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About Craig's Work
Craig works as a Myotherapist in his own practice in Ashmore on the
sunny Gold Coast of Queensland (Australia). His clinic is the
Ashmore Health
Centre, which was originally established in 1990 when working from
home. Today it is a thriving and busy practice regularly servicing
clients from Grafton to Rockhampton and Chinchilla. To understand a
bit more about what Myotherapy is, please refer to the
Myotherapy discussion on the Ashmore Health Centre website. Craig has primarily developed most of the techniques
he uses today, borrowing theories from all of the most effective forms of
bodywork. Some of his more specialised areas of practice are: Cranio-Sacral Therapy - A therapeutic modality aimed
at restoring correct function and relation between the plates of the skull
and membranes within the skull as well as restoring the fluid dynamic
pathways of the cranial (skull) fluid pulse throughout the spine and body.
For further reading on this, please visit the
Upledger Institute's website for a discussion on Cranio-Sacral
therapy. Visceral Manipulation - A therapeutic modality aimed
at correcting the position, mobility and motility of the internal organs,
their relationships to one another and to the structures of the
musculo-skeletal system as a whole. It is amazing how much influence
a simple misalignment or restriction in an organ can have on the health
and well being of an individual. These can go untreated and
uncorrected for years, resulting in people being treated ineffectively for
back pain, headaches, IBS,.. all sorts of conditions which relate directly
and effectively back to the organ not moving properly, inhibiting its task
or function and straining the structural attachment points supporting
those organs. For further reading on this, please visit the
Upledger Institute's website for a discussion on Visceral
Manipulation.
Low amplitude myotherapeutic touch - A therapeutic
modality aimed at helping the brain to recognise that there is incorrect
feedback coming from the body's sensors. By stimulating the receptor
sites and placing directed vector stretches into specific distressed
tissues, the feedback mechanisms are essentially shorted out, forcing the
brain to re-calibrate the information coming form the muscles with the
energy it is focussing into those muscles. A muscle which may have
been in spasm because the brain was being told it was fine would then
return to normal tension, allowing the joint that the muscle controls to
also return to a normal tension level and resume healthy operation.
Many other techniques are employed to give clients
the best possible chance of getting better as fast and economically as
possible.
Craig has also been a lecturer in practical subjects
including massage, sports massage, remedial therapies and theoretical
subjects like anatomy, physiology, pathology and exercise.
Craig has also been involved in coaching many
diverse sports, almost always at a professional level.
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