Introduction to Myotherapy
My practice of Myotherapy is really a combination of
the principles and practice of Remedial Massage,
Postural Assessment and Correction, Cranio-Sacral and
Visceral manipulation techniques, plus others.
The best 'short' description of something that
normally defies description is unlikely to give the
reader a fair and clear picture of all aspects, so
instead, allow me to give you a virtual experience.
You will have filled out a new client questionnaire and
we would have discussed why you're here. Next I
let you know that you are in charge of what is happening
and can let me know if anything doesn't feel right at
any level.
Once you're on the table, face up, I place a hand
on your stomach (you are fully clothed) and ask you
to take a deep breath, feeling for regions of
non-movement or mal-movement within the viscera as
the breath cycle drives movement throughout the
chest and abdomen. Let's say in this case you
are here for a right shoulder restriction, a right
arm that goes to sleep at night but not in a good
way, and headaches a few times a week in behind your
right ear and eye. A typical cause of this is
a movement restriction in the suspension system of
the right and front section of the liver (lifting
and twisting!).
I will get one hand under your back and the other
over a specific area of the lower chest and get you
to perform a specific movement sequence, during
which you feel different restrictions come and go in
your breath and body. When suddenly the effort
to be in the active position becomes far easier, the
adjustment has been achieved - by your body and your
body's movements, with me only aiding it in
recognising where the restriction was.
Your next breath will feel far easier and deeper.
I ask you to sit up and feel your shoulder and neck.
The pinching limitation is gone and the movement is
back with only a shadow of where the muscles were
sore to remind you of why you're even here. At
this point we stop so over the coming week or two,
you can feel exactly what this treatment did.
When next we meet, you realise that your symptoms
have actually been far lessened and the headaches so
less intense you're able to cope without pain
killers.
This is the experience that quite a few of my clients
would recognise, or even thought I wrote of them!
Next - A detailed description of myotherapy from my
Ashmore Health Centre clinic website,
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