The Ker Acupressure Injury Release Technique – Applications
Injuries By Body Part
| Head | Headaches/ Migraine | Face | Eye | Hearing | Neck and Throat |
| Chest | Back | Arm | Hand | Abdomen | Groin/ Pelvic Floor |
| Leg | Foot | Soft Tissue Organs | Skin | Surgical Trauma | End of Life Care |
General Topics
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Introduction
The KAIR technique can be used to address a wide variety of impact trauma soft tissue injuries. The injury releases described on this page are varied, but they all apply the same principle of sustaining gentle warm compression to the kinetic energy trapped in soft cell tissue. This action causes the transmutation of the trapped kinetic energy from movement energy into heat energy, thereby releasing the injury and returning its former host cell tissue back to its original position, location and functionality.
There is no sequence of designated hand movements for any injury release. Your injuries are specific to you, and, once engaged by the preparatory stages of learning the practice of this technique, your subconscious brain will guide you through their releases appropriately.
The majority of soft tissue impact trauma injury releases only require the application of the basic KAIR technique. Simple hand warming and appropriate and sustained physical compression of the soft tissue hosting the trapped kinetic energy should be enough to trigger the energy’s transmutation into heat. It can then release its soft tissue compression and distortion and leave the injury site permanently.
More complex or inaccessible soft tissue injuries also use the same basic technique, but they will require a little ingenuity in respect of their hand positions and movements, and the appropriate application of hand warmth and pressure. My detailed notes on my hand positions and movements during an ocular migraine release give an example of a complex series of hand movements which can be applied during the progressive release of an injury.
The release of major layers of muscle tissue follows the preliminary release of injuries in individual muscles above and below those muscle layers, and they are as spectacular as individual thigh muscle releases. For example, the release and correct replacement of the trapezius muscle, which is the one approximately covering the back, feels sensational as it lifts spontaneously and repositions itself correctly.
Your subconscious brain will not particularly appreciate loud distractions during your injury release process, as it is very busy working with your conscious brain to constantly re-evaluate and coordinate these releases. Given how many dynamic internal calculations are taking place in real time to work out what part of you is where and doing what in order to determine the current optimal release strategy for your injury, a background of heavy metal or rock music will definitely not help the process. Please treat your limbic system with respect while using this technique – it definitely deserves it, and it would certainly value it.
In final preparation, an emotional hurdle which we need not to jump but to saw in half and consign to the bonfire of history is the notion that you are not permitted to touch certain parts of your body – specifically, your genitals – without experiencing feelings of guilt and shame. The concept that we are not allowed to touch our genitals, but can and must allow complete strangers to touch and otherwise interfere with these body parts so long as they can convince us that they have the authority to do so, is risible. There is absolutely no part of your body which you are not permitted to touch, and indeed have to in order to release the impact injuries hidden there. The young man who accidentally takes the impact of a football in his groin during training practice and who, ten years later, is struggling with issues of erectile disfunction resulting from an impeded arterial blood supply to his genital region, is one example which comes to mind. The release of vaginal impact trauma for a woman who has been violently raped is another. This is the most hands-on injury release technique we have – and that means hands on everywhere there is a soft tissue impact injury.
Direct And Indirect Soft Tissue Trauma Releases
Direct soft tissue trauma releases are those which apply direct hand warmth and compression to a soft tissue injury lying directly underneath them. These injuries do not have an intervening layer of skeletal bone.
Indirect soft tissue trauma releases include brain tissue and organs, lung tissue, the spinal cord, the heart muscle and the eye. Impact trauma in the eye has to be released indirectly, despite having no protective covering of bone, because its host soft tissue is obviously intolerant to direct physical contact.
These injuries are released by indirectly warming and compressing the traumatised soft tissue through its protective bone covering, and can also use directional tensioning of the covering skin to support these releases. They take longer to achieve than direct tissue trauma injury releases because the transmitted hand warmth and indirect compression has a more complex route through the viscus to reach its intended target.
There is another interpretation to indirect tissue trauma release. If, for example, an abdominal muscle is distorted by injury, its distortion could pull directly on its adjacent muscles and also on any adjacent soft tissue organ such as the liver, pancreas or spleen. The release of the abdominal muscle injury could therefore cascade into an indirect liver distention release as part of its ripple effect, thereby ending its interference with the liver’s metabolism.
Directional tensioning describes the optional additional use of the hands to tension the surface of the skin over the soft tissue injury in any appropriate direction away from the injury site. This action will deliver a separation ‘pull’ on the underlying injury, and is performed gently to encourage the injury release and also to facilitate the breakage of any lesions in the injured soft tissue which may glueing the fibrous strands of muscle tissue together, thereby preventing or impeding the injury’s release.
Head Injuries
It will help to work in quietness while you are working through head injury releases, as you may be guided as to when compressed brain tissue releases have occurred by the tiniest of clicks, pops, squeaks, rumbles and any other sound effects your brain can devise to indicate its completed release of transmuted kinetic energy as heat. These sounds indicate the movement and pressure equalisation of fluids and gases within brain tissue and within the brain’s surrounding cerebrospinal fluid, as the brain settles and moves infinitesimally slightly following its injury release.
Scalp muscle releases
These are beautifully easy releases. They are achieved by resting both warm hands in the position of your choice on top of your head and waiting until the soft tissue under your hands relaxes.
Brain tissue injuries can be caused by a whiplash movement or any form of violent external contact with the head. They can also result from the inappropriate compression of newborn brain tissue through incompletely meshed skull bones.
