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Bones Breathing, Osteopathy, Rehabilitation, and Tai Chi in Barcelona

Louis Kammerer is an osteopath in Barcelona specializing in the rehabilitation of athletes, circus artists, and dancers.

Louis Kammerer is a osteopath with a wholistic approach to health and treatment. Specializing in Neuromuscular, Fascial, Cranial, and visceral techniques, he loves to treat both children and adults. His backround as a former professional circus artist and lifelong martial artist gives him a special joy in understanding and treating athletic injuries.

25/08/2026

A lot of neck problems seem to be related to overuse — and the overuse often starts with the two domes at your centre. The diaphragm and pelvic floor face each other, connected by pressure, fascia and rhythm. Inhale: both descend. Exhale: both rise. When one is gripped — a clenched pelvic floor, a braced belly — the other can’t dance, and the whole trunk pays: breath gets shallow, the low back stiffens, and the shoulders and neck start compensating from above, doing a job the centre stopped doing. That neck you keep stretching may simply be covering for two domes that stopped answering each other. You can’t fix one dome while ignoring the other — and you often can’t fix the neck while ignoring both.

Test: Inhale and let the breath widen your lower back and sit bones — not just the belly. Feel anything soften down there? That’s the partnership. Now check your neck.

My work treats the two domes as one system — pressure, fascia and rhythm together. If your core work has plateaued, or your neck keeps returning, this is often why. DM.

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Muchos problemas de cuello no empiezan en el cuello. Empiezan en el centro.

El diafragma y el suelo pélvico trabajan juntos todo el tiempo. Cuando uno se mueve, el otro responde. Si ese ritmo se rompe, el cuerpo lo compensa desde arriba.

Ahí es cuando el cuello empieza a cargar con un trabajo que no le toca.

Por eso, estirar el cuello muchas veces no cambia nada. El problema no está ahí.

Si el abdomen está tenso o el suelo pélvico no se mueve, la respiración se vuelve corta, la zona lumbar se endurece y los hombros suben para compensar.

Test: Respira y deja que el aire llegue también a la parte baja de la espalda y a la base de la pelvis, no solo al abdomen.

¿Notas que algo se suelta ahí abajo?

Ahora revisa tu cuello. Cuando el centro responde, el cuello deja de hacer de más.

Ahí está la relación, y ahí está el trabajo. Atenas & Barcelona. DM.

18/08/2026

The diaphragm attaches to the lumbar spine, the lower six ribs and the back of the sternum — right at the body’s centre of gravity — and it shares fibres and fascia with the deep hip flexors running to your legs. It is structurally impossible for it to contract without affecting your posture, and impossible for your posture to change without changing its shape. This is why the diaphragm is drafted into stability duty the moment the deep system falters: a body that doesn’t trust its support holds its breath to hold itself up. And it works — brace your breath and you feel more solid — which is exactly why the habit sticks.

The cost is a diaphragm that can’t do its other job. You can’t fully breathe with a muscle stuck bracing and not allowing the balance back and forth. So “learn to breathe” often has a hidden prerequisite: learn to sway through the centre, back and forth.

Test: Stand and sway slowly forward and back through your centre — ankles free, nothing gripping, the weight passing through the middle of you each time. Keep breathing through the sway. Is there a point where you hold your breath to hold yourself up? That’s the bracing, and that’s the breath you’ve been spending on standing.

This is the heart of my work: giving your body support it trusts, so breath doesn’t have to do the holding. Osteopathy + movement sessions — DM to book.

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El diafragma no solo sirve para respirar, también ayuda a sostener el cuerpo.

Cuando falta estabilidad, muchas personas bloquean el aire para sentirse más firmes. El problema es que así la respiración deja de ser libre.

Haz la prueba: muévete lentamente hacia delante y hacia atrás. ¿Hay algún punto en el que dejas de respirar para no perder el equilibrio?

Ahí estás usando la respiración para sostenerte. El objetivo es que el cuerpo encuentre estabilidad sin bloquear el aire.

Atenas & Barcelona. DM.

11/08/2026

We say “ribcage” as if it were one thing that inflates and deflates. Look closer: every rib is a curved lever hung from the spine, and each one rotates — turning inward and outward as you breathe and move, like blinds opening and closing. The whole set rides the spine’s movement too: fold forward and the ribs close in front, open behind; arch back and they reverse. Side to side, the ribs live in constant asymmetry — walk, reach, swim, and one side of the cage lifts and opens while the other drops and closes, like a bellows worked diagonally. Breathing is only one of the ribcage’s dances.
When ribs lose their rotation — stuck open or stuck closed — you don’t just lose breath. You lose the spine’s rotation, the scapula’s gliding surface, the diaphragm’s dome shape. The stiffness gets named in the neck or shoulder, but it lives in the levers.

