What Is Visceral Manipulation?
Viscera refers to all hollow organs in the human body, such as your stomach and intestines. The focus of visceral manipulation is to utilize the integrative and applied state of the functioning human anatomy to analyze chronic pain and ongoing health concerns. Such a small portion of the population even knows where their organs are! Do you? More people come in saying, "My stomach hurts" and then they point to their small intestines below their navel. Having a correct mental map of ourselves is important to health maintainance.
Visceral integration, from a very simple level, provides important information to help you understand the given pain syndrome. Especially when dealing with ambiguous pain syndromes of the abdomen, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), it is important for you to be a good consumer of your body. Visceral Integration will easily provide you with a language and understanding to begin discerning the root of the pain. As you learn about your anatomy through this hands-on educational approach, you will become able to differentiate between pain in the connective tissue of your abdomen, versus your organs,versus muscles in your abdomen, versus lymphatic vessels and nodes that course through all of the connective tissue supporting your organs. For many, simply giving a name to a pain is so helpful. Often times empowering yourself with tangible, palpable, somatosensory experience of your area of pain can provide relief in and of itself.
Who Can Benefit?
What are some specific conditions that can be helped by visceral manipulation?
What Visceral Manipulation Resources Does YOUR-CENTER.com Have?
At the International Association of Healthcare Practitioners Web site, you can easily search for therapists by city. Look for 'vm' to indicate their training in visceral manipulation.
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