These issues have a variety of neuromusculoskeletal symptoms, some of which may be repeated migraines, deep head pain and an overwhelming and persistent urge to sleep. Behavioural issues may also be associated with this condition, possibly because kinetic energy trapped in brain tissue after a major impact trauma might injure neural pathways so profoundly that it could inhibit the expression of socially acceptable behavioural patterns.
The objective of brain tissue injury releases, particularly using the temporal regions at the sides of the head, is to introduce subtle and gentle warmth into their injured soft brain tissue through the scalp muscles and the skull bones, in order to trigger a reverse release of transmuted kinetic energy along the same pathway as an outward heat release in response. This process can release both the internal cell tissue injuries which nerves can sustain, and the nerves’ external compression by their surrounding soft brain tissue. Both types of injury are delicate and very sensitive, which is why some of these injuries are able to release by coming into contact with only indirect hand warmth.
These indirect injury releases require extra time and patience because they have to take effect through a layer of bone as well as through internal soft tissue, so they need to be done very slowly to allow for the deep penetration of hand heat through these obstacles.
When the injury release happens it can feel as though it is taking place in slow motion. Injuries may also release with a fluttering sensation in the head, possibly accompanied by a moment of mental confusion or disorientation. This outcome could indicate the release of soft tissue impact trauma from the connective tissue of an intracranial membrane rather than from soft cell brain tissue.
You may feel a little dizzy or light-headed after a release has taken place, but just take time to sit quietly and let your brain tissue settle. On no account do anything more complicated than nothing for at least an hour or so after even only attempting brain tissue injury releases, as they may interfere with your normal cognitive processes and their favourite words are peace and quiet.
You may also experience a delayed response with these injury releases, as their internal reconfiguration may be more complex than a simple muscle soft tissue injury release. You are also working directly over your conscious and your subconscious minds’ home base, and this may affect the time taken for the release since your subconscious partner’s room temperature is increasing and it may need to slow down the speed of its calculations in order to keep its cool.
Brain tissue injuries can release spontaneously. These releases are barely noticeable and may be sensed as a tiny ‘wriggling’ movement in the head. I only sensed this release once, in the top of my brain under the crown of the skull, and it happened after I had been releasing deep emotions of humiliation during my hippocampus reset process. This release resulted in the completion of the emotional discharge and the best night’s sleep I have had in years.
With extensive practice you can modify your hand position and actions anywhere over your skull bones, in order to release either superficial scalp muscle tension or underlying brain tissue trauma (see above). Please remember, however, that the usual caveat applies vitally with brain tissue releases – never go out of your comfort zone, and if you have the slightest doubt about what you are doing, please release your hand positions immediately, relax and concentrate on your breathing. Your hand positions and movements are being monitored subconsciously at all times, and if your intuition suggests that something is about to go wrong, or just may not be a good idea at this time, please respect its judgement.
Brain tissue injury releases are generally achieved with indirect warmth and very gentle compression on a combination of any or all of the scalp muscles, the temporal regions at the sides of the head, the two rear base points of the skull at its lowest edges behind the lower ear attachment points and the whole of the back of the neck. These are probably the most subtle and sophisticated injury releases of all, so they must be treated with absolute respect. Be prepared to remove your hands gently but immediately from the your head if you feel even just slightly uncomfortable during any head injury release.
The temporal regions act as heat exchange panels, and they are very sensitive and delicate. The release position at the temporal regions only involves flat warm hands. The hand placement is to rest the base of both hands along the top of the cheekbones so that the hollows of their palms rest over the temporal regions at the sides of the head, with the thumbs resting on the junction of the top of the ears with the skull. The spread fingertips should be able to meet over the crown of the head. From this position you may feel noticeable heat exuding from the injury through the skin’s surface already. All the remaining trapped kinetic energy needs to trigger its full transmutation is only the indirect heat from the hollow palm of your hand as it penetrates the soft tissue. It does not need direct hand contact, as it is already poised to release and needs only the slightest encouragement to do so.
Hold this position until you feel the internal decompression of the injured soft tissue under your hands as the injury releases and the soft tissue relaxes. This feels like a tiny internal compressed sponge releasing outwards as it escapes its constriction. The injury heat release starts as a sensation of unusual warmth in your head, and develops as a halo of heat moving slowly outwards through the temporal regions and possibly through the whole surface area of your scalp as well, focussed more towards the back of the head. Move your hands away from the sides of your head to allow the heat released from this tissue to escape.
You will feel slightly odd as this release develops, but just breathe through it and once it has completed a drink of water will help to settle the process. With this movement you are planting an acorn to receive back an oak tree almost by return, so please treat it with the respect it deserves.
Another hand placement is to clasp your interlaced flat fingers across the back half of the top of your head, with your palms warming the rear sides of the head. The sides of the thumbs rest on the back of the head, pointing towards each other and the curved dip at the base of the skull. This position builds a touch-latch compression release using the base edges of the palms and the sides of the thumbs to direct minimal to gentle pressure against the skull bones. The fingertips anchor the other end of the compression release on the top of the skull. Both hands try to close together in an infinitesimally minute ‘clutching’ movement which encloses the whole rear upper quadrant of the brain. This movement targets both superficial scalp muscle tension and also any underlying brain tissue trauma, and should trigger a gentle outward decompression of both layers of soft tissue.
To rebalance the rear conjunction of the skull and the neck, rest the palms of both flat hands horizontally on the back of the head so that the sides of the thumbs rest comfortably pointing downwards in the channels behind the ears, and the fingertips of both hands either meet or interlace across the back of the head. This is more or less the normal seated relaxation position when you rest your head backwards into your cupped hands. The palms of the hands support and gently warm the skull with minute inward and upward compression of the scalp muscles throughout the release.
