FIGURE 2.

A bio-tensegrity structure with imbalance. Nerves can be affected by internal fascial forces and sense tension to send pain signals. This happens more in weaker areas of the structure, i.e., areas that are pulled by myofascial tissue and myofibroblast generated forces, for example, as seen on the right side of the structure when the dome is facing the observer. Needling the painful area does not address the underlying cause for the pain, which may be increased tension generated by the left side of the structure (when facing the observer). To balance the structure, one should needle the contralateral side to pain as well: the side to which the structure leans and which indicates more stress shielding and force generation. In this model, pain and somatic manifestations are a symptom of imbalance rather that the problem to simply target anatomically. With permission from, and photographed by, Aaron Neilson-Belman AaronNeilsonBelman.com. Reprinted from https://hippievanman.com/photos (accessed 2021).