Jul 23 2008
Wilbarger Technique
A few weeks ago a friend commented that she didn’t see what the Wilbarger Technique- a specific brushing and joint compression technique - was supposed to do. I couldn’t really explain it myself, at least not in plain English. But I think I may have it now.
Picture the brain that has some proprioceptive oversensitivity as a sort of high-strung mother hen. The parts of the body are her chicks. Our hen, in addition to being a little high-strung is also not so great at keeping track of those chicks. Now they tend to stay pretty close to her, but she doesn’t seem to always know that. So she spends a lot of energy trying to figure out where those guys are! When she gets worked up, so do the chicks.
But what if we help her out by doing a sort of head count every couple of hours? Once she knows where her chicks are, she’s happy, she can relax a little and get on with the rest of her henly business (whatever that is).
My best understanding of the protocol is that it helps the body ‘check in’ with itself. Once the brain knows where everything is, it can calm down and focus better on the other myriad tasks it needs to attend to.