Test: Put both hands on the front of your ribs. Move and breathe into your hands — can you fill them? Now move your hands to the sides of your ribs and do the same. Then the back. Is one direction fuller than the others? Is one side fuller than the other? The difference you just found is the dimension your ribs stopped using.

Finding your stuck ribs takes hands. In a session I test each dimension — rotation, side-lift, flexion — and free the ones that stopped participating. Athens & Barcelona — DM.

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Las costillas no son una sola pieza que sube y baja. Se mueven en muchas direcciones, y ese movimiento es lo que mantiene todo funcionando.

Cuando se bloquean — abiertas o cerradas — no solo afecta a la respiración. También limita cómo gira tu espalda, cómo se mueve el hombro y cómo trabaja tu cuerpo en conjunto.

Muchas veces la molestia aparece en el cuello o en el hombro, pero el problema empieza aquí.

Test: Coloca las manos en la parte delantera de las costillas y respira hacia ellas. Después prueba en los lados. Luego en la espalda.

Observa si hay zonas donde el aire llega más fácil y otras donde no.

Ahí es donde empieza el trabajo: recuperar esas direcciones para que el cuerpo vuelva a moverse completo. Atenas & Barcelona. DM.

04/08/2026

The lymphatic system — your body’s drainage and immune network — has no pump of its own. It moves by breath, muscle and movement, and nearly all of it empties into the veins in a small space behind the clavicles, at the base of the neck. Now consider what lives there in most modern bodies: hiked shoulders, a gripped neck, a collapsed upper chest, shallow breath. The drain sits in the most congested traffic junction we have.
When that area is held, the whole system upstream backs up — puffiness, heaviness, that “thick” post-illness or post-flight feeling. The clavicle isn’t just a strut for the shoulder; it’s the lid on the body’s outlet. Free the lid and you’ve helped every tissue downstream of it — which is all of them. A.T. Still, who founded osteopathy, saw this over a century ago and never stopped insisting on it:

“He who is able to reason will see that this great river of life must be tapped and the withering field irrigated at once, or the harvest of health be forever lost.” — A.T. Still, The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy, 1902

Test: Rest your fingertips lightly in the soft hollow above each collarbone. Three slow breaths, letting the area widen under your fingers on the inhale and melt on the exhale. Then gently glide the skin in slow circles for 30 seconds. Many people feel a swallow, a sigh, or a wave of softening — that’s the system responding.

In treatment I work directly with this area — freeing the clavicles, upper ribs and neck fascia so the whole system can drain. Sessions in Athens & Barcelona, in English/Spanish — DM.

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Todo lo que tu cuerpo limpia pasa por un punto clave: las clavículas.

Si esta zona está tensa, puedes notar hinchazón, pesadez o sensación de bloqueo.

Haz la prueba: coloca los dedos sobre las clavículas, respira tres veces y masajea suavemente en círculos.

Un suspiro, un trago o sensación de alivio pueden indicar que el cuerpo está respondiendo.

Atenas & Barcelona. DM.

28/07/2026

Let go of a ball and gravity has already told it where to go. Pick it up and that intention is still there — now you can follow the path down the hill, and back up.

The mirror of this is a ball held underwater: something buoyant beneath the surface finds its own way, pushing around the water. Following the aspect you choose is the skill to develop. Not steering, but facilitating creatively.

This is also, exactly, what my hands do. I don’t push tissue where I think it should go. I find where it’s already trying to go — and it always is — and make that easier. Your body has been proposing it the whole time; the question is only whether anything is in the way.

Test: Hold a ball against your arm and let it fall down your arm bit by bit. Watch where it wants to go between the two surfaces. Now hold it again and follow that same path with your whole arm. Then try to force it somewhere else. Feel which one your shoulder likes.

Finding where your body is already trying to go — and clearing the road — is the whole of my work. Athens & Barcelona. DM.

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Tu cuerpo ya tiene dirección. No hace falta empujarlo, hace falta dejar que ocurra.

Cuando sigues ese movimiento, todo se vuelve más fácil. Cuando lo fuerzas, aparece tensión. La diferencia es muy clara cuando la sientes.

Eso es lo que hago en sesión: no intento colocar el cuerpo, busco hacia dónde ya está yendo y le quito lo que lo frena.

Test: Apoya una pelota en tu brazo y deja que baje poco a poco. Observa por dónde se mueve sin que la dirijas.

Después acompaña ese mismo recorrido con todo el brazo.

Ahora intenta llevarla a otro sitio. Tu hombro lo nota enseguida: un camino se siente fácil y el otro no.

