Visceral (organ) Manipulation

Do you have pain, recurring injuries, or find that you need to constantly stretch to maintain your mobility (joints) and flexibility (muscles)?

Our internal organs have important functions to maintain our life. 

As such they take priority over our joints & muscles, and often reflect their issues as muscle, joint or other pains and problems.

In fact the pioneer of visceral manipulation, French Osteopath Jean-Pierre Barral, says that around 70% of the time, a problem in the spine or joint, comes from an organ that’s not moving as well as it could.

That leaves 30% of the time, that treating the spine or joint as appropriate.

Why? If an organ is not moving optimally, due to an accident, injury, or some form of compensation, then the body will move around this restriction; in an attempt to allow it to continue to function effectively. 

The result can then be joints or muscles becoming restricted or tight, as compensation to provide the organs with space to function.

Some examples (which may sound odd) are a restriction in the stomach causing left neck, shoulder pain, or headaches. Right shoulder pain or dysfunction from a problem with the liver or gall bladder. Pelvic pain or varicose veins due to the intestines; and the list goes on. 

Visceral manipulation is a gentle highly effective therapy to restore the mobility of an organ, to reflexively regain the mobility of your joints and flexibility of your muscles. If you find yourself regularly getting, or needing spinal or joint therapy, having aches, pains or other issues and don’t feel that you’re making progress, then visceral manipulation could be exactly what your body’s needing!