Eduardo – 13 yr. old boy.  

Eduardo presented with spastic paralysis of upper and lower extremities and facial and neck muscles.  He walked with a shuffling gate.  He could no longer say more than one word sentences like “Yes” or “No”.  His mouth remained open and he had loss of tongue function and salivary control (Heavy Drooling), and loss of hand function due to spasms (Fingers were clenched together).  Due to his inability to care for himself, write and speak properly, he was taken out of school.   He had to be bathed, dressed, and cared for by his family everyday.  His cognitive and mental abilities seemed normal.  He understood everything going on around him and seemed to still have a good sense of humor.  He seemed like a normal child trapped in an incapable body.

It is interesting to mention that Eduardo was a normal, energetic, young, 13 year old boy approximately 2 months prior to visiting my office.  He was playing with his friends, running, and speaking normally.  His parents watched him slowly change over a period of 2 months.  He was seen by specialists, pediatricians, neurologists, and given an array of different tests that included CT Scans, Brain Scans, and blood tests.  The medical community told his parents that they could not find any abnormalities on the tests they performed and told the family that there was nothing they could do and that their son would be like this forever.  Even still, not knowing what was wrong with him, they gave him medications that did nothing to help.  He just kept getting worse.

Instrumentation, static and motion palpation all led me to believe that Eduardo had a PS-RS occiput subluxation and a posterior S2.  The x-rays, on the other hand appeared to show an AS occiput.  Taking into account that the muscle spasms were most likely causing the appearance of an AS occiput on the film, I decided to trust my palpation and go with the PS-RS occiput.  The first adjustment was a PS-RS in the chair and an S2 push move.  The occiput was the loudest audible I have ever experienced.  I thought I had broken him.  But he was fine.  I adjusted his occiput and sacrum 2 more times that same week resulting in much smaller audibles.  At the end of the first week, there were absolutely no physical changes.  The instrumentation readings were significantly less.  His occiput only was adjusted twice in the same fashion the second week.   When Eduardo showed up at the office on the third week, he looked like a new person.  He was standing up straight, there was no more spastic paralysis, and he was talking completely normal again.  The only thing he was unable to do was write.  His hands were working normally, but for some reason his brain forgot how to write.  He had to re-learn how to write.  After approximately 3 weeks of practicing, Eduardo was writing perfectly, he was back in school, and he was 100% normal again.

What was wrong with Eduardo?  He simply had nerve pressure.  No case is too hard when you know how to find and specifically correct vertebral subluxations.  This is done through the Gonstead system.

The pictures below were taken 3 weeks after his first adjustment.