Children
How can MFR help Birth Injury?
What is it? Birth Injuries is a wide category that includes any trauma that a baby may experience during the birthing process or immediately after being born. Use of forceps, posterior births, breach births, and anything that can add stress or physical trauma to the newborn is considered a birthing trauma. How can MFR help? By addressing these physical traumas immediately after the newborn has experienced them, decreases their ability to have a long term cumulative effect in the baby’s body. These restrictions can multiply and cause a variety of other debilitating issues for the child further into his/her development. "Due to forceps our baby girl had extensive bruising to both sides of her head, right eye, both cheeks, and right side of her mouth extending to her chin. The bruising faded but at six weeks old, our baby started showing signs of torticollis and over the next few months other restrictions started appearing. Most concerning to her pediatrician was the development of plagiocephaly (flat head.) Being a physical therapist and having taken several of John Barnes’ Myofascial Release seminars, I knew that her flat head and lack of motion were due to restrictions in the Myofascial system. After my child’s first Myofascial Release treatment my baby was able to get her arms over her head freely and I dressed her for the first time without hearing her cry! At the end of a week of treatments, she was able to sit in midline and turn her had from side to side while reaching for an object without pain. She was so happy! I had never seen her smile so much!" Elizabeth, Arizona
