Integrated Bodywork
Integrated Bodywork looks at your whole body posture and its ability to function.Using soft tissue techniques it can ease acute and/or chronic physical pain and restore function. It can release somatised emotions and improve your body's condition.
During the session, you will need to undress down to your underwear but there are towels available to keep the parts not being worked on warm. At the initial session, and occasionally thereafter, a postural assessment may be carried out to guide the treatment. The treatment involves skin to skin contact with varying levels of pressure. My pressure tends to be light using hands, fingers, forearm and elbow and utilizes different techniques as necessary to effect the required change.
Some of the techniques I use you may already heard of - they are neuromuscular techniques (NMT), muscle energy techniques (MET), positional release, strain/counterstrain, somatoemotional release, lymphatic drainage, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), visualisation techniques and swedish massage. An aqueous cream may be used during some of the techniques and oils are normally only used when massaging which would tend to come at the end of a session, if required at all (unless you specifically request a massage).
You may experience tingling or aching for a few days after the treatment as your body adjusts.
Some issues can be treated in a single session, most require a few.
