Women’s and Men’s Health Issues

Visceral Manipulation is a gentle, hands-on therapy that assists functional and structural imbalances throughout the body through organ specific fascial mobilization techniques. Visceral Manipulation helps musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respiratory, digestive, and lymphatic dysfunction by working with the dynamics of motion and suspension in relation to organs, membranes, fascia and ligaments.

Neural Manipulation is a precise hands-on therapy that identifies and releases local nerve restrictions while at the same time examines the effect these local fixations have on the rest of the body, and by accessing this relationship, resolves the more comprehensive (global) dysfunctional patterns.

New Manual Articular Approach is a gentle, hands-on therapy that integrates all aspects of the joint including the nerve, artery, bone, capsule, and ligaments, as well as visceral and emotional connections. It involves soft tissue mobilization of the associated bones, while looking at direct and indirect relationships between the bones to each other, as well as other structures of the body.

The following are select resources most commonly requested and available throughout our website and grouped here for your convenience for the topic of Women’s and Men’s Health Issues.

Articles

• *Effect of Visceral Manipulation on Diastasis Recti Abdominis: A Case Series
• Infertility and Manual Therapy Treatment
• *A comprehensive physical therapy evaluation for Male Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: A case series exploring common findings
• Morphology, Quality, and Composition in Mature Human Peritoneal Adhesions
• St. Louis Women’s Journal Health & Wellness – The Therapeutic Value of Visceral Manipulation
• St. Louis Women’s Journal Health & Wellness – Understanding the Messages of Your Body

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Videos

• Malin Chin, OT – Chicago News 9 – Scars from C-sections and how Visceral Manipulation can help

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Additional Services and Information

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Testimonials

“I just took VM1. When I returned from the class filled with all sorts of wonderful knowledge, which I had no idea how I would use or even wondered if I had comprehended. I was completely surprised to find my hands new more than my mind. On the very first client of the day I had such success! My hands new her uterus was tilted, and this was related to her stomach, which was related to the shoulder pain she had been experiencing for a year. Her doctor could not understand the pain and sent her to me. No coincidence she cam the day after I returned from the class. After I release restrictions around the greater curvature of her stomach, her pain was actually gone! How cool is that and on my first day. Thanks for the great instruction.”

 K. Schermerhorn, MA

“Within 5 days (after VM1) I worked with 14 clients and got to integrate VM1 into every session. I had an amazing variety of clients to work with, and it had amazing results, and that was just the instant gratification! I worked with a client who had her mastectomy surgery a few years ago who had issues with extension of the trunk and arm, within the first ten minutes it resolved. A lot of women had c-sections with complications post surgery, and movement and discomfort was relieved. I love that I am barely scratching the surface and enjoying the exploration. From the basics of VM1 it fueled my fire to learn so much more.”

 K. Lewis

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Case Studies

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Books

• Visceral Manipulation by Jean-Pierre Barral and Pierre Mercier
  Jean-Pierre Barral’s definitive textbook that discusses the central premise of Visceral Manipulation (VM)as the interrelationship of structure and function among the internal organs and the musculoskeletal system; and how VM can help people with a wide variety of challenges.
• Manual Therapy for the Cranial Nerves by Jean-Pierre Barral and Alain Croibier
  A practical application of cranial nerve manipulation. Thanks to the wealth of illustrations, it is also an excellent guide with which to visualize the cranial nerves and to understand their many functions.
• New Manual Articular Approach to the Cervical Spine by Jean-Pierre Barral and Alain Croibier
  With an innovative approach, the authors apply their systems model of the vertebral column to the complexities of the cervical spine, delving into the neural, vascular, muscular, ligamentous, dural, and other systems connections to the cervical spine.
• Understanding the Messages of Your Body by Jean Pierre Barral
  Barral discusses each organ and its complex relationship with the rest of the body, explaining how pain can originate with an emotional upset that creates distress in an organ, or how a physically damaged organ can cause emotional problems.
• Understand the Messages of Your Joints by Jean-Pierre Barral
  Each joint is reviewed in terms of its function and the problems that tend to affect it, including discussion of their causes and ramifications for our physical and mental equilibrium.
• Manual Therapy Approach to the Brain: Volume 1 by Jean-Pierre Barral
  An innovative manual approach to working with the brain that is the result of a rich clinical experience, and a long empirical and pragmatic journey that Jean-Pierre Barral began over four decades ago.
• New Approach to the Vagus Nerve and Autonomic Nervous System by Eric Marlien
  This book for health care practitioners presents the functional importance of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in the physiological, behavioral, and psychological balance in humans.
• How to Beat the Stress Epidemic; Mind/Body Strategies for Enhancing Well-Being by Eric Marlien
  A clear and concise theoretical description of stress and its consequences for health, along with collection of exercises and practices that lead the reader step by step towards physiological, emotional, and psychological balance.
• Visceral Manipulation for Female Pelvic Disorders by Olivier Bazin, Mark Naudin, and Jean-Pierre Barral
  This book is based on the most common pelvic disorders encountered in clinical practice and provides practitioners with key treatments to aid with patient care and recovery.
• Your Inner Physician and You by Dr. John E. Upledger
  This lively book describes the discovery and therapeutic value of the craniosacral system in easy, understandable terms healthcare professionals and laypeople alike can understand.

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