Lamb treated the client for core distortion, and right away he had no problem walking or getting in and out of a chair. “He felt the shift immediately,” says Lamb. “Everything was clear. I was really impressed”
When Paul Lamb, LMT, Quantum-Touch practitioner, medical qigong therapist and reflexologist first learned about core distortion—tipping of the sacrum (the base of the spine, which connects to the back of the pelvis) and forward or backward rotation of the ilium (the large broad bone forming the upper part of each half of the pelvis) leading to a lack of weight-bearing support for the spine—he wasn’t overly impressed.
And then he treated a 72-year-old friend for it.
“All of her life, one leg had been shorter than the other—a classic symptom of core distortion,” says Lamb, who practices in New Jersey. “Her mother used to make her pants longer on one side to compensate. I began the core distortion protocol by measuring the height of her occipital bone (a trapezoid-shaped bone at the back of the skull) on both sides of her head, and the measurements were quite off. Then, when I