From Tom: What is Spatial Medicine? We tend to think of ‘medicine’ as a monolith, but of course there are different kinds. If we think of the irreducibles of Space, Time, and Matter – matter unfolds in space over time – there’s a medicine for each. The most dominant form of medicine now is Material… Read more
Editor’s note: Tom Myers is commenting on this article from the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapy (JBMT), titled The effect of visceral manipulation on Diastatis Recti Abdominis (DRA) by Brandi Kirk and Teresa Elliot-Burke I am happy to see JBMT recognizing the role of visceral manipulation in treating lumbopelvic pain and the after-effects of… Read more
Editor’s note: Tom is referring to this article: Why Smells Trigger Such Powerful Memories It’s always been a ’thing’ – since Proust and before as the article mentions – how evocative of memories smells are. This article gives the what – vision and hearing and touch (read: proprioception also – people get so confused because… Read more
From Tom: As a Structural Integrator seeking organisation along the body’s vertical axis, I have always wondered: What sets that axis in the body? I am not alone in this. This article does not answer the question yet, but points to how a solution might be found soon: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-imaging-moments-body-emerging-embryo.html The ovum is approximately a sphere,… Read more
Following on from the lovely feedback we got from an equine worker after one of our Anatomy Trains courses, I am pleased to be able to post a new paper from Vibeke Sødring Elbrøn and Rikke M. Schultz, the Danish veterinarians who have been exploring the lines in the horse. This paper expands into the… Read more
Note: Tom Myers refers to this article from Scientific American. This article in Scientific American prompts three responses, two of them predictable, but afascianados, stick around for the third. First is the amazed gratitude of living in an age when we can witness such power in the scientific ‘religion’ that it can perform such miracles.… Read more
