Manual Medicine - Integration - Module 5

First off , we'd like to thank the wonderful people that joined us at our last workshop (June 14 2009 at AICA Pasig Philippines). We were also priveledged that day to have been joined by someone who flew in from Cebu just to join us for this series. (Might as well thank the people from Singapore who joined us for LS Intesive, too! Thanks!).

This section in parentheses is brought to you by my second Grande mug of brewed coffee. Please skip this section if you are the type who is easily offended, or if you're in love with Philippine Govenment:
[We'd also like to thank naysayers who limit themselves by saying that it just isn't possible to share that much info and such a large skillset in one day (the thinking goes, im told: "i don't think that's possible, therefore it isn't. therefore it's bullshit, and therefore i don't have to go.") My friend Steph has a term for that: "the curse of the familiar:" to be stuck with what you have because you're too chicken to find out how much more you can hack and handle!]

We shared quite a few things that day, (June 14 2009) including, but not limited to:
1. How to use proprioception, mechanoception, joint position sense, active recruitment, and various advance muscle energy techniques to deliver a therapeutic treatment for our patients.
2. How it's possible to reduce treamtment time from 18 session to 18 minutes.
3. How "everything is connected." By example, how an action on the distal shin can open up a rotator cuff injury
4. How PPTs simplify everyhting.
5. How RDTs are bound to piss off a lot of practitioners.
6. How to find and use pain as an indicator, and how to eliminate pain on the spot.
7. The influence of the viscera on somatic dysfucntions
8. How mechanical dysfunctions transmit upward
9. How to use biomechanical instability and occipital drop levelness in identifying single vertebral dysfunctions.

We're hoping you join us on the 21st of June as we dissect:
1. Harmonics
2. Biomechanics
3. How to find the primary somatic dyfunction

If you've ever been to any of our workshops, you also know you'll get:
1. answers to anything manual med related
2. nice plug-ins by the boys

We also will be priveledged that day to have with us the Bowen Technique Practitioners (would you believe it's a Diploma course?)

Reminder for participants:
1. Practice, practice, practice! This is a hands-on thing.
2. Have fun with it!
3. Look for pain, but respect it.
4. get rid of pain. Because you can.
5. Bring a towel.
6. Bring really loose of really tight clothing, or anything you can easily shed or move aside.
7. Get familiar with your partner's behind.
8. Clean underwear is always a good idea.

Cost sharing for your skills upgrade investment for that day is just Php 1,500.
Join us for an hour for just Php 500.
Free for anyone who joined us last 14 June 2009.
Free for anyone who's ever worked with the MMG.
Contact:
0927 451 5589 - Harold Cacao
0906 216 0789 - Dionne Chua

why not also visit our friends?:
www.manualmedsolutions.org
www.bowentechnique.ph
findlawrence.com
osteopathy for all at yahoo groups
bowen technique at yahoo groups

With perpetual thanks to
Leon Chaitow, JR Bayliss, Steve Davidson, and Sharon Weiselfish-Giammateo.

NOW, Isn't it nice to read something that isn't about a sex scandal?

Stay blessed.

Yours in the continued evolution of Manual Medicine,

What is Fascia and how does Bowen Therapy affect it?