Move the thumbs downwards behind the ears and find the base points of the skull bone with the inside of each thumb tip. Very gently warm and compress the muscles over the skull base points, encouraging them minutely towards the middle of the neck with the side of your thumbs. This is a touch-latch compression release, and you should feel the soft tissue under the base points of the skull release outwards under the sides of your thumbs. You may also feel the scalp muscles relax directly underneath your hands. Because you are working over a protective layer of bone at this point, you may increase your hand pressure if you need to do so, but only by just enough to achieve the compression release.
You can develop these hand positions by moving your spread fingers upwards and placing your index fingertips in the slight curved dip at the rear central base of the skull. Pivot the thumb tips upwards so that the thumbs form an inverted ‘C’ shape and press the sides of the thumbs gently towards your index fingers to warm and compress the scalp muscles over the bone between them in a ‘pinching’ movement. This is another touch-latch compression release, which again may require a little more than minimal hand pressure to achieve the release. You are compressing muscle tissue over a protective bone layer again, but still only increase your hand pressure, if you need to, to achieve the point of compression release and then immediately reduce it as the muscle tissue relaxes and expands outwards.
Specific nerve pain indications, for example at or along the junction of two skull bones, can be addressed by using the edge of your fingernails to make subtle direct contact with the line of pain. Warm the bone joint with the flat tips of your fingers using skin contact pressure only, until the scalp muscle tissue over the bone junction softens and flattens under your fingertips, thereby relieving the compression pain of the underlying soft tissue nerve injury. The same technique can be used for nerve pain release in superficial soft tissue anywhere on the skull, particularly upwards from the ear line to the top of the head.
Brain tissue injuries in the frontal lobe can arise internally from whiplash injuries or from external impact trauma to the forehead. They can be released indirectly through the forehead bone, using the standard release technique of applying warm, gentle and sustained hand pressure. A flat hand is pressed gently against the whole forehead, with its lower edge resting on the edge of the browbone through the eyebrows. Impact trauma in the superficial soft tissue muscles on the forehead releases first, and then the underlying brain tissue injuries release their trapped kinetic energy as heat with an outward movement. The internal release sensation may be felt across the whole width of the forehead and it is the same as for the temporal region releases, which is that of a previously compressed sponge expanding as it relaxes.
Other aspects of brain tissue injury releases
There may be a possible role for the release of brain tissue trauma in connection with the prevention of stroke. Distorted and compressed soft brain tissue can not only compress the nerve filaments which pass through it. It can also distort its internal transport pathways of capillary blood flow, thereby either constricting or completely obstructing arterial blood flow. The kinetic energy of impact trauma can also be retained in capillary walls themselves, since these walls are also made of soft tissue. A blood clot causes a stroke by lodging against the walls of an artery, thereby blocking and consequently cutting off the supply of both tissue nutrients and oxygen to the brain tissue it supplies. If the blood clot is congealed enough, or if the capillary it is trying to pass through is constricted or distorted enough, all movement of blood in that capillary and its supplying blood vessels will come to a halt. The chances of avoiding a stroke would at least be improved if the contributory arterial soft cell tissue compression and distortion weren’t there.
Impact trauma stored in the soft tissue of the auditory cortex could possibly cause the neural malfunction of hearing voices internally, as a consequence of its soft tissue distortion and compression of either the neural pathways themselves or of their surrounding soft cell tissue.
Please note – You may experience the following temporary phenomenon during the release of a profound brain tissue injury. If you open your eyes during an injury release, you may find that you are involuntarily and firmly encouraged to relax your eyelids, shut them again and keep them comfortably that way until further along the release. When you open your eyes again after a period of waiting, concentrating on your breathing and relaxing and your relaxed eyelids aren’t closed for you again, then you know that the complex stage of this injury release has been completed. It feels very odd when this happens for the first time, as if you were under the control of an alien being, but it is only the subconscious brain’s way of minimising external distraction from its complex injury release by temporarily quietening your visual stimulus to rest the visual management section of your cortex. This only happened to me once, in the early stages of learning how to release brain tissue injuries, but it can happen spontaneously as a fascinating and passing event during the course of the injury release.
Brain soft tissue organ injury releases
The hippocampus release event is described on the Hippocampus Release Event and Reset Process Technique page.
Pineal gland trauma can be released by resting on a bed with your left hand placed flat on your forehead, with the middle of the base of its palm gently warming and compressing the edge of the browbone between your eyebrows and the tips of your fingers slightly compressing the middle of the band of muscle tissue at the hairline and the front scalp muscles. This hand placement positions the hollow of the palm over the pineal gland and indirectly releases any tissue compression in it. This release only uses the heat from the palm of your hand, and does not require direct skin contact.
Following on from the pineal gland release, other limbic core impact trauma can be addressed by additionally placing the palm of your flat right hand facing forwards across the middle line of the top of the skull, so that the base of its palm connects with the back of the skull and its hollow is directly over the central crown of the skull. Overlap its fingers with the left hand fingers underneath, so that both sets of fingers meet at the right-angle junction of the forehead bone and the scalp. The right hand placement warms and compresses the scalp muscles and also sends heat downwards directly into your brain’s limbic core, so that it can meet up at right angles with the heat being directed into the same region of your brain by your left hand’s placement. You may feel minor movement in your brain’s central core if it needs to respond to the warmth by releasing any resident soft tissue trauma, but if there is no limbic brain organ response to this hand placement, just enjoy the rest. It’s not every day your brain tissue gets a soothing and calming spa heat treatment.
Other soft tissue brain organ injury releases remain to be identified individually, but they should all be indirect soft tissue injury releases. As such, they could be achieved by using the general technique described above for brain tissue injuries.
