Externally Rotated Coxafemoral Joints Part 2

You can see my hold a little better in this video. You can also tell how much more restricted her left hip is. She moves more because her body reacts to the stimulus of change as I approach the restrictive barrier. Every time she takes her leg away from me, I let her, then I go at it again. She was able to let some air out as we treated, and seemed happy about that!

Hips are not only good to treat for proper development of the sockets but they set the scene to move up into the sacrum or lumbars. Gassy babies that struggle to get air out often have arthrodial dysfunction somewhere between T12-L2. You can almost certainly find a problem there if the parents claim the baby cries a lot, has a strained red face, and pulls the knees up then kicks out hard through the legs.

When you are done treating the hip, this is a good position to carry some assessment and treatment through the midline of the sacrum and up to the lumbar area. Mild (MILD) decompression with slight soft-tissue manipulation to help the area "learn" to extend helps a baby feel really good.

In the video near the end, you can hear the baby snort. She has nasal congestion from compression to her midline facial bones. It is hard to see in this video but her entire nose is literally pushed into her maxilla and the whole nasal area is offset to the left, giving her a left "cross-eye". This problem is our subject matter for the next series of blogs to be released in 2 weeks.