Myofascial Solutions Live Zoom Q&A 1 | Replay 10-21-2020
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Myofascial Solutions Live Zoom Q&A #1 Review
Therapeutic Artistry
How does Therapeutic Artistry assist us with body ergonomics while treating so we don't hurt ourselves while treating others? It requires us to know how to listen to our own body while we are treating someone else. Our work will be more effective when we develop and deepen our center and stay connected to our own body. Imagining treating from the center of our own body provides a power that enhances results and makes it easier on your body. Never suffer for the sake of helping someone else heal! That results in a transference of pain rather than a healing of pain.
Discover the secret key to myofascial self treatment
The secret to self treatment is to feel inside of your body while applying pressure to the site of pain. When we are connected to the inside of our body, we can notice the responsiveness of our tissue, how the pressure impacts that tissue and what we feel as a result of the pressure application. This can then guide us to how much pressure to use, what angle to apply the pressure and where to move the pressure to next.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)
Treating the whole body with specific diagnoses such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) still requires one to look at the whole body system and find where the restrictions lie and where to provide support. When one finds hypermobile areas of the body, there are restricted areas on either or both sides of it that need releasing. The hypermobile areas are needing your hands to provide support so the patient can feel what that support feels like and encourage the energetic reconnection with their own tissue. Transverse planes and Cranial Sacral Therapy are beneficial. It is also very valuable to ask and address how your patient may feel about the specific diagnosis they have been given. They may have emotions that need to be addressed in regards with how this diagnostic label makes them feel and how they feel it can impact their life.
Myofascial Dialoguing
Is there a consciousness in pain that can be accessed when working with someone remotely? How can we use myofascial dialoguing when working with someone remotely? Just past 22 min to approximately 43 min, there is a demo of how to guide someone to tune into her own pain and feel the connections within her body as well as the consciousness of her pain. Is it possible to support and guide one to listen to their own body wisdom without the physical touch? In this portion, listen to what words to use to provide valuable guidance and how to acknowledge when one may not be ready to go into their pain. Honoring our need to pause with the discovery of our pain’s insight can be very valuable in setting a healthy boundary.
Life Responsibilities and Self Care
At around 44 min, there is a discussion of managing life responsibilities with self care and how to include self care into every moment of our life. Is it possible to offer ourselves the self care we need while sitting at a stoplight or attending to your children? Finding ways in every moment of life to take care of ourselves may be challenging but a challenge that is well worth exploring and implementing.
Tennis Elbow
At 52 min, a brief instruction about treating tennis elbow occurs. The suggestion is to begin by applying steady pressure around the elbow while asking the patient to inform you of the exact spots of pain in need of the pressure. This engages the patient in their own treatment process and will increase the efficacy of your results. Follow this with treatment to both areas above and below the elbow, particularly in the wrist extensors. Soft tissue mobilization strokes to the forearm are especially valuable for rehabilitation of tennis elbow. Next encourage the patient to scan throughout their whole body listening to what else is involved and where else one needs to treat as each person has a different fascial strain pattern occurring contributing to their elbow pain. 10 different people, all with the diagnosis of tennis elbow, may need 10 different types of treatment application.
Tuning In
At the very end I discuss how to deal with someone who is asking for heavier pressure than a therapist feels they can apply without hurting themself. It is valuable to provide the extra pressure being requested for a brief period of time while at the same time asking your patient to tune in to the inside of their body in this same area and meet your pressure from the inside out. This trains your patient to begin feeling. As their ability to feel into their own body improves, the patient will notice and value the difference that lighter pressures can have on the body and on the release process and you will be able to treat in a more collaborative respect engaging the patients' responsiveness rather than the therapist doing all of the work.
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Zoom Call feedback:
Tysm for doing this!
This was wonderful. These times call for creative juices and you definitely got them flowing
I really enjoyed it very much, especially to see how you use technology to work with patients. I didn't realize it was possible.
Thanks for your time on the Zoom call. Your emphasis on engaging the client with their sessions was wonderful, as was your suggestion that self-care and self-awareness could be our constant companions. It was great to spend time listening to you share your wisdom and experience.
Loved your zoom yesterday. I hope that you do more. I was a better therapist today because of that class. I am so grateful I got to learn from you
It's so great how you can work with someone and demonstrate how you are able to get them to tune in. You are such a great teacher!! It was really good and helpful! I love to hear how you dialogue.
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