A Solution-seeking Approach to
Manual Medicine for
Viscero-somatic Dysfunctions
Why learn visceral manipulation?
Would you believe you can do more with less effort? Again! Even more with even less effort! Oh, come on!
For those who have been with us a few times or from the start, what was it like when you learned the UBER-POWERFUL seated lumbosacral-pelvic super-stacking for removing restrictions from the pelvis to the LS-spine and TL junction? Shockingly amazing, wasn't it? How such a simply elegant thing could do so much used to be beyong our imagininings -- yet there it was. You learned it. And now you're using it to deliver results very few practioners can (even with their best effort, sadly).
But first, a secret: I'm sorry. We've only been using this stuff for the last 3 years. I can't say we're experts. Unlike NLP, for which i can complete Trainor's Trainer level this year (with effort, time, and Grace), i can't say i have 30 years of experience here, nor VM-D (doctoral) certification yet. So, we're only calling this a "sharing." Then again, you've seen how many tons of uuuuusefuuuul stuff we throw in during our simple "sharings," right? And no, we are NOT related to the Energizer Bunny.
My publisist insists we fit this in first:
WHAT: a life-changing experience? VISCERAL MANIPULATION SECRETS workshop. Revealing the hidden links to improving somatic dysfunctions with tiny moves. Yup. You don't have to be huge to make profound impacts on patient well-being. And yes, you can rest those strained pained thumbs, now.
WHEN: right now, you can sign up for our little sharing on: 14 december 2008 (9am to 4pm, or until the doc notices how many times he's been told to stop the sessions becuase everyone's silly-happy-saturated already.
WHERE: AICA (the Academy for International Culinary Arts), our beloved gastronomic home (Good food = opiates and endorphins and Alpha-Gamma-Theta learning states = better brain absorption, too). Our AICA family has a website, too. And physically, it's in pasig, next to the Valle Verde clubhouse and Bagaberde (gimmicks, good vibes). We're a stone's throw from the ULTRA.
WHY: you can join us for all of your own internal right reasons, or merely for how useful this stuff is. It's up to you, really. Can you see yourself there? You can? Why not make that wonderful dream of healing potential come true?
HOW: can you invest in yourself and your skills today? The man to contact is THE Harold Boy Cacao
Now, back to why we want you to see what we're sharing for a limited time only!
Have you ever noticed how sometimes the seemingly smallest things have such remarkable effects? This often holds true of visceral manipulation. Personally, the fact that small moves can make profound neuromusculoskeletal and sometimes emotional shifts for patients has continued to inspire me to keeping looking for and developing manual techniques and protocols.
Is this material so different from the rest of Manual Medicine?
For anyone that’s been with us a while, RDTs now make sense, and all of Manual Medicine looks rather like the same banana, peeled differently left and right, and savored in a multitude of ways. The pressure involved is vastly different, however. Plus palpation skills are forced into jumpstarted evolution. Either of these is good news: (1) less physical effort, strikingly good somatic and visceral results, and (2) there’s a tendency for palpatory skills to get exquisitely good.
If you’ve been with us for thoracic and cervical, you’ll be pleased to know that you’ve already learned a few things that profoundly affect viscera and lymphatics. So now it’s time to learn to do the reverse also: how do you work with the visera to affect the somatic systems? It’s also a good time to answer other questions, such as “how do we work with the nervous system,” and “how do we influence autonomic regulation to bring about homeostasis. RDTs already show us we can affect the ANS profoundly. Visceral Manipulation and the cranial techniques show us another part of the puzzle. They tell us “what else” there is that can be done to help our patients.
This workshop will hopefully serve as a gateway. Some therapists may choose to specialize in Bowen Work, Visceral Manipulation, or in Cranial Techniques. Others may choose to just seamlessly integrate the parts of visceral Manipulation that aid Somatic Recovery.
OF course, what better place to learn at than a Chef’s institute? Who better to learn this with than with friends and colleagues who know how deeply you need to help your patients, and how passionately you want to have the best skillsets and mindsets?
Now that you’re ready, sign up to join us for a day of fun learning on the 14th of December, 2008 at AICA in Pasig. Let’s Go! Uy, excited na!
Oh, did we fail to mention that, sometimes, you can just push lightly on the tummy in a certain way and sometimes the entire LS spine relaxes?
Curious, aren’t you?
