How Does Visceral Manipulation Help You?
Visceral Manipulation is used to locate and solve problems throughout the body. It encourages your own natural mechanisms to improve the functioning of your organs, dissipate the negative effects of stress, enhance mobility of the musculoskeletal system through the connective tissue attachments, and influence general metabolism.

How is Visceral Manipulation Performed?
Visceral Manipulation is based on the specific placement of soft manual forces to encourage the normal mobility, tone and motion of the viscera and their connective tissues. These gentle manipulations can potentially improve the functioning of individual organs, the systems the organs function within, and the structural integrity of the entire body.

Harmony and health exist when motion is free and excursion is full – when motion is not labored, overexcited, depressed, or conflicting with neighboring structures and their mobility. Therapists using Visceral Manipulation assess the dynamic functional actions as well as the somatic structures that perform individual activities. They also evaluate the quality of the somatic structures and their functions in relation to an overall harmonious pattern, with motion serving as the gauge for determining quality.

Due to the delicate and often highly reactive nature of the visceral tissues, gentle force precisely directed reaps the greatest results. As with other methods of manipulation that affect the body deeply, Visceral Manipulation works only to assist the forces already at work. Because of that, trained therapists can be sure of benefiting the body rather than adding further injury or disorganization.

Visceral Manipulation (VM) was developed by world-renowned French Osteopath and Physical Therapist Jean-Pierre Barral. Comparative Studies found Visceral Manipulation Beneficial for Various Disorders.

VM assists functional and structural imbalances throughout the body including musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respiratory, digestive and lymphatic dysfunction. It evaluates and treats the dynamics of motion and suspension in relation to organs, membranes, fascia and ligaments. VM increases proprioceptive communication within the body, thereby revitalizing a person and relieving symptoms of pain, dysfunction, and poor posture.

Acute Disorders
Whiplash

Seatbelt Injuries

Chest or Abdominal Sports Injuries

Digestive Disorders
Bloating and Constipation
Nausea and Acid Reflux

GERD

Swallowing Dysfunctions

Women’s and Men’s Health Issues
Chronic Pelvic Pain

Endometriosis

Fibroids and Cysts

Dysmenorrhea
Bladder Incontinence

Prostate Dysfunction
Referred Testicular Pain

Effects of Menopause

Emotional Issues
Anxiety and Depression
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Musculoskeletal Disorders
Somatic-Visceral Interactions
Chronic Spinal Dysfunction

Headaches and Migraines

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Peripheral Joint Pain

Sciatica 

Pain Related to
 Post-operative Scar Tissue

Post-infection Scar Tissue

Autonomic Mechanisms

Pediatric Issues
Constipation and Gastritis

Persistent Vomiting

Vesicoureteral Reflux
Infant Colic

For Visceral Manipulation treatments at the Tummy Temple with
Ed Torres LMP or Dr. Lisa Valent, ND, click here or call 206-729-6211.