What we do is test and assess for a lack of blood flow. For our purposes the subject material will be limited to the musculoskeletal system. Please, look through the site and discover!

Every procedure we use is a test and each one is held for several seconds. This time allotment allows for a physiological change to take place. The change we want is a movement of fluid in the affected area.

The lack of blood flow we are interested in is in the microcirculation and is caused by too high a pressure in the involved tissues. Blood travels from a higher pressure area to a lower one. If the tissue pressure approaches that of systole in the local capillaries then circulation is compromised. This scenario is often seen in chronic conditions.

Every patient/client is different and therefore no two tests are really the same. Testing results vary in three main ways: they may have no effect, they may result in a positive sign after only one session, or they may lead to other tests.

Procedures often elicit a response from the patient leading the therapist to perform another test, and so on. The assessment can be made but not after one visit. It may take weeks until a definitive response is found.

If the testing has a positive outcome then the following assessment can be made: the disability is due to a lack of blood flow in the area of complaint.

The tissues most often affected are the nerves along with their associated connective tissue. The procedures could therefore be referred to as neurological tests.

It’s interesting that these procedures are very similar to those that have existed in various cultures for thousands of years.

I first read works of Franz Boas, the famous West Coast anthropologist, over twenty-five years ago. Two things he stated impressed me the most. Try not to force the facts to fit the hypothesis, and secondly, in the main, the mental characteristics of man are the same all over.

Again, Boas stated that mental characteristics of man in different cultures are the same and that their mental faculty is determined by the stage of their culture. This means a tribe in Indonesia will have similarities to a tribe in Mexico or a tribe in Siberia would have similarities to one in Alaska. Since the West Coast First Nation’s cultures are over 12,000 years old, there should be many similarities to Eastern cultures. This similarity to The East would also be true for indigenous cultures in other parts of the Americas and in many islands of the Pacific.

So, why isn’t a similar manual therapy being practiced in First Nations communities today?

Continuing with this reasoning, I feel that manual therapy and end range loading was practiced in the Americas and the Pacific in similar manner to those ancient civilizations of The East. We know all too well what happened after the Europeans’ arrival. First Nations cultures and traditions were bleached-out after their colonization and simply lost after so many deaths due to infectious diseases.

It’s my wish to re-introduce end range loading strategies to indigenous cultures of the Americas and the Pacific. This includes teaching band members how to perform this therapy. It’s my hope you will collaborate with me on this endeavor.

It is my intent to travel to First Nations Communities and treat patients. During these trips I would also establish who within the community possesses the aptitude and commitment for an apprenticeship.

Teaching band members this ancient art will not be an easy task. Hopefully, once the various bands have seen this therapy and understand my idea, they in turn would help lobby the appropriate government departments and university faculties for help in this endeavor.

By offering education, this opportunity could lead to further career ladders and help create a self-sustaining First Nations community. Through such development of health training, traditional healing practices would be strengthened.

I understand that in the past high levels of success are present when development(s) of initiatives are planned, implemented and evaluated when under direct community control. By encouraging the First Nations to aspire to a therapy that is designed and delivered within their own community, their unique cultural ways and traditions would be restored.

It is my vision to restore and improve cultural healing traditions to the First Nations people.