50+ Years of Neck Pain Controlled with ASTR 0:00 – Hello everyone my name is Dr. Jacobs,
I’m a doctor of physical therapy and I’m also the inventor of advanced soft tissue
release, ASTR specialty, I am a cancer survivor and I used to suffer from chronic migraines,
headaches, pain and fatigue before I invented ASTR specialty.
Alright, tell me a brief history of your neck, how did you injure your neck and what’s
going on there?
There’s a very long history with my neck it started really when I was a little baby.
Barely learning how to walk and I ran down the hallway and I ran into a radiator this
was in Germany so the heaters were on the wall and I actually had a scar that was here.
So, you hit your nose.
Yea I hit here and the scar has landed here.
Oh wow.
1:00 – So did you have stitches?
Yes I had stitches here when I was like 13 months old.
Oh wow.
So then, what happened was when I was in my twenties I started to go to chiropractic care
for my lower back.
And what they discovered with x-rays was that I had a severe injury in my neck.
In the back?
C-3.
Oh wow okay.
And it’s a degenerated disk and I couldn’t figure out what happened.
But then I realized when I was a little kid because they said it’s a very very old injury.
Oh okay, so probably you hit your head in the front.
Oh yea, I slid into the radiator.
But since you’ve been young you’ve been experiencing neck issues is that correct?
Yea.
And then recently in 2016, May um I feel and I hit on my buttocks and then from my buttocks
I landed on my head.
The occipital area.
Okay.
Yes.
2:00 –And then I did that again on August of 2016, I did the same thing but this time
I passed out.
You passed out this time, oh wow.
Yes.
Frankly I think it was a small concussion, I did not go to the doctor.
But there was a huge, the size of, bigger than a golf ball in the back of my head.
So what did you do for that?
Well, I started to go to massage therapy and I was working on it.
Just loosening it up?
Yea, just loosening it up, breaking it down.
And it did turn into a small abscess and we had to have it lanced and from that point
on, everything started to heal.
There’s still a bit of a bump.
But but, what kind of symptoms you have now?
Okay so right now, this is as far as I can go.
Limited range of motion?
Limited range of motion.
Okay, can you move your hair to the side a little bit?
Oh my hair.
Let’s move your hair to the back so we can see the other side.
This is as far as I can go.
Okay, and extend.
3:00 –That’s a bit of a problem.
Okay, you tell me from 0-10 how much pain when you do the motion okay?
Yea okay, so when I go to the right I’m at 60% pain.
6 out of 10.
And here it’s like 4 but I can feel it on the right side.
And extension inflection how much pain.
And here this is, this is probably at 40% and here it’s at 20% pain.
20% pain.
Okay, side bend left and right.
This is as far as I can go on the right.
Okay so you limited with all range of motion.
And here I’m stuck.
Here you’re stuck.
And you said you get headaches from your.
Yea I can feel when I presume it’s my atlas that’s out and right away I get headaches
on the left side.
Okay, do you have head ache today?
No.
Okay, so briefly can you tell me what treatment you’ve had in your neck?
You said you had massage, chiropractor, what else.
Yes, basically that’s all, massage and chiropractics. 4:00 –But I’ve had some home stretch exercises.
So you did exercises too and stretches?
Yes, every night.
Alright so let’s work on it and let me know how you feel after that.
Perfect.
Alright, awesome.
It’s very good when we do the massage.
So do you feel the scar tissue there?
Yea.
You have a lot of scar tissue, that’s from your fall.
I feel the tingling.
Where do you feel the tingling?
Right here.
Make sure this isn’t painful.
Okay, no pain.
We got the scar tissue here and here.
Feels good.
That’s good.
So can you tell me the difference between this and massage, because you are a massage
therapist right.
Yes.
Okay so can you tell the difference between using instrument and just using hand?
5:00 – Yes, um the instrument is more connecting, it’s deeper.
It’s precise.
Yes, yea that’s good.
It feels great.
