Conditions We Treat In Maroochydore
How often has a chronic pain sufferer been told 'it's in your head' or 'there is nothing more that can be done for you'. There is often a sense of helplessness, as you are told that your condition is progressive, and symptoms will only worsen over time.
Pain, without the presence of an obvious acute injury, is the body's reaction to a perceived threat or conflict. Pain is a response from your central nervous system. It processes all the incoming information from your physical body, your emotions, your environment and even your memory. If it judges the collective information as threatening, it will generate pain signals as warning to slow down or stop.
Treating the physical body is important through manual release techniques and rehabilitation. Treating the emotional component to pain, the pain memory and the beliefs around a person's personal pain is also vital. Education around pain processing is empowering and can be life changing.
Beyond Body Healing can assist in:
Down-regulating and reframing the nervous system’s perception and experience of pain through Mind Body Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy
Dealing with conflicts and past traumas affecting the body through Somato Emotional Release and Mind Body Therapy
Treating the tissue using subtle manual therapies and release techniques that are not provocative
Treating the energy systems of the body
Graduated exercise and Pilates rehabilitation to strengthen core structures that have stopped firing and weakened due to ongoing pain and lack of movement
Addressing subconscious stressors and self-limiting belief systems influencing your pain experience with Hypnotherapy
Pain - Acute, Chronic and Recurrent Pain Syndromes
Migraine, headache and TMJ (temporomandibular joint or jaw) pain is agonising and debilitating to chronic sufferers. Even when a sufferer is pain free, there is always the looming fear of something starting... hijacking all plans and crushing all productivity until it finally abates.
I have formulated a multi-faceted approach to migraine, TMJ and headache management over the years of treating this condition. It includes, but is not limited to:
Craniosacral Therapy – treating mal-alignments and tension within the plates and membranes of the cranium, jaw, dura and sacrum
Treating mal-alignments and ‘chains of tension' through the torso via the visceral system using VM techniques and Myofascial Release
Correcting postural alignment and treating muscle & fascial tension
Correcting the first three vertebrae in the upper neck with the Watson Technique
Addressing stressors in the nervous system with Mind Body Therapy and Somato Emotional Release
Treating the Vagus Nerve
Addressing perceptions, limiting beliefs and fears around their pain with Hypnotherapy
Simple and effective exercises
See Treatment Modality section for further clarity on any of the above techniques.
Migraines, Headaches & TMJ
‘Every thought, emotion, event, concept, pattern and belief go through a digestive process in which we assimilate the nutritive components into our makeup while ridding ourselves of what is no longer needed.’ Kristin Leal
Traditional treatment of gut disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) tend to have a ‘silo' approach... zoning in on the gut as its own exclusive silo, rather than regarding the whole person.
The truth is that we are ‘digesting' all sorts of stresses from our external environment and signals from our internal environment all the time. These stresses and signals have a significant effect on our digestive processes.
Working with a medical doctor, gastroenterologist, naturopath, or homeopath can be effective. Oral medication whether allopathic, naturopathic, or homeopathic, has its place. Evaluation of diet and lifestyle are important.
My intention is to complement whichever path you have chosen to take by addressing the other factors affecting your digestion and your life, specifically:
Manually treating the organs involved with specific visceral manipulation techniques. If organs are under tension, congested, poorly circulated or ‘stuck', they do not function well. Improving the mobility and motility (i.e. the intrinsic vital health) of the organ gets it working better. Manual therapy of the gut is so important. It is the missing link
Treating the stressors affecting the mind-gut connection and calming the nervous system through Mind Body Therapy, Somato Emotional Release and Craniosacral Therapy
Getting your gut out of sympathetic overdrive and back into its ‘resting and digesting' parasympathetic happy place by stimulating the Vagus nerve and ‘resetting' the Autonomic Nervous System
Addressing subconscious stressors and self-limiting belief systems influencing your gut with Hypnotherapy
Digestive Disorders
If you are reading this, chances are that you already know what an auto-immune condition is. A malfunctioning immune system that targets and attacks healthy tissue. A body on strike.
Research suggests a strong genetic factor in an individual’s predisposition towards certain auto-immune diseases. However, Epigenetics has shown us that these genes can be switched on and switched off, depending on stressors in our internal and external environments. We often see that auto-immune symptoms onset after a significant sudden or prolonged stress.
If a gene can be ‘switched on' through major nervous system stressors, could it not be ‘switched off' if these stressors are identified, downregulated, discharged or eliminated? Perhaps the body is more intelligent, malleable and adaptive than we give it credit for.
Beyond Body Healing can assist in:
Down-regulating and reframing the nervous system’s reaction to stressors through Mind Body Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy and other techniques to reset the autonomic nervous system
Dealing with conflicts and past traumas affecting the body through Somato Emotional Release and Mind Body Therapy
Treating the tissue using subtle manual therapies and release techniques that are not provocative
Treating the energy systems of the body
Graduated exercise and Pilates rehabilitation
Addressing subconscious stressors and self-limiting belief systems influencing your immune system with Hypnotherapy
Auto-Immune Conditions
Although abdominal surgery is often necessary, it is important to mitigate the subsequent effect that it may have on the body. Often after abdominal surgery, lines of scar tissue develop around the site of surgery. We call these ‘lesional chains.' This can affect how forces are transmitted through the tissues. Descending pressures within the abdomen can be affected. Areas of congestion and tension can develop.
The movement of food through the gut can be affected. Undue pressure can build up on the bladder and affect continence. Postural problems can also show up as the scar tissue creates asymmetrical pulls within the abdomen and chest, affecting the spine.
Visceral Manipulation (VM) is gentle manual therapy of the organs and their corresponding attachments. Lesional chains can be picked up through the practitioner’s touch and corrected though subtle manipulations of the relevant tissue. VM is only indicated from three months post-surgery once the tissue is fully healed. If you are experiencing any adverse effects post-surgery, including pain syndromes, gut or urinary issues, a meaningful change in your spinal alignment or reduction of mobility around the shoulders and hips, VM may be for you.
Post Abdominal Surgery
Meet Georgie Hattingh
BHSc Physio (Hons)
Georgie Hattingh, integrative physiotherapist at Beyond Body Healing, is dedicated to helping individuals heal from chronic pain, dysfunction, and illness using a holistic approach that combines physiotherapy with complementary therapies.
