http://www.medicinenet.com/ankylosing_spondylitis/article.htm

This is a decent link about this condition. I worked on a 38 yr old athletic
man who had part of what you are asking about, and maybe more of omething your
client does not have. But here goes.

The guy was jerked into the air by a gust of wind to his kite for kite sailing
on the beach - and the gust carried him about 20 feet he said and he landed hard
on the left foot. From then on he had severe problems on the left side of the
structure - added to even an earlier life consition of the lower left side of
back - in pinched nerve and he had some shaving of the bone to make that better
- then years ago had this jamming of the left side.

He had very tight mid back to lower back tightness on the left side. And
while his MRI's showed no disk or nerve damage, we found some disks around mid
area of thoracic and all the way down a compressed sent of disks - and when he
walked or sat in the car for a while - 1 hr 2 hrs is all that was needed - he
would get very bad debilitating pain. AND - his psoas, abdominals, adductors
and hamstrings would re-tighten - like a spasm, even the next day after I did
very deep work to lengthen them for a few hours in one session even.

I looked up in Gray's anatomy and saw the muscles in spasm were having their
motor nerves pinched at the vertbra-disk locations where he had the most
significant pinching together and lack of support from eolsewhere.

I got him into doing green leafy and carrot juices - the health food store in
town made them for him - in less than a week of 1-1/2 glasses a day, his fascia
was much more spreadable and stretchable on his own. That made it easier to do
more and deeper - finally I got it all spoftened and his stretching could help
him from the spasming - and he got a lot of prolo therapy and did nutrition to
rebuild the disks that had gotten compressed with the left footed landing with
such physical force from the kite-wind.

Best - Lou Gross

Carol <carol@...> wrote:
What is anyone's experience with this condition? I an in the middle of
the 10 series with some opening of the mid-back which feels really good
to the client. Suggesions as I proceed forward? His neck is severely
contracted on one side and weight is also transmitted down that same
leg.






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