We had a dramatic experience with Chapman’s Reflexes (named after founder Frank Chapman DO), but first a little background.
A therapist had a client who fell off a garden wall almost 5 years ago, fell 4 feet to the ground, landing heavily on her right foot. She broke both her tibia and fibula, she fractured her pelvis from ischium to ilium and also her clavicle in 3 places, all of these were very extensive injuries. The client endured a long hospital stay with traction as initial treatment. This was then followed acutely with surgery on the ankle to remove some bone fragments and a general surgical cleanup intended to lengthen the Achilles tendon. Restructuring of the tendon was scheduled but this was impossible to achieve at the time of surgery.
At the end of 2014, she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. The predisposing possibilities were that she had 37 x-rays after the fall, which we can link to damaging outcomes. Her broken collarbone caused massive bruising on her right breast, and that could have been a factor.
He had previously had a root canal and had another tooth that was in poor condition. The dentist wanted to perform another root canal procedure, but there was some evidence that root canal procedures may be related to breast cancer. In light of that anecdotal evidence, he chose to have the dentist extract the tooth in question. The procedure was possibly incompetent as the family stated that the dentist had “damaged the adjacent tooth that had the root canal.” The client acknowledged that there is a possible link between endodontic procedures and breast cancer. Findings from one research paper indicated “that in every case of breast cancer the doctor had seen, the patient had had a root canal or gum disease and the cancer was always on the same side as the root canal.” This was confirmed with this woman regarding which side the root canal was on, i.e. the right mandible and the nodes present in the right breast tissue.
Her right breast was removed and approximately 37 lymph nodes were removed, 35 of which had breast cancer. They found that the cancer had spread to his left hip, originally suspected to be in the neck of the femur, although it was assessed to be in the acetabulum, allowing for a left hip replacement.
He had to receive 10 fractions of radiation to the hip/femur area and is currently receiving chemotherapy probably for a period of 12 weekly sessions.
Naturally all this has been very stressful, and had clouded the thinking of his initial clinical therapist who had been working on the right chest, back, right leg and did not focus treatment on the left side of the client’s body.
She had been seen by the orthopedic surgeon very recently and this client commented that her left leg was weak. The doctor tried it and it turned out to be remarkably weak. The doctor suggested that it was due to radiation and chemotherapy, but it would improve in a few months. Still, the use of Chapman’s reflexes (also known as neurolymphatic points) did not occur to the therapist, until one afternoon he lifted her onto the table to concentrate on her right leg. It was at this stage that the physician adopted the neurolymphatic points test. There was no expectation that it would work given her track record. He very strongly opposed the evaluation due to the alteration of the treatment protocol, the strength of the test and the sensitivity of the weakened points. But the effect was dramatic: the left quadriceps muscle was tested just as hard as the right.
The practitioner did not think that she would maintain this strength, but during the treatment time of about half an hour, she was able to walk much better and walked much more easily in the late afternoon. The intention is to continue working using the stimulation of the reflex points to alter the activation of the neural reflex in the lower limbs and the core. The client was very happy and satisfied both physically and emotionally with her results, she has daily tasks of stimulating the Chapman’s reflex points to help in the neural efficiency of the muscles of the affected limb.