Checking Spinous Processes for Alignment

Jerry Hesch This is my beef with MET (muscle energy technique). If you make a claim that something is stuck based on how it looks, and your goal is to correct motion, why not then retest the specific motion properties which are PASSIVE ACCESSORY MOTIONS, which I test using Springing With Awareness. The MET apprach does not test this fine micromotion joint property. I sometimes help women (much more frequently than men with this syndrome) who are alligned!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Problem is the sacrum is alligned, yet is completely stuck in posterior glide tractioning the sacral nerves. So the ilia are stuck as is the symphysis pubis as is the L5-S1. So models of asymmetry fail in this regard whereas springing with awareness done at all segments regardless of how they look will discern these. Yes, some highly skilled users of MET may debate this point but as a general statment it is valid that these things are often missed with that paradigm. Let's compare techniques sometime, I submit there is a time for MET, a
time for prolonged creep mobilization, etc.  Later will do a post on research re manipulation versus lesser grades of mobilization, equally effective.  See J Manual & Manipulative Therapy editorial, this issue.