- How it is given
- Knee, Leg, Foot
- What it is used for
- Each Point in Use
Watch
From Knee, Leg, Foot
b. KNEE CAP FREE — given laid straight, or seated
Tell the patient to let the knee go completely loose and to lie or sit relaxed. Do the more troublesome knee first; the other can be done afterwards. Supine Seated
- 1. Place the palms so that the thumbs are near each other and the fingers are on both sides of the thigh. With light pressure, knead the muscles right and left, in the direction of the arrows. Do this at two or three places on the thigh, from the hip down to the knee.
- 2. Do the same at 2–3 places on the skin below the knee.
- 3. Stand the palms on edge on both sides of the knee-cap and, from the borders, knead the muscles at the sides of the knee up-down and down-up, to relax them.
- 4. Then, with the sole of the palm, rub at the four corners of the knee-cap, and move the hand round and round on all sides, to free the cap from the muscles beneath it.
Doing all this makes the knee-cap completely loose, which reduces the stiffness of the knee — and that is exactly why it is called cap free.
| Patient's position | Laid straight, or seated; the knee completely loose, the patient relaxed. Do the more troublesome knee first Supine Seated |
|---|---|
| Where the hands are placed | Palms with thumbs near each other and fingers on both sides of the thigh, at two or three places from the hip down to the knee; then at 2–3 places on the skin below the knee; then the palms standing on edge on both sides of the knee-cap; then the sole of the palm at the four corners of the knee-cap, moving round and round on all sides |
| Duration and repetitions | Kneading with light pressure, right and left, in the direction of the arrows; at the sides of the knee up-down and down-up. No count is given |
| What it is for | Making the knee-cap completely loose and freeing the cap from the muscles beneath it, which reduces the stiffness of the knee |
"Let the knee go completely loose" is a technical precondition, not a pleasantry. The cap sits inside the tendon of the big thigh muscle, and when that muscle tightens — as it does the instant a patient braces, lifts the heel an inch, or holds the leg "helpfully" straight — the tendon pulls tight over the cap and clamps it into its groove. All four stages are then working against a locked bone. Hands off until the leg is heavy: lift the heel two inches and let it drop; a loose leg drops like a sandbag.
"Do the more troublesome knee first" runs against instinct, and it is written. The troublesome knee gets your freshest hands, before the session runs long — and it gets treated before the patient has decided, from ten comfortable minutes on a knee that was never the problem, how much she will let you do to the one that is.
"In the direction of the arrows" sends you to the figure, which shows zig-zag arrows running side to side at two or three levels above the knee and two or three below. The kneading is cross-wise, not along the length of the leg. Stage 3 turns the hands: the palms come up on edge, like two knife blades, one each side of the cap, and the sides of the knee are kneaded up-down and down-up. And stage 4 is the treatment the name is about — the sole of the palm, the soft pad at the base of the thumb, at the four corners first and then round and round on all sides. Do not shorten it to the circle.
Also explained in
- Why the chemical points come first Knee, Leg, Foot
Knee Cap Free unsticks the cap.
- The knee sequence, said aloud Knee, Leg, Foot
ine separable treatments, their counts and their sides, in one order THE METHOD, STEP BY STEP The order, with its counts — to be learnt by heart · Treatment · Position · Tool · Count · Which side 0 · The chemical points
- PRADEEP — the pillow, the jerk, the walks and the stand Knee, Leg, Foot
The rest of the sequence — Back of knees, Knee Cap Free, Giriraj, the calf ghisai — remains available to most of these patients, given lightly and with the hands.
- Introduction Knee, Leg, Foot
Give the two treatments that make the knee-cap supple — Back of knees prone with its 20–25, 6 and 6, and Knee Cap Free supine or seated, on the more troublesome knee first.
- The two treatments that make the cap supple Knee, Leg, Foot
Knee Cap Free is given face up or seated and works in front of it.
- JJ BACK — given face down Knee, Leg, Foot
Back of knees and Knee Cap Free continued alongside, because the sequence they belong to had not stopped being useful.
- BOF — Bottom of Feet, and its four sides Knee, Leg, Foot
And "begin with the right leg and finish with the left" is the opposite of the order used elsewhere in this article — Knee Cap Free begins with the more troublesome knee, Pradeep with the left.
- Questions students ask Knee, Leg, Foot
Knee Cap Free gives no count at all.
- The knee and the lower limb Each Point in Use
Knee cap free Given for knee pain.
- Two cases from the reference Each Point in Use
Knee cap free and Giriraj for the knees.
- Every symbol, and how to say it in words The Shorthand
The second plate of the written symbols, redrawn as clean vector glyphs beside their point names as printed: from Hydrocele point and Knee Cap Free to Motor Neuron Point and T 8, including the numbered Pradeep chevrons a
- The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand
Code Full name / Hindi Where it is taught in this wiki Adr Adrenal Face Down Swt Sweat Face Down Back Arrow Back Arrow, or Blood supply to lungs Face Down H arrow — Face Down On the spine — Face Down Beside the spine — Face Down Round arrow —
- Questions students ask Uncommon Problems
T8 has no count and Knee cap free had none either.
- The two variants, each with its own condition The River — Heparin
Within two months the feet become completely well; even established gangrene is finished and the occasion of cutting off the foot is averted Variant — the wound that will not fill If blood is flowing from the wound and i