Welcome to the Kiso Method
How did the Kiso Method come about? What are its unique aspects? How long does it take to learn the Kiso Method? How can I learn it? These questions will be answered below.
As with many inventions in our world, the Kiso Method came about originally by mistake. Spontaneous synchronicity brought a wonderful discovery.
Back in 1987 while I was an intern at Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose CA, I was seeing a patient. She was in her late twenties and several months pregnant. At Palmer College we had been taught a technique using a kneeling bench. The patient kneels with their face and chest on the apparatus, then drops their stomach down, extending the lower back. The chiropractor contacts the vertebra to be adjusted, and as the patient relaxes, makes a quick, hard thrust downward. For many, this technique is too abrupt, too hard to use. It sounds a bit scary.
So I had my patient on her knees, and positioned on the "knee chest table", as it’s called. I had her extend her stomach down. I told her to relax as I exerted pressure with my hands, getting ready to make a thrust when she quickly got up and said, “I don’t want to do this. I’m scared and would rather wait.”
Well, she had been in a lot of pain and I was adjusting her sacrum at the base of her spine. She had been experiencing “sciatica”, pain down her leg for a few days. When she stood up from the knee chest apparatus, she looked startled and said “I don’t have anymore pain!” I said, “I didn’t do anything yet.”
Two weeks later I saw her on the street and asked her how she was doing, she informed me that since that day in my office, after standing up from the knee chest bench, her low back pain and sciatica had vanished. I realized something had happened during the process of having her kneeling down on the bench. I thought it was a fluke.
About 5 years later when I was practicing in Monterey CA, I had a patient come in with severe low back pain. He had been in the emergency room and then bed ridden for days. He was in his thirties. He owned his own painting company and was a very hard worker, he didn’t want to take time off, but he could barely walk. I tried to adjust his 5th lumbar with the traditional side adjusting maneuver. I couldn’t even set up for the adjustment, he was in too much pain.
It was then I remembered the incident at Palmer College. I had an old knee chest table I had inherited from another chiropractor (they are fairly uncommon) and proceeded to put him on it. I had him on his knees with his head and chest supported. I contacted his 5th lumbar and had him relax his stomach, dropping it closer to the ground. He was able to relax in this position so I took advantage of it. I pushed down and used an oscillation with my contact hand. I did this for about 30 seconds and had him get up. He was much better. I was more amazed than he was.
His pain was about 60% better. He said, “What did you do?” I almost replied that I wasn't sure, but that wouldn’t have been professional! I said, "I adjusted your vertebra." I proceeded to use this technique with him about 6 more times and he became completely well. He wanted to paint my house as a trade for my services.
After helping the painter, I became enthralled with this non-force technique. I eventually added the non-force adjusting to all areas of the spine, and began to develop the Kiso Method. I observed how the cranio-sacral system could be manipulated to bring about an end to the flight or fight sympathetic over-ride that was affecting so many people. Through the years, I developed more and more aspects of the Kiso Method; allowing the body's natural intelligence to keep the mind and body functioning at its utmost level of efficiency. The Kiso Method is not just for pain relief or relief of symptoms, it's for life!
See Demo of Kiso Bench here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf-gQVsxKc8
Back in 1987 while I was an intern at Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose CA, I was seeing a patient. She was in her late twenties and several months pregnant. At Palmer College we had been taught a technique using a kneeling bench. The patient kneels with their face and chest on the apparatus, then drops their stomach down, extending the lower back. The chiropractor contacts the vertebra to be adjusted, and as the patient relaxes, makes a quick, hard thrust downward. For many, this technique is too abrupt, too hard to use. It sounds a bit scary.
So I had my patient on her knees, and positioned on the "knee chest table", as it’s called. I had her extend her stomach down. I told her to relax as I exerted pressure with my hands, getting ready to make a thrust when she quickly got up and said, “I don’t want to do this. I’m scared and would rather wait.”
Well, she had been in a lot of pain and I was adjusting her sacrum at the base of her spine. She had been experiencing “sciatica”, pain down her leg for a few days. When she stood up from the knee chest apparatus, she looked startled and said “I don’t have anymore pain!” I said, “I didn’t do anything yet.”
Two weeks later I saw her on the street and asked her how she was doing, she informed me that since that day in my office, after standing up from the knee chest bench, her low back pain and sciatica had vanished. I realized something had happened during the process of having her kneeling down on the bench. I thought it was a fluke.
About 5 years later when I was practicing in Monterey CA, I had a patient come in with severe low back pain. He had been in the emergency room and then bed ridden for days. He was in his thirties. He owned his own painting company and was a very hard worker, he didn’t want to take time off, but he could barely walk. I tried to adjust his 5th lumbar with the traditional side adjusting maneuver. I couldn’t even set up for the adjustment, he was in too much pain.
It was then I remembered the incident at Palmer College. I had an old knee chest table I had inherited from another chiropractor (they are fairly uncommon) and proceeded to put him on it. I had him on his knees with his head and chest supported. I contacted his 5th lumbar and had him relax his stomach, dropping it closer to the ground. He was able to relax in this position so I took advantage of it. I pushed down and used an oscillation with my contact hand. I did this for about 30 seconds and had him get up. He was much better. I was more amazed than he was.
His pain was about 60% better. He said, “What did you do?” I almost replied that I wasn't sure, but that wouldn’t have been professional! I said, "I adjusted your vertebra." I proceeded to use this technique with him about 6 more times and he became completely well. He wanted to paint my house as a trade for my services.
After helping the painter, I became enthralled with this non-force technique. I eventually added the non-force adjusting to all areas of the spine, and began to develop the Kiso Method. I observed how the cranio-sacral system could be manipulated to bring about an end to the flight or fight sympathetic over-ride that was affecting so many people. Through the years, I developed more and more aspects of the Kiso Method; allowing the body's natural intelligence to keep the mind and body functioning at its utmost level of efficiency. The Kiso Method is not just for pain relief or relief of symptoms, it's for life!
See Demo of Kiso Bench here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf-gQVsxKc8