Bones, cartilage, muscles or tendons?
What about skin folds?
The large cutaneous folds on your body are unquestionably applying pressure on your nerves, especially when you do specific movements.
Grooming the skin proves that "pinched nerves" can be caused by folds in the skin.

However, grooming also proves that the folds can be unfolded, and the nerves liberated.

Nerves are well protected inside the spinal cord and inside the skull.
But, they become exposed and vulnerable, in several places, along their long journey to the brain.

Your nerves are mainly left unprotected when they pass through any articulation on your body.
Some nerves have to travel through several joints before they reach your head.
When an articulation is flexed, the nerves get folded, along with the skin and blood vessels.

But, with time, the cutaneous folds that surround each articulation become permanent.
They continuously strangle the nerves.
Once the nervous signal's path is permanently bent, this causes a loss of perception that worsens over time.
As the folds deepen with age, they can totally block the passage of nervous impulses.

In some areas, folds in the skin have the opposite effect on the nervous system.
They increase sensitivity.
In some locations, this heightened perception can lead to an unbearable, continuous, itch-like feeling.
For more on this:
• Techniques to cure your hypersensitivity.

Neurons are like tiny wires that connect minuscule receptors, mostly located in your skin, to your brain.
If their route is contorted, the signal will be affected.
A fold in the skin mechanically bends and crumples the nerves it crosses in a manner similar to folding a wire.

Transmission may not be affected at first but, as the folds become permanent, the signal is weakened.

As the folding increases, the sensitivity diminishes, and can provoke complete insensibility.

There are three main locations where nerve folding can occur:
1• In the neck, shoulder and back region,
2• At the intersections between the limbs and the body,
3• Local insensitivity anywhere on the body.

One of the places where nerves are the most vulnerable to folding is the neck and shoulder area.
Several nerves run through your neck.
Some are better shielded from external pressures, but many pass just below the surface.

Brachial plexus - Wikipedia

© Henry Gray

Each nerve travels from a specific part of your body to your brain.
However, when they pass through your neck, they are susceptible to being bent, compressed or pinched by the folds in the skin.
Over time, some nerves become so atrophied that the impulses passing through them are attenuated, or blocked.
When the strength of the signal your nerves transmit decreases, you slowly lose contact with some body parts or functions of your body.

The neck/shoulder area is very susceptible to folding because of the weight of the head, the length of the neck, and all the movements and rotations it's subjected to.
Every time you turn your head, large visible folds form in the skin of your neck.
These folds dig deeply into what is beneath the skin.
Nerves, blood vessels, muscles, ... get compressed, flattened, and folded.

However, the folds aren't always visible.
They are feel-able, with your nails.

CAN YOU SEE THE FOLDS? Yet, the skin is very folded.

Because the skin of your neck/shoulder region is the center of continuous movement and activity, even while you sleep, many permanent folds are now in place.
They bind the skin to what is beneath it.
Their hold on the nerves, blood vessels and muscles continuously tightens as you age.
These folds can have a very disabling effect on some people.
Symptoms may start with occasional periods of light insensitivity, but may lead to almost complete paralysis, often accompanied by involuntary nervous shaking or gestures.
Pinched nerves can also be the cause of even more debilitating nervous disorders, from total insensibility to multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease.
However, most of these nervous problems can be relieved by grooming the skin where the pinching occurs.

A tumor, a bone spur, or a disc?
What about skin folds?
Your skin has entangled itself into your spine.
You only need to run your nails along the middle of your back to verify that the skin is totally bound and folded into every detail of the bones of your vertebral column.

The skin has folded directly into the mechanism of each vertebra.
It is now anchored to the skeleton, and pain may be present.
When you move, your skin exerts pressure that pulls on the vertebrae, slightly dislocating them.
This tension finally pushes the bone of the vertebrae into the spinal cord, compressing it.

Groom the location to free the skin from the spine.
Pain will usually be present, so let it guide you to the places where the skin is attached.

Vertigo is an inner ear problem that affects your perception of gravity, and your equilibrium.
You become dizzy, and it feels like everything is spinning and swaying around you.
This condition usually comes and goes, but it has a very debilitating effect on the person who suffers from it.
Vertigo is caused by the growth of horizontal skin folds that go all around your head.
Several folds encircle your head, but those that pass at ear level are the culprits.
The main fold involved crosses the center of your nose, flattening it, and then passes just below each ear.
However, this fold attaches itself firmly to the skull in the back of the head.
When you turn your head, this fold, attached to the bone, pulls on your ear canals, and deforms them.

Skull - Side view

© Henry Gray

Your inner ear needs to be straight and perfectly balanced to function properly.
Horizontal folds around your head create significant pressure on your ears.
They pull on your auditory system, bending it, and skewing its components.