Headaches and Migraine (including ocular migraine)
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Eye Injuries
Soft tissue trauma in the thin layer of muscle tissue covering the eye socket bones around the eyes can be relieved by placing the sides of the thumbs, pointing downwards, against the inner eye sockets beside the bridge of the nose. Gently warm and compress the soft tissue at the edge of the bone along the line of the eye socket. The release is performed by moving the thumb tips upwards towards the middle of the eyebrows and away from the eyes at all times. You can release small lumps of soft tissue with very gentle compression against the bone of the socket. As your hands move upwards you can substitute your fingertip touchpads in order to apply firmer pressure to the line of muscle tissue across the top of the eye socket, still pressing lightly on and above the edge of the bone socket. The fun element of this part of the release is that it can be supported by consciously raising the eyebrows to increase the tension being applied to the soft tissue release as the fingertips move upwards and outwards along the top of the eye sockets.
Focal length adjustment can take place spontaneously as you release soft tissue injuries around the eye sockets. The release of accidental soft tissue damage in the muscles controlling the convexity of the eye’s lens can result indirectly from your external impact injury releases. The adjustment is unnoticeable and instantaneous, and if it has happened you will discover it the next time you read something. The vision literally ‘jumps’ in one eye momentarily, but by the time you have noticed the event you’ve already read the next word effortlessly with your new focal length.
Physical impact trauma to the eyeball can only be an indirect tissue trauma release and there is absolutely no compression at all with this release. Use the sides of your index fingertips to make gentle warm skin contact with the outer sides of the eyeballs through closed eyelids. The sides of the index fingers rest diagonally downwards and outwards across the bone of the outer eye sockets over the “crows’ feet” area of soft skin at the corners of the eyes. Any kinetic energy impact trauma in an eyeball will travel through the closed eyelids and along the sides of the fingers as a release pulse. If this release happens, it should be a minor event and should usually only happen once.
If the position of an eyeball has been knocked substantially out of alignment, for example by taking a major impact injury to the eye socket or brow bone, an eye specialist should be able to help you with its physical repositioning.
The soft tissue of the optic nerve pathway can be used by the subconscious brain to achieve a quick release of heat from brain tissue following a kinetic energy release, so a cold eye compress in the fridge is always a useful standby to soothe the eyes if this heat release takes place. Cool the eyes gently by applying cool fingertips to the closed eyelids followed by splashing the face with cool water first before applying the cold compress, to reduce the heat gradually.
Vision injuries
Invariantly dilated eye pupils can result from head trauma and should revert to normal dilation when the head injury’s soft tissue distortion and compression has been released. These soft tissue injuries sustain an inappropriately active fear cycle response until they have been resolved. The visual condition arises because the autonomic fear response dilates the eye pupils to allow more light to enter the eye so that an approaching vital threat can be seen in clearer detail.
The anxiety-related symptoms of this injury can include panic attacks, particularly under fluorescent lighting. The brain is disturbed by excessively bright and artificially pulsating light, but cannot reduce the amount of light entering it through the eyes because the pupils are unresponsive to different light intensities. Other symptoms can include hyperventilation and mild but suppressed constant nervous discomfort and anxiety.
The difficulty with identifying this injury yourself is that when you look in the mirror, your pupil dilation looks normal to you and there are no apparent issues with your vision, other than possibly extremely accurate peripheral vision. You can check the responsiveness of your pupils to different intensities of light yourself by shining torchlight into and away from your eyes, or by looking at bright daylight and then at darkness immediately afterwards, whilst looking into a mirror. If your pupils’ dilation is constant, so that your eyes invariably look black, you may have this head injury.
A method of resolving this vision injury is described in the Hippocampus Release Event and Reset Process Technique section of the website.
Macular degeneration could stabilise when invariantly dilated eye pupils return to their normal dilation, if the condition is relevant.
Hearing Injuries
Misophonia is a condition where a physical injury to the hearing mechanism triggers an extreme emotional response. Tinnitus is a hearing malfunction which causes a permanently audible and invasive high-pitched whine. This background sound effect can distort the pitch of a child’s voice to such an extent that the physiology of this injury triggers an emotional response of violent and almost uncontrollable rage. The emotion becomes manageable once you understand the condition and learn to ignore the extreme emotional consequence of your hearing injury, but its unavoidable trigger is the sound energy of a child’s shouting, yelling or screaming at such an incisive pitch that the auditory cortex cannot cope with the sound energy overload and triggers an extremely negative emotional response as a safety valve.
Consequently, parents and guardians need to understand that the loud and piercing sound of their child’s voice, whilst enchanting to them, can be the trigger for a violent or angry response from anyone in the vicinity who is having their brain sliced in half by the noise the child is making.
This issue is partly about having concern for the sensibilities and welfare of others in a shared public space. It’s also perhaps the reason for the Victorian adage that children should be seen and not heard – at least until their vocal chords develop from cheesegraters to instruments of mellifluous harmony. The emotion of immediate and almost uncontrollable rage which this condition triggers could also be one of the most frequent adult triggers for violent physical child abuse. The flood of anger and rage is so intense that the quickest way to relieve it would be to attack the innocent source of the noise which is triggering your almost unbearable emotional response.
Since at the moment there is no mitigating treatment for tinnitus, the prevention of the situation which triggers misophonia is its only cure. There is no cost in explaining this condition to your children as the reason for asking them to not cause noise nuisance in a public community environment. They may be fed to the crocodiles if they ignore you.
