Chronic Pain from Abdominal Adhesions - Link to HealthMad.Com

Interesting article at an interesting website called HealthMad.com.  They have a LOT of cool information -- kind of a similar model to Lumigrate.com but just enough different that it's interesting and GOOD.  

I will say that I've had a progressive PT who studied a lot of progressive techniques and was actually asked to assist when the trainers were in the Denver area find my stomach adhered to things around it -- that was in 1997.  I just remember he was prodding around on me like each weekly appointment in that first year I was doing internships or with my first job in Denver (I'd strained my neck preventing a noncompliant patient in a wheelchair from getting injured with it 'getting away from him'), and it was NOT comfortable so I asked what he was doing.  He had my stomach organ through the skin of my abdomen and was doing his techniques to get it separated from whatever it was adhered to. He said that sometimes when you cough or strain otherwise, the tissues' viscous liquid that keeps them from sticking can get pushed out and then the organs start sticking to each other.  

I had just had a long course of bronchitis, even popped two ribs loose coughing so hard (weeks apart, opposite sides from the way I was turning my head away from coworkers as I did my charting after seeing patients for the day, except I was the only OT so I'd have to go back after and see them for dinner and getting them into bed sometimes.  They all needed to be seen, and I was doing what they needed each day and at that time we could bill for quite a lot of time and it was good for everyone -- the company that employed us therapists, the patients whose Medicare was paying for it, the facility which contracted with us because their patients were allowed to get as independent and safe as possible.  However, it wasn't good for me to work such long hours but I'd not yet realized that my limitations were never going to be the same as they were before my health fell apart in the 1980s).    

More recently, I've had benefit from the pelvic/abdominal/trunk to head techniques that Analii Cunningham has developed, a talented, multifaceted woman in Grand Junction. If you're interested in reading about it, the Movement Therapies forum hosts a topic from her which is titled about female pelvic women.  (However, that was for the first year of the class, by year #2, there was demand to do something similar for men.)  

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Here's the link to the piece here in our forum about movement therapy by Analii about female functional pelvic wisdom, as she calls it: www.lumigrate.com/forum/restoring-functional-wisdom-female-pelvic-wisdom 

Live and Learn.  Learn and Live Better!! ~~ Mardy