Traditional Chinese Medicine
Visceral Manipulation, a branch of Osteopathy, involves manual therapy towards specific organs. Many times, our aches and pains originate from internal organs in distress sending pain signals through the nervous system. This form of therapy works to address these pain sources.
An osteopath will identify and work with an organ in distress in order to release its tissue restrictions.
As a result:
Often times, treatment of an organ also leads to lifestyle considerations that may have led to the restriction in the first place.
Ultimately, these changes lead to improved performance of the organ, a greater sense of well being and less pain.
Visceral dysfunctions are actually behind a large majority (an estimation of 90%) of complaints due to the connections throughout the body.
Visceral manipulation benefits many people including those that have sought other treatments looking exclusively at the muscles and skeleton but have yet to relieve their problem.
Therefore, visceral manipulation can potentially help with:
General examples
A more specific example, a marathon runner is complaining of upper back and neck pain. A potential cause is placing too much stress on the respiratory system that leads to inflammation. Vitally, the runner would then need to periodize their running schedule to allow for recovery of the respiratory system while improving peak competitive performance. They may also benefit from dietary anti-inflammatory changes as well as medicinal herbs to promote healing of the respiratory tract.
Book a consultation with our osteopath to determine if this is the best treatment for YOU. You don’t need to know which treatment you need but rather just a list of your problems and goals.
Also see the other common osteopath treatment Craniosacral Therapy.