If you suffer from vertigo, grooming your head may resolve your problem.
Use pressure grooming techniques, and press your nail repeatedly into your skin:
• All around your ears,
• All around your head, at ear level,
• All around your neck, especially under your ears.

Your movements cause the formation of deep and large folds at the major intersections between the limbs and the body, as well as at the waist.
When the cutaneous folds at an articulation cut too deeply into the underlying nerves, their grip can block the nervous transmission from entire limbs.
Folds in the skin around the shoulders, the hips, the waist, and all the other smaller joints on your body, can bend and twist the neurons that pass under the skin, thus causing a gradual loss of sensation.

Symptoms may begin with mild numbness in the extremities, but this will spread.
The folds responsible for this situation are caused by repetitive physical movements or frequently held positions.
People suffering from this condition will likely need to stop performing some of these movements.
When sensory contact with the affected limb is weakened or lost, involuntary movements often occur.

What is causing a compression of the median nerve?
Just look at your palms, and you'll see the folds that are the source of the problem.

Many people develop sensitive problems in their hands.
These conditions are usually caused by doing repetitive movements, or holding cramped positions for extended periods.
I've suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome several times because I cycle a lot without wearing gloves.
A friend of mine got it because he played too much guitar.
Grooming the inside of your hands will bring back their normal sensitivity, but you'll have to reduce or temporarily stop doing the activity that caused the folding for a while, or protect your hands in some way.

Some parts of your body, sometimes very small, may gradually become less sensitive.
Little stretches of skin harden and lose their sensibility because the tissue has become too folded, often at articulations.
The dead areas have unique shapes.
You can locate the folds in an area by running your fingernail over them, and mapping their sensitivity.

Most people treat their hands, feet, elbows and knees as if they were covered with steel; not living skin.
They have a presumptuous and careless attitude, and want to show that they are toughies by not taking care of the skin in these areas.
Opening bottles with your bare hands, manipulating a computer mouse, carrying heavy objects with your fingers, ... these actions take a heavy toll on the skin in some places.
If gloves had been worn or measures had been taken to protect the skin; less damage would have occurred.
The skin in the folded sections can gradually become hard and insensitive like wood.

Grooming the fold crossings, in the center of these unresponsive areas, will restore the sensitivity of the skin in no time.
Use pressure grooming techniques.

Hypersensibility or hypersensitivity of the skin can perhaps occur anywhere on your body, but it's most common at the extremities of the skin; the areas where the skin transitions into nails or mucous membranes.
For some reason, the cutaneous folds in those places increase the sensitivity, rather than lowering it.
This can lead to an unbearable, intolerable, persistent itch-like irritation.

Situation: You can hardly touch an ultra-sensitive location on your body because the sensations are too intense.
When you try to press your nails into the area, the feelings overload and jolt your brain.
It becomes impossible for you to cure your problem, because you can't keep your nails pressed-in, even for one second.
Your nervous system's response is too strong.

Here's how to proceed:
• Use as many nails as you can fit on the surface you want to heal,
• Peck your skin with very, very short (one quarter of a second) pressure strokes,
• It's like drumming with your fingernails on the hypersensitive area.
• Determine how much pressure you can apply, before you overwhelm your nervous system,
• While pecking your skin, be on the lookout for any hardened structures you encounter inside your skin (those are folds and their crossings), and use your nails to crush them,
• Do this for 5 minutes, then stop; you can repeat several times a day,
• Keep on doing this procedure for several months.
• You will feel your hypersensitivity decrease rapidly, you will be able to lengthen your strokes, and use normal grooming techniques,
• Depending on your age, it may take several years to eliminate the offending folds completely, but you will always feel some diminution of your oversensitivity,
• Your goal is to remove all the hardness in your skin.

The skin of some locations may present some hypersensitivity that is due to external factors; such as contact and friction.
Your skin was not designed to withstand the pressure and constant presence of:
• Objects; such as clothes, hats, jewelry, watches, glasses, shoes, ...
• Makeup, ...
• Creams, lotions, masks, ...
• Repeated hits, strikes, scrapes, ...
If your oversensitiveness comes from places where some objects or compounds can harm the skin; don't groom it.
Stop wearing or putting these things on your skin, and let it rest for several weeks.

Since so many insensibility and nervous problems are caused by folds in the skin, you have to:
• Find the location of the blockage, and,
• Use grooming techniques to free the nerves.
The following videos will introduce you to human grooming:

Human grooming rediscovered - Video

The pain is in the skin - Video

More precautions and care must be taken when grooming the skin to restore sensitivity than in any other situation.
Grooming the affected areas may provoke unexpected reactions.
Test-groom the regions for a few days before committing yourself to deeper work or exploration.
Be smart, and proceed gradually.
Groom for short periods, several times a day, until the original sensibility is restored.