How to MANIPULATE the Cervical-Thoracic Junction (CTJ) #chiropractic #manualtherapy #osteopathy

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John Gibbons is a registered Osteopath, Lecturer and Author and is discussing how to manipulate the cervical dorsal junction (CDJ) or the cervical thoracic junction (CTJ). Some of these techniques can be taught but only to skilled therapists and manipulations plus more is taught on the Spinal course at Core Elements in swindon. The technique demonstrated is called a CT thrust.

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in this next video I’m going to show you how to manipulate the CT Junction of a CD Junction which means cervical thoracic or cervical dorsal Junction and it affects the Alder nerve because of the C8 nerve root so one way to do it is to get the patient my hands are the forearms interlock your fingers behind the neck like this interlock thing is good bring the elbows forward like this and then what I’m going to do is place my upper chest onto it upper back relax relax and I’m just going to rock the back and sometimes it would cavitate just on this movement okay and if you’re going to do it for us as a continuation okay so you’re going to bring them back and the thrust is simply going from there to there okay not the loudest click but there was a cavitation between the level of C7 and T1 and this is called a thoracic lift