From our friends at ABT: Part 1 - June 7th, 2009 We offer the pointed musings below on Fascia as a discussion stimulator in Part 1 of our Fascia and Bowen Therapy series. Please post your comments and additions below the key points raised below. * Fascia, a component of connective tissue, is a form of packing material for the body, providing lines of stress/shock absorption and structural integrity. * Fascia envelopes muscles, bones and joints and holds us together and upright. * Fascia supports the body structure giving rise to our shape/form. * Fascia organizes and brings together as well as separates individual structures. * Fascia provides protection for the individual muscles and viscera. * Fascial sheaths also join and bonds separate individual muscles, establishes spatial relationships for function and movement. * It is the collagenous component in the fascia that enables it to change and reorganize. * Collagen is a colloid material capable of changing from solid to fluid form and vice-versa depending on the forces (negative or positive) acting upon it. The piezoelectric component of the Bowen “move” initiates this change, however movement and applying direct force along lines of fascia can also help to facilitate further change. * Chronic or unnatural tensions acting upon our structure can help influence changes towards shortening and hardening the ground-matrix causing sticking or adhesions upon fascial sheaths and muscle shortening. * The Bowen “move” can help to rehydrate fascial components, restoring elasticity. This can have an affect all alone, or as a primer to more direct work in cases that require this, thus causing lasting changes. * Simply by inhibiting motion our fascia; tendons, capsules and ligaments can lost their flexibility * Dehydrated and immobile fascia can adhere to itself and other fascial layers causing collagen fibers to shorten and coil into itself giving rise to trigger points, entraping nerves, blood and lymph vessels thus limiting range of motion through our joints. * Initiating a re-hydration of fascia through Bowen Therapy can unwind many of the negative effects of chronic tension, immobility and stress as well as act as a primer to other work and movement training systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our workshop on the 21st of June 2009 will include a full treatment from the country's original Bowen Diplomates. If you can find Harold and Dionne at the PPTA, you can find the Manual Medicine Group. See you then and there! yours in the evolution of our field,

What is the BOX?

The Manual Medicine Group
humbly invites you to its 4th module for
Integration: Basics and Beyond
A Manual Medicine Synthesis

would you pardon us for being nosey?

First Question:
If the newest protocols worldwide have been saying that we shoudl treat PAIN as the fifth vital sign, WHY DON"T WE?
Why have we been NOT taught how to do that?

Second Question:
Are you still in the BOX?
If you're still doing "the box:" just HMP TENS UTZ IR STRETCH,
this is an opportunity to step beyond the results you've been stuck in.

If you're already outside the box, this is your chance to see not only a bigger box, but the fact that THERE IS NO BOX.

Your limitations are the ones you set.
Our best definition of insanity:
to keep doing what we used to do
and to insist on getting different results.

If you're happy with your
structural
funtional
ADL-based results,
this is not for you.

But thank you for having read this far. Bye, now!


Still here?

If you might in the least be intrigued by the possibility of doing in 18 minutes more and better for your patient than you've ever before been able to do in 18 loooooong sessions, this sharing session is for you.

This may offer you insight into why a small group of therapists around the globe hardly do:
taping
long exercises
ultrasound

It's not that these things don't work - just that some things work better, faster, more profoundly, with lingering results.


Distressingly, you can find out why an even smaller group of practitioners worldwide know how to do high velocity thrusts, but now HARDLY EVER NEED TO.

This is an opportunity how everything you've ever learned works better with:
1. articulatory techniques
2. harmonics
3. multiplanar (seven degrees of freedom) positional releases
myofascial direct, indirect, local, nonlocal, stacked, and synergistic releases

This is an opportunity to learn new acronyms that turn your clinic hours into productive playtime: (and we'll show you how to use them, too:)
1. RDTs
2. PPTs

This is an opportunity to get pissed off at having to learn all of the wrong biomechanics in school (so verry sorrry.) This is also an opportunity to learn things that actually work on the spot, without having to "shove things into place."

This is an opportunity to learn the best stuff we've seen for the physical rehab field in decades.

This is an opportunity to resolve problems with your hands, be it for:
nerves
muscles
ligmaments
bones
joints
tendons
fascia
viscera
the autonomic system
the brain
the brainstem
the cranial nerves

And oh, would you believe us if we told you we can switch the ANS from SNS overlay to full parasympathetic?

If you can find Harold and Dione, you can join us on:

June 14 and 21, 2009
AICA PASIG near ULTRA
Philippines

With the warmest regards a commune can share,

Strix



We have a few more slots available. Hope you may forward this to your friends.

Namaste,
Sonia



A Weekend Workshop on Chinese Integrative Medicine with International Expert

Dr Andre Sorger, M.Sc, B. Com



Part 1: Basics of TCM – June 27 & 28

Part 2: TCM at work – July 4



Sterten Place Condominum, 7th Floor, 116 Maginhawa St., Teachers Village East, Quezon City





Learning the Ancient Art of Healing

The ancient art of healing is expanding and reaching a wider following.



