by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
I concluded my last post pointing out that as scientific evidence accumulates paradigms are forced to shift. I also suggested that our understanding of effective assessment would benefit from the perspective of some history that puts the currently popular health care...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Let’s explore symptoms as they manifest in bodily processes. Early on, symptoms often appear to be inflammatory or eliminatory in nature. This is the body’s attempt to reach homeostasis, eliminating the problem and the body’s waste products naturally. Often in...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In recent posts we’ve examined some of the troubles arising from an excessive focus on symptoms and how they’re commonly treated. What if we took a slightly different approach and concluded: When the body produces Symptoms, LISTEN; it is trying to say something. A...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my last post I addressed the concern of patients’ who had conditions neglected by health care providers as a result of the inability to attach a name to a condition, with the requisite drug therapy dictated. A while back I had a patient who came to see me with a...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Probably one of the most troubling presentations is the patient who is experiencing signs and symptoms of illness and is seeking a label to explain their discomfort, but is turned away by medical experts who give the patient a clean bill of health. The approach of...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Long ago, doctors used to believe that the fascia, the yellowish material just beneath the skin, served no purpose. To them, it was merely cushioning the body like a layer of fat. During surgery, it was simply removed because they thought it was just not that...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Everyone has that still quiet voice inside them, and it speaks constantly. Amidst the noise and chaos of the world, people turn their focus on other things. Like ghosts, they walk around never truly connecting with themselves. They exist in a space between needless...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
If you are in a continual state of stress, like in PTSD, this greatly affects your interoceptive ability. To foster interoceptive accuracy, it is important to move the client from a sympathetic state into a parasympathetic or vagal state, which is what happens with...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Often I find people feel like the physical or emotional pain that they harbour is deserved, or at least they accept it. Maybe you had terrible posture your whole life, or wore bad shoes, or lifted too much or played too many body contact sports, so you accept that...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
It is often stated that pain is an illusion. If your brain never perceived it, it never happened. However, it is inflammation that accounts for the chemical reactions and cascades that occur at the site of injury or irritation… whereas PAIN is a perception,...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
The therapeutic goal is to have our ANS experience that the trauma is over by experiencing a state of safety and calm for repair, restoration and rest. There are a myriad of symptoms that the body adopts in chronic pain syndromes such as anxiety, learned...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
Pain is a construct of the brain. Pain is created in order to protect us, and yet the key is to understand the mechanism of pain. Only then can you overcome it. Contrary to what you might believe about pain, there are no pain signals being sent to your brain. Instead,...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
EDWARD’S STORY, A SURGEON & A CLIENT ~ How BowenFirst™ Therapy helped him after seven years of excruciating and life-altering pain: Seven years before I met Edward, he had surgery to remove a brain tumor. His surgery lasted more than eight hours. Here is an...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
Trapped in gray cubicles, the average worker sits hunched over a desk all day. As time passes, there’s a crick in the neck, stiffness in the joints and pain all over. Yet like the artificial lights above, this becomes a “normal” part of everyday life. Most people have...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
“No pain, no gain” is the mantra people have stamped in their heads. Chiropractors crack bones back into place. Cupping therapy leaves behind purple and red marks. Deep tissue massage breaks apart muscle knots. Trigger points are pressed until it feels tender. There’s...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
Pain, believe it or not, serves an important purpose in our bodies. It warns us of dangerous things like sharp objects and fire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to gauge safety. Like a fire alarm, it alerts us when things go wrong. Yes, there are rare cases where a...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
If you are in a continual state of stress, like in PTSD, this greatly affects your interoceptive ability. To foster interoceptive accuracy, it is important to move the client from a sympathetic state into a parasympathetic or vagal state, which is what happens with...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
I recently treated a patient who was suffering from back pain. She had seen a chiropractor and tried other therapies before someone told her that I could help her. I asked her, “What’s your back pain about?” To which she responded, “Well, no one has asked me that.”...