The whole ear mechanism can be knocked out of position if an impact blow to the head is violent enough. This injury is release by gently closing the teeth, cupping the jaw on the injured side with the side and palm of the hand and applying controlled upwards with the tip of the thumb into the junction of the lower attachment of the ear to the skull and the jawbone. The thumb tip pressure is aimed at the middle ear. This movement can also release associated soft tissue trauma towards the temple and the side of the eye.
The Eustachian tube is the vessel of discharge from the middle ear to the throat, and can be displaced by an injury to the whole ear mechanism. Its compression and distortion can be released following the correction of the position of the whole ear mechanism. The tip of the thumb of the cupping and releasing hand directs pressure into the tight muscles underneath and towards the middle ear, which relax and trigger the downwards release of the tube. This movement must be exceptionally controlled and gentle, as it affects the area of soft tissue near the cochleal nerve, which transmits nerve impulses of sound information to the brain. The side of the thumb can be used to complete the release of associated soft tissue trauma on the inside of the jawbone.
Tympanic membrane injury releases sound like a loud and annoying constant fluttering sound resembling a washing machine running on full spin at the dead of night. The sound increases in volume until the trauma injury in the soft tissue membrane resolves by releasing its trapped kinetic energy spontaneously. This release may also possibly relieve suppressed subconscious shock – you may have no visual memory of a car accident, but your ears heard and recorded its every sound.
Kinetic energy could become trapped in the tympanic membrane as the result of its receiving an energetic sound shock wave from a violent explosion or excessively loud and violent close sound. The kinetic energy wave which arrives at the tympanic membrane violently enough to cause this injury will be travelling fast enough to continue on through the whole structure of the ear, following the cochleal nerve pathway to come to rest in cortical brain tissue. This could be a cause of one aspect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, where someone trying to sleep spends their nights involuntarily traumatised by the past sound of military warfare or other audible trauma, possibly because of a kinetic energy impact injury to their auditory cortex.
The ear canal can be used to help the release of kinetic energy leaving a head injury as heat. The technique is to lay the little finger inside the opening of the canal and apply gentle contact to any of the canal’s surface area. Minute tensioning can also be applied to the cartilage at the entrance to the ear canal to support the trauma release, but this is a delicate process and must be treated with gentle respect.
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Skin Injuries
Skin blemishes such as moles, skin tags and inappropriate hair growth can indicate underlying soft tissue injury. Skin conditions such as lifetime acne can also indicate permanent subcutaneous soft tissue damage. The approximate recovery period for full epidermal regeneration after injury is approximately six months from the release of its soft tissue injuries, and residual scarring from this condition improves noticeably after its recuperation. The release of these injuries uses gentle to moderate warm hand pressure, depending on the location of the underlying facial muscle trauma.
I have no personal experience of burn injuries, but it should be the case that the release of any soft tissue trauma sustained as part of the causal accident could only support the regeneration of the injured soft nerve, muscle and associated epidermal cell tissues. It should certainly be the case that the technique would support the release of any impact trauma caused by subsequent surgery, including the attachment of skin grafts to the surviving soft tissue. These injuries may only need to sense the sustained warmth of your hands to begin with, since they will be acutely sensitive and alert to re-injury. Once they have accepted intervention, they would be resolved using the lightest fingertip contact only to begin with, followed by minimal hand pressure until the superficial nerve and soft tissue damage has resolved and settled. Only at this point could any underlying soft tissue trauma now be addressed as in the normal way for facial injuries.
Surgical Trauma
These impact trauma injuries necessarily arise as any cell tissue is cut, operated upon and repaired. They are released in the same way as other soft tissue trauma, using gentle to firm persistent hand pressure and warmth to address the underlying compressed or injured nerve trauma. These are multi-layer injury releases and will take time and patience to resolve. The wound’s soft tissue compression will gradually release as each injured nerve and overlaying layer of muscle releases their individual tissue cell distortions.
The proviso with these releases, as before, is that all superficial wounds must heal completely before their impact trauma can be released. The use of firm hand pressure on a surgical wound may be enough to reopen it if the underlying cell tissue has not has enough time to heal completely. Please be patient with these injuries and wait for their full normal healing process to complete before you start releasing their trapped kinetic energy trauma – including that which probably originally caused the need for surgery.
End of Life Care
This suggestion would take full clinical research to validate its technical feasibility, but the KAIR technique’s self-healing brain tissue injury releases could possibly be subtly modified and adapted for use by caring family relatives or significant partners to attempt to work with a loved one in coma. If the brain injury release techniques could connect with and trigger a response from a willing and receptive but comatose subconscious mind, there could be hope not only that brain tissue trauma could be released indirectly but also that consciousness could be regained.
A further benefit of satisfactory clinical evaluation of this suggestion is that the technique could possibly be used to remove the traumatic emotional element of a decision to turn off a life support machine.
Arthritis
Impact trauma can imperceptibly dislocate any joint in the body. This injury is insidiously subtle, and can only be detected when it is released. It can be a consequence of a violent impact either to the soft tissue surface directly above the joint, or to the muscles attaching to the joint. A heavy fall on the side of a leg, for example, can impart enough kinetic energy from the impact to the soft tissue of its muscles that they can, over time, start to malfunction by losing the original direction of their contractions. The affected joint appears to continue to work properly after the impact, but over time gradual immobility of the joint sets in as its fractional dislocation is reinforced with every movement of the malfunctioning and misdirected muscles attaching to it. The joint can be slowly pulled further out of alignment, resulting in the forced repositioning of its inner surfaces. This develops to the point where the joint eventually becomes inoperable because its inner surfaces are now making direct contact.
