Understand one's own disease

 

THE ARTICULAR SYSTEM


We will develop here the entire skeleton as well as all soft tissues allowing us to move: on the one hand, the bones and their bone marrow, on the other hand, the muscles, tendons, ligaments, capsules,… articulating them. Before precising the conflictual contents of these important types of tissue, let us take up the localisation matter considering the ubiquity of these organs in our body . Roughly one can use the following "clue" (valid for other widespread tissues): one moves with the inferior limbs, hence the conflicts of choice, of motion, of decision linked to it. One is in contact with the other by means of the superior limbs, hence the relational colouring of its affections. As far as the spinal cord is concerned, it is the support of our stature with all the varieties one may guess: bend the head or feel the impact in a cerebral way (problems of opinion, affirmation, justice, etc…) or in one’s "gravity centre" resting on the pelvis; protecting the lower part of the abdomen and amongst others our sexual organs.

The bones (CF2) are the basic material guarantees for our capacity of action and the conflict is one of profound devalorisation. If the conflict is situated within a limited domain, the target will only be the corresponding bone: the conflict of having to resist, affecting the hip; the conflict of injustice, touching the cervical column ; the conflict with a sexual colouring affecting the pelvis, etc… But the experience may be more general and thus entail "disseminated bone cancers" such as the Kahler myeloma. The pain of the repairing bone is due to the swelling of the very innervated peripheral part (the periostum) and the fracture risk is much more important during this second phase.

The bone marrow (CF2) is automatically concerned by the bone lesions but it will only have clinical repercussions if a sufficient part of the skeleton is destroyed in the first phase. The conflictual gradation of the devalorisation lies within the affective value and security related to the bone, which expresses more the force and power aspect. Hence, the more important frequency of medullary affections in the two extreme ages of life and in what is called A.I.D.S.. In the second phase, the recovery, so much more exuberant as the conflict has been important, of the cellular multiplication (erythrocytes, platelets, and especially leukocytes being weaker and thus destroyed in a greater number during the 1st phase) gives the malignant diagnosis of leukaemia: a severe blood cancer justifying the marrow destruction by chemical or physical means, each time it naturally tries to come to life again! The alarm signal is already on red when the leukocyte count lies between 50 or 100.000 (the norm being between 4 and 10.000) when the variation norm of erythrocytes lies between 4 and 5.8 million!

Let us point here to the fact that if the lesion is not conflictual but due to an external cause, the reparation processes are always the same: bone callosity (excess of proliferation) after a traumatic fracture, "leukaemia" after nuclear irradiation.

The tendons, muscles, ligaments (CF2). The conflict is the obstacle, the lack of liberty. Examples: elbow tendinitis after a "strong arm", inflammation of the foot ligaments after having been able to put it where one wanted. Or else: a lot of people work hours with their head bowed but one will find less nape pain with writers or pianists who open out in their artistic creation than with secretaries not being able to raise their heads as the door is not far away…

The muscles themselves can be affected (CF2) but the pathology may be inherent to their nervous command: the conflict of feeling paralysed will be seen in multiple sclerosis. Finally, devalorisation and obstacles do not exclude what is called articular rheumatism, the articular deformations are the handicapping sequels of a bone reconstruction after an intricate and often re-stimulated conflict.