Therapies

Bodywork Treatments

 

 

In the past, bodywork treatments were often regarded as ‘a last resort’ to regaining a stable health, good physical ability and muscular relief.  However, in recent years bodywork treatments have become more popular within the wider community.

At Yeronga Natural Therapies, we believe that receiving
a bodywork treatment first, rather than ‘when all else has failed’, will benefit your health and well-being from the onset plus be kinder on your wallet too!

 

Physiotherapy


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Physiotherapy uses various physical agents such as exercise, massage and other modalities. It is concerned with maximising mobility and quality of life by using clinical reasoning to select and apply the appropriate treatment.

Physiotherapy extends from injury prevention to health promotion with an acute focus on rehabilitation, maintenance of functional mobility, maintenance of the best achievable health in people with chronic illness and a special emphasis for on-going patient and carer education.

 

 

The Feldenkrais Method

Movement is the background of all activity, expression, emotion and even thinking. The Feldenkrais practitioner uses movement in hands-on lessons called ‘Functional Integration’. Expanding your movement capacity beyond the habitual and building awareness of how you move. At the end of a lesson, people are often surprised by what they can do with little effort.

The Feldenkrais Method is useful for anyone wishing to improve their capacity for activity or expression. For example;

  • an elderly person seeking flexibility,
  • a person wanting to do more without pain interfering,
  • an athlete wanting to run faster,
  • a person wanting to regain physical confidence after a stroke or an injury,
  • a musician wanting to sound better when playing or singing,
  • a child frustrated with writing activities,
  • or when you feel you’re just not connected with your body.

 

Myofascial Release Therapy

The goal Myofascial release therapy is to eliminate pain, increase range of motion and achieve positive postural and alignment changes. Fascia is a thin connective tissue that surrounds our every organ, nerve and blood vessel. Muscle and fascia can not be separated, it is like a web.

Restriction or tightness in one place can with time spread to other places in the body. Fascia connects muscle to bone, bone to joints and wraps our body as a whole to keep us together.

MFR techniques can be either direct or indirect depending of the needs of the patient to restore balance and flexibility to fascia function.

Direct MFR can be light or deep. The therapist uses their knuckles, elbows or forearms to slowly work through the layers of fascia to find restriction, and then applies a line of tension to stretch and encourage relaxation. This slow technique allows the therapist to slowly ease through the layers of restriction to reach deeper muscle structures and avoids reflex muscle contraction or guarding.

Indirect MFR will use only light pressure. The therapist uses their relaxed hand to find the tension in the fascia and holds with sustaining pressure until the barrier of restriction is felt to release. MFR therapy is best suited for people experiencing pain from injury, trauma and sustain poor posture.

 

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