You feel it starting to loosen up now.
This side is like totally almost gone compared to this.
Right.
So we’re breaking the side.
And you guys take my word, it’s breaking okay.
Yea it is.
So you landed on your side or straight backward.
Straight on my back on the back of my head.
This is gone here, feel it?
Wow Yea, it’s smoother.
So here, you feel that here.
Okay and you said in the front, yea?
Yes.
6:00 – Where is it in the front, here?
Yea the scar, do you see the scar?
We will work on the front and might mess up your makeup.
Oh yea I don’t have much on because I knew I was coming to see you.
So some scar here too, make sure it’s not painful.
It’s no wonder why I like a scalp massage.
Yea it’s because you have a lot of tightness and a lot of scar tissue.
Sorry, it’s going to be cold.
Is that too much?
No, not at all.
Do you feel the tightness here?
Yes.
So I’m releasing your superficial function using ASTR instrument.
Oh my relief.
Do you feel that relief.
Yes.
Okay that’s good.
Did you feel that relief before from massage?
No I just never wanted them to stop.
Okay.
7:00 – It’s called ASTR.
Yes.
Wow.
Okay.
Oh yes, the left side.
You feel that?
We got all the spots.
See how can you do that with your hands.
I know there’s no way.
How you can do that with your hand.
It’s a lot of absorption.
It’s a lot of work and you’re not gonna be able to create it properly.
That’s why it’s easier to do it here.
Okay.
Ugh that feels good.
Oh yea that side, that side.
You had more tightness here than that other side.
This is where the headaches were at.
Oh.
8:00 –Sorry, I’m messing up your hair.
Oh no worries, I have to wash my hair today anyways.
Feel the mobility now?
I do.
Do you feel this?
Yes.
This is tight, you feel it?
Yes.
Compared to this.
Wow.
Oh.
Make sure it’s not painful.
No but I did hear the breaking up, the crunching.
Oh wow.
Can you feel it?
Yes.
That’s very good, you’re very intuitive to your body actually.
9:00 – I can hear the breaking up of the scar tissue, little crunching.
I’m just working on the front.
Let me actually see.
There’s a little bit of scar tissue here.
Yes.
Let’s have you turn your head left and right.
Okay.
How’s that?
Oh my.
Can you move your hair to the side.
Move your hair to the side so we can see how far you can go.
Oh, I’m sorry.
Okay, how’s that, look at that range of motion.
Can you see?
I can see behind me.
Yea, beautiful.
Yea, look at the other side.
Oh, this is as far as I could do on the left, previously.
Wow.
10:00 –Extend back and forward.
Look at that, that’s full range of motion, beautiful.
Forward, any pain?
No pain, I feel a nice stretch.
But no pain, yea?
No pain, no pain.
Okay, any head ache, any symptoms?
No, no symptoms.
We’re going to do one more thing here, to see if we can get you to, eyou’re actually
almost at full range of motion.
Really?
Oh wow.
Flexion and extension is full range of motion, I just want to get you to rotation full range
of motion.
This side is good, the other side I want to make sure to get full range of motion.
Right.
Okay, try it again now.
Okay so to the left.
Oh, oh I don’t feel anything here.
Yea, other side?
11:00 – Now I do feel a little tightness here but look how far back I can go.
Yea, that’s beautiful.
And then back.
You said tightness here?
Yes.
Make sure that’s not painful.
Okay, oh yea.
Painful?
Yes.
Sorry.
What about now?
No?
Now?
Pain.
Sorry.
Now?
No pain.
Amazing, okay let’s try it again.
Wow, I actually felt it break up there.
Other side.
No pain.
Flex and extend.
Wow, no tightness there.
Alright awesome, so.
Wow.
12:00 – When’s the last time you had that full range of motion before?
I can’t tell you, maybe when I was 20.
20, and you had all type of treatment yea.
So what do you think of ASTR treatment.
Oh my my, thank you.
It’s amazing it works, thank you.
Thank you.
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