title: Low back pain: treatment of forward and backward sacral torsions using counterstrain technique.
abstract: The sacral foramen tender points are newly identified, specific indicators of somatic dysfunction. The use of counterstrain to release these tender points and relieve the associated somatic dysfunction is a safe, specific, and nontraumatic means of treating any patient even in the presence of illness or acute trauma. These new tender points and their releases provide a means of treating sacral torsions with counterstrain.
authors.affiliation: Doctors Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 43201-3496.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cislo
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ramirez
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008349:Manipulation, Orthopedic; D012447:Sacrum