 The trick to finding what is supposed to be the soft tissue is to first locate a nearby bony landmark that can be easily felt from the surface. If you place your finger tip behind an earlobe, you will find a "gully" formed by the jaw bone in front and another bone in back, the mastoid bone. Running your finger down that edge will quickly bring you to the bottom tip of the mastoid (A). Continuing on around the tip and following the back edge (B) will bring you to a bone-like ridge (C) about 1¼ to 1½ inch above the tip of the mastoid. This ridge is the attachment line of Obliquus Capitis Superior (17). If you follow the ridge straight in toward the center of the head, you will feel it come to an end a little over an inch from where you started. At that point, your finger should pick out the upper end of the hard center of Rectus Capitis Posterior Major (18), following a line about 45° to the ridge of 17. To find the lower end of 18, place your finger tip on the point of the inion bone (D), located at the back of your head. Move your finger straight down until you feel a depression below the edge of the skull, followed by the backward protrusion of a vertebra. This is the 2nd (cervical) vertebra below the skull, as the 1st vertebra does not have a backward protrusion which can be felt from the surface. The protrusion is split so it forms twin lumps on each side of the center line (E), about 2¼ to 2½ inches below the point of the inion. In addition to being the attachment of the lower end of 18, this is the inner attachment of Obliquus Capitis Inferior (20).
Go back to the tip of the mastoid and again run your finger tip up the back edge, but this time press in a bit and you will feel that your are passing over the end of a muscle (F). This is the upper end of Splenius Capitis (22). To find the lower end, go back to the twin tipped vertebra where 18 and 20 attach, and run your finger straight down toward the base of the neck. You will feel several vertebrae pass under your finger and then you will come to one that sticks out much further than the others (G). This is the "crick in the neck" area, or the 7th cervical vertebra, and the attachment for the lower end of Splenius Cervicis (19) and 22.
To find the upper end of 19, place your finger just below the tip of the mastoid and move toward the center of the back of your neck. You will move up and over 22, then drop into a "valley". On the side of the valley nearest the center of the neck, you should feel a little hard "grain of sand" (H). This the attachment of 19 onto the lateral tip of the 1st vertebra,. Above is the attachment of 17, and medially is the outer attachment of 20.
Techniques for using the Bio Pulser (Using the Cup Tip and 2-3 washers):
Pulse Trapezius attachment at inion (3) for headache and sinus problems; it lies on top of 17 and 18.
Pulse 17 for frontal sinus; work the outside edge for nausea, the inside edge for pain behind the eyes.
Pulse Rectus Capitis Posterior Minor (21) for cheek bone sinus.
Pulse 22 for a newly stiff neck.
Pulse 18 to relieve the irritation of the sphenoid sinus and return the pituitary and hypothalamus to normal functioning.
All of the suboccipital muscles should be pulsed to help with general health, well being, and energy levels.
As the treatments take effect, the soreness decreases.
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