Introduction
This site is dedicated to the discovery of Permanent Muscle Motility (PMM) (Motilité Musculaire Permanente - MMP) as well as to a new osteopathic approach :
Hemodynamic Osteopathy
This discovery brings about a new therapeutic concept based on a biological fundamental fact of major importance :
It is the discovery of the functioning of the myo-facial and cranio-sacred systems
which osteopathy described.
It is the discovery of the first basis for the physiological workings of so-called energetic medicines techniques: Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Moxibution and Magnetotherapy.
The PMM is the missing link needed to definitively establish the scientific nature, and therefore legitimacy, of osteopathy. As with many other major discoveries in this field, PMM is not the result of conceptual rationalization only but first and foremost the fruit of clinical observation.
Skeletal muscles are almost completely responsible for venous flow
Muscles pump even at rest.
The heart takes little part in venous circulation (see "Summary of biological and physiological knowledge” about "venous circulation"). After the blood has gone through the capillaries, the blood pressure is almost non-existent, as is the aspiration in the heart's right auricle. The fascias and the skull's movements well known to osteopaths come as a consequence of the filling-up phase (rest) and emptying phase (contraction) of the skeletal muscles. Even when at rest, they are totally responsible for driving the blood back to the heart.
An alternation principle emerges
Two muscles groups work alternatively.
While one group fills up, the other contracts and empties. This causes the fascias' movements which the osteopaths perceive. These alternating movements generate longitudinal slidings enabling the lymph to progress. It also leads to all the body's joints being permanently mobilized, ensuring that they are thus imperceptibly drained.
Questioning:
It is coherent to think that:
- Slow oxidative muscle fibers are the driving fibers of the PMM: they are responsible for venous and lymphatic vascularisation.
- The captors which synchronize the muscles groups (mutual innervation loops) are the Golgi organs, the neuromuscular spindles (whose isolated role in the patellar reflex seems debatable to us).
- This does away with the theories involving "sous duremèrienne" forces as the drive of cranial mechanics (see "Cranial mechanics and cerebral tissue"): the forces leading to cranial "mobility" are solely muscular. In this matter, Hemodynamic Osteopathy offers a reliable explanation for the fact that the skull progressively becomes still during an apnea.
- Major notions which cannot be ignored are added to the concept of muscle chains. In the future, osteopaths will no doubt have a much deeper knowledge of them than we do now. There is a lot left to do, but the results will definitely better our knowledge of “osteopathic lesion” (muscle tonus disorder) and its implication in the symptom and its solution.
Physiological mechanisms in Chinese medicines
The PMM rhythms react in an orderly and reproducible fashion to the applying of acupuncture needles, moxas, magnets, etc.
This leads to the understanding of the workings of energetic medicines and of the mechanical functioning of musculo-skeletal structures.
Psychosomatism
The PMM is particularly valued by the Unconscious to create symptoms. It is possible to offer a coherent explanation of the physical mechanism of a hysteric paralysis through knowledge of the PMM workings.
In practice
The new techniques yielded by the PMM are particularly effective on blood circulation problems (such as heavy legs and œdemas), but also on any other problem osteopathy deals with.
This is what we seek to demonstrate on this site:
The PMM, discovered by Hervé JULIEN (osteopath) in 2002, was first presented to the public at the Salon des Médecines Douces of Paris in 2004.
The first training seminars will soon be organized for osteopaths and physiotherapists and informing sessions will open to the public. Pre-register now without obligation.
This site also contains:
A DIRECTORY
in which are referenced all osteopaths working according to the PMM’s principles.
A FORUM OPEN TO ALL
to establish contact between :
- The general public and the osteopaths :
Visitors can ask questions about a symptom or a condition and wheter osteopathy can treat it.
- the osteopaths themselves :
To address questions about their profession.
- To enable you to express your impressions and opinions about the content of the site.
- So our answers are accessible to all.
The site is in constant progress and regularly updated. Other texts will soon be on-line. Leave your email address here if you wish to receive the newletter.** Apart from registration in the Teutaros association, for seminars and informing sessions, all registrations on this site are free and without obligation on your part.
