Last week I worked with a Nephrologist (kidney doctor). I saw patients in the dialysis unit where patients with failing kidneys go 3 times a week for 3-4 hour treatment. Can you imagine not being able to urinate at all and have to depend on a machine to clean you blood? How ridiculous! How archaic! You’d think, with all our damned technology and genome projects going on we could figure out how to fix someone’s kidney, but no! Patients either get a transplant or put on dialysis if their “little kidneys that sit and make piss” poop out.
I wonder if there is a way to access the kidneys through manipulation…
Dr. Kuchera(1) quotes Goldthwaite(2), so I’ll do the same:
“A loose kidney is found almost always with a faulty posture. The drooped thorax obliterates the forward thrust of the ribs and relaxes the diaphragm, thus pushing the liver downward on the kidney to the right. Because of the this pressure, the protecting fat is rapidly lost and ptosis of the kidney follows.” Paraphrasing the rest of the quote: ptosis of the kidney can disturb proper blood flow, innervation and drainage leading to numerous problems with the kidney, all of which could have potentially been avoided if the kidney was restored to normal position through poper body mechanics. (p.123)
On p.135 Kuchera(1) specifically address renal disease and that treatment of the T11, T12, L1 area may reduce renal disease and improve recovery even in patients with renal failure. hmmmm.
1. Kucher ML, Kuchera WA, “Osteopathic Considerations in Systemic Dysfunction” 2nd ed. Greyden Press. Columbus, OH. 1994
2. Goldthwaite, Brown, Swain, Kulans, “Essentials of Body Mechanics in Health and Disease”. 5th ed, 1952.