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Our Body knows that the Trauma is not over even if our mind has another version of reality

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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...

Pain & Trauma Connection To Body / Mind

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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,...

How Bowen Therapy helped him after seven years of excruciating and life-altering pain

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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...

No Pain, No Gain? Debunking 3 Myths About Healing

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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...

3 Reasons Touch Therapy Isn’t Skin Deep

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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...

3 Pain Triggers You May Not Know

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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...

Information to Help Us Therapeutically

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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...

What’s Your Back Pain About?

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | 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.”...

Bowen Therapy is the Future of Pain Elimination

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | Addressing Your Pain

I was inspired to create Bowen College when I realized that it was not only an effective program but that it could also reach so many people.  I wanted to create a pain elimination program that would really support the practitioners by helping them hone in on all of...

Biggest Mistakes Most People Make in Treating Pain

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | Addressing Your Pain

Today’s post is a national television interview with Dr. Manon about the biggest mistakes that most people make in treating pain.   Host: Well, it’s estimated that one in four Americans have suffered from pain that lasts longer than 24 hours. So what’s the...

Pain Hurts More than you Might Know

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

In a previous post, I discussed one of the consequences of the war on symptoms: the over-reliance on cortisone shots, which create a false sense of security often leading to a “re-injury” of the original problem. Though really it’s more of an aggravation of the...

Why Is Touch So Important?

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

At the British Fascia Symposium, I had the pleasure of listening to many talented professionals, researchers and scientists. In particular, I wanted to share the insights of Carol M. Davis and Robert Schleip, as well as incorporate my own experience as a clinician and...

How releasing a memory allowed me to heal

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

The last couple posts have been telling the story of my experience as a patient and how I learned firsthand that pain is more than just its symptoms. After getting a variety of conflicting advice, I finally made myself the doctor of my own treatment and came to...

Taking the Measure of Contradictory Advice

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | Addressing Your Pain

In the last post I introduced you to a personal experience I had of subluxation of my right shoulder during a holiday in Paris. A trip to the hospital got me a sling and some drugs that either didn’t work or made me feel ill. What was to be done?   The pain grew...

What is Bowen Therapy

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | Addressing Your Pain

The BowenFirst™Technique is a body manipulation therapy that uses very gentle pressure to stimulate the brain to reboot the body. Oftentimes, the most common approaches to stress management just don’t work and when they do, they don’t have long lasting results for the...

My Trip to the Hospital

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | Addressing Your Pain

In my last post I made some claims about pain that I want to illustrate with a personal example. This will take us a couple posts to cover, but it’s time well invested. During a holiday in October 2011, I had a subluxation of the right shoulder upon arriving in Paris....

The Bowen Technique Heals Pain and Trauma

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | Addressing Your Pain

As diverse as we are, emotional and physical pain is something most of us have in common. Pain relief is another story. Conventional medicine tends to fall short palliating with pills rather than curing, but there is an alternative. Award-winning naturopath Dr. Manon...

Pain Relief: Another Casualty in the War on Symptoms

by Manon Bolliger (Deregistered with 30 years of experience in health) | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

We’ve been discussing the impact of the “war on symptoms” approach to health care. Let’s look at another example: pain following an injury. Our perception of the role and function of pain will determine how we experience the pain and what we want to do about it. The...
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