So you know where to sign up now, We are at www.manualmed.bravehost.com and www.manualmed.blogspot.com and our clinic manager is at assist@truecaremed.com
Until then, Stay Blessed.
With the best warm regards,
Sincerely,
Doc Strix
FEEDBACK!
Whether you are familiar with Manual Medicine or are just learning about it now, have you ever found yourself asking "what should I do, and when, and why?"
This workshop will help you on the path toward resolving those questions. It’s been successfully argued to me this way: You know the answers. All you've ever lacked is the certainty and the experience.
What if we could download our years of experience into your practice? Would that be extrmely useful?
If you've been with us a while now, you can completely understand why we constantly get feedback like:
· "Amazing material. I didn't think you could do that."
· "T.I., 'yun lang pala yun."
· "I wish i knew this before i started to work professionally with patients."
· "Now it makes sense."
· "Pwede pala yun?"
· "Bakit di inexplain sa amin yun dati?"
· "saan ba kayo nagtago e naghahanap kami ng ganito ang tagal na?"
· "Kakainis ka, doc. Sana tinuro mo na dati sa amin yan?"
· "May napulot na naman kami sa inyo. Tagal ko nang hinahanapan ng sagot yan, e kyo lang pala makakasagot niyan!"
· "Langya, marunong ka pala nyan?"
· "Paturo naman."
· "Ha? Paano nangyari yun?"
· "Ay, bakit ganoon? Nawala yung pain!"
· "Uhmm.. Are you pressing the same way? Why doesn't that hurt anymore?"
· "Oo nga, no?"
· "Wow, can you see my family next week?"
· "Ang galing!"
The succeeding entry is courtesy of the The Upledger Institute, Inc. They are at www.upledger.com
Explore Visceral Manipulation
The Therapeutic Value of Visceral Manipulation
Life and motion are intertwined. Although we can have motion without life, we cannot have life without motion. Of particular importance and interest are those motions -not ordinarily visible -that take place within the human body. They are linked to many levels of activity, from cellular pulsations of unknown origin to rhythmic contractions of the heart and diaphragm - and even the CranioSacral system.
The visceral system relies upon an inter-connected synchronicity between the motions of all the organs and the other structures of the body. When health is at an optimum, this harmonious I relationship remains stable through the body's endless varieties of motion.
When one organ cannot move in harmony with its viscera due to abnormal tone, adhesions or displacement, it will work against not only the organs but the muscular membranous, fascial and osseous structures. A source for chronic irritation is set up and the way is paved for disease and dysfunction. In addition, this disharmony creates within the body walls fixed and abnormal points of tension that the body is forced to move around.
Imagine, for example, an adhesion around the lungs. It creates a modified axis that demands abnormal accommodation from adjacent body structures. The adhesion can modify rib motion -which in turn creates imbalanced forces on the vertebral column and with time can create a possible dysfunctional interrelationship of additional structures. This scenario is just one of hundreds of possible ramifications of such a small dysfunction -magnified by thousands of repetitions daily.
Through the dedicated work of Jean Pierre Barral, an osteopathic physician and registered physical therapist, healthcare practitioners today have the rhythmic motions of the visceral system available as important therapeutic tools. Dr. Barral's research and clinical work with the rhythmic motions of the viscera led to his development of a form of manual pressure that focuses on the internal organs and their environment as well as their potential influence on many structural and physiological dysfunctions. The term he coined for his therapy was Visceral Manipulation.
This therapy relies on palpation of normal and abnormal forces within the body. Through manual pressure, the therapist can evaluate abnormal interplay, overlap and effect on the normal forces at work in the body. The goal of Visceral Manipulation is to assist the body's normal forces in removing abnormal effects, whatever their source. The effects of Visceral Manipulation can be global, encompassing many arenas of bodily function. It is used by a wide variety of healthcare professionals today; practitioners include osteopaths, medical doctors, doctors of chiropractic medicine, physical and occupational therapists, massage therapists, acupuncturists and other licensed body workers.
How Does Visceral Manipulation Help You?
Visceral Manipulation is used to locate and solve problems. It encourages your own natural mechanisms to improve the functioning of your organs, to dissipate the negative effects of stress and to enhance your general health and resistance to disease. How Is Visceral Manipulation Performed?