Ahí está todo el trabajo. Atenas & Barcelona. DM.

07/07/2026

The body has three systems for knowing where it is in space: the eyes, the vestibular organs in the inner ear, and the proprioceptors in the joints. The ankles and the cranial base are their two anchoring poles.

The ankle ligaments contain some of the highest concentrations of mechanoreceptors in the body. After a sprain, this map is disrupted — and the whole orientation system has to compensate.

The temporal bones house the vestibular organs — the semicircular canals that detect rotation, the otolith organs that detect gravity. The cranial base orients the head, and with it the eyes, to the horizon.

The jaw connects directly into this system. The TMJ sits immediately in front of the ear, embedded in the temporal bone. Chronic jaw tension disturbs the vestibular environment — and can show up as dizziness, tinnitus, or headaches.

Ankle, cranial base, jaw — three points in a single orientation system. When one is disrupted, the others compensate. Treating them in isolation rarely resolves the pattern.

30/06/2026

There is one joint in the body that carries the entire weight of the trunk and transfers it to the legs with every step you take. It is also one of the most misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and undertreated joints in clinical practice. The sacroiliac joint. The SI joint.

🔹 The joint has two sides, and they belong to different functional worlds. The sacrum is the base of the spine — it receives the compressive load of the entire vertebral column, houses the lower spinal nerve roots, and moves in rhythmic relationship with the skull. It belongs to the axial body. The ilium is part of the pelvis and, through the hip socket, part of the leg. When you walk, the ilium follows the femur. It belongs to the appendicular body.

🔹 The sacroiliac joint is where these two worlds meet and negotiate. In each step, as the leg swings forward and the ilium rotates, the sacrum must accommodate that movement — nutating and counternutating slightly, distributing the rotational force into the spine above without jamming it. The strong posterior ligaments of the SI joint guide and limit this movement, storing and releasing elastic energy like a well-tensioned spring.

🔹 A restricted SI joint can express itself as lower back pain, hip pain, groin pain, or referred pain down the leg that mimics sciatica. Because the sacrum is also the anchor of the dural tube — the connective tissue sleeve surrounding the spinal cord — an immobile sacrum can create tension that travels all the way to the base of the skull. In the other direction, an ilium that is held pulls the sacrum out of its neutral position and alters the mechanics of every lumbar segment above.

🔹 Treating the SI joint means understanding which side of the joint is driving the restriction — sacrum or ilium — and what is holding it there. It is rarely the joint itself that is the problem. It is the accumulated tension from the spine above and the leg below, meeting at the one place in the body where they cannot avoid each other.

23/06/2026

You've probably been told to "keep your hips level" or "square your pelvis." In most movement contexts, this is the wrong goal — and chasing it creates more problems than it solves.

Watch someone walk naturally and you'll see the pelvis doing three things at once: rotating forward on the swinging side, dropping slightly on that same side, and shifting laterally over the stance leg. This is not dysfunction. This is gait.

The lateral drop is what allows the swing leg to clear the ground without the whole body hiking upward. A pelvis that can't drop can't rotate. A pelvis that can't rotate shortens the stride — and a shortened stride means the spine never gets the gentle torsional input it relies on to stay mobile and nourished.

The obsession with a "neutral" pelvis comes partly from rehabilitation culture and partly from aesthetic ideals in fitness and dance. Applied as a universal rule to walking and daily movement, it produces a body that is braced, compressed, and working far harder than it needs to.

The goal isn't a pelvis locked in neutral. It's a pelvis with full access to all its available motion — fluid, coordinated, unmanaged. Control is what you use when freedom isn't available. The aim is to restore the freedom.

18/06/2026

Osteopathic assessment of the pelvis doesn't stop at the musculoskeletal system. It includes what lives inside.

The bladder sits directly behind the p***c symphysis, connected to it by the pubovesical ligament.
The uterus is suspended within the pelvis by a network of ligaments attaching to the sacrum, the lateral pelvic walls, and the p***c bone. The sigmoid colon, the re**um, the prostate — every pelvic organ has ligamentous, fascial, and neurological relationships with the bones and joints around it.

This means the reverse is also true: mechanical restrictions in the pelvis affect the organs, and the organs affect the pelvis.

A bladder infection produces inflammation and guarding that can inhibit normal movement of the p***c symphysis for weeks after the infection has cleared. A history of pelvic surgery — appendectomy, caesarean, hernia repair — leaves scar tissue that alters the mechanical environment.

When a patient presents with unexplained pelvic pain, hip stiffness, or recurrent lower back problems, the question is not only which muscle is tight or which joint is restricted. It is also: what is happening in the cavity itself?

The pelvis holds more than structure. It holds history.

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