AboutLawrence Gold Expertise Questions concerning herniated discs, back muscle spasms, lifting injuries, sciatica, whiplash injuries, dizziness, headaches, movement limitations
Experience In practice since 1990. Two years on staff at a hospital Wellness and Rehabilitation Center.
Organizations belong to Association for Hanna Somatic Educators, Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals, Association for Humanistic Psychology
Publications Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, American Journal of Pain Management, Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Mind-Body Arts and Sciences. More complete listing at somatics.com/gold.htm
Education/Credentials Certifications: Hanna Somatic Education, the Dr. Ida P. Rolf method of Structural Integration (partial list)
Publications American Journal of Pain Management, Townsend Letter for Doctors, Somatics - Magazine/Journal of the Mind-Body Arts and Sciences, Bodywork and Massage Magazine (quarterly) - partial list
Expert: Lawrence Gold Date: 4/26/2008 Subject: c1 fracture
Question hello i had a neck injury.I have a fractured c1. Do you know someone who can fix it?
the nerosergens here never had such a case before. they told me to wait because they need to find a way to fix it.I got injured in 1996.I went to the hospital. I was misdiagnosed.I have ben having complications for 12 years. I went to the hospital 2 weeks ago because my complication got wrost.They gave me a ct scan then told me the bad news. Now when i sleep without my neck brace, I can feeland hear the bones in my neck crack. often i wake up and cant move both of my arms. IS this symtom related?Or is it just my arm falling to sleep at night.
Answer Hi, Johnny,
If you had a fractured C1 vertebrae, any healing that must occur should have occurred long ago. Another medical consultation is in order.
If surgical intervention needed, it is outside my scope of practice.
Paralysis of the arms is almost certainly the result of nerve entrapment, probably of the muscles of the neck which were triggered into contraction by the injury that fractured your T1.
The fracture is the primary concern, here, and must be dealt with before attending to the neck musculature. That problem can usually be corrected by means of muscle retraining. The means I practice for that is called somatic education. More information: somatics.com/page4.htm
