Unwinding The Body And Decoding The Messages Of Pain by Daniel Lopez

Author:Daniel Lopez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: healthy living, healing hands, osteopathy, medical healing, osteopathic medicine

Have you every asked yourself, “Why do some kids get ear infections in only one ear?”

When parents ask their pediatricians why their children get chronic ear infections, the answer is invariably the same. Babies get ear infections because their ear canals are more horizontal than that of an adult. Therefore the fluid cannot drain as well into the throat making the stagnant fluid a breeding ground for bacteria.

Sounds reasonable right? I used to think so until I thought about it a little more. Then I had questions that I still felt needed answering. If babies are born with horizontal ear canals, then why do not all babies get chronic ear infections? I thought perhaps it was because maybe some babies were born with ear canals that were more angled. But then why do some kids only get chronic ear infections in solely one ear? Perhaps this would be explained with asymmetrical development.

Finally if the answer was as simple as the more horizontal ear canals, then should not the fluid drain out if the baby was not holding its head upright? When the baby is sleeping on one side or another, gravity should work to drain fluid out of the ear.

Hoping that the child will outgrow its problem is not an ideal solution. There can be another option besides having tubes placed in the ear canals of kids or simply waiting infection after infection for a child to outgrow it. Notice that this is attempting to explain disease based on anatomy, in the head even. Nonetheless. I have not seen too many people “up in arms” about this.

Osteopathic physicians for decades, since Dr. Sutherland’s time, have described that there is an inherent movement that the whole body, including the bones of the head, goes through from the moment one is born until the moment of death. This motion is similar to how a rib cage expands and compresses during respiration but much more subtle. Even though it is a subtle motion, it is important in preventing infection by acting as a fluid pump. Just like a the normal expansion and recoil of the rib cage can prevent infection in the rib cage, normal expansion and compression in the head prevents infection in the head.

I agree that stagnant fluid in the ear becomes a breeding ground for bacteria. However, it is this subtle motion in the developing temporal bones that acts as a pump in the ear canals that drains the ears. Without it working appropriately, the ears cannot drain and bacteria can grow out of control resulting in infection. The motion can become dysfunctional in both ears or just one ear. If it is only diminished in one ear, then a child will be prone to infections only in one ear as there will constantly be an accumulation of fluid.

In addition this pump then works regardless of the position of a baby's head. Therefore it is not dependent on gravity to drain the ears of the baby. It has been in restoring this subtle pumping motion that allows kids to stop having chronic ear infections.

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