- How it is given
- Knee, Leg, Foot
- What it is used for
- Each Point in Use
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From Knee, Leg, Foot
PRADEEP — the pillow, the jerk, the walks and the stand
Five stages in order, and the first of them is the placing of a pillow
Five stages, given in order — and the first of them is the placing of a pillow, which tells you how much of this treatment is decided before a foot touches anybody.
The variant some therapists use in place of stages 3 and 4 {{x3}}
In place of numbers 3 and 4 above, some therapists do it this way → placing the soles on both sides of the knee, they move the two feet alternately in opposite directions — that is, the left foot travels from the knee towards the hip while at the same time the right foot travels from below the knee towards the heel.
Three rounds like that. After that, do number 5 above.
This is not a shortcut and not a correction. It is a second way of covering the same territory, in which the two halves happen together rather than one after the other. Both are given; neither is marked as preferred. What the variant does not replace is stage 5, which follows in either version. Learn both, give one, and write on the card which one you gave.
| Patient's position | Lying; the knee being treated kept bent inward; the pillow at an angle — corner slightly outside the knee, long side under the thigh, part of its width under the lower leg. Left knee first, then the right Supine Left Right |
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| The therapist | Between the patient's legs, looking at the knee, body weight taken on the hands on the chairs |
| The five stages, in short | 1 the pillow · 2 the stance · 3 heels either side of the knee, one downward jerk, then from near the upper border walk knee → hip pressing inward, 3 rounds · 4 from just below the knee walk down to the heel pressing downward and inward, 3 rounds · 5 the soft middle of the sole exactly in the middle of the knee bone, whole weight, standing up straight. Then the whole process on the other knee × 3 |
| Variant | In place of 3 and 4 — the soles on both sides of the knee, the two feet moved alternately in opposite directions: left foot knee → hip while the right foot travels from below the knee → heel. Three rounds; then number 5 |
| What it is for | Part of the knee sequence, following Giriraj and calf muscle ghisai |
Stage 1 is a treatment, not bedding. The pillow goes under the knee at an angle, its corner slightly outside the knee, its long side under the thigh, part of its width under the lower leg — three separate placements in one sentence. What it achieves is that thigh and lower leg are both carried and the knee rests in a little bend with nothing hanging, which is the position of greatest room inside the joint and least pressure across it. A knee held dead straight passes every downward force through the joint line. Set the pillow wrongly and you have changed what stage 5 lands on. And "kept bent inward" turns the limb so the inner side of the knee comes up toward you — the aspect the figure shows and the aspect your feet will meet.
"Stand between their legs, looking at the knee" — not beside the patient, as almost everywhere else. The walks run away from you and back towards you along the limb, and only from between the legs can one therapist reach them all.
The jerk comes first and is given once. Both feet on either side of the knee — not on it — and pressure downward through the heels with a jerk. One impulse, then the walking begins. A jerk is the one load a therapist cannot take back once begun, which is why it is given at the start, on a knee already softened by four treatments.
The two walks are mirror images with different pressure directions: upward from near the upper border of the knee, pressing the muscles inward, small close steps, three rounds; downward from just below the knee to the heel, pressing downward and inward, three rounds. Inward going up; downward and inward coming down. Both start beside the joint, not on it. The rule The Low Back states three separate times — by no mistake should the foot fall on the knee joint — governs every travelling step here. (Figure 23.3)
And stage 5 is not a step of the walk. It is a separate, named, final action, described in full. The soft middle part of the sole — the softest tool a therapist has — placed exactly in the middle of the knee bone, and then the whole weight put on it, standing up straight. It is placed, not walked onto; it is the mid-sole, not the heel; it lands on a knee bent inward on an angled pillow with thigh and lower leg both carried; and it comes after everything above. Every one of those clauses is part of the instruction. Give stage 5 as it is written, with the pillow as it is written, and give it last.
Also explained in
- 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
- Questions students ask Knee, Leg, Foot
Why does Pradeep start with a jerk when everything else here is slow? Because it is a different kind of load doing a different job, given once, at the beginning, on a knee already softened by four treatments.
- Why the chemical points come first Knee, Leg, Foot
Giriraj carries the thigh tissue back upward, the direction it was pulled down from; the calf ghisai does the same below; Pradeep works the region from four sides.
- Introduction Knee, Leg, Foot
Give Pradeep complete — the angled pillow, the stance, the jerk, three rounds up, three rounds down, the final full-weight stand — and give the variant some therapists use in place of stages 3 and 4.
- GIRIRAJ — carrying the thigh back upward Knee, Leg, Foot
ingers together, clockwise, knee → groin, along three or four lines Several treatments in this atlas carry a person's name rather than a place — Giriraj and Pradeep here, and elsewhere Loveleen, Raman, Shivaji, Mauneesh.
- 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.
- The knee and the lower limb Each Point in Use
Pradip trt. Given for knee pain.
- 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 three tiers — point, formula, treatment The Shorthand
The same custom is at work when a formula here is called Loveleen, Raman, Giriraj, Pradeep, Shukla or Vasanti — each the given name of a person in whose case the manoeuvre was first found.
- 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 —
- PROLAPSE POINT — also written P point Uncommon Problems
Left thigh first, then the right thigh — written out, like Pradeep's left knee first in Knee, Leg, Foot, and not to be swapped because the right thigh happens to be nearer you.
- T8, Rocket, Katka — and how these names were made Uncommon Problems
Shukla, Vasanti, and in the last article Pradeep and Giriraj.
- The notation, complete How a Formula Is Built
Write the glyph and the code where the card will be read by somebody else Proper names Ajay Normal · Raman · Maunish · Giriraj · Pradeep · Vasanti · Shukla as written The given name of a person in whose case the manoeuvr
- Wounds When the Hand Must Stop
They must be given the full 1,25 DCC formula The Front of the Body II · Correcting the Two Kingdoms Osteoporosis · frail bone · long-term steroids · a bone broken from a trivial knock Every jerk in the atlas — Katka, Motor neuron point, P point, the Pradeep jerk