This could be the causal chain of events leading to the arthritic inflammation of the cartilage lining the joint’s interior surfaces. The interaction of these surfaces, originally separated by a lubricating layer of synovial fluid, causes wear and ultimately complete erosion of the cartilaginous protection of the bone surface. This gives rise to the searing pain of bone-on-bone contact experienced by sufferers of arthritis. The easiest and most effective solution to the problem could be the physical realignment of the affected joint to its original position. This would eliminate the direct bone contact immediately and also give the damaged protective layers of cartilage time to heal and resurface the joint’s interior bone surfaces, thereby preventing the need for either anti-inflammatory drug treatment or orthopaedic surgery.
The cumulative effect of these infinitesimally small injuries over a period of decades is usually ignored by describing it as ‘wear and tear’ or as simply ‘old age’, when the consequences of theses injuries may be preventable at source, at any stage of the injury’s development. The application of the KAIR technique to the malfunctioning muscles which attach to the painful joint has certainly, in my case, prevented the need for a second surgical hip replacement.
The culprit muscles are identified as those which actually really hurt when you lightly press the skin on the affected limb, rather than concentrating on and being distracted by the bone contact pain coming from the joint itself. Since orthopaedic surgeons only cut through and repair muscle tissue in trauma, the soft tissue compression and distortion of these muscles will not be resolved by surgery.
Consequently, these malfunctioning muscles will start to impact on the replacement joint instead, as soon as the surgical cuts through the muscles’ soft tissue have healed.
The tissue trauma release approach also addresses the situation where orthopaedic surgical procedures are withheld from some patients on the grounds that they are too overweight to be able to tolerate surgery. The approach would break the cycle of being unable to exercise to lose weight to qualify for surgery because of the excruciating pain and immobility of this musculoskeletal condition.
Baby Stuff
The proportional traumatic impact of any inappropriate physical contact depends on the size and vulnerability of the victim.
For the baby
A constantly crying baby may be an injured baby, possibly trying to draw attention to the existence of neuromusculoskeletal injuries. These could have been caused by clumsy handling of delicate and incompletely formed skull bones and delicate soft tissue during the birthing process. Its injuries could include facial or skull injuries, including jaw dislocation, or compression trauma to its brain tissue. Unfortunately, at the moment the KAIR technique may not be appropriate for use on a newborn, not least because it is unable to articulate where the pain is, neither can it use the technique for itself. Another contraindication to use is the baby’s incomplete physical and mental development, so at present I would recommend that the prevention of injury is a safer route than a cure. However, since it is already accepted practice to gently massage newborn infants, paediatric specialists would be welcome to advise on the possibility of the safe development of the technique for parental use to address their baby’s possible natal trauma.
Brain tissue compression injuries to newborns could result from the use of forceps to compress the baby’s unformed skull bones and cause compression trauma to the underlying soft brain tissue as the baby is dragged out of the cervical canal by its head. Hydrocephalus, sometimes described as congenital (inherited or hereditary) because the condition is apparent from birth, could be caused by the inappropriate torsion of the delicate membranes (meninges) which protect the baby’s brain and spinal cord. The two inner meninges contain cerebrospinal fluid, so any compression of the baby’s head using forceps during the birthing process could rupture the meninges and result in the uncontrollable seepage into its brain tissue of cerebrospinal fluid.
Cerebral palsy could also possibly result from brain soft tissue compression trauma caused by the use of forceps on the baby’s head during the birthing process. ADHD and paranoid schizophrenia are examples of other brain tissue malfunctions which could possibly develop from the same cause, as neural pathways in crushed newborn brain tissue would not even have a chance to develop, let alone function normally. Even the slightest inappropriate compression of this most delicate soft brain tissue could result in a lifetime impact injury, and that is a life destroyed before it even got a chance to start.
For the mother
A contribution to the ease of the birthing process would be the frequent pre-natal use of the pelvic floor release, which is described in the pelvic floor injury section. If the baby’s head can penetrate a malleable rather than a rigid pelvic floor, minimal effort in labour should become more of a possibility for all mothers.
Additionally, the constant compression and distortion of soft tissue in the abdomen which results from the later stages of pregnancy could possibly impact on the operation of the abdominal soft tissue organs, particularly the digestive tract and the bladder. These issues are addressed in the section on abdominal injuries, and could be resolved post-natally.
A further refinement to current midwifery practice could be to emulate the practice of other cultures who use specially designed birthing chairs. These chairs resemble commodes, and their advantage is to support the mother in a seated position as she works with the force of gravity to assist her birthing process. The mother delivers her child in a position which maximises her cervical aperture width, whilst also protecting her modesty and dignity. This birthing position also precludes the need for the use of forceps during the delivery process.
Pre-natal uterine scans
I am unaware that we have yet researched the traumatic impact on twelve- and twenty week-old foetuses of passing the kinetic energy of ultrasound waves through their developing soft tissue during pre-natal uterine scans. Since a quarter of all births in the UK are now the result of emergency Caesarean section, it is possible that the kinetic energy trapped in the foetus’ soft tissue during the ultrasound scan procedure may impair its physical development to the point where it is unable to withstand the physical demands of a natural birthing process, or possibly to be able to sustain life thereafter. These scans are offered optionally, so any prospective parents may decline them if they are concerned about their impact on their unborn child.
Of similar concern is a recent research development concerning the use of ultrasound caps on already brain-injured newborns to monitor the development of their brains.
As we now live in an evidence-based society, might it not be informative to investigate the statistical correlation between stillbirth, Caesarean delivery, newborn mortality and the use of prenatal uterine scans, to advise on the safety of this procedure? We now use ultrasound to destroy cancerous cell tissue, so the reasonable corollary of this practice is that it can also destroy, or at least significantly damage, healthy cell tissue as well.
