The Therapeutic Value of Visceral Manipulation!
Acute Disorders: Digestive Disorders.
•Whiplash •Bloating and Constipation
•Seatbelt Injuries •Nausea and Acid Reflux
•Chest or Abdominal Sports Injuries •GERD
•Concussion •Swallowing Dysfunctions
•Traumatic Brain Injuries
Women’s and Men’s Health Issues Musculoskeletal Disorders
•Chronic Pelvic Pain •Somatic-Visceral Interactions
•Endometriosis •Chronic Spinal Dysfunction
•Fibroids and Cysts •Headaches and Migraines
•Dysmenorrhea •Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
•Bladder Incontinence •Peripheral Joint Pain •Sciatica •Neck Pain
•Effects of Menopause
Pediatric Issues: Pain Related to
•Constipation and Gastritis •Post-operative Scar Tissue
•Persistent Vomiting •Post-infection Scar Tissue
•Vesicoureteral Reflux •Autonomic Mechanisms
•Infant Colic
Emotional Issues:
•Anxiety and Depression
•Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
VM assists functional and structural imbalances throughout the body including musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respiratory, digestive and lymphatic dysfunction. It evaluates and treats the dynamics of motion and suspension in relation to organs, membranes, fascia and ligaments.
VM increases proprioceptive communication within the body, thereby revitalizing a person and relieving symptoms of pain, dysfunction, and poor posture.
An integrative approach to evaluation and treatment of a patient requires assessment of the structural relationships between the viscera, and their fascial or ligamentous attachments to the musculoskeletal system.
Strains in the connective tissue of the viscera can result from surgical scars, adhesions, illness, posture or injury. Tension patterns form through the fascial network deep within the body, creating a cascade of effects far from their sources for which the body will have to compensate.
This creates fixed, abnormal points of tension that the body must move around, and this chronic irritation gives way to functional and structural problems.
Visceral Manipulation relies on the palpation of normal and abnormal forces within the body. By using specific techniques, therapists can evaluate how abnormal forces interplay, overlap and affect the normal body forces at work. The goal is to help the body’s normal forces remove abnormal effects, whatever their sources. Those effects can be global, encompassing many areas of bodily function.
How Does Visceral Manipulation Help You?
Visceral Manipulation is used to locate and solve problems throughout the body. It encourages your own natural mechanisms to improve the functioning of your organs, dissipate the negative effects of stress, enhance mobility of the musculoskeletal system through the connective tissue attachments, and influence general metabolism. Today, a wide variety of healthcare professionals perform Visceral Manipulation.
Practitioners include osteopathic physicians, allopathic physicians, doctors of chiropractic, doctors of Oriental medicine, naturopathic physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, massage therapists and other licensed body workers.
How is Visceral Manipulation Performed?
Visceral Manipulation is based on the specific placement of soft manual forces to encourage the normal mobility, tone and motion of the viscera and their connective tissues. These gentle manipulations can potentially improve the functioning of individual organs, the systems the organs function within, and the structural integrity of the entire body.
Harmony and health exist when motion is free and excursion is full – when motion is not labored, overexcited, depressed, or conflicting with neighboring structures and their mobility.
Therapists using Visceral Manipulation assess the dynamic functional actions as well as the somatic structures that perform individual activities. They also evaluate the quality of the somatic structures and their functions in relation to an overall harmonious pattern, with motion serving as the gauge for determining quality.
Due to the delicate and often highly reactive nature of the visceral tissues, gentle force precisely directed reaps the greatest results. As with other methods of manipulation that affect the body deeply, Visceral Manipulation works only to assist the forces already at work. Because of that, trained therapists can be sure of benefiting the body rather than adding further injury or disorganization.
Thank you Premier Bone and Joint Center for this eloquent article!