1975 | A Perfect Storm
A spinal fusion in the lower back and
a dental split on the upper teeth
created
A Perfect Storm
in the world of the cranial Osteopath.
This journey into an unconventional realm of medicine,
into the world of Unknown Diagnosis without a map or a compass,
slowly unveiled a territory called
IATROGENESIS*.
*Iatrogenesis
harm brought forth by unintended adverse patient outcome
because of a health care intervention.
Prelude No. 11
Robert Vandall
How and Why?
When I was 25 years old, an unknown, undiscovered, unidentified injury happened during a sinus surgery. An intubation injury in the throat with an anesthetic awareness experience
remained Unnamed and I was Unheard for 25 years.
A second child birth in 1974 provoked a herniated disc and two unsuccessful back surgeries.
A devastating diagnosis entered my life: degenerative disc disease. An even more upsetting prognosis accompanied this diagnosis: the eventual fusion of my entire spine. I learned several years later that the spinal fusion was one inch too anterior. My body – and my life – were thrown ‘out of balance’
During a routine dental examination in 1977, the grinding (equilibration) of a tooth triggered unrelenting facial pain. Subsequent mismanagement of TMJ initiated 40+ years of puzzling orofacial pain.
The years from 1971-1977 were traumatic.
1971 – 1986
Unrecognized forewarnings of silent waves emerged in 1971.
These Sounds of Silence were Nameless.
unaware, uninformed, unfamiliar, unknown, undiscovered, unidentified
I was 24 years old.
Tornados appeared in 1972, 1975, 1976 and again in 1978,
leaving destruction and wreckage spanning the next three years.
The entrance to “The Road Less Traveled” revealed itself in February, 1981.
A summit appeared on this Road within years.
In 1986, The Cranial Connection publication
achieved world-wide distribution.
Twenty-five years after this intubation injury (1996), an orthodontic procedure provoked a bizarre injury
in the palate. And two years later (1998), an oral surgeon confirmed and identified what had transpired during the past 25 years. “It” was named and “I” was heard by some.
Fast Forward… thirty-five years later into The NOW of 2024
Accompany me on a remarkable journey that led into the Unknown
and uncovered extraordinary possibilities and potentialities in the Beyond.
The Unknown is now becoming Known and the Beyond is rapidly spinning
into the NOW.
This “Road Less Traveled” has changed my life.
