounding states, as well as from Alaska, Seattle, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Canada. As I write this, I just finished a visit with a con-cussion case whose mom drove him eight-and-a-half hours to see me and will have to make that trip a few more times. I apologized that they had to come that far to get the help they needed. I hope I can exceed their expectations and that in the future, we will have more cer-r tified Matrix practitioners that can help all the people that need this type of care. What I learned with Matrix Repatterning was a foundational issue that, up until that point, was not recognized. It tells us why many people are in pain and why most other tech-niques can’t get them ultimately better. By the time many of my patients come to see me, they have tried many different forms of therapy with limited success. I can now take them to a level of recovery that nobody else could before. The kinds of results I’ve seen might appear surprising to most people, but I’ve now come to expect them. In the end, this isn’t about me or what a great practitioner I am. It’s about the beauty of what this work is. ªƵǏƵȲƵȁƧƵȺب 1. Functional Soft Tissue Examination and Treatment by Manual Meth-ods, WI Hammer, Jones & Barlett Learning, Boston, 2007. Roth GB. The Matrix Repatterning Program for Pain Relief: Self-treat-ment for Musculoskeletal Pain. Oakland, CA, New Harbinger, 2005. Ingber DE, The Architecture of Life, ²ƧǞƵȁɈǞ˛ƧǿƵȲǞƧƊȁةßȌǶخׁةׁخ The Importance of Soft Tissues for Structural Support of the Body, SM Levin, In Positional Release Therapy: Assessment & Treatment of Musculoskeletal Dysfunction, K D’Ambrogio & GB Roth, Mosby-El-ȺƵɨǞƵȲة²ɈخmȌɐǞȺةׇׁخ Fantner GE, Hassenkam T, Kindt JH, Weaver JC, Birkedal H, Pech-enik L, Cutroni JA, Cidade GA, Stucky GD, Morse DE, Hansma §jة²ƊƧȲǞ˛ƧǞƊǶƦȌȁƮȺƊȁƮǘǞƮ -den length dissipate energy as ǿǞȁƵȲƊǶǞɹƵƮ˛ƦȲǞǶȺȺƵȯƊȲƊɈƵƮɐȲǞȁǐ bone fracture, Nat Mater. 2005 ɐǐسׄـفب׆ׁׂٌ׆خ0ȯɐƦׂ׀׀ׅhɐǶׇׁخ Doidge, N., The Brain’s Way of Healing, Penguin Books, New York, ׂ׀ׁ׆خ Zimmer C, What happens to linebacker’s neurons? In: Discover Magazine, July-August 2010. Tommerdahl, M, Dennis, RG, et al., Neurosensory Assessment of Con-ƧɐȺȺǞȌȁةwǞǶwƵƮخׂ׀ׁ׆wƊɯسׁׁـׅ ²ɐȯȯǶفبٌׅׅׄ׀ 2. 3. 4. ²ƧǞƵȁɈǞ˛ƧàƊɯȌǏ ÀȲƵƊɈǞȁǐ!ȌȁƧɐȺȺǞȌȁ Matrix Repatterning is a new paradigm devel-oped over the past 30 years by Dr. Roth, based on the pioneering cellular and orthopedic research of Donald Ingber, PhD 3 and Steven Levin, MD 4 , which describes the universal, underlying structure of every organism at the cellular and molecular levels. Dr. Roth realized that if this is how the body is truly designed, it must also provide clues as to how the body is injured and how to “fix” it. The assessment and treatment system he developed, based on these principles, recognizes that the force of an injury (impact or strain) creates an expansion and rigidity within the cellular architecture of the densest tissues of the body, primarily the bones of the skeleton and the fascia around dense fluid-filled organs. Bone research from the University of California has re-cently confirmed his findings 5 . Matrix Repatterning was not initially devel-oped as a concussion therapy, but as a method to help people recover from chronic pain and inju-ries. As the work continued to advance, Dr. Roth developed more effective ways to address these ÀǘƵ0ɨȌǶɐɈǞȌȁȌǏ wɯ§ȲƊƧɈǞƧƵ Through word-of-mouth alone, my practice has evolved to the point where over fifty per-r cent of my work now involves the treatment of patients with concussion symptoms. Most of these patients had chronic symptom patterns for months or years and have tried many other types of therapy. In my practice, I’ve seen a sig-nificant reduction in all aspects of neurological dysfunction in the majority of difficult chronic and acute concussion cases within five to ten visits for most situations. It is an absolute joy to watch my patients come in to see me near the end of their treat-ment plan, with a smile on their face, talking about their life in a way they couldn’t imagine a few weeks or months previously. Watching them move forward and experience real qual-ity-of-life once again in such a short time is ex-ceptionally rewarding. As a DC in Minneapolis, I have been able to help people with chronic concussion symptoms 5. ׆خ 7. خ IȌȲǿȌȲƵǞȁǏȌȲǿƊɈǞȌȁب ǿƊɈȲǞɮǏȌȲȯȲƊƧɈǞɈǞȌȁƵȲȺخƧȌǿ
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