Visceral Mobilisations
Ever had abdominal or pelvic surgery?? Gave birth via C-Section? Have endometriosis or any other pelvic pain? How are your bladder and bowels generally?
These are some of the questions you'll get asked if you were my client. Even if I wasn't a pelvic health specialist it's oh so important to know what's going on with your insides because every little thing is connected. If you came to me with a lower back problem of course I would be looking at how you moved mechanically but I would also be thinking about what your organs are doing.
If you've had any surgery the scars that you see on the surface of the skin are just the tip of the iceberg. During the healing process scar tissue is laid in the surrounding areas beneath the skin and can cause things to become stuck together.
If you have a history of endometriosis then not only will the pain will affect the pelvic floor but the scar tissue will cause fascial dysfunctions adding to the pain within your pelvis and bowels.
Everything beneath the skin is surrounded by fascia. This includes all your muscles, organs and the connective tissue holding all your organs in place. This fascia makes sure that everything is able to glide and slide in place to ensure organs can continue to move. YES our organs move in space!
So why does fascia matter? Well, fascia can become sticky and when it becomes sticky things won't glide and slide and will often cause discomfort. Fascia can become sticky from periods of immobility or from trauma i.e. surgery. So working on making sure it's mobilising well can have huge effects on your pain experience. Hands on tissue work in this fashion can bring the central nervous system down to a place of rest, restore, regenerate which is where you want to be for healing.
Did you know that the small intestine is attached in to your lower spine? and that your ovaries are attached to your seacum and sigmoid colons? The seacum is where the small intestine moves in to the large, ascending colon and the sigmoid is where the descending large colon moves in to the rectum. As is your uterus to your pelvis and your bladder to your belly button. YES you read that right your belly button. So it makes sense that if you have lower back issues, pelvic or hip pain to treat this fascial tissue deep in the pelvis too.
Just like the fascia surrounding the muscles can be manipulated as can the deeper fascia of the body and the great thing about this treatment is that I can teach you the techniques to use on yourself so you can self manage.
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