Different cultures have different healing arts to share - traditional medicine in China, leech therapy in India and hilot in the Philippines, just to name a few.



These ancient healing arts are making a comeback. And appropriately so at a time when it is most needed; with economic recession scaring even the most stable hospitals and the rising prices of modern medicine making people think twice about going to their doctors.



In the Philippines, the cost of healthcare has discouraged many to seek help. The system is rushed, expensive and overwhelming for many Filipinos.



The art of Healing invites us in a journey of good health and wholeness. Let us go back to basics and be kinder to our bodies as it remembers its way home to Wholeness and Completeness.



What is Integrative Medicine?

Integrative Medicine is the practice of combining alternative, complementary and conventional therapies. It brings together a variety of techniques that draws on a variety of traditions, expertise and modalities to address an individual’s specific needs for maximum healing benefit. One of its important characteristic is that it considers the mind-body-spirit connection within the patient and regards the patient as a whole.



Why Traditional Chinese Medicine? Why in the Philippines?

For centuries (more than 3,000 years), far longer than modern medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine has proven its worth in the field of healing arts. The Philippines, with its vast area of fertile lands, has a lot to share in the field of herbal medicine.



Modern medicine is recommended once disharmony in the body has occurred (curative) while alternative medicine is proving to be the better option for preventative care. More and more people are moving towards healthy lifestyle changes—an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Instead of simply curing existing ailments, people are looking for ways to prevent them.



Healing begins Now.

The 2-day Part 1 workshop, Basics of TCM (June 27 & 28), will discuss the foundations of Chinese medicine and clarify common misconceptions on the practice. Herbal & diet therapy, yin & yang organs, and herbs & food as medicine will be discussed in detail. The main feature is the discussion on the different meridians and their functions—why applying pressure on a certain point on the body will ease pain and why waking up at a certain time of the night could be associated to improper functioning of an internal organ.



Part 2, TCM at work (July 4), exclusive to graduates of the 2-day Part 1 workshop in January and this June, will give a hands-on practice on Tui Na and Acupressure. It will teach advanced diagnostic techniques to help participants help friends, family and members of their community.



WORKSHOP SCHEDULE



Part 1 – BASICS OF TCM

June 27 & 28



Day 1

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 11:00 Foundations of Chinese Medicine

The Yin & Yang / 5 Elements /

Meridian Therapy

11:00 – 12:00 Herbal and Diet Therapy

1:00 – 2:30 Vital substances – Qi, Blood,

Essence, Body fluids

2:30 – 4:00 Yin & Yang Organs

4:00 – 5:00 Acupressure Meridians



Day 2

8:30 – 9:00 Qi Gong

9:30 – 10:30 8 Principles

10:30 - 12:00 Acupressure Meridians and their

functions

1:00 – 2:00 Acupressure Meridians and their

functions (cont)

2:00 – 3:00 Diagnostic Techniques

3:00 – 5:00 Herbs and Food as Medicine

The Energetics of Food /

The Language of Food Energetics /

Combining Herbs



Workshop Fee: P5,000



Part 2 – TCM AT WORK

July 4



8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 10:30 Advanced Diagnostics Techniques

10:30 – 12:00 Theories: Tui Na and Acupressure

1:00 – 3:00 Hands-on Tuina Massage

3:00 – 5:00 Hands-on Acupressure



Workshop Fee: P3,000

* Workshop fee is inclusive of snacks, hand-outs and certificate



You will learn take-home tools:

- A new understanding on the value of TCM and why learning this is very apt in these trying economic times

- Basic knowledge on Acupressure and Tui Na massage

- Healthy lifestyle changes for you and your family

- The use of foods as medicine



Who needs this?

General public interested in the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine;

Health care workers interested in integrating this healing art with modern medicine;

Practitioners looking to broaden their skills and incorporate holistic healing in their treatments;

Policy makers gearing towards a healthy health system through policy change