Visceral Manipulation is based on the specific placement of manual force to encourage normal mobility, tone and inherent tissue motion of the viscera and their connective tissues. These specifically-placed manipulations have the potential to effect normal physiological function in individual organs, the systems the organs function within and the structural integrity of the entire body.
Due to the delicate and often highly reactive nature of the visceral tissues, gentle precisely directed force reaps the greatest results. As with other methods of manipulation, such as Cranio-Sacral Therapy, that enter very deeply into the body, trained Visceral Manipulation therapists work only to assist the forces already at work. Thus, they can be sure of benefiting the organism, rather than adding further insult, injury or disorganization within the body.
Both dynamic functional actions and somatic structures that perform individual activities are assessed by Visceral Manipulation therapists. In addition, they evaluate the quality of the somatic structures and their functions as they relate to an overall harmonious pattern -with motion serving as the gauge for determining quality. Harmony and health exist when motion is free and excursion is full and when motion is not labored, overexcited, depressed or in conflict with neighboring structures and their mobility.
What Is the Origin of the Visceral System and Its Therapy?
Methods such as Visceral Manipulation have been part of the medicinal cultures of peoples in Europe and Asia since pre-recorded times. Historically and currently in Oriental medicine, manual manipulation of the internal organs is a component of some therapeutic systems. It is no surprise that practitioners in many parts of the world have devised and incorporated into their therapies manipulations designed to work with the internal organs and their functions.
Dr. Jean Pierre Barral became interested in biomechanics and its influence on the tissues while he worked as a registered physical therapist at the Lung Disease Hospital at Grenoble, France. At the hospital he made the acquaintance of Professor Dr. Arnaud, a recognized specialist lung diseases and a master of cadaver dissection.
Working with Dr. Arnaud, he followed patterns of stress in the tissues of cadavers and biomechanics in living subjects. This provided Dr. Barral with an introduction to the visceral system and the notion that tissues have memory -fundamental to his subsequent development of Visceral Manipulation.
In 1974, Dr. Barral earned his Diploma in Osteopathic Medicine from the European School of Osteopathy in Maidstone, England. Working primarily with articular and structural manipulation, his development of Visceral Manipulation began during an unusual session with a patient whom he had been treating with spinal manipulations.
During the preliminary examination before treatment, Dr. Barral was surprised to find an appreciable improvement. The patient confirmed that he felt relief from his back pain after going to an "old man who pushed something in his abdomen." The incident piqued Dr. Barral's interest in the relationship between the viscera and the spine. He began exploring stomach manipulations with several patients. Successful results led him to the gradual development of Visceral Manipulation.
Between 1975 and 1982 Dr. Barral taught spinal biomechanics at England's European School of Osteopathy. In collaboration with Drs.Paul Mathiew and Pierre Mercier, he published Articular Vertebrae Diagnosis. Using his work with Dr. Arnaud as a foundation, Dr. Barral continued to investigate how the thickening of tissues creates areas of greater mechanical tension which in turn, pull on surrounding tissues. The discovery led him to the theoretical and practical development of "general" and "local listening" techniques.
The development of "manual thermal diagnosis" began in 1971 during another treatment session. While turning a female patient, Dr. Barral felt a strong emanation from her mammary gland to his hand. Questioning her, he learned she had been operated on for a tumor in that area. Researching this phenomenon with other patients, he learned just how accurately areas of stress in the body could be located by palpating the associated energy -which proved to be thermal. Consequent research in this arena has added manual thermal diagnosis to the practitioner’s diagnostic tools.
With Dr. Serge Cohen, a Grenoble radiologist, Dr. Barral documented changes in the viscera before and after manipulation; they employed x-ray fluoroscopy and ultrasound to record changes in position, motion and fluid exchange and evacuation. Later research with a team of electronic engineers and technicians was conducted using infrared emissions from the body.
Dr. Barral began teaching Visceral Manipulation through The Upledger Institute, Inc., in 1985; today he teaches the Advanced Level Visceral Manipulation courses. In addition, he continues research and development in manual medicine while maintaining a very full clinical practice. He has also written Visceral Manipulation, Visceral Manipulation II, Urogenital Manipulation, The Thorax and Tubo-Ovarian Manipulations. In several European countries, as a result of Dr. Barral's pioneering work, a rigorous test in Visceral Manipulation must be passed in order to earn an osteopathy diploma.
This information is courtesy of the The Upledger Institute, Inc. For further information please see their site at www.upledger.com
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