Cancer
Soft tissue cells in any part of the body, including in soft tissue organs, can become damaged because the process of cell reproduction which creates them has become flawed. Their mitosis creates two new cell nuclei from the original cell nucleus, but if the reproduction process is inaccurate it will produce mutant cells. These cells are recognised as foreign bodies but their destruction process may malfunction, wrapping them up instead as the nuclei of cancer tumours.
One possible cause of faulty cell mitosis may be that the cell cannot perform this process exactly because it is being physically compressed and distorted by its trapped kinetic energy. The release of this injury using the KAIR technique should return the affected cell to its original position, dimensions and functionality, so that the cell should again be able to correctly metabolise its nutrients, dispose of its waste products and mitose flawlessly.
Consequently, it is possible that this technique may be preventative to the formation of cancerous cell tissue, but this suggestion is only conjecture at this stage and remains to be technically validated.
Parenting
I have always believed that there is no child who will not respond positively to quiet and simple logical explanation and intelligent reason, but, having had to cope on my own with a live-in dementing and utterly contrary aged parent whilst working full-time, I fully understand the exhausted desperation of trying to reason with a confused and obstinate person who is hell-bent on disobedience. The frustration of trying to communicate with a person who may not be fully in the moment, or who may lack the life experience to understand that their actions may hurt, harm or offend others, is an emotion so intense I have, on occasion, wondered why parents voluntarily choose to experience and learn to tolerate it.
Even so, there can now never be any justification for any action which masquerades as negotiation in the form of violent physical contact with a person who refuses to co-operate with your will. Since the KAIR technique has explained that a single contact blow can deliver a lifetime injury, there is nothing ‘reasonable’ about even a moment of violent mental or physical contact as ‘punishment’ for any misdeed by someone whose only mistake may be that they are trying to learn by testing, rather than by analysing, where possibly unexplained behavioural boundaries lie.
The hand that is instructed to open to receive a ‘disciplinary’ blow across its open palm with a ruler at the age of six can, with no other injury, turn into the claw which cannot open a jar lid or a bottle at the age of eighty, simply because of the retained kinetic energy from the impact of just that one blow. The kinetic energy from the blow has been stored in the soft tissue surrounding the central nerve complex in the palm of the hand, which carries the brachial sciatic nerve branches from all of the fingers to the wrist, so every lifetime movement of every finger of that hand, as well as every lifetime movement of the hand itself, has compounded the original injury to cause that outcome.
Similarly, the child who has endured physical discipline in the form of impact trauma to its buttocks will gradually develop profound mobility issues. Gluteal muscles are the largest muscles in the body and are used in all aspects of movement, particularly walking, and they are obviously compressed by sitting. Walking and sitting reinforce and compound the kinetic energy impact trauma injuries stored in the soft tissue of the child’s buttocks after their physical punishment with every step the child takes, and with every time it sits on those injuries, over the entire course of the rest of its lifetime.
These instances are the result of Victorian disciplinary practices, which also unhealthily reflected a control-based paedophilic obsession with the humiliating public exposure of children’s genitalia during physical punishment. These practices have no place in any intelligent and compassionate society, especially since now we know the true and compound lifetime physical consequences of their application.
As we develop our social interactions with our collectively newly-found moderated behavioural approaches of considerate and patient compassion expressed through gentle touch, there should be no future need for the words ‘discipline’ and ‘punishment’. Both words carry sinister and Dickensian overtones of sadistic cruelty, inflicted by someone with barely concealed and unresolved issues of rage, anger, control and frustration. Not one species in the animal kingdom explains its societal rules to its offspring in such a cruel and barbaric way, and once these two words have been replaced invariantly with ‘adult to adult communication’ – no matter how short, mischievous or simply confused one of the adults may be – we should all be in a much better and happier place.
Young children do not naturally suffer from constant anxiety. A child learns fear from either an adult or from a life event. It may express that fear through bladder or other lower abdominal issues, since the fear reflex includes the immediate urge to urinate as one of its expressions.
Whatever the cause of the fear, its continued expression may result from an injured and active neural reflex arc, which might perhaps have resulted from a concealed head injury. This possibility could be addressed by at least attempting the vocal release exercises described on the HREaRP Technique Overview page, to identify whether or not there are any oral injuries in need of release.
A Life Examined
To give you an idea of some of the injuries which can be released using this technique, here are the summary highlights of my lifetime of inadvertent misadventure. At the time of impact, none of them hurt. Nor did they particularly bother me in any respect, other than intermittent backache, occasional tendonitis below my left knee and a persistent and niggling lower back issue from an apparent sacroiliac joint injury. That was the case until I started to develop arthritis in my right hip a year after the kitchen fall, and its surgery started a chain of events which eventually led to my serendipitous attendance at a vocal release course.
These injuries provided the extensive and varied training material necessary for the recent year-long learning experience I have undertaken in analysing how to release their combined soft tissue impact trauma. Given the initial extent and interactive complexity of these injuries, I still have some way to go, but the gradual improvement in my mobility and general well-being has now become noticeable. Friends have recently started to offer uninvited but welcome comment on how well I look.
I haven’t told them the secret of how I have achieved this, and I have no intention of doing so, but I am more than happy to share this information anonymously with you.
Pre School Injuries
My first injury was splitting and losing my left big toenail while playing on a slide, and my second was a profound injury to my right foot when the leg of a kitchen chair was accidentally dropped on it forcefully. The immediate outcome of this incident was a split and lost right big toenail, but the second toe on this foot developed significantly malformed nail growth from my late twenties onwards. I only connected that development with this injury when I started to release its soft tissue injuries, which had actually been extensive enough to affect the whole of the right foot.
