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Case Study
50-Year-Old Female presented with Drawing Sensation

A 50 year-old woman presented a drawing sensation and vise grip feeling in her head.

This was a VERY active, professional woman.  She runs a successful international business, does public speaking, is active in her church, she is mother to two college boys.  She was in excellent physical condition.  She had no psychological or emotional problems.

She was involved in a skiing accident in which she broke her nose.  She didn't think much of it at the time.  However, a year later she began having difficulty breathing.  She went to her doctor who said there was a 100% occlusion and she would need simple surgery in order to restore her ability to breathe.  Her doctor sent her to a plastic surgeon for this procedure.

She underwent the surgery. During surgery, they found it was more involved than they had anticipated and she had severe damage to her septum.  They did a more extensive surgery, including a brow lift with a peg in order to stabilize it.  The doctors did not tell her they had done all of this additional work.  As far as she and the doctors knew, it was a fully successful surgery.

On her first post-surgical visit she reported that she felt a tightness in her head.  The doctor told her that this was normal and there were no problems.

On the second post-surgical visit, she reported that the tightness was becoming worse.  It now felt like it was pulling and drawing more and the pain was beginning to affect her acitivities of daily living.  The doctor again told her this was normal and to massage the area.

She contacted the doctor many times over the ensuing months as the symptoms progressed.  She began to have visual disturbances, debilitating headaches, sleep disturbances, dizziness, and was not able to complete her daily activities.  Eventually she became bed-ridden.  The doctor would not listen.  She continued to tell him of the squeezing sensation she felt in her head.  The doctor said the surgery went fine.  He suggested she get massages.  Since she received no relief from the massages. She then began experiencing neurological symptoms such as tingling, numbness.  At that point, the doctor told her that there was no problem from the surgery and said she needed to see a neurologist.

The neurologist put her through a battery of tests and pronounced her fine.  He suggested she have brain surgery from a neuro-surgeon to "look around" because he could not find anything.  He told her in the mean time she should take muscle relaxers and anti-depressants.  When she questioned the anti-depressants, he told her that he assumed she had plastic surgery that she was unhappy with because she no longer looked like a 25-year-old.

At that point, she became very angry and upset at the doctor's assumptions and began looking for an answer on her own.  The original plastic surgeon fired her as a patient.

She found Windsong Therapy from her investigation on the internet.  She made an appointment at our office because after reading about fascia, she felt we were the only people who could help her.

During her initial evaluation I found severe tightening throughout the whole cranium and neck. There were scar adhesions that went from ear to ear.  You could physically see the pulling, that is not normal from the type of surgery she reported.  She had virtually no CranioSacral rhythm. 

I began releasing the adhesions in her head.  There was severe compression in her head which was causing all the neurological symptoms she was seeing.  I also felt a peg in her head.  I asked her about what I felt.  She said there was no peg, it was a simple operation. 

After her first visit, she reported that she felt she was finally getting what she needed.  Her body was more relaxed and her symptoms had begun to lessen.

I saw her every day for almost a year, because she was very anxious to return to her former life.

Eventually, because I kept feeling this peg, the woman went back to her original surgeon.  He refused to see her, but she got his nurse to tell her that the surgery was much more extensive than she had been led to believe and that a peg had been put into her head and she had had a brow lift.  This now matched the types of adhesions that I was feeling throughout her skull.

During this time, all of her symptoms were greatly reduced.  Her pain was no longer debilitating.  She stopped taking all medication.  She resumed an active lifestyle.

Eventually, ALL of the symptoms reported on her first visit had been resolved.  She was able to resume the lifestyle and activities that she did before her accident.

We then reduced her treatment to once a week for several months, and then once a month for approximately one more year.  We now see her only occasionally for other issues.

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