The story of the American Ken Leaver has already appeared on the pages of this blog, describing his experience of treating TMJ problems, shoulder and neck pain and ‘brain fog’ with the Starecta method. Later, he decided to continue experimenting with the ALF appliance and Myobrace trainers (at present he has returned to Starecta). In this short article from his blog, occlivion.com, Ken describes his observations about concentration and what made him zone out in front of the television. From here, the account will be in the first person.

One thing I noticed and found very interesting is how eliminating deformities of a person's skull affects their attention. So my story goes roughly like this: in mid-2014, I was in very bad shape, with ‘brain fog’ and so on. I could not stay at my workstation: I would work for about twenty minutes, then get up for coffee and wander around — I simply needed to.

By the end of 2015, when I had been on Starecta for almost a year, I had straightened out quite a lot and felt good. I remember being able to work at my workstation all day without even noticing it. My level of attention was such that I could keep working even at home until nine or ten in the evening.

In mid-2017, using the ALF appliance and a splint (Ken experimented with them himself, without a specialist), my body ‘twisted’ back again, and I felt that my attention had ‘collapsed’ once more. I could not work for more than 45 minutes at a time and could no longer work in the evening. Instead, I would zone out in front of the television until late.

At the end of 2017, I began using a Myobrace trainer to align my bite and felt that my attention was starting to improve again. I could once again work in the evenings and sit at my desk for long periods.

These observations from my own experience made me think about people we consider ‘lazy’. Are they really lazy? Or are they perhaps simply physically ‘twisted’? Do people who spend hours hanging around on social media do so because of a bad habit? Or do they do it because they simply cannot concentrate because of the effect their incorrect bite has on their body? (On the vertebrae, arteries and muscles.)

As a teenager and in my early twenties, I was a workaholic, easily working until midnight and combining it all with hard training. During the couple of years when my body was crooked, I began spending as much time in front of the television as the average American. I can tell you with complete confidence that I did this neither out of habit nor because I ‘started getting old’. It happened exclusively because my body was functioning incorrectly due to my incorrect bite. Nothing more, nothing less.

Hypochondria: psychosomatics or the result of biomechanical trauma? — here.
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Russian translation