My next foray into adventure was being catapulted head first over the handlebars of my bicycle after a stone thrown by a little stranger hit its front wheel. From some of the facial and brain tissue injuries I have released, I must have landed on my left eye socket, browbone, nose and chin simultaneously at full pelt. This accident not only differentiated the size of my eyes and indistinguishably but permanently trapped some of the cartilage from my chin underneath my jawbone, it also gave me a lifetime issue with a restricted breathing ability through my left nostril and constant sinus problems. None of these issues bothered me individually until I came to release the nerve pain underneath my left eyebrow and realised, as their release pathways unfolded, that they were all connected to the same originating injury. After my unconscious rescue I came round on the sofa at home some time later, having just survived my first instance of frontal lobe concussion.
My last major pre-school injury resulted from my misguided attempt to join in with the team pushing of a caravan, not realising that this was only done when it was not attached to the car. I abandoned my attempt to help as the car accelerated and landed fully outstretched on the tarmac. I can still almost feel the tarmac burns on the palms of my hands to this day.
Primary School
The first memorable incident of this era was a concussive blow to the back of my head which fractionally dislocated the right side of my jaw and partially immobilised my tongue muscle root. It may also possibly have dislodged my left ear mechanism, unless this had happened earlier as part of the bicycle accident. Not the first generation of my family to have been punished violently for having done nothing wrong, though.
The second event was a car accident in the era before rear seatbelts, in which I was thrown diagonally across the back of the car from the rear passenger seat, landing draped, concussed and whiplashed across the top of the driver’s seat. I came round briefly in this position to find the metal frame of the windscreen wrapped around me, before passing out again. I had taken the kinetic energy impact from my connection with the corner of the seat at the base of my sternum, impacting the solar plexus, the front diaphragm attachment, the front base of the ribcage and its underlying soft organs including the liver, pancreas and spleen. I came round again briefly after the emergency services had arrived, grateful for the unknown lady sitting with me. My mother had dragged me from the car wreckage before the ambulance arrived, dislocating my left shoulder and injuring my left arm and hand as she did so. She had been unable to see that my left foot, and possibly also my right foot, had been trapped under the front passenger seat. From the injuries I released last year from my left foot and ankle, I don’t know how my left foot had remained attached.
The only visible results of this accident were a swollen joint at the base of my left big toe and a ganglion on the back of my left hand.
In Adulthood
The loft accident was the immediate consequence of my only active expression of a moment of anger. I was balancing on a loft rafter, as I had been all day, and turned on it just too quickly, losing my footing instantaneously and completely. A momentary sensation was that someone had grabbed hold of both ankles and pulled them apart hard. I landed astride the rafter, taking the full impact of the fall on the back edge of my pelvic bone, about two centimetres to the left of the base of my spine. I don’t know how I managed to drag myself across the loft and down the loft ladder, and miraculously I was still able to both stand and walk after this one. I just stood in shock on the landing for a few minutes, and then walked away and carried on as if nothing had happened. Oh my word, it had. Whiplash again, concussion again, full spinal cord impact, my skull moved fractionally off my vertebral column, vertebral realignment, reinforcement of all previous accidental injuries, full pelvic floor and abdominal cavity trauma, in fact impact trauma to everything soft in my body.
This was the injury which expanded my vocabulary, not least to include the words ‘physiotherapist’, ‘osteopath’, ‘cranial osteopath’, ‘chiropractor’ and the names of various other alternative therapies. It was also the injury which introduced me to therapeutic holistic massage.
The lawnmower accident was the result of rushing to get back to playing my saxophone, having treated myself to a new Selmer D mouthpiece that morning. After giving it a short test drive, with promising results, I chose to fit in cutting the grass before I continued. Six weeks and two profoundly injured fingers with two lost fingernails later, not to mention the associated trauma across the whole hand and up to and including my right shoulder, music practice resumed. You really don’t want to know the details on this one, since I had clipped the top of the bone in my right index finger, although I had been quick enough only to have profoundly injured the nail bed of the third finger. Perhaps this was how I managed to dislocate my right shoulder. It’s certainly likely it is how I managed to rearrange the muscles under my right shoulder blade.
Another memorable major injury was my inadvertent full bodily contact lengthways with my kitchen floor. My physical alignment had changed from vertical to horizontal in one go as my feet had swept upwards and to the left from underneath me as I was turning the corner into the room. I took the whole kinetic energy impact of the fall along the right side of my body, with the impact point of contact exactly over my right hip joint. Fortunately I had just take a hot shower, otherwise something might have been broken.
A further significant injury was a hammer making contact with my left index fingernail at full speed, twisting its fingertip as it did so. I partially dislocated my elbow in my haste to remove my hand from under the hammer.
The car and loft accidents significantly rearranged the soft tissue of multiple muscle layers and soft tissue organs in both my thorax and my abdomen. Their force also achieved the repositioning of complete layers of muscle in both trunk cavities as well as impeding the movement of my diaphragm, and the loft accident effectively immobilised the sheet of connective tissue forming my pelvic floor.
Finale
Dr Edward Bach identified the concept of an ‘inner physician’ (1) as part of his work to establish the Bach Flowers system of therapy for emotional trauma. Never be surprised by what your inner physician, as at least the conjunction of your conscious and subconscious minds, does for you by reading your operational blueprint and knowing exactly how to reposition misplaced soft tissue. Just consider yourself to be a willing and fortunate human Rubik’s cube and you are unlikely to go wrong.
Footnote: (1) Dr Edward Bach, MB, BS, DPH – Heal Thyself – The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd ISBN 0-85207-301-1
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