Dr. Michael Hillenbrand Chiropractic and Acupuncture

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The five diaphragms and the OMM remind us that the symptom must be seen in the whole body and not only as a localized anatomical structure. Bordoni B (April 2...3, 2020) The Five Diaphragms in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine: Myofascial Relationships, Part 2. Cureus 12(4): e7795. doi:10.7759/cureus.7795 Cureus, Inc.

Tensegrity best explained! Great interview by a famous mathematician Robert Connelly (RC), way back from 2006. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/23/werthei...m.php (RC) "One way of understanding tensegrity is that it’s a pattern that results when the pushes and pulls within a structure have a WIN-WIN RELATIONSHIP with each other. The pull is balanced by the push, producing integrity of tension and compression.... The tension in the system is the tense part, and the whole thing is stableit doesn’t fall downso that’s the integrity part, hence the term tensional integrity." "How do mathematicians understand tensegrities? It depends on the mathematician you ask. The way I think of it is quite simple: you have a bunch of points connected by lines, some of the points are allowed to get closer together but not further apartthese are what we call the cablesbut other pairs of points are allowed to get further apart but not closer togetherthose are the struts. These rules put constraints on the system that determine what shape the structure can be overall. " LB Comment. That's the key part to understanding tensegrities! -- Too many people can't move beyond the physical cables and struts they experience in steel/wire or wood/rubber tensegrity models, asking the question "But I don't see those struts and cables in real life anatomy??" Here is a great answer from Prof. Connelly: (RC) "...In the physical world, we don’t think of struts as things that are only allowed to get further apart; they’re objects that have fixed length. But for the mathematical study of tensegrities, you have one set of objects that can stretch (the struts) and another that can shrink (the cables)the cables are under tension, and the struts are under compression. " LB. Tensegrity is the principle of interaction between tension and compression elements of the system -- WHATEVER EMBODIMENTS THEY TAKE. That's what you need to understand, for example with 'liquid fascia' or 'irregular fibers'. If a 'liquid bubble' pushes the neighbors apart -- that's a strut. If an irregular fiber set pulls the others closer together -- that's a cable. The amazing thing is that even within such an abstract representation that covers ALL sorts of matter and materials -- there are consistent structural rules! Prof. Connelly on the difference between mathematics vs. engineering: (RC) "Of course engineers build buildings and spaceships and cars and boxesbillions of things. But when I started looking at what the principles were that they were using to show these things are rigid, frankly I was perplexed. Engineers seemed mostly concerned with giving examples, but, at first, didn’t seem to have a set of general principles. LB Comment:Lever-biomechanics has exactly the same built-in limitation. It is not the source code mathematics that Prof. Connely works at -- even today's biomechanics usues the secondary mathematical 'apps' that were written on an 200-years old mathematical code for designs of buildings, bridges and machinery, and then applies it to the human bodies. Biotensegrity is radically different -- because we are looking for the returm to the MATHEMATICAL SOURCE CODE, without the structural engineering middlemen. (RC) On looking into the matter more closely, I realized that an underlying principle in all structures was energy. Think of a spring: it takes energy to push it from its rest position. Many structures, including springs, tend to go into a configuration of minimal energy. A very basic principle that goes back to the great mathematicians Euler and Lagrange in the eighteenth century is that if a system, such as a set of springs, is in a state of minimal energy, it will be rigid. The first thing I did was to apply this principle to spider webs, and I found that it worked beautifully. LB Comment: Minimal energy principle is the one that allows tensegrity architecture to cover such a huge span of material embodiments -- large/ small ; solid/ soft , etc. -- which fits best into biology. Hence -- 'bio' + 'tensegrity'! See more

A little interruption from the hysteria to learn about our innate defenses against infection.

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Zero Balancing takes the view, like the ancient Chinese, that the upright human skeleton is a lightning rod, channeling energy between heaven and Earth. If we a...re open, we feel connected to both. The universal life flow of energy enters the skeleton through the head, flows downward through the cranial bones, the intravertebral and costovertebral joints, down the spine to the sacroiliac, through the legs to the metatarsals, and out the feet into the Earth. Fritz Smith, MD, Inner Bridges: A Guide to Energy Movement and Body Structure.

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