- How it is given
- The Low Back
- What it is used for
- Each Point in Use
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L5–S1 GHISAI — three stages, three different counts
Three different actions in a fixed order: 20–25, then 12 a side, then 3
It is not one treatment repeated three times. It is three different actions, in a fixed order, with three different counts. A student who learns it as "rub the low back" has learned none of it. (Figure 22.1)
| Stage | The action, in short | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soft middle of the sole, the band L1 to S1, both sides, up and down | 20–25 times |
| 2 | From the S1 bead, obliquely, from below outward only — the foot never coming back the reverse way — at normal weight | 12 times each side ▲ Take care |
| 3 | Weight on the palms through the chairs, astride L5–S1, sole and heel both touching, sliding up to the L3 bead, heels resting there while the forefeet draw outward, finishing with forefoot and heel on the side of the waist — the lower back muscles drawn upward | 3 times; once or twice more if needed |
All three stages are given prone, under the compulsory 1½ pillows, for problems of the low back. Prone
Three questions asked of one tissue. Stage 1 asks it to soften, over a long band, both ways. Stage 2 asks it to move one way, obliquely out from the lowest bead. Stage 3 asks it to lengthen — up from the joint to L3, then sideways to the flank — in one L-shaped journey ending with the whole foot, forefoot and heel together, on the side of the waist. And the counts are not roundable. Twenty to twenty-five is a range with both ends given; twelve is each side; three is three, with a written permission to go to four or five if needed — a judgement you should be able to state aloud, not a habit.
Also explained in
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- Introduction The Low Back
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS article By the end of this article you will be able to: Give L5–S1 ghisai as three stages with three different counts — 20–25, then 12 a side, then 3 — and say why the second stage must never
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- BINDU POINT — the long diagonal The Low Back
WHAT TO CARRY AWAY L5–S1 ghisai is three stages with three counts.
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- The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand
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- The notation, complete How a Formula Is Built
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