February 20, 2010
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February 20, 2010
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This issue's main article is about Visceral Manipulation, a gentle hands-on therapy for freeing the movement of internal organs.
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Visceral Manipulation
Visceral Manipulation is a therapy where trained practitioners use their hands to create very gentle forces to encourage the normal mobility, tone, and motion of the viscera (organs) and surrounding connective tissues. The purpose is to encourage each organ to move and glide freely, which can potentially improve its function, the function of the system of which the organ is part, and the structural integrity of the whole body.
Background and Theory
French Osteopath and Physiotherapist Jean Pierre Barral developed Visceral Manipulation based on his observations and experience working with patients. Here's just a little of the theory.
Your body can maintain harmony and health only when motion between organs and their connective tissues is free and open. Optimally, the relationship between your organs and structures of your body (muscles, membranes, fascia, and bones) remains stable even as your body moves.
But an organ can become stuck due to abnormal tone, adhesions, or displacement caused by surgery, scar formation, stress, and trauma. A stuck organ no longer moves in harmony with its surroundings, which can cause fixed, abnormal points of tension for which your body is forced to compensate. This compensation causes chronic irritation that can lead to pain, inflammation, disease, or other dysfunction.
Visceral Manipulation
Visceral Manipulation uses very specific soft manual forces to encourage normal mobility, tone, and movement of the internal organs and their connective tissues. Therapists listen with their hands to determine the location of restriction. Then, either with you sitting, standing, or lying down, the therapists use use their hands to locate the ligaments of a restricted organ and gently encourage those ligaments to release tension and return the organ to a more balanced position.
You may feel sensations of pressure, movement, and release. Occasionally, you many experience a brief mild discomfort, usually just before a release. When a release happens, you usually feel more relaxed, alive, and spacious in the area being treated.
After a Visceral Manipulation session, you may feel like taking a nap or you may feel more energetic. You may feel an immediate reduction of pain or increase in function or notice a gradual improvement over the next few days.
For more information, visit The Barral Institute, which provides continuing education and certification in Visceral Manipulation for massage therapists, Rolfers, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, and other medical practitioners.
Massage Resources
If you want to learn some basic massage techniques, Learn Massage Online offers online massage instruction videos.
If you are thinking about becoming a massage therapist and want to know more about what a career in massage involves, Become a Massage Therapist